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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 96 106
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 -19
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 269 298 220
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.00% 2.61% 2.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.65% 9.02% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 134 196 171
10th Percentile £32,875 £42,500 £46,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £95,000
England median annual salary £66,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +3.85% -2.99%

All Cloud 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 2,527 3,304 2,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.15% 28.95% 36.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,584 1,864 2,378
10th Percentile £27,750 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.10%

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 25 October 2025.

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 25 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
Thames Valley +12 119 £69,250 +6.54% 59
Berkshire +20 87 £82,500 +17.86% 47
Hampshire +18 63 £61,500 -5.38% 24
Middlesex +6 26 £37,500 - 1
Buckinghamshire -13 26 £47,500 -8.65% 11
West Sussex +15 17 £60,000 - 2
Surrey -36 17 £67,500 -6.90% 7
Kent +2 13 £65,000 -7.14% 3
East Sussex +3 9 £56,500 +13.00% 7
Oxfordshire +17 6 £50,000 +30.72% 3
Sussex - 4 £45,000 - 2
Isle of Wight - 3 £42,500 - 3
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 18 (6.69%) IIS
2 9 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.35%) Appian
3 6 (2.23%) Apache
4 4 (1.49%) nginx
4 4 (1.49%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.12%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.37%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 69 (25.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 200 (74.35%) Azure
2 37 (13.75%) Power Platform
3 28 (10.41%) AWS
4 26 (9.67%) GitHub
5 20 (7.43%) Azure Service Bus
6 18 (6.69%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (6.69%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (6.69%) PaaS
7 13 (4.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 13 (4.83%) Entra ID
8 12 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (3.72%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (3.72%) SaaS
11 9 (3.35%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.35%) MinIO
11 9 (3.35%) SonarCloud
12 8 (2.97%) GCP
13 6 (2.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 6 (2.23%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.83%) DNS
2 8 (2.97%) VPN
3 6 (2.23%) Firewall
4 4 (1.49%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.49%) WAN
5 1 (0.37%) ADSL2
5 1 (0.37%) AMQP
5 1 (0.37%) HTTP
5 1 (0.37%) Network Security
5 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (13.75%) SQL Server
2 25 (9.29%) Power BI
3 15 (5.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.60%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.23%) Airbyte
6 6 (2.23%) MySQL
7 4 (1.49%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.12%) Tableau
9 2 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.74%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.74%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.74%) Looker
9 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.37%) Metadata
10 1 (0.37%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 77 (28.62%) JIRA
2 69 (25.65%) eCATT
3 49 (18.22%) Git
4 38 (14.13%) NeoLoad
5 23 (8.55%) Selenium
6 21 (7.81%) Robot Framework
6 21 (7.81%) Snyk
7 15 (5.58%) Octopus Deploy
8 12 (4.46%) Visual Studio
9 10 (3.72%) Jenkins
9 10 (3.72%) MSBuild
10 9 (3.35%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (1.49%) GitLab
11 4 (1.49%) Storybook
12 2 (0.74%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.37%) Appium
13 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
13 1 (0.37%) Postman
13 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.37%) TestRail
General
1 121 (44.98%) Finance
2 78 (29.00%) Manufacturing
3 71 (26.39%) Marketing
4 50 (18.59%) Presentation Skills
5 49 (18.22%) Social Skills
6 41 (15.24%) Influencing Skills
7 27 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (4.09%) Retail
10 7 (2.60%) Legal
11 6 (2.23%) Law
12 3 (1.12%) Banking
12 3 (1.12%) Military
13 2 (0.74%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.74%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.37%) Advertising
14 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.37%) International Banking
14 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (25.28%) Analyst
2 64 (23.79%) Lead
3 46 (17.10%) Senior
4 38 (14.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (11.90%) Test Leader
6 31 (11.52%) Test Analyst
7 26 (9.67%) Azure Engineer
8 24 (8.92%) Architect
8 24 (8.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 22 (8.18%) Automation Test Lead
10 19 (7.06%) Software Engineer
11 14 (5.20%) Developer
12 13 (4.83%) IT Engineer
13 12 (4.46%) IT Support
13 12 (4.46%) IT Support Engineer
13 12 (4.46%) Performance Analyst
13 12 (4.46%) Performance Test Analyst
13 12 (4.46%) Support Engineer
13 12 (4.46%) Testing Analyst
14 11 (4.09%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (22.68%) .NET
2 19 (7.06%) ASP.NET
3 16 (5.95%) .NET Framework
4 12 (4.46%) JSON
5 11 (4.09%) Entity Framework
5 11 (4.09%) WinForms
6 10 (3.72%) ARM Templates
6 10 (3.72%) CSS
6 10 (3.72%) HTML
6 10 (3.72%) XML
6 10 (3.72%) YAML
7 9 (3.35%) Apache NiFi
7 9 (3.35%) Bootstrap
7 9 (3.35%) gRPC
7 9 (3.35%) Kafka
7 9 (3.35%) Next.js
7 9 (3.35%) REST
8 7 (2.60%) React
9 6 (2.23%) .NET Core
10 5 (1.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.41%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.18%) Product Ownership
3 18 (6.69%) e-Learning
3 18 (6.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (5.20%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.83%) Security Posture
6 9 (3.35%) Low-Code
7 7 (2.60%) Life Science
7 7 (2.60%) Operational Technology
7 7 (2.60%) SCADA
8 6 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.49%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.49%) NHS
10 2 (0.74%) Clustering
10 2 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 39 (14.50%) Windows
2 14 (5.20%) Linux
3 8 (2.97%) VMS
4 4 (1.49%) Android
4 4 (1.49%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (74.35%) DevOps
2 114 (42.38%) Agile
3 90 (33.46%) Test Management
4 89 (33.09%) CI/CD
4 89 (33.09%) Test Automation
5 75 (27.88%) Mentoring
5 75 (27.88%) Roadmaps
6 69 (25.65%) Source to Pay
7 63 (23.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (20.82%) ERP
9 51 (18.96%) Product Roadmap
9 51 (18.96%) Visualisation
10 49 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
11 48 (17.84%) Performance Testing
11 48 (17.84%) Test Strategy
12 43 (15.99%) Risk Management
13 38 (14.13%) Coaching
13 38 (14.13%) Requirements Gathering
14 36 (13.38%) Technical Leadership
15 35 (13.01%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 71 (26.39%) SQL
2 59 (21.93%) C#
3 36 (13.38%) PowerShell
4 33 (12.27%) Python
5 16 (5.95%) JavaScript
6 13 (4.83%) T-SQL
7 12 (4.46%) Bash
8 10 (3.72%) Bicep
9 8 (2.97%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.86%) X++
11 3 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.74%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.74%) C++
12 2 (0.74%) Java
12 2 (0.74%) SOQL
13 1 (0.37%) Go
13 1 (0.37%) Korn
13 1 (0.37%) Perl
13 1 (0.37%) R
13 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (13.01%) Degree
2 23 (8.55%) Security Cleared
3 21 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (5.95%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.20%) ISTQB
6 13 (4.83%) Azure Certification
6 13 (4.83%) ISEB
7 10 (3.72%) Master's Degree
8 9 (3.35%) SC Cleared
9 7 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.49%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.49%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.49%) PMP
11 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (20.82%) QA
2 13 (4.83%) GDPR
3 12 (4.46%) PMO
4 10 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.72%) NCSC
4 10 (3.72%) NIST
4 10 (3.72%) Software Quality Assurance
5 4 (1.49%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
System Software
1 27 (10.04%) Docker
2 15 (5.58%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.60%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 69 (25.65%) HP ALM
2 39 (14.50%) Terraform
3 29 (10.78%) Kubernetes
4 20 (7.43%) Ansible
5 6 (2.23%) Grafana
5 6 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.37%) Nessus
7 1 (0.37%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 69 (25.65%) HP
1 69 (25.65%) Microsoft
1 69 (25.65%) SAP
2 20 (7.43%) Black Duck
3 18 (6.69%) IBM
3 18 (6.69%) Red Hat
4 17 (6.32%) Coverity
5 11 (4.09%) Databricks
5 11 (4.09%) Rackspace
5 11 (4.09%) Sage
5 11 (4.09%) Xamarin
6 10 (3.72%) UiPath
6 10 (3.72%) VMware
7 9 (3.35%) BiZZdesign
8 8 (2.97%) Google
9 7 (2.60%) Rockwell
9 7 (2.60%) Siemens
9 7 (2.60%) Zoho
10 6 (2.23%) Blue Prism
11 5 (1.86%) Meraki