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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 87 127
Rank change year-on-year -3 +40 -41
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 231 290 182
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.23% 3.20% 2.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.20% 9.72% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 132 202 143
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,688 £50,986
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £66,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.72% +15.22% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,625 £80,938 £70,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £88,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 3,210 2,983 2,826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.94% 32.95% 32.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,732 1,616 2,356
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £69,840 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 +15 119 £47,500 -29.63% 35
Berkshire +15 90 £50,000 -39.39% 26
Hampshire +15 39 £71,500 +10.00% 11
Buckinghamshire -9 22 £35,000 -41.67% 5
Surrey -43 17 £50,000 -28.57% 8
Middlesex +19 16 £37,500 - 1
West Sussex +9 14 £67,500 +12.50% 4
East Sussex +2 10 £72,000 +69.41% 5
Kent -12 8 £37,500 -57.14% 7
Oxfordshire +20 7 £68,750 +19.57% 4
Isle of Wight - 5 £41,500 - 4
Sussex - 4 £45,000 -
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 (7.36%) IIS
2 8 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.60%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.16%) Apache
4 5 (2.16%) Appian
5 2 (0.87%) Confluence
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 69 (29.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 162 (70.13%) Azure
2 35 (15.15%) Power Platform
3 34 (14.72%) GitHub
4 27 (11.69%) AWS
5 14 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (5.63%) PaaS
7 12 (5.19%) Entra ID
7 12 (5.19%) SaaS
8 11 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (3.46%) GCP
11 6 (2.60%) Azure AKS
11 6 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.60%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (2.60%) IaaS
12 5 (2.16%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (2.16%) MinIO
12 5 (2.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.19%) DNS
2 8 (3.46%) Firewall
3 2 (0.87%) VPN
4 1 (0.43%) AMQP
4 1 (0.43%) HTTP
4 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.43%) MPLS
4 1 (0.43%) SSL
4 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.26%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.79%) Power BI
3 15 (6.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (1.73%) Airbyte
4 4 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.87%) Data Hub
5 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.87%) Looker
5 2 (0.87%) Metadata
5 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.87%) Tableau
6 1 (0.43%) Big Data
6 1 (0.43%) MySQL
6 1 (0.43%) Redis
6 1 (0.43%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 75 (32.47%) JIRA
2 69 (29.87%) eCATT
3 38 (16.45%) NeoLoad
4 34 (14.72%) Git
5 26 (11.26%) Selenium
6 22 (9.52%) Robot Framework
7 21 (9.09%) Snyk
8 14 (6.06%) Jenkins
9 8 (3.46%) GitLab
10 5 (2.16%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.73%) Storybook
12 3 (1.30%) MLflow
13 2 (0.87%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.87%) TestRail
14 1 (0.43%) Appium
14 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
14 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
14 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 118 (51.08%) Finance
2 71 (30.74%) Marketing
3 69 (29.87%) Manufacturing
4 50 (21.65%) Presentation Skills
5 45 (19.48%) Social Skills
6 44 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (17.32%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.16%) Billing
9 4 (1.73%) Legal
9 4 (1.73%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.30%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.87%) Banking
11 2 (0.87%) Retail
12 1 (0.43%) Advertising
12 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.43%) International Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Law
12 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (27.27%) Lead
2 58 (25.11%) Analyst
3 45 (19.48%) Senior
4 31 (13.42%) Developer
5 30 (12.99%) Test Leader
6 27 (11.69%) Test Analyst
7 21 (9.09%) Software Engineer
8 20 (8.66%) Automation Test Lead
9 14 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (6.06%) IT Engineer
10 13 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (5.63%) IT Support
10 13 (5.63%) IT Support Engineer
10 13 (5.63%) Support Engineer
11 12 (5.19%) Performance Analyst
11 12 (5.19%) Performance Test Analyst
11 12 (5.19%) Software Support Engineer
11 12 (5.19%) Testing Analyst
12 10 (4.33%) Performance Test Leader
13 9 (3.90%) Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (24.24%) .NET
2 17 (7.36%) React
3 14 (6.06%) .NET Framework
3 14 (6.06%) ASP.NET
4 12 (5.19%) Entity Framework
4 12 (5.19%) WinForms
5 11 (4.76%) CSS
5 11 (4.76%) HTML
6 9 (3.90%) Bootstrap
6 9 (3.90%) Next.js
6 9 (3.90%) React Native
7 7 (3.03%) .NET Core
7 7 (3.03%) RESTful
8 6 (2.60%) ARM Templates
8 6 (2.60%) Kafka
9 5 (2.16%) Apache NiFi
9 5 (2.16%) scikit-learn
9 5 (2.16%) YAML
10 4 (1.73%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.73%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.79%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.49%) Low-Code
3 13 (5.63%) Mobile App
4 10 (4.33%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.46%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.30%) Life Science
9 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.43%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.43%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.43%) Social Network
10 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (16.45%) Windows
2 21 (9.09%) Linux
3 7 (3.03%) VMS
4 6 (2.60%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.73%) Android
5 4 (1.73%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Unix
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (70.13%) DevOps
2 96 (41.56%) CI/CD
3 91 (39.39%) Agile
4 90 (38.96%) Test Management
5 69 (29.87%) Roadmaps
5 69 (29.87%) Source to Pay
6 66 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 66 (28.57%) Test Automation
7 56 (24.24%) ERP
7 56 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (21.65%) Product Roadmap
8 50 (21.65%) Visualisation
9 44 (19.05%) Test Strategy
10 43 (18.61%) Risk Management
11 42 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
12 41 (17.75%) Performance Testing
13 38 (16.45%) Requirements Gathering
14 35 (15.15%) Continuous Delivery
15 34 (14.72%) Scrum
16 33 (14.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 54 (23.38%) SQL
2 39 (16.88%) C#
3 35 (15.15%) Python
4 16 (6.93%) PowerShell
5 15 (6.49%) Bash
5 15 (6.49%) JavaScript
6 12 (5.19%) T-SQL
7 7 (3.03%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.60%) Java
9 4 (1.73%) C++
10 3 (1.30%) Bicep
11 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.43%) Delphi
12 1 (0.43%) Perl
12 1 (0.43%) R
12 1 (0.43%) VB
12 1 (0.43%) VB6
12 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (13.85%) Degree
2 24 (10.39%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 19 (8.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.90%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.46%) ISTQB
6 8 (3.46%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.60%) ISEB
8 5 (2.16%) SC Cleared
9 4 (1.73%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.73%) PMP
10 2 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (22.08%) QA
2 12 (5.19%) PMO
3 6 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.60%) Software Quality Assurance
4 5 (2.16%) NCSC
4 5 (2.16%) NIST
5 4 (1.73%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (6.49%) Docker
2 7 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 69 (29.87%) HP ALM
2 50 (21.65%) Terraform
3 27 (11.69%) Ansible
4 20 (8.66%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.73%) Grafana
5 4 (1.73%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.87%) Nessus
7 1 (0.43%) CASB
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.43%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 69 (29.87%) HP
1 69 (29.87%) SAP
2 57 (24.68%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.66%) Black Duck
4 19 (8.23%) Coverity
5 12 (5.19%) Sage
5 12 (5.19%) Xamarin
6 7 (3.03%) Databricks
6 7 (3.03%) Google
6 7 (3.03%) VMware
6 7 (3.03%) Zoho
7 6 (2.60%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.16%) BiZZdesign
8 5 (2.16%) Rackspace
8 5 (2.16%) UiPath
9 4 (1.73%) Blue Prism
9 4 (1.73%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.87%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.87%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.87%) Talend