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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 125 103
Rank change year-on-year +4 -22 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 226 201 424
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.44% 2.33% 2.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.99% 8.89% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 198 133 253
10th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £42,707
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 - £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -

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 3,771 2,260 4,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.98% 26.24% 29.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,616 1,392 3,785
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +3.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,362 £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 15 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 15 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 +20 72 £50,000 -28.57% 40
West Sussex +11 50 £70,000 +16.67% 15
Surrey -8 45 £65,000 -7.14% 10
Berkshire +8 38 £45,000 -45.45% 22
Hampshire -47 32 £60,000 -2.04% 17
Buckinghamshire -9 19 £57,500 +11.65% 10
Kent -20 16 £29,000 -58.57% 9
Oxfordshire -1 15 £57,500 +19.48% 9
Isle of Wight - 5 £50,000 - 6
Sussex - 3 £65,000 - 5
East Sussex -15 2 £86,250 +72.50% 5
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 8 (3.54%) IIS
2 7 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.65%) Confluence
4 5 (2.21%) nginx
5 3 (1.33%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.33%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.21%) SAP IBP
1 5 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.44%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 226 (100.00%) Azure
2 29 (12.83%) Power Platform
2 29 (12.83%) SaaS
3 26 (11.50%) GitHub
4 22 (9.73%) AWS
4 22 (9.73%) Azure AI
4 22 (9.73%) Azure AKS
5 20 (8.85%) Azure Monitor
5 20 (8.85%) Entra ID
5 20 (8.85%) PaaS
6 19 (8.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 16 (7.08%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (6.64%) Datadog
9 14 (6.19%) IaaS
10 13 (5.75%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (5.31%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (4.42%) Serverless
13 8 (3.54%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (3.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.10%) Firewall
2 6 (2.65%) Internet
3 3 (1.33%) BGP
4 2 (0.88%) DNS
5 1 (0.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (22.12%) SQL Server
2 48 (21.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 40 (17.70%) MongoDB
4 15 (6.64%) Power BI
5 8 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.21%) Metadata
8 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.33%) Redis
8 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.88%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.44%) GIS
10 1 (0.44%) MS Access
10 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (11.50%) Git
2 15 (6.64%) JIRA
3 14 (6.19%) GitLab
4 9 (3.98%) Selenium
5 8 (3.54%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.54%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (2.65%) Zephyr
7 4 (1.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.77%) NUnit
7 4 (1.77%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (1.33%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.33%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.88%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.88%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.88%) JMeter
9 2 (0.88%) MSI
9 2 (0.88%) MSTest
9 2 (0.88%) Postman
9 2 (0.88%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.44%) utPLSQL
General
1 48 (21.24%) Finance
2 47 (20.80%) Social Skills
3 37 (16.37%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.31%) Advertising
5 11 (4.87%) Games
6 9 (3.98%) Retail
7 7 (3.10%) Marketing
8 6 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.21%) Aviation
10 4 (1.77%) Billing
10 4 (1.77%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.33%) Legal
11 3 (1.33%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.88%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.44%) Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (42.92%) Developer
2 55 (24.34%) .NET Developer
3 40 (17.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (11.50%) Azure Engineer
5 24 (10.62%) Lead
6 20 (8.85%) Analyst
7 16 (7.08%) Senior
7 16 (7.08%) Systems Engineer
8 14 (6.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 14 (6.19%) Software Engineer
9 13 (5.75%) DevOps Systems Engineer
9 13 (5.75%) Linux DevOps Engineer
9 13 (5.75%) Linux Engineer
9 13 (5.75%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 13 (5.75%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 11 (4.87%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.98%) Architect
12 9 (3.98%) Lead Developer
13 8 (3.54%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (48.23%) .NET
2 68 (30.09%) ASP.NET
3 53 (23.45%) ASP.NET Core
4 50 (22.12%) .NET Core
5 46 (20.35%) HTML
6 44 (19.47%) CSS
7 33 (14.60%) React
8 26 (11.50%) Blazor
8 26 (11.50%) Entity Framework
9 23 (10.18%) RESTful
10 21 (9.29%) ML.NET
11 17 (7.52%) YAML
12 15 (6.64%) ARM Templates
12 15 (6.64%) jQuery
12 15 (6.64%) REST
13 14 (6.19%) Ajax
13 14 (6.19%) Sass
14 13 (5.75%) OAuth
15 12 (5.31%) LESS
15 12 (5.31%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.52%) Greenfield Project
1 17 (7.52%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.75%) Mobile App
3 12 (5.31%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.31%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (5.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.54%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.54%) Low-Code
5 6 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.77%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.77%) iPhone
7 4 (1.77%) Social Network
8 2 (0.88%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.44%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.62%) Linux
2 15 (6.64%) Ubuntu
3 11 (4.87%) Windows
4 4 (1.77%) Android
5 3 (1.33%) 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
1 226 (100.00%) DevOps
2 100 (44.25%) CI/CD
3 94 (41.59%) Agile
4 65 (28.76%) Full-Stack Development
5 49 (21.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 48 (21.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (18.58%) AI
9 34 (15.04%) Machine Learning
10 27 (11.95%) Microservices
10 27 (11.95%) User Experience
11 25 (11.06%) Scrum
12 24 (10.62%) Deployment Automation
12 24 (10.62%) SDLC
13 22 (9.73%) Multithreading
13 22 (9.73%) MVC
14 21 (9.29%) Observability
15 18 (7.96%) Analytics
15 18 (7.96%) Software Engineering
15 18 (7.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 111 (49.12%) C#
2 82 (36.28%) SQL
3 50 (22.12%) JavaScript
4 38 (16.81%) Python
5 36 (15.93%) PowerShell
6 34 (15.04%) Bash
7 20 (8.85%) Bicep
8 10 (4.42%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.54%) T-SQL
10 6 (2.65%) Java
11 3 (1.33%) DataWeave
11 3 (1.33%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.88%) Ruby
13 1 (0.44%) C++
13 1 (0.44%) Delphi
13 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.44%) VB
13 1 (0.44%) VB6
Qualifications
1 15 (6.64%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.42%) Degree
3 8 (3.54%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.65%) ISTQB
5 5 (2.21%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.21%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.39%) QA
2 5 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.77%) WCAG
4 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (13.72%) Docker
2 9 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.21%) 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 55 (24.34%) Terraform
2 26 (11.50%) Kubernetes
3 23 (10.18%) Grafana
3 23 (10.18%) Prometheus
4 19 (8.41%) Ansible
5 3 (1.33%) Scalr
6 2 (0.88%) Argo
6 2 (0.88%) FlexNet
6 2 (0.88%) MIIS
6 2 (0.88%) Rancher
6 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 106 (46.90%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.18%) Red Hat
3 12 (5.31%) Facebook
3 12 (5.31%) YouTube
4 10 (4.42%) MuleSoft
5 8 (3.54%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.54%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.65%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.21%) SAP
8 4 (1.77%) Google
9 3 (1.33%) Cisco
9 3 (1.33%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.33%) Oracle
9 3 (1.33%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.88%) Databricks
10 2 (0.88%) NetApp
10 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.44%) JD Edwards
11 1 (0.44%) RedGate
11 1 (0.44%) Veeam