Azure DevOps Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 125 97
Rank change year-on-year +3 -28 +14
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 226 202 404
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.41% 2.35% 2.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.96% 8.82% 8.99%
Number of salaries quoted 197 132 237
10th Percentile £37,600 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,125 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.07% -5.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 - £80,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,794 2,291 4,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.75% 26.64% 28.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,643 1,412 3,345
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +3.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the South East over the 6 months to 22 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in the South East

Azure DevOps
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps within the South East region over the 6 months to 22 July 2026. 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
Thames Valley +7 71 £50,000 -28.57% 33
West Sussex +6 52 £70,000 +16.67% 6
Surrey -10 46 £65,000 -3.70% 8
Berkshire +5 35 £45,000 -45.45% 17
Hampshire -47 34 £60,000 -4.00% 13
Buckinghamshire -2 20 £57,500 +11.65% 10
Oxfordshire -3 16 £57,500 +21.05% 6
Kent -16 14 £29,000 -57.04% 6
Isle of Wight - 5 £50,000 - 5
Sussex - 3 £65,000 - 1
East Sussex -14 2 £86,250 +72.50%
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.10%) IIS
3 6 (2.65%) Confluence
4 5 (2.21%) nginx
5 3 (1.33%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.44%) Apache
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.77%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.65%) SAP IBP
1 6 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.44%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 226 (100.00%) Azure
2 28 (12.39%) SaaS
3 25 (11.06%) GitHub
3 25 (11.06%) Power Platform
4 22 (9.73%) Azure AI
4 22 (9.73%) Azure AKS
5 21 (9.29%) AWS
5 21 (9.29%) Azure Monitor
5 21 (9.29%) Entra ID
6 20 (8.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 20 (8.85%) PaaS
7 17 (7.52%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (7.08%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (6.64%) Azure Key Vault
9 15 (6.64%) Datadog
10 14 (6.19%) IaaS
11 12 (5.31%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (4.42%) Serverless
13 8 (3.54%) OpenShift
14 7 (3.10%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.10%) Firewall
2 6 (2.65%) Internet
3 3 (1.33%) BGP
4 2 (0.88%) DNS
4 2 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (21.68%) Azure SQL Database
1 49 (21.68%) SQL Server
2 40 (17.70%) MongoDB
3 14 (6.19%) Power BI
4 8 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.10%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.65%) Metadata
7 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.33%) Redis
7 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.88%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.44%) GIS
9 1 (0.44%) MS Access
9 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (11.95%) Git
2 16 (7.08%) JIRA
3 14 (6.19%) GitLab
4 9 (3.98%) Selenium
5 8 (3.54%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.54%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (2.65%) Zephyr
7 4 (1.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.77%) NUnit
7 4 (1.77%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (1.33%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.33%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.88%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.88%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.88%) JMeter
9 2 (0.88%) MSI
9 2 (0.88%) MSTest
9 2 (0.88%) Postman
9 2 (0.88%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
General
1 48 (21.24%) Social Skills
2 45 (19.91%) Finance
3 35 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.31%) Advertising
5 11 (4.87%) Games
6 9 (3.98%) Retail
7 7 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.10%) Marketing
8 5 (2.21%) Aviation
9 4 (1.77%) Billing
9 4 (1.77%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.33%) Legal
10 3 (1.33%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.88%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (41.15%) Developer
2 56 (24.78%) .NET Developer
3 38 (16.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (11.50%) Azure Engineer
4 26 (11.50%) Lead
5 21 (9.29%) Analyst
6 17 (7.52%) Senior
7 15 (6.64%) Systems Engineer
8 14 (6.19%) Software Engineer
9 13 (5.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 12 (5.31%) DevOps Systems Engineer
10 12 (5.31%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 12 (5.31%) Linux Engineer
10 12 (5.31%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 12 (5.31%) Linux/Unix DevOps
11 10 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (4.42%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (4.42%) Lead Developer
12 9 (3.98%) Architect
13 8 (3.54%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (47.35%) .NET
2 68 (30.09%) ASP.NET
3 53 (23.45%) ASP.NET Core
4 51 (22.57%) .NET Core
5 44 (19.47%) HTML
6 42 (18.58%) CSS
7 32 (14.16%) React
8 27 (11.95%) Blazor
9 26 (11.50%) Entity Framework
10 23 (10.18%) RESTful
11 21 (9.29%) ML.NET
12 17 (7.52%) YAML
13 15 (6.64%) ARM Templates
13 15 (6.64%) REST
14 14 (6.19%) jQuery
15 13 (5.75%) Ajax
15 13 (5.75%) Sass
16 12 (5.31%) LINQ
16 12 (5.31%) OAuth
17 11 (4.87%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.52%) Greenfield Project
1 17 (7.52%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (5.31%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.31%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (5.31%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.65%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.21%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.77%) iPhone
7 4 (1.77%) Social Network
8 2 (0.88%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.44%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.44%) IoT
9 1 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.18%) Linux
2 14 (6.19%) Ubuntu
3 11 (4.87%) Windows
4 4 (1.77%) Android
5 3 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.88%) Debian
6 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.88%) Rocky
7 1 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (100.00%) DevOps
2 99 (43.81%) CI/CD
3 92 (40.71%) Agile
4 64 (28.32%) Full-Stack Development
5 51 (22.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 49 (21.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (19.03%) AI
9 34 (15.04%) Machine Learning
10 28 (12.39%) Microservices
11 26 (11.50%) User Experience
12 24 (10.62%) Scrum
12 24 (10.62%) SDLC
13 22 (9.73%) Multithreading
13 22 (9.73%) MVC
14 21 (9.29%) Deployment Automation
14 21 (9.29%) Observability
15 20 (8.85%) Analytics
16 18 (7.96%) Mentoring
16 18 (7.96%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 109 (48.23%) C#
2 84 (37.17%) SQL
3 47 (20.80%) JavaScript
4 36 (15.93%) PowerShell
4 36 (15.93%) Python
5 33 (14.60%) Bash
6 21 (9.29%) Bicep
7 10 (4.42%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.54%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.65%) Java
10 3 (1.33%) DataWeave
10 3 (1.33%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.88%) Ruby
12 1 (0.44%) C++
12 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (6.64%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.42%) Degree
3 8 (3.54%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.65%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.65%) ISTQB
5 5 (2.21%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.44%) CBAP
6 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.83%) QA
2 5 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.77%) WCAG
4 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (14.16%) Docker
2 9 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (0.88%) Xen
5 1 (0.44%) Firmware
5 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 55 (24.34%) Terraform
2 26 (11.50%) Kubernetes
3 23 (10.18%) Grafana
3 23 (10.18%) Prometheus
4 18 (7.96%) Ansible
5 3 (1.33%) Scalr
6 2 (0.88%) Argo
6 2 (0.88%) FlexNet
6 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.88%) MIIS
6 2 (0.88%) Rancher
6 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 106 (46.90%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.73%) Red Hat
3 12 (5.31%) Facebook
3 12 (5.31%) YouTube
4 10 (4.42%) MuleSoft
5 8 (3.54%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.54%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.65%) SAP
6 6 (2.65%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.77%) Google
8 3 (1.33%) Cisco
8 3 (1.33%) Databricks
8 3 (1.33%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.33%) Oracle
8 3 (1.33%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.88%) NetApp
9 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.44%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.44%) RedGate
10 1 (0.44%) Veeam