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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 93 115
Rank change year-on-year -39 +22 -14
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 175 192 365
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.35% 2.86% 2.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.68% 8.73% 7.56%
Number of salaries quoted 150 162 239
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £68,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +25.00% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70,000 £83,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,975 - £75,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 3,742 2,200 4,829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.92% 32.76% 31.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,038 1,444 3,967
10th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,719 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +13.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,625 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £78,750
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 31 March 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 31 March 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 60 £45,000 -38.14% 34
Hampshire -9 44 £75,000 +25.00% 16
Berkshire +11 42 £45,000 -45.45% 15
Surrey -40 25 £50,000 -33.33% 7
West Sussex -11 18 £64,750 +7.92% 7
Buckinghamshire -23 14 £35,000 -41.67% 9
East Sussex -8 9 £82,500 +94.12%
Middlesex +23 6 - -
Kent -26 6 £47,000 -21.67% 4
Isle of Wight - 6 £42,000 - 2
Oxfordshire -9 4 £68,750 +29.41% 10
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 11 (6.29%) IIS
2 4 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.29%) Confluence
3 3 (1.71%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.14%) Apache
4 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.57%) Appian
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 169 (96.57%) Azure
2 37 (21.14%) GitHub
3 31 (17.71%) AWS
4 30 (17.14%) Power Platform
5 19 (10.86%) Azure Logic Apps
6 16 (9.14%) PaaS
7 15 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (8.57%) SaaS
8 11 (6.29%) Entra ID
9 10 (5.71%) Datadog
9 10 (5.71%) IaaS
10 9 (5.14%) Azure AKS
10 9 (5.14%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (4.57%) OpenShift
12 6 (3.43%) GCP
13 5 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (2.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 4 (2.29%) Serverless
14 4 (2.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.86%) DNS
1 12 (6.86%) Firewall
2 3 (1.71%) BGP
3 1 (0.57%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.57%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.57%) MPLS
3 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.71%) Power BI
2 10 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.29%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.14%) Metadata
5 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.57%) Airbyte
6 1 (0.57%) Big Data
6 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.57%) MySQL
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.57%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (19.43%) Git
2 25 (14.29%) Selenium
3 18 (10.29%) Robot Framework
4 17 (9.71%) GitLab
4 17 (9.71%) JIRA
5 16 (9.14%) Snyk
6 10 (5.71%) Jenkins
7 7 (4.00%) Visual Studio
8 6 (3.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (3.43%) eCATT
9 3 (1.71%) MLflow
9 3 (1.71%) NeoLoad
9 3 (1.71%) NUnit
9 3 (1.71%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.71%) Zephyr
10 2 (1.14%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.14%) Jasmine
10 2 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (1.14%) TestRail
10 2 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 67 (38.29%) Analytical Skills
2 46 (26.29%) Finance
3 33 (18.86%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.14%) Billing
5 7 (4.00%) Marketing
6 6 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.43%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.86%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.29%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.29%) Retail
9 2 (1.14%) Banking
9 2 (1.14%) Legal
10 1 (0.57%) Aviation
10 1 (0.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 54 (30.86%) Developer
2 27 (15.43%) Lead
3 23 (13.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (9.14%) Analyst
5 16 (9.14%) Power Platform Developer
6 15 (8.57%) Senior
7 14 (8.00%) Software Engineer
8 13 (7.43%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (6.29%) Applications Developer
10 10 (5.71%) DevOps Systems Engineer
10 10 (5.71%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 10 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
10 10 (5.71%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 10 (5.71%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 10 (5.71%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (4.57%) IT Engineer
11 8 (4.57%) IT Support
11 8 (4.57%) Software Support Engineer
11 8 (4.57%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (30.86%) .NET
2 23 (13.14%) CSS
2 23 (13.14%) HTML
3 22 (12.57%) ASP.NET
4 21 (12.00%) React
5 16 (9.14%) Bootstrap
5 16 (9.14%) React Native
6 14 (8.00%) OAuth
7 13 (7.43%) REST
8 10 (5.71%) Entity Framework
9 9 (5.14%) .NET Core
9 9 (5.14%) .NET Framework
10 8 (4.57%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (4.57%) SAML
10 8 (4.57%) WinForms
11 7 (4.00%) JSON
11 7 (4.00%) SOAP
12 6 (3.43%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (3.43%) RESTful
12 6 (3.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.86%) Low-Code
2 16 (9.14%) Mobile App
3 14 (8.00%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.29%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.29%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.71%) Life Science
8 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.57%) Social Network
9 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.29%) Linux
1 25 (14.29%) Windows
2 10 (5.71%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.57%) Unix
3 1 (0.57%) VMS
3 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (96.57%) DevOps
2 90 (51.43%) CI/CD
3 76 (43.43%) Agile
4 66 (37.71%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (19.43%) Test Automation
8 27 (15.43%) Scrum
9 24 (13.71%) Deployment Automation
9 24 (13.71%) Test Management
10 23 (13.14%) Cybersecurity
11 21 (12.00%) Computer Science
11 21 (12.00%) Roadmaps
12 20 (11.43%) DevSecOps
13 19 (10.86%) Unit Testing
14 18 (10.29%) B2B
14 18 (10.29%) Data Governance
14 18 (10.29%) Software Engineering
14 18 (10.29%) Software Testing
15 17 (9.71%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 57 (32.57%) SQL
2 44 (25.14%) C#
3 39 (22.29%) Python
4 24 (13.71%) Bash
4 24 (13.71%) JavaScript
5 20 (11.43%) PowerShell
6 9 (5.14%) T-SQL
7 7 (4.00%) Bicep
8 6 (3.43%) Java
9 4 (2.29%) C++
10 3 (1.71%) DataWeave
10 3 (1.71%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.14%) Delphi
11 2 (1.14%) VB
11 2 (1.14%) VB6
12 1 (0.57%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (15.43%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.29%) Degree
2 25 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 15 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.00%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.86%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.71%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.00%) QA
2 5 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.29%) NCSC
3 4 (2.29%) NIST
4 3 (1.71%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.14%) PMO
6 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (13.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (33.14%) Terraform
2 28 (16.00%) Ansible
3 19 (10.86%) Kubernetes
4 13 (7.43%) Grafana
4 13 (7.43%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.43%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.14%) MIIS
6 2 (1.14%) Nessus
6 2 (1.14%) Scalr
7 1 (0.57%) CASB
Vendors
1 48 (27.43%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.86%) Red Hat
3 16 (9.14%) Black Duck
3 16 (9.14%) Coverity
4 8 (4.57%) Dynatrace
4 8 (4.57%) Sage
4 8 (4.57%) Xamarin
5 7 (4.00%) MuleSoft
6 6 (3.43%) HP
6 6 (3.43%) SAP
7 3 (1.71%) Cisco
7 3 (1.71%) Databricks
7 3 (1.71%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.71%) Google
7 3 (1.71%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.71%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.71%) Zoho
8 2 (1.14%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.14%) New Relic
8 2 (1.14%) Oracle