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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 103 90
Rank change year-on-year -41 -13 +19
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 227 253 341
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.20% 2.82% 2.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.13% 10.37% 9.64%
Number of salaries quoted 182 121 195
10th Percentile £42,500 £33,750 £41,263
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £60,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -10.37% +3.85%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £76,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -3.70% +3.85%

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 3,702 2,440 3,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 19.50% 27.17% 28.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,807 1,488 1,979
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +4.00%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -32 85 £62,500 -16.67% 87
Surrey +5 51 £72,500 +7.41% 26
West Sussex 0 44 £70,000 +16.67% 13
Berkshire -45 34 £65,000 -21.21% 48
Oxfordshire -3 29 £60,000 +20.00% 19
Hampshire -76 24 £60,000 -4.00% 36
Buckinghamshire -5 22 £63,750 +0.79% 23
Kent -14 15 £29,000 -55.38% 13
Isle of Wight - 6 £50,000 - 1
Sussex -12 3 £65,000 +44.44% 4
Middlesex -5 1 £38,500 +2.67%
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 14 (6.17%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.41%) Confluence
3 7 (3.08%) IIS
4 5 (2.20%) nginx
5 2 (0.88%) Apache
5 2 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (4.41%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.76%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.64%) SAP IBP
1 6 (2.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.88%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 2 (0.88%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 227 (100.00%) Azure
2 40 (17.62%) Power Platform
3 34 (14.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 28 (12.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 24 (10.57%) SaaS
6 23 (10.13%) Azure AI
6 23 (10.13%) Azure Monitor
7 21 (9.25%) Azure AKS
7 21 (9.25%) Entra ID
8 20 (8.81%) Azure Service Bus
9 17 (7.49%) PaaS
10 16 (7.05%) AWS
11 15 (6.61%) GitHub
12 14 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (4.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (4.85%) PowerApps
14 10 (4.41%) IaaS
15 9 (3.96%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (3.96%) Azure Functions
15 9 (3.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.64%) Internet
2 3 (1.32%) Firewall
2 3 (1.32%) VPN
3 2 (0.88%) DNS
3 2 (0.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (31.28%) SQL Server
2 53 (23.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 46 (20.26%) MongoDB
4 29 (12.78%) Power BI
5 16 (7.05%) Metadata
6 14 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (4.41%) NoSQL
8 10 (4.41%) Star Schema
9 9 (3.96%) Amazon QuickSight
9 9 (3.96%) DynamoDB
9 9 (3.96%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (2.64%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.76%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.32%) Redis
14 2 (0.88%) MS Access
14 2 (0.88%) MySQL
14 2 (0.88%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (18.94%) Git
2 27 (11.89%) JIRA
3 6 (2.64%) Selenium
4 5 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.20%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.32%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.32%) JMeter
5 3 (1.32%) NUnit
5 3 (1.32%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.88%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.88%) GitLab
6 2 (0.88%) MSI
6 2 (0.88%) Postman
6 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.44%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.44%) Eclipse RCP
7 1 (0.44%) Gatling
7 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.44%) Snyk
General
1 64 (28.19%) Social Skills
2 43 (18.94%) Finance
3 15 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.29%) Advertising
6 11 (4.85%) Games
7 8 (3.52%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.64%) Aviation
8 6 (2.64%) Marketing
8 6 (2.64%) Retail
9 5 (2.20%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.32%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.32%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.44%) Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (42.29%) Developer
2 69 (30.40%) .NET Developer
3 31 (13.66%) Azure Engineer
4 30 (13.22%) Lead
4 30 (13.22%) Senior
5 27 (11.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (7.93%) Analyst
7 16 (7.05%) Lead Developer
8 15 (6.61%) Software Engineer
9 14 (6.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 14 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (5.29%) Lead .NET Developer
11 10 (4.41%) Systems Engineer
12 9 (3.96%) Architect
12 9 (3.96%) Project Manager
13 7 (3.08%) Business Analyst
13 7 (3.08%) C# Developer
13 7 (3.08%) C# Software Engineer
13 7 (3.08%) Technical Manager
13 7 (3.08%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (49.78%) .NET
2 79 (34.80%) ASP.NET
3 63 (27.75%) ASP.NET Core
4 53 (23.35%) .NET Core
5 41 (18.06%) HTML
6 39 (17.18%) CSS
7 34 (14.98%) Terraform
8 32 (14.10%) Blazor
8 32 (14.10%) React
9 30 (13.22%) Entity Framework
10 21 (9.25%) REST
11 20 (8.81%) ML.NET
11 20 (8.81%) RESTful
12 16 (7.05%) YAML
13 15 (6.61%) jQuery
14 13 (5.73%) ARM Templates
15 12 (5.29%) gRPC
15 12 (5.29%) LINQ
16 10 (4.41%) CSS3
16 10 (4.41%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.66%) Product Ownership
2 21 (9.25%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (7.49%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (7.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (6.17%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (5.29%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.96%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.52%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.76%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.76%) iPhone
8 4 (1.76%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.76%) Social Network
9 3 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.88%) Autonomous Agent
10 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.88%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.44%) IoT
11 1 (0.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.69%) Windows
2 18 (7.93%) Linux
3 9 (3.96%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.76%) Android
5 3 (1.32%) 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
1 227 (100.00%) DevOps
2 102 (44.93%) Agile
3 97 (42.73%) CI/CD
4 66 (29.07%) Full-Stack Development
5 48 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 47 (20.70%) AI
7 40 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (17.62%) Scrum
8 34 (14.98%) Machine Learning
9 32 (14.10%) Analytics
9 32 (14.10%) Microservices
10 31 (13.66%) Mentoring
11 29 (12.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 28 (12.33%) Business Intelligence
12 28 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (11.89%) SDLC
14 26 (11.45%) Data Modelling
15 25 (11.01%) MVC
16 22 (9.69%) Software Engineering
16 22 (9.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 127 (55.95%) C#
2 84 (37.00%) SQL
3 46 (20.26%) JavaScript
4 40 (17.62%) Python
5 26 (11.45%) PowerShell
6 17 (7.49%) Bash
6 17 (7.49%) Bicep
7 13 (5.73%) TypeScript
8 11 (4.85%) T-SQL
9 7 (3.08%) Java
10 3 (1.32%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.88%) Ruby
12 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (14.10%) Degree
2 12 (5.29%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.41%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.52%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.52%) PMI Certification
4 8 (3.52%) PMP
5 4 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.76%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.88%) CBAP
7 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.44%) CSPO
8 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.44%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (15.86%) QA
2 12 (5.29%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (3.96%) GDPR
4 4 (1.76%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.32%) WCAG
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 25 (11.01%) Docker
2 11 (4.85%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.64%) 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 16 (7.05%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.73%) Ansible
3 12 (5.29%) Grafana
3 12 (5.29%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.88%) Argo
5 2 (0.88%) FlexNet
5 2 (0.88%) Rancher
5 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 114 (50.22%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.29%) Facebook
2 12 (5.29%) YouTube
3 9 (3.96%) Informatica
3 9 (3.96%) Red Hat
3 9 (3.96%) Talend
4 8 (3.52%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.08%) Pega
6 6 (2.64%) SAP
7 5 (2.20%) Databricks
7 5 (2.20%) Oracle
7 5 (2.20%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.76%) Google
8 4 (1.76%) HP
8 4 (1.76%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.88%) JD Edwards
9 2 (0.88%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.88%) NetApp
9 2 (0.88%) RedGate
10 1 (0.44%) Axway