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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 132 88
Rank change year-on-year -12 -44 +19
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 224 178 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.19% 2.00% 2.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.92% 7.57% 9.66%
Number of salaries quoted 184 118 196
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £41,881
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,250 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £72,813 £78,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.26% -1.48% +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 3,785 2,352 3,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 20.10% 26.46% 27.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,841 1,473 2,078
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £41,253
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £71,094
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +21 81 £62,500 -16.67% 61
Surrey -3 50 £71,250 +5.56% 25
West Sussex 0 45 £70,000 +16.67% 7
Berkshire +8 33 £65,000 -21.21% 33
Oxfordshire -7 29 £60,000 +23.08% 10
Hampshire -76 23 £60,000 -4.00% 29
Buckinghamshire 0 19 £63,750 -15.00% 18
Kent -21 17 £29,000 -43.41% 7
Isle of Wight - 6 £50,000 - 2
Sussex -12 3 £65,000 +44.44%
Middlesex +3 1 £38,500 +2.67%
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 14 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.02%) Confluence
3 7 (3.13%) IIS
4 5 (2.23%) nginx
5 2 (0.89%) Apache
5 2 (0.89%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.45%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.68%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.79%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.68%) SAP IBP
1 6 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.89%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 2 (0.89%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 224 (100.00%) Azure
2 41 (18.30%) Power Platform
3 34 (15.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 28 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 25 (11.16%) SaaS
6 23 (10.27%) Azure AI
6 23 (10.27%) Azure Monitor
7 22 (9.82%) Entra ID
8 21 (9.38%) Azure AKS
9 20 (8.93%) Azure Service Bus
10 19 (8.48%) AWS
11 17 (7.59%) PaaS
12 15 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (6.25%) GitHub
14 11 (4.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (4.91%) PowerApps
15 10 (4.46%) IaaS
15 10 (4.46%) Serverless
16 9 (4.02%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (4.02%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.68%) Internet
2 3 (1.34%) Firewall
2 3 (1.34%) VPN
3 2 (0.89%) DNS
3 2 (0.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (31.70%) SQL Server
2 54 (24.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 46 (20.54%) MongoDB
4 30 (13.39%) Power BI
5 16 (7.14%) Metadata
6 14 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (4.46%) NoSQL
8 10 (4.46%) Star Schema
9 9 (4.02%) Amazon QuickSight
9 9 (4.02%) DynamoDB
9 9 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (4.02%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (3.13%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.79%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.34%) Redis
13 2 (0.89%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 42 (18.75%) Git
2 22 (9.82%) JIRA
3 7 (3.13%) Selenium
4 6 (2.68%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (2.23%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.34%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.34%) JMeter
6 3 (1.34%) NUnit
6 3 (1.34%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.89%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.89%) GitLab
7 2 (0.89%) MSI
7 2 (0.89%) MSTest
7 2 (0.89%) Postman
7 2 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.45%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.45%) Gatling
8 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.45%) Snyk
General
1 65 (29.02%) Social Skills
2 41 (18.30%) Finance
3 15 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (5.36%) Advertising
5 11 (4.91%) Games
6 7 (3.13%) Aviation
6 7 (3.13%) Retail
7 6 (2.68%) Marketing
8 5 (2.23%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.79%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.34%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.45%) Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Legal
11 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (43.30%) Developer
2 67 (29.91%) .NET Developer
3 31 (13.84%) Lead
4 29 (12.95%) Senior
5 28 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
6 26 (11.61%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (8.04%) Analyst
8 16 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
8 16 (7.14%) Lead Developer
9 15 (6.70%) Software Engineer
10 12 (5.36%) Lead .NET Developer
10 12 (5.36%) Systems Engineer
11 11 (4.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.02%) Architect
12 9 (4.02%) DevOps Systems Engineer
12 9 (4.02%) Linux DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.02%) Linux Engineer
12 9 (4.02%) Linux Systems Engineer
12 9 (4.02%) Linux/Unix DevOps
13 7 (3.13%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (50.89%) .NET
2 77 (34.38%) ASP.NET
3 61 (27.23%) ASP.NET Core
4 53 (23.66%) .NET Core
5 43 (19.20%) HTML
6 41 (18.30%) CSS
7 37 (16.52%) Terraform
8 32 (14.29%) Blazor
8 32 (14.29%) React
9 30 (13.39%) Entity Framework
10 22 (9.82%) REST
11 20 (8.93%) ML.NET
11 20 (8.93%) RESTful
12 17 (7.59%) jQuery
12 17 (7.59%) YAML
13 13 (5.80%) ARM Templates
14 12 (5.36%) Ajax
14 12 (5.36%) gRPC
14 12 (5.36%) HTML5
14 12 (5.36%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.95%) Product Ownership
2 21 (9.38%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (7.59%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (7.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (5.36%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.02%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.57%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.79%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.79%) iPhone
8 4 (1.79%) Social Network
9 3 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.34%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.89%) Autonomous Agent
10 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.89%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.45%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.82%) Windows
2 20 (8.93%) Linux
3 11 (4.91%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.79%) Android
5 3 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.89%) Debian
6 2 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.89%) Rocky
7 1 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (100.00%) DevOps
2 97 (43.30%) Agile
2 97 (43.30%) CI/CD
3 68 (30.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 48 (21.43%) AI
5 43 (19.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (15.63%) Machine Learning
7 35 (15.63%) Scrum
8 33 (14.73%) Microservices
9 31 (13.84%) Analytics
9 31 (13.84%) Mentoring
10 29 (12.95%) Business Intelligence
10 29 (12.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (12.05%) Data Modelling
11 27 (12.05%) MVC
11 27 (12.05%) SDLC
12 25 (11.16%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (10.71%) User Experience
14 22 (9.82%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 128 (57.14%) C#
2 86 (38.39%) SQL
3 48 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 43 (19.20%) Python
5 27 (12.05%) PowerShell
6 20 (8.93%) Bash
7 17 (7.59%) Bicep
8 13 (5.80%) TypeScript
9 11 (4.91%) T-SQL
10 7 (3.13%) Java
11 3 (1.34%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.89%) Ruby
13 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.45%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (12.50%) Degree
2 13 (5.80%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.91%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.79%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.79%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.79%) PMP
6 3 (1.34%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.89%) CBAP
7 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.45%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (16.52%) QA
2 12 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (4.02%) GDPR
4 5 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.79%) WCAG
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 27 (12.05%) Docker
2 11 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.89%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (0.89%) Xen
5 1 (0.45%) Firmware
5 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.70%) Ansible
3 13 (5.80%) Grafana
3 13 (5.80%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.89%) Argo
5 2 (0.89%) FlexNet
5 2 (0.89%) Rancher
5 2 (0.89%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.45%) Scalr
Vendors
1 113 (50.45%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.36%) Facebook
2 12 (5.36%) YouTube
3 11 (4.91%) Red Hat
4 9 (4.02%) Informatica
4 9 (4.02%) Talend
5 8 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.68%) SAP
7 5 (2.23%) Oracle
7 5 (2.23%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.79%) Databricks
8 4 (1.79%) Google
8 4 (1.79%) HP
8 4 (1.79%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.79%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.34%) Pega
10 2 (0.89%) JD Edwards
10 2 (0.89%) NetApp
10 2 (0.89%) RedGate
11 1 (0.45%) Veeam