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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 85 133
Rank change year-on-year 0 +48 -37
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 246 234 265
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.09% 3.14% 2.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.03% 9.49% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 152 173 199
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £74,063 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £75,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -5.30%

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 3,500 2,467 4,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.71% 33.15% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,930 1,477 3,561
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +12 129 £45,000 -38.14% 36
Berkshire +18 105 £45,000 -45.45% 19
Hampshire -16 42 £79,000 +21.54% 24
Buckinghamshire -7 20 £35,000 -41.67% 11
Surrey -41 20 £50,000 -33.33% 19
West Sussex -6 16 £70,000 +16.67% 14
Middlesex +22 13 - - 1
East Sussex 0 13 £82,500 +94.12% 6
Kent - 6 £65,000 - 10
Isle of Wight - 5 £41,500 - 5
Oxfordshire +3 4 £71,250 +23.91% 6
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 17 (6.91%) IIS
2 6 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.63%) Apache
4 3 (1.22%) Appian
4 3 (1.22%) Confluence
5 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 69 (28.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 177 (71.95%) Azure
2 41 (16.67%) GitHub
3 37 (15.04%) Power Platform
4 28 (11.38%) AWS
5 19 (7.72%) Azure Logic Apps
6 18 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (6.91%) PaaS
8 16 (6.50%) SaaS
9 14 (5.69%) Entra ID
9 14 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (4.07%) Azure AKS
10 10 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (4.07%) IaaS
11 8 (3.25%) GCP
12 5 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (2.03%) Datadog
12 5 (2.03%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.63%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (1.63%) Snowflake
14 3 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.88%) DNS
1 12 (4.88%) Firewall
2 2 (0.81%) BGP
2 2 (0.81%) VPN
3 1 (0.41%) AMQP
3 1 (0.41%) HTTP
3 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.41%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.41%) MPLS
3 1 (0.41%) SSL
3 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.79%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.10%) Power BI
2 15 (6.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (1.22%) Airbyte
4 2 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.81%) Metadata
4 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.41%) Big Data
5 1 (0.41%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.41%) MySQL
5 1 (0.41%) Redis
5 1 (0.41%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 78 (31.71%) JIRA
2 69 (28.05%) eCATT
3 38 (15.45%) NeoLoad
4 36 (14.63%) Git
5 24 (9.76%) Selenium
6 20 (8.13%) Robot Framework
7 19 (7.72%) Snyk
8 16 (6.50%) Jenkins
9 15 (6.10%) GitLab
10 6 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (2.03%) Visual Studio
12 3 (1.22%) MLflow
13 2 (0.81%) TestRail
14 1 (0.41%) Appium
14 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
14 1 (0.41%) Postman
14 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
14 1 (0.41%) Storybook
14 1 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 119 (48.37%) Finance
2 69 (28.05%) Manufacturing
2 69 (28.05%) Marketing
3 66 (26.83%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (20.33%) Presentation Skills
5 40 (16.26%) Influencing Skills
6 36 (14.63%) Social Skills
7 9 (3.66%) Billing
8 4 (1.63%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.63%) Retail
9 3 (1.22%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.22%) Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Advertising
10 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.41%) International Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (25.20%) Lead
2 54 (21.95%) Analyst
3 46 (18.70%) Developer
4 44 (17.89%) Senior
5 26 (10.57%) Test Leader
6 23 (9.35%) Azure Engineer
6 23 (9.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (8.54%) Software Engineer
7 21 (8.54%) Test Analyst
8 16 (6.50%) Automation Test Lead
8 16 (6.50%) Power Platform Developer
9 14 (5.69%) IT Engineer
10 13 (5.28%) IT Support
10 13 (5.28%) IT Support Engineer
10 13 (5.28%) Support Engineer
11 12 (4.88%) Performance Analyst
11 12 (4.88%) Performance Test Analyst
11 12 (4.88%) Software Support Engineer
11 12 (4.88%) Testing Analyst
12 11 (4.47%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (23.58%) .NET
2 21 (8.54%) React
3 19 (7.72%) ASP.NET
3 19 (7.72%) CSS
3 19 (7.72%) HTML
4 15 (6.10%) Bootstrap
4 15 (6.10%) React Native
5 13 (5.28%) .NET Framework
6 12 (4.88%) Entity Framework
6 12 (4.88%) WinForms
7 9 (3.66%) .NET Core
7 9 (3.66%) OAuth
8 7 (2.85%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.85%) REST
9 6 (2.44%) RESTful
10 5 (2.03%) JSON
10 5 (2.03%) Middleware
10 5 (2.03%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.03%) SAML
10 5 (2.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.54%) Low-Code
2 16 (6.50%) Mobile App
3 11 (4.47%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.07%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.25%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.63%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.22%) Life Science
10 1 (0.41%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.41%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.41%) Social Network
10 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.01%) Windows
2 25 (10.16%) Linux
3 10 (4.07%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.03%) VMS
5 1 (0.41%) Android
5 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (71.95%) DevOps
2 97 (39.43%) CI/CD
3 89 (36.18%) Test Management
4 83 (33.74%) Agile
5 71 (28.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 69 (28.05%) Source to Pay
7 68 (27.64%) Roadmaps
8 65 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (23.98%) Test Automation
10 56 (22.76%) ERP
11 52 (21.14%) Visualisation
12 51 (20.73%) Infrastructure as Code
13 50 (20.33%) Product Roadmap
14 43 (17.48%) Risk Management
15 41 (16.67%) Performance Testing
15 41 (16.67%) Test Strategy
16 39 (15.85%) Requirements Gathering
17 35 (14.23%) Continuous Delivery
18 29 (11.79%) Scrum
19 27 (10.98%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 58 (23.58%) SQL
2 44 (17.89%) C#
3 39 (15.85%) Python
4 24 (9.76%) JavaScript
5 22 (8.94%) Bash
6 21 (8.54%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.28%) T-SQL
8 7 (2.85%) Java
9 5 (2.03%) C++
9 5 (2.03%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.63%) Bicep
11 2 (0.81%) Delphi
11 2 (0.81%) VB
11 2 (0.81%) VB6
12 1 (0.41%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.41%) Perl
12 1 (0.41%) R
12 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (11.79%) Degree
2 28 (11.38%) Security Cleared
3 26 (10.57%) DV Cleared
4 20 (8.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.25%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.63%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.22%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (15.45%) QA
2 8 (3.25%) PMO
3 6 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.03%) NCSC
4 5 (2.03%) NIST
5 3 (1.22%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (8.54%) Docker
2 5 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 69 (28.05%) HP ALM
2 57 (23.17%) Terraform
3 29 (11.79%) Ansible
4 22 (8.94%) Kubernetes
5 9 (3.66%) Grafana
5 9 (3.66%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.81%) Nessus
7 1 (0.41%) CASB
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.41%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 69 (28.05%) HP
1 69 (28.05%) SAP
2 56 (22.76%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.32%) Black Duck
3 18 (7.32%) Coverity
4 15 (6.10%) Red Hat
5 12 (4.88%) Sage
5 12 (4.88%) Xamarin
6 5 (2.03%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.03%) Google
6 5 (2.03%) VMware
6 5 (2.03%) Zoho
7 4 (1.63%) BiZZdesign
7 4 (1.63%) Databricks
7 4 (1.63%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.22%) Blue Prism
8 3 (1.22%) UiPath
9 2 (0.81%) New Relic
9 2 (0.81%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.81%) Rackspace