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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 97 83
Rank change year-on-year +17 -14 +42
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 119 105 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.41% 2.41% 3.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.74% 8.61% 9.61%
Number of salaries quoted 44 60 90
10th Percentile £31,100 £41,926 £52,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £50,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £65,000 £69,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -6.14% -1.07%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £83,438
90th Percentile £84,625 £84,125 £100,000
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 1,108 1,220 1,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 31.78% 27.98% 33.91%
Number of salaries quoted 535 604 913
10th Percentile £29,600 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,259 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,560 £83,750
South East median annual salary £46,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +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 5 November 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 5 November 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 +21 86 £82,500 +17.86% 97
Buckinghamshire +3 27 £45,000 -19.28% 18
Oxfordshire +34 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 12 (10.08%) IIS
2 1 (0.84%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 69 (57.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (42.02%) Azure
2 13 (10.92%) GitHub
2 13 (10.92%) GitHub Actions
3 12 (10.08%) Azure Service Bus
4 8 (6.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 8 (6.72%) Azure Key Vault
4 8 (6.72%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (6.72%) Entra ID
4 8 (6.72%) Power Platform
4 8 (6.72%) SonarCloud
5 7 (5.88%) GCP
6 5 (4.20%) SaaS
7 4 (3.36%) AWS
7 4 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (3.36%) PaaS
8 2 (1.68%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.68%) dbt
8 2 (1.68%) Fivetran
8 2 (1.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.52%) Firewall
2 2 (1.68%) DNS
2 2 (1.68%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.68%) VPN
2 2 (1.68%) WAN
3 1 (0.84%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 12 (10.08%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.72%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (5.04%) Power BI
5 2 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.68%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.68%) Data Hub
5 2 (1.68%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.68%) Looker
5 2 (1.68%) MySQL
5 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.68%) Tableau
6 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 72 (60.50%) JIRA
2 69 (57.98%) eCATT
3 38 (31.93%) NeoLoad
4 19 (15.97%) Git
5 10 (8.40%) Octopus Deploy
6 9 (7.56%) MSBuild
7 8 (6.72%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (6.72%) Visual Studio
8 7 (5.88%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.84%) Maven
General
1 75 (63.03%) Finance
2 71 (59.66%) Marketing
3 69 (57.98%) Manufacturing
4 50 (42.02%) Presentation Skills
5 40 (33.61%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (12.61%) Social Skills
7 10 (8.40%) Retail
8 6 (5.04%) Law
9 4 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.68%) Banking
11 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.84%) Legal
11 1 (0.84%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 45 (37.82%) Analyst
2 41 (34.45%) Lead
3 31 (26.05%) Senior
4 26 (21.85%) Test Leader
5 21 (17.65%) Test Analyst
6 16 (13.45%) Automation Test Lead
7 12 (10.08%) Architect
7 12 (10.08%) IT Engineer
7 12 (10.08%) IT Support
7 12 (10.08%) IT Support Engineer
7 12 (10.08%) Performance Analyst
7 12 (10.08%) Performance Test Analyst
7 12 (10.08%) Software Engineer
7 12 (10.08%) Software Support Engineer
7 12 (10.08%) Support Engineer
7 12 (10.08%) Testing Analyst
8 11 (9.24%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (8.40%) Performance Test Leader
10 9 (7.56%) Automation Test Analyst
11 8 (6.72%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (22.69%) .NET
2 16 (13.45%) .NET Framework
3 15 (12.61%) ASP.NET
4 12 (10.08%) Entity Framework
4 12 (10.08%) WinForms
5 8 (6.72%) Bootstrap
5 8 (6.72%) CSS
5 8 (6.72%) gRPC
5 8 (6.72%) HTML
5 8 (6.72%) JSON
5 8 (6.72%) REST
5 8 (6.72%) XML
6 6 (5.04%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.68%) Hugging Face
7 2 (1.68%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (1.68%) NumPy
7 2 (1.68%) Pandas
7 2 (1.68%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.40%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.04%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.20%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.68%) Clustering
4 2 (1.68%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.68%) NHS
5 1 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.08%) Windows
2 6 (5.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (57.98%) Source to Pay
1 69 (57.98%) Test Management
2 56 (47.06%) ERP
3 54 (45.38%) Roadmaps
4 50 (42.02%) DevOps
4 50 (42.02%) Product Roadmap
4 50 (42.02%) Visualisation
5 46 (38.66%) Performance Testing
6 43 (36.13%) Risk Management
7 40 (33.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (31.93%) Requirements Gathering
8 38 (31.93%) Test Strategy
9 35 (29.41%) Continuous Delivery
10 25 (21.01%) Test Automation
11 23 (19.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 22 (18.49%) Defect Management
13 21 (17.65%) Programme Management
14 20 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (12.61%) CI/CD
16 14 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 31 (26.05%) SQL
2 27 (22.69%) C#
3 14 (11.76%) T-SQL
4 13 (10.92%) PowerShell
5 11 (9.24%) Bash
5 11 (9.24%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.88%) Python
7 3 (2.52%) Bicep
8 2 (1.68%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.68%) SOQL
9 1 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.84%) X++
Qualifications
1 12 (10.08%) Computer Science Degree
1 12 (10.08%) Degree
2 4 (3.36%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.68%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (18.49%) QA
2 9 (7.56%) GDPR
3 1 (0.84%) HIPAA
System Software
1 19 (15.97%) Docker
2 6 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 69 (57.98%) HP ALM
2 12 (10.08%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.08%) Terraform
3 2 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.84%) Grafana
4 1 (0.84%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 69 (57.98%) HP
1 69 (57.98%) SAP
2 25 (21.01%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.08%) Sage
3 12 (10.08%) Xamarin
4 7 (5.88%) Google
4 7 (5.88%) Zoho
5 4 (3.36%) Databricks
5 4 (3.36%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.68%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.68%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.68%) Meraki
6 2 (1.68%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.68%) Talend