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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 141 87
Rank change year-on-year +1 -54 +26
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 224 177 351
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.21% 1.98% 2.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.85% 7.47% 9.81%
Number of salaries quoted 187 119 195
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,950 £43,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% - +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 3,831 2,371 3,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 20.62% 26.47% 27.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,848 1,468 2,131
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,188 £41,250
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.51% -2.31%

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 18 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 18 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 +25 80 £62,500 -16.67% 66
Surrey +1 50 £71,250 +5.56% 27
West Sussex +7 45 £70,000 +16.67% 10
Berkshire +11 30 £65,000 -21.21% 36
Oxfordshire -2 30 £57,500 +17.95% 11
Hampshire -75 24 £60,000 -4.00% 21
Buckinghamshire +2 20 £62,500 -16.67% 20
Kent -13 17 £29,000 -43.41% 5
Isle of Wight - 6 £50,000 - 2
Sussex -10 3 £65,000 +44.44%
Middlesex +1 1 £38,500 +2.67% 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 14 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.02%) Confluence
3 7 (3.13%) IIS
4 5 (2.23%) nginx
5 1 (0.45%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.79%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
4 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 35 (15.63%) 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
6 23 (10.27%) Entra ID
7 21 (9.38%) AWS
7 21 (9.38%) Azure AKS
8 20 (8.93%) Azure Service Bus
9 17 (7.59%) PaaS
10 15 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (6.25%) GitHub
12 11 (4.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (4.91%) PowerApps
12 11 (4.91%) Serverless
13 10 (4.46%) IaaS
14 9 (4.02%) Azure Data Factory
14 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 72 (32.14%) SQL Server
2 56 (25.00%) 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 13 (5.80%) 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%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.89%) MS Access
13 2 (0.89%) MySQL
13 2 (0.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 41 (18.30%) Git
2 20 (8.93%) JIRA
3 8 (3.57%) Selenium
4 7 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (2.23%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.79%) NUnit
6 4 (1.79%) Zephyr
7 3 (1.34%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.34%) JMeter
7 3 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.89%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.89%) GitLab
8 2 (0.89%) MSI
8 2 (0.89%) MSTest
8 2 (0.89%) Postman
8 2 (0.89%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.45%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.45%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
General
1 64 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.41%) 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%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Legal
12 1 (0.45%) Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 99 (44.20%) Developer
2 68 (30.36%) .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%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (51.79%) .NET
2 79 (35.27%) ASP.NET
3 62 (27.68%) ASP.NET Core
4 54 (24.11%) .NET Core
5 44 (19.64%) HTML
6 42 (18.75%) CSS
7 39 (17.41%) Terraform
8 32 (14.29%) Blazor
8 32 (14.29%) React
9 31 (13.84%) Entity Framework
10 23 (10.27%) REST
11 21 (9.38%) RESTful
12 20 (8.93%) ML.NET
13 18 (8.04%) YAML
14 17 (7.59%) jQuery
15 14 (6.25%) ARM Templates
16 12 (5.36%) Ajax
16 12 (5.36%) CSS3
16 12 (5.36%) HTML5
16 12 (5.36%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.39%) 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%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.79%) Social Network
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%) IoT
11 1 (0.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.38%) 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 98 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 95 (42.41%) Agile
4 69 (30.80%) Full-Stack Development
5 48 (21.43%) AI
6 41 (18.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (15.63%) Machine Learning
8 34 (15.18%) Microservices
9 32 (14.29%) Scrum
10 31 (13.84%) Analytics
10 31 (13.84%) Infrastructure as Code
11 30 (13.39%) Mentoring
12 29 (12.95%) Business Intelligence
13 28 (12.50%) SDLC
14 27 (12.05%) Data Modelling
14 27 (12.05%) MVC
15 24 (10.71%) User Experience
16 23 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
17 22 (9.82%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 130 (58.04%) C#
2 88 (39.29%) SQL
3 48 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 43 (19.20%) Python
5 28 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 21 (9.38%) Bash
7 18 (8.04%) 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
Qualifications
1 25 (11.16%) Degree
2 13 (5.80%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.91%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.23%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.34%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.89%) CBAP
8 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.45%) ISEB
9 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (16.96%) 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 29 (12.95%) 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 17 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.70%) Ansible
3 14 (6.25%) Grafana
3 14 (6.25%) 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%) Scalr
5 2 (0.89%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.45%) MIIS
Vendors
1 114 (50.89%) 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
6 6 (2.68%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.23%) Oracle
8 4 (1.79%) Google
8 4 (1.79%) HP
8 4 (1.79%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.79%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.34%) Databricks
10 2 (0.89%) JD Edwards
10 2 (0.89%) NetApp
10 2 (0.89%) RedGate
11 1 (0.45%) Veeam