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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 121 106
Rank change year-on-year +2 -15 -7
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 231 197 425
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.49% 2.35% 2.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.16% 9.02% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 203 130 252
10th Percentile £36,700 £46,250 £42,604
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £72,125 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 - £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -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 3,752 2,185 5,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.17% 26.12% 29.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,600 1,371 3,966
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 7 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 7 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 +18 75 £50,000 -28.83% 29
West Sussex +8 48 £69,750 +16.25% 11
Surrey -2 45 £65,000 -7.14% 13
Berkshire -1 42 £45,000 -45.45% 15
Hampshire -46 34 £60,000 -2.04% 17
Buckinghamshire -6 18 £57,500 +11.65% 8
Kent -17 16 £29,000 -63.75% 5
Oxfordshire -6 15 £57,500 +19.48% 7
Isle of Wight - 5 £50,000 - 1
East Sussex -13 3 £82,500 +65.00%
Sussex - 3 £65,000 - 1
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 7 (3.03%) IIS
1 7 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.60%) Confluence
3 4 (1.73%) nginx
4 3 (1.30%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.30%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.73%) SAP IBP
1 4 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.43%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 231 (100.00%) Azure
2 32 (13.85%) Power Platform
3 30 (12.99%) GitHub
3 30 (12.99%) SaaS
4 24 (10.39%) AWS
5 23 (9.96%) Azure AI
6 20 (8.66%) Azure AKS
6 20 (8.66%) PaaS
7 19 (8.23%) Entra ID
8 18 (7.79%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (7.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 17 (7.36%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (6.49%) Datadog
10 15 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (6.06%) IaaS
12 12 (5.19%) Azure Key Vault
13 11 (4.76%) Serverless
14 10 (4.33%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (4.33%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (3.46%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.60%) Firewall
1 6 (2.60%) Internet
2 3 (1.30%) BGP
3 2 (0.87%) DNS
4 1 (0.43%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (21.65%) SQL Server
2 48 (20.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 41 (17.75%) MongoDB
4 16 (6.93%) Power BI
5 8 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.60%) Metadata
7 5 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.30%) Redis
8 3 (1.30%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.87%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.43%) GIS
10 1 (0.43%) MS Access
10 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.43%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (10.82%) Git
2 14 (6.06%) GitLab
2 14 (6.06%) JIRA
3 9 (3.90%) Selenium
4 7 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.03%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (2.60%) Zephyr
6 4 (1.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.73%) NUnit
6 4 (1.73%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.30%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.87%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.87%) JMeter
8 2 (0.87%) MSI
8 2 (0.87%) MSTest
8 2 (0.87%) Postman
8 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.43%) utPLSQL
General
1 50 (21.65%) Finance
2 46 (19.91%) Social Skills
3 41 (17.75%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.19%) Advertising
5 11 (4.76%) Games
6 9 (3.90%) Retail
7 7 (3.03%) Marketing
8 5 (2.16%) Aviation
8 5 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.73%) Billing
9 4 (1.73%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.30%) Legal
10 3 (1.30%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.87%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.43%) Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (44.16%) Developer
2 55 (23.81%) .NET Developer
3 40 (17.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (11.26%) Azure Engineer
5 23 (9.96%) Lead
6 20 (8.66%) Analyst
7 17 (7.36%) Systems Engineer
8 16 (6.93%) Senior
9 15 (6.49%) Software Engineer
10 14 (6.06%) DevOps Systems Engineer
10 14 (6.06%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.06%) Linux Engineer
10 14 (6.06%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 14 (6.06%) Linux/Unix DevOps
11 13 (5.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (4.33%) Architect
15 9 (3.90%) Power Platform Developer
16 8 (3.46%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (48.48%) .NET
2 69 (29.87%) ASP.NET
3 54 (23.38%) ASP.NET Core
4 52 (22.51%) .NET Core
5 48 (20.78%) HTML
6 46 (19.91%) CSS
7 37 (16.02%) React
8 27 (11.69%) Blazor
9 26 (11.26%) Entity Framework
10 25 (10.82%) RESTful
11 22 (9.52%) ML.NET
12 17 (7.36%) YAML
13 15 (6.49%) jQuery
13 15 (6.49%) REST
14 14 (6.06%) Ajax
14 14 (6.06%) ARM Templates
14 14 (6.06%) Sass
15 13 (5.63%) OAuth
16 12 (5.19%) CSS3
16 12 (5.19%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.36%) Greenfield Project
1 17 (7.36%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.49%) Mobile App
3 12 (5.19%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (4.33%) Low-Code
6 8 (3.46%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.16%) Social Network
9 4 (1.73%) iPhone
10 3 (1.30%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.87%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.43%) Embedded Systems
12 1 (0.43%) IoT
12 1 (0.43%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.96%) Linux
2 15 (6.49%) Ubuntu
3 9 (3.90%) Windows
4 4 (1.73%) Android
5 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.43%) Debian
6 1 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (100.00%) DevOps
2 105 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 98 (42.42%) Agile
4 68 (29.44%) Full-Stack Development
5 48 (20.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 47 (20.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 47 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (19.05%) AI
8 35 (15.15%) Machine Learning
9 27 (11.69%) User Experience
10 26 (11.26%) Microservices
11 25 (10.82%) Deployment Automation
11 25 (10.82%) Scrum
12 24 (10.39%) SDLC
13 23 (9.96%) Multithreading
14 22 (9.52%) MVC
15 20 (8.66%) Observability
16 19 (8.23%) Analytics
16 19 (8.23%) Software Engineering
17 18 (7.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 113 (48.92%) C#
2 87 (37.66%) SQL
3 54 (23.38%) JavaScript
4 39 (16.88%) Python
5 35 (15.15%) PowerShell
6 34 (14.72%) Bash
7 19 (8.23%) Bicep
8 11 (4.76%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.90%) T-SQL
10 6 (2.60%) Java
11 3 (1.30%) DataWeave
11 3 (1.30%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.87%) Ruby
13 1 (0.43%) C++
13 1 (0.43%) Delphi
13 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.43%) VB
13 1 (0.43%) VB6
Qualifications
1 16 (6.93%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.33%) Degree
3 8 (3.46%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.60%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.60%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.60%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.26%) QA
2 5 (2.16%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.73%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (13.42%) Docker
2 8 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.43%) Firmware
4 1 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.43%) Xen
Systems Management
1 56 (24.24%) Terraform
2 25 (10.82%) Kubernetes
3 21 (9.09%) Grafana
3 21 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 19 (8.23%) Ansible
5 3 (1.30%) Scalr
6 2 (0.87%) Argo
6 2 (0.87%) MIIS
7 1 (0.43%) FlexNet
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.43%) Rancher
7 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 107 (46.32%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.96%) Red Hat
3 12 (5.19%) Facebook
3 12 (5.19%) YouTube
4 10 (4.33%) MuleSoft
5 8 (3.46%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.46%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.60%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.73%) Google
7 4 (1.73%) SAP
8 3 (1.30%) Cisco
8 3 (1.30%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.30%) Oracle
8 3 (1.30%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.87%) Databricks
9 2 (0.87%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.43%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.43%) Genesys
10 1 (0.43%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.43%) NetApp