Azure DevOps Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure DevOps
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 102 80
Rank change year-on-year +12 -22 +49
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 120 100 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.17% 2.25% 3.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.12% 8.05% 10.11%
Number of salaries quoted 45 56 98
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,631 £52,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £63,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -1.46%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,375
90th Percentile £84,500 £85,625 £96,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

Azure DevOps falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,079 1,242 1,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.48% 27.95% 34.41%
Number of salaries quoted 495 624 963
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £69,102 £74,250 £74,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -4.35%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in the Thames Valley

Azure DevOps
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +20 90 £82,500 +18.92% 29
Buckinghamshire -7 24 £51,500 -0.96% 5
Oxfordshire +18 6 £50,000 +30.72% 4
Azure DevOps
South East

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (7.50%) IIS
2 1 (0.83%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 69 (57.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (42.50%) Azure
2 14 (11.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 13 (10.83%) GitHub
3 13 (10.83%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 10 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (8.33%) SonarCloud
5 9 (7.50%) Power Platform
6 8 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 8 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.00%) GCP
8 5 (4.17%) SaaS
9 4 (3.33%) AWS
9 4 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.33%) PaaS
10 2 (1.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.67%) dbt
10 2 (1.67%) Fivetran
10 2 (1.67%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.50%) Firewall
2 2 (1.67%) DNS
2 2 (1.67%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.67%) VPN
2 2 (1.67%) WAN
3 1 (0.83%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.17%) SQL Server
1 11 (9.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 10 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (5.83%) Power BI
4 2 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.67%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.67%) Data Hub
4 2 (1.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.67%) Looker
4 2 (1.67%) MySQL
4 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.67%) Tableau
5 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 72 (60.00%) JIRA
2 69 (57.50%) eCATT
3 38 (31.67%) NeoLoad
4 21 (17.50%) Git
5 12 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
6 11 (9.17%) MSBuild
7 10 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (8.33%) Visual Studio
8 7 (5.83%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.83%) Maven
General
1 77 (64.17%) Finance
2 71 (59.17%) Marketing
3 69 (57.50%) Manufacturing
4 50 (41.67%) Presentation Skills
5 40 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (11.67%) Social Skills
7 12 (10.00%) Retail
8 8 (6.67%) Law
9 4 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Banking
11 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.83%) Legal
11 1 (0.83%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 45 (37.50%) Analyst
2 41 (34.17%) Lead
3 31 (25.83%) Senior
4 26 (21.67%) Test Leader
5 21 (17.50%) Test Analyst
6 16 (13.33%) Automation Test Lead
7 14 (11.67%) Architect
8 12 (10.00%) Performance Analyst
8 12 (10.00%) Performance Test Analyst
8 12 (10.00%) Testing Analyst
9 11 (9.17%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (8.33%) Performance Test Leader
10 10 (8.33%) Technical Architect
11 9 (7.50%) Automation Test Analyst
11 9 (7.50%) IT Engineer
11 9 (7.50%) IT Support
11 9 (7.50%) IT Support Engineer
11 9 (7.50%) Software Engineer
11 9 (7.50%) Software Support Engineer
11 9 (7.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (23.33%) .NET
2 15 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 15 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 10 (8.33%) Bootstrap
3 10 (8.33%) CSS
3 10 (8.33%) gRPC
3 10 (8.33%) HTML
3 10 (8.33%) JSON
3 10 (8.33%) REST
3 10 (8.33%) XML
4 9 (7.50%) Entity Framework
4 9 (7.50%) WinForms
5 6 (5.00%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.67%) Hugging Face
6 2 (1.67%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (1.67%) NumPy
6 2 (1.67%) Pandas
6 2 (1.67%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.67%) Clustering
4 2 (1.67%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.67%) NHS
5 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.50%) Windows
2 6 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (57.50%) Source to Pay
1 69 (57.50%) Test Management
2 56 (46.67%) ERP
3 54 (45.00%) Roadmaps
4 51 (42.50%) DevOps
5 50 (41.67%) Product Roadmap
5 50 (41.67%) Visualisation
6 48 (40.00%) Performance Testing
7 43 (35.83%) Risk Management
8 40 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (31.67%) Requirements Gathering
9 38 (31.67%) Test Strategy
10 35 (29.17%) Continuous Delivery
11 25 (20.83%) Test Automation
12 23 (19.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 22 (18.33%) Defect Management
14 21 (17.50%) Programme Management
15 19 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
17 15 (12.50%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 31 (25.83%) SQL
2 28 (23.33%) C#
3 13 (10.83%) JavaScript
3 13 (10.83%) PowerShell
4 11 (9.17%) Bash
4 11 (9.17%) T-SQL
5 7 (5.83%) Python
6 3 (2.50%) Bicep
6 3 (2.50%) X++
7 2 (1.67%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.67%) SOQL
8 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 10 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (8.33%) Degree
2 4 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.67%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.83%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.83%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (18.33%) QA
2 11 (9.17%) GDPR
3 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
System Software
1 21 (17.50%) Docker
2 6 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 69 (57.50%) HP ALM
2 12 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.00%) Terraform
3 2 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.83%) Grafana
4 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 69 (57.50%) HP
1 69 (57.50%) SAP
2 26 (21.67%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.50%) Sage
3 9 (7.50%) Xamarin
4 6 (5.00%) Google
4 6 (5.00%) Zoho
5 4 (3.33%) Databricks
5 4 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.67%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.67%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.67%) Meraki
6 2 (1.67%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.67%) Talend