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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 100 77
Rank change year-on-year -54 -23 +57
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 53 107 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.35% 2.22% 3.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.89% 8.25% 9.15%
Number of salaries quoted 44 59 108
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,263 £50,500
25th Percentile £52,063 £46,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £61,500 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -9.56% +0.74%
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £82,813
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,500 £100,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £66,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% -

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 1,084 1,297 1,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.61% 26.94% 37.12%
Number of salaries quoted 475 721 1,157
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £90,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.65%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -23 34 £82,500 +22.22% 23
Buckinghamshire -36 13 £75,000 +36.36% 12
Oxfordshire +15 6 £48,750 +2.63% 7
Azure DevOps
South East

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.89%) Confluence
1 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (37.74%) Azure Service Bus
3 15 (28.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 15 (28.30%) SonarCloud
4 13 (24.53%) Dynamics 365
4 13 (24.53%) GitHub
4 13 (24.53%) Power Platform
5 10 (18.87%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (13.21%) AWS
7 6 (11.32%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (11.32%) Entra ID
8 5 (9.43%) GCP
8 5 (9.43%) PaaS
8 5 (9.43%) SaaS
9 3 (5.66%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (5.66%) Power Automate
10 2 (3.77%) dbt
10 2 (3.77%) Fivetran
10 2 (3.77%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) Firewall
2 2 (3.77%) DNS
2 2 (3.77%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.77%) VPN
2 2 (3.77%) WAN
3 1 (1.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.30%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (16.98%) SQL Server
3 8 (15.09%) Power BI
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.77%) Data Hub
4 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.77%) Looker
4 2 (3.77%) MySQL
4 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (3.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (45.28%) Git
2 17 (32.08%) Octopus Deploy
3 16 (30.19%) MSBuild
4 15 (28.30%) Team Foundation Server
4 15 (28.30%) Visual Studio
5 5 (9.43%) Jenkins
6 3 (5.66%) JIRA
7 1 (1.89%) Maven
General
1 16 (30.19%) Retail
2 15 (28.30%) Social Skills
3 14 (26.42%) Law
4 9 (16.98%) Finance
5 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Banking
6 2 (3.77%) Marketing
7 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.89%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (37.74%) Architect
2 16 (30.19%) Technical Architect
3 11 (20.75%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (18.87%) Lead
5 9 (16.98%) Developer
6 8 (15.09%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 6 (11.32%) Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (3.77%) DBA
8 2 (3.77%) Salesforce Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Senior
8 2 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (3.77%) SQL DBA
8 2 (3.77%) SQL Server DBA
9 1 (1.89%) Azure Architect
9 1 (1.89%) DevOps Administrator
9 1 (1.89%) DevOps Consultant
9 1 (1.89%) DevOps Specialist
9 1 (1.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (52.83%) .NET
2 15 (28.30%) ASP.NET
2 15 (28.30%) Bootstrap
2 15 (28.30%) CSS
2 15 (28.30%) gRPC
2 15 (28.30%) HTML
2 15 (28.30%) JSON
2 15 (28.30%) REST
2 15 (28.30%) XML
3 8 (15.09%) .NET Framework
4 4 (7.55%) ARM Templates
5 2 (3.77%) Hugging Face
5 2 (3.77%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (3.77%) NumPy
5 2 (3.77%) Pandas
5 2 (3.77%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.89%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Onboarding
2 5 (9.43%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.55%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.77%) Clustering
4 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.77%) NHS
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (33.96%) Technical Leadership
3 17 (32.08%) Code Quality
3 17 (32.08%) Microservices
4 16 (30.19%) CI/CD
5 15 (28.30%) API Integration
5 15 (28.30%) Data Encryption
5 15 (28.30%) Design Patterns
5 15 (28.30%) Event-Driven
5 15 (28.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 15 (28.30%) MVC
5 15 (28.30%) Performance Optimisation
5 15 (28.30%) Performance Testing
6 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (22.64%) Agile
8 11 (20.75%) Observability
8 11 (20.75%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (18.87%) Migration
10 8 (15.09%) Data Migration
10 8 (15.09%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (52.83%) C#
1 28 (52.83%) SQL
2 19 (35.85%) JavaScript
3 14 (26.42%) PowerShell
4 9 (16.98%) Bash
5 8 (15.09%) Python
6 5 (9.43%) X++
7 3 (5.66%) Bicep
8 2 (3.77%) Apex Code
8 2 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (3.77%) SOQL
8 2 (3.77%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (7.55%) Azure Certification
2 4 (7.55%) Degree
3 2 (3.77%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (30.19%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) HIPAA
System Software
1 24 (45.28%) Docker
2 4 (7.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (22.64%) Kubernetes
1 12 (22.64%) Terraform
2 3 (5.66%) Ansible
2 3 (5.66%) Puppet
3 2 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (47.17%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) Databricks
2 4 (7.55%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.77%) Alteryx
3 2 (3.77%) Google
3 2 (3.77%) HubSpot
3 2 (3.77%) Meraki
3 2 (3.77%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.77%) Talend
3 2 (3.77%) Zoho