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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 118 108
Rank change year-on-year -4 -10 -11
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 228 196 425
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.46% 2.31% 2.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.05% 8.89% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 200 129 251
10th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £43,537
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 - £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -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 3,768 2,204 5,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.17% 25.93% 29.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,607 1,384 3,843
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £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 10 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 10 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 +15 71 £50,000 -28.57% 31
West Sussex +6 49 £70,000 +16.67% 9
Surrey -7 46 £65,000 -7.14% 6
Berkshire -2 38 £45,000 -45.45% 19
Hampshire -44 33 £60,000 -2.04% 18
Buckinghamshire -12 18 £57,500 +11.65% 6
Kent -14 16 £29,000 -61.33% 4
Oxfordshire +1 15 £57,500 +19.48% 7
Isle of Wight - 5 £50,000 - 2
East Sussex -13 3 £82,500 +65.00%
Sussex - 3 £65,000 - 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 7 (3.07%) IIS
1 7 (3.07%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.63%) Confluence
3 4 (1.75%) nginx
4 3 (1.32%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.32%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) SAP IBP
1 4 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.44%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 228 (100.00%) Azure
2 30 (13.16%) SaaS
3 29 (12.72%) GitHub
3 29 (12.72%) Power Platform
4 23 (10.09%) AWS
5 22 (9.65%) Azure AI
6 21 (9.21%) Azure AKS
7 20 (8.77%) PaaS
8 19 (8.33%) Entra ID
9 18 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (7.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 17 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (6.58%) Datadog
11 15 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (6.14%) IaaS
13 12 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (4.82%) Serverless
15 10 (4.39%) Azure Service Bus
16 8 (3.51%) Azure Functions
16 8 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.63%) Firewall
1 6 (2.63%) Internet
2 3 (1.32%) BGP
3 2 (0.88%) DNS
4 1 (0.44%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (21.93%) SQL Server
2 47 (20.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 40 (17.54%) MongoDB
4 15 (6.58%) Power BI
5 8 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.19%) Metadata
7 3 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.32%) Redis
7 3 (1.32%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.88%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.44%) GIS
9 1 (0.44%) MS Access
9 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (10.96%) Git
2 14 (6.14%) GitLab
2 14 (6.14%) JIRA
3 9 (3.95%) Selenium
4 7 (3.07%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.07%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (2.63%) Zephyr
6 4 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.75%) NUnit
6 4 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (1.32%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.32%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.88%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.88%) JMeter
8 2 (0.88%) MSI
8 2 (0.88%) MSTest
8 2 (0.88%) Postman
8 2 (0.88%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.44%) utPLSQL
General
1 49 (21.49%) Finance
2 46 (20.18%) Social Skills
3 39 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.26%) Advertising
5 11 (4.82%) Games
6 9 (3.95%) Retail
7 7 (3.07%) Marketing
8 5 (2.19%) Aviation
8 5 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.75%) Billing
9 4 (1.75%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.32%) Legal
10 3 (1.32%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.88%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.44%) Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (43.42%) Developer
2 54 (23.68%) .NET Developer
3 40 (17.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (11.84%) Azure Engineer
5 23 (10.09%) Lead
6 20 (8.77%) Analyst
7 17 (7.46%) Senior
8 16 (7.02%) Systems Engineer
9 15 (6.58%) Software Engineer
10 14 (6.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 13 (5.70%) DevOps Systems Engineer
11 13 (5.70%) Linux DevOps Engineer
11 13 (5.70%) Linux Engineer
11 13 (5.70%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 13 (5.70%) Linux/Unix DevOps
12 12 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (4.39%) Architect
15 8 (3.51%) Lead Developer
15 8 (3.51%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (48.68%) .NET
2 68 (29.82%) ASP.NET
3 53 (23.25%) ASP.NET Core
4 51 (22.37%) .NET Core
5 48 (21.05%) HTML
6 46 (20.18%) CSS
7 36 (15.79%) React
8 26 (11.40%) Blazor
8 26 (11.40%) Entity Framework
9 24 (10.53%) RESTful
10 21 (9.21%) ML.NET
11 17 (7.46%) YAML
12 15 (6.58%) jQuery
12 15 (6.58%) REST
13 14 (6.14%) Ajax
13 14 (6.14%) ARM Templates
13 14 (6.14%) Sass
14 13 (5.70%) OAuth
15 12 (5.26%) LESS
15 12 (5.26%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.46%) Greenfield Project
1 17 (7.46%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.58%) Mobile App
3 12 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.51%) Low-Code
6 6 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.75%) iPhone
8 4 (1.75%) Social Network
9 3 (1.32%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.88%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.44%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.65%) Linux
2 14 (6.14%) Ubuntu
3 9 (3.95%) Windows
4 4 (1.75%) Android
5 2 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.44%) Debian
6 1 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (100.00%) DevOps
2 102 (44.74%) CI/CD
3 98 (42.98%) Agile
4 67 (29.39%) Full-Stack Development
5 48 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 48 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 46 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (18.86%) AI
8 34 (14.91%) Machine Learning
9 27 (11.84%) User Experience
10 26 (11.40%) Microservices
11 25 (10.96%) Scrum
12 24 (10.53%) SDLC
13 23 (10.09%) Deployment Automation
14 22 (9.65%) Multithreading
14 22 (9.65%) MVC
15 20 (8.77%) Observability
16 19 (8.33%) Software Engineering
17 18 (7.89%) Analytics
17 18 (7.89%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 110 (48.25%) C#
2 85 (37.28%) SQL
3 51 (22.37%) JavaScript
4 37 (16.23%) Python
5 35 (15.35%) PowerShell
6 33 (14.47%) Bash
7 19 (8.33%) Bicep
8 11 (4.82%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.95%) T-SQL
10 6 (2.63%) Java
11 3 (1.32%) DataWeave
11 3 (1.32%) 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 16 (7.02%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.39%) Degree
3 8 (3.51%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.63%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.63%) ISTQB
5 5 (2.19%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.40%) QA
2 5 (2.19%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.75%) WCAG
4 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (13.60%) Docker
2 8 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.44%) Firmware
4 1 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 55 (24.12%) Terraform
2 25 (10.96%) Kubernetes
3 21 (9.21%) Grafana
3 21 (9.21%) Prometheus
4 18 (7.89%) Ansible
5 3 (1.32%) Scalr
6 2 (0.88%) Argo
6 2 (0.88%) MIIS
7 1 (0.44%) FlexNet
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.44%) Rancher
7 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 104 (45.61%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.65%) Red Hat
3 12 (5.26%) Facebook
3 12 (5.26%) YouTube
4 10 (4.39%) MuleSoft
5 8 (3.51%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.75%) Google
7 4 (1.75%) SAP
8 3 (1.32%) Cisco
8 3 (1.32%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.32%) Oracle
8 3 (1.32%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.88%) Databricks
9 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.44%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.44%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.44%) RedGate
10 1 (0.44%) Veeam