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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 95 122
Rank change year-on-year -41 +27 -21
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 168 184 368
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.25% 2.74% 2.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.36% 8.51% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 151 153 239
10th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £55,000 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70,000 £83,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 - £75,250
England median annual salary £65,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.43% +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 3,857 2,163 4,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.59% 32.17% 31.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,108 1,437 3,986
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,875 £86,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 April 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 April 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 -23 54 £45,000 -40.98% 34
Hampshire -13 43 £75,000 +25.00% 16
Berkshire -10 38 £45,000 -45.45% 15
Surrey -41 25 £50,000 -35.48% 7
West Sussex -17 18 £64,750 +7.92% 7
Buckinghamshire -27 12 £35,000 -41.67% 9
East Sussex -17 9 £82,500 +94.12%
Kent -32 7 £29,000 -51.67% 4
Isle of Wight - 6 £42,000 - 2
Middlesex +20 4 - -
Oxfordshire -8 4 £68,750 +19.57% 10
Sussex - 1 £59,500 - 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 9 (5.36%) IIS
2 4 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.38%) Confluence
3 3 (1.79%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.19%) Apache
4 2 (1.19%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.60%) Appian
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 168 (100.00%) Azure
2 37 (22.02%) GitHub
3 31 (18.45%) AWS
4 30 (17.86%) Power Platform
5 19 (11.31%) Azure Logic Apps
6 16 (9.52%) SaaS
7 15 (8.93%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (8.93%) PaaS
8 12 (7.14%) Entra ID
9 11 (6.55%) Datadog
10 10 (5.95%) IaaS
11 9 (5.36%) Azure AKS
11 9 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (4.76%) OpenShift
13 5 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (2.98%) GCP
13 5 (2.98%) Serverless
14 4 (2.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 4 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.14%) Firewall
2 10 (5.95%) DNS
3 3 (1.79%) BGP
4 1 (0.60%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.60%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.60%) MPLS
4 1 (0.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.88%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.95%) Power BI
3 8 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.38%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.19%) Metadata
7 2 (1.19%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.60%) Airbyte
8 1 (0.60%) Big Data
8 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.60%) MySQL
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.60%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (19.05%) Git
2 23 (13.69%) Selenium
3 17 (10.12%) GitLab
4 15 (8.93%) Robot Framework
5 13 (7.74%) Snyk
6 12 (7.14%) JIRA
7 10 (5.95%) Jenkins
8 7 (4.17%) Visual Studio
9 6 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.79%) MLflow
10 3 (1.79%) NUnit
10 3 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.79%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.79%) Zephyr
11 2 (1.19%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.19%) Jasmine
11 2 (1.19%) MSTest
11 2 (1.19%) TestRail
11 2 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.60%) utPLSQL
General
1 64 (38.10%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (23.81%) Finance
3 31 (18.45%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.36%) Billing
5 5 (2.98%) Aerospace
5 5 (2.98%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.98%) Retail
6 3 (1.79%) Legal
7 2 (1.19%) Aviation
7 2 (1.19%) Banking
8 1 (0.60%) Games
8 1 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (32.74%) Developer
2 25 (14.88%) Lead
3 23 (13.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (9.52%) Power Platform Developer
6 15 (8.93%) Senior
7 14 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (7.14%) Software Engineer
9 11 (6.55%) Applications Developer
9 11 (6.55%) DevOps Systems Engineer
9 11 (6.55%) Linux DevOps Engineer
9 11 (6.55%) Linux Engineer
9 11 (6.55%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 11 (6.55%) Linux/Unix DevOps
9 11 (6.55%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (5.95%) Analyst
11 8 (4.76%) Software Developer
12 7 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (3.57%) IT Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (32.14%) .NET
2 24 (14.29%) CSS
2 24 (14.29%) HTML
3 21 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 21 (12.50%) React
4 16 (9.52%) Bootstrap
4 16 (9.52%) React Native
5 14 (8.33%) OAuth
6 13 (7.74%) REST
7 9 (5.36%) .NET Core
8 8 (4.76%) Entity Framework
8 8 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (4.76%) SAML
9 7 (4.17%) .NET Framework
9 7 (4.17%) JSON
9 7 (4.17%) SOAP
10 6 (3.57%) CSS3
10 6 (3.57%) HTML5
10 6 (3.57%) RESTful
10 6 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.31%) Low-Code
2 16 (9.52%) Mobile App
3 14 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.38%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.79%) Life Science
7 3 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.79%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.60%) Social Network
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.29%) Linux
2 21 (12.50%) Windows
3 11 (6.55%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.60%) Unix
4 1 (0.60%) VMS
4 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (100.00%) DevOps
2 88 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 72 (42.86%) Agile
4 62 (36.90%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (18.45%) Test Automation
8 24 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
8 24 (14.29%) Scrum
9 23 (13.69%) Cybersecurity
10 19 (11.31%) B2B
10 19 (11.31%) Software Testing
10 19 (11.31%) Unit Testing
11 18 (10.71%) Computer Science
11 18 (10.71%) Data Governance
12 17 (10.12%) API Integration
12 17 (10.12%) Clean Code
12 17 (10.12%) Front End Development
12 17 (10.12%) Roadmaps
13 16 (9.52%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 57 (33.93%) SQL
2 44 (26.19%) C#
3 41 (24.40%) Python
4 26 (15.48%) Bash
5 25 (14.88%) JavaScript
6 20 (11.90%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.17%) Bicep
7 7 (4.17%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.57%) Java
9 4 (2.38%) C++
10 3 (1.79%) DataWeave
10 3 (1.79%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.19%) Delphi
11 2 (1.19%) VB
11 2 (1.19%) VB6
12 1 (0.60%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.69%) Degree
2 23 (13.69%) DV Cleared
3 12 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.57%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.98%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.38%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.19%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.55%) QA
2 4 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.79%) NCSC
3 3 (1.79%) NIST
4 2 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.19%) WCAG
5 1 (0.60%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (15.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (33.93%) Terraform
2 26 (15.48%) Ansible
3 19 (11.31%) Kubernetes
4 14 (8.33%) Grafana
4 14 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.79%) Scalr
6 2 (1.19%) MIIS
6 2 (1.19%) Nessus
7 1 (0.60%) CASB
Vendors
1 47 (27.98%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.90%) Red Hat
3 13 (7.74%) Black Duck
3 13 (7.74%) Coverity
4 8 (4.76%) Dynatrace
4 8 (4.76%) MuleSoft
5 6 (3.57%) Sage
5 6 (3.57%) Xamarin
6 3 (1.79%) Cisco
6 3 (1.79%) Databricks
6 3 (1.79%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.79%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.79%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.19%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.19%) Google
7 2 (1.19%) New Relic
7 2 (1.19%) Oracle
7 2 (1.19%) VMware
7 2 (1.19%) Zoho
8 1 (0.60%) Salesforce