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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 90 119
Rank change year-on-year +3 +29 -19
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 252 217 329
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.05% 3.05% 2.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.97% 9.12% 7.06%
Number of salaries quoted 157 169 232
10th Percentile £32,500 £44,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +17.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,650 £83,750 £76,250
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 3,618 2,380 4,659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.37% 33.41% 32.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,973 1,504 3,855
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,125 £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 17 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 17 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 +7 126 £45,000 -35.71% 25
Berkshire +23 104 £45,000 -45.45% 13
Hampshire -6 46 £71,250 +18.75% 17
Surrey -39 23 £50,000 -33.33% 13
West Sussex -5 18 £67,500 +12.50% 7
Buckinghamshire -13 18 £35,000 -41.67% 6
Middlesex +21 13 - -
East Sussex -7 12 £82,500 +94.12% 1
Kent -13 6 £65,000 +8.33% 4
Isle of Wight - 6 £42,000 - 2
Oxfordshire -3 4 £71,250 +34.12% 6
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 16 (6.35%) IIS
2 5 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.59%) Confluence
4 3 (1.19%) Apache
5 2 (0.79%) Appian
5 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 69 (27.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 183 (72.62%) Azure
2 42 (16.67%) GitHub
3 36 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 29 (11.51%) AWS
5 19 (7.54%) Azure Logic Apps
6 18 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (6.75%) PaaS
8 16 (6.35%) SaaS
9 14 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (4.76%) Entra ID
11 10 (3.97%) Azure AKS
11 10 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (3.97%) IaaS
12 9 (3.57%) Datadog
13 8 (3.17%) GCP
13 8 (3.17%) OpenShift
14 5 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (1.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 4 (1.59%) Snowflake
16 3 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.76%) DNS
1 12 (4.76%) Firewall
2 3 (1.19%) BGP
3 2 (0.79%) VPN
4 1 (0.40%) AMQP
4 1 (0.40%) HTTP
4 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.40%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.40%) MPLS
4 1 (0.40%) SSL
4 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.95%) Power BI
3 14 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.59%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.79%) Airbyte
6 2 (0.79%) Metadata
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.40%) Big Data
7 1 (0.40%) MySQL
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.40%) Redis
7 1 (0.40%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 79 (31.35%) JIRA
2 69 (27.38%) eCATT
3 38 (15.08%) NeoLoad
4 35 (13.89%) Git
5 25 (9.92%) Selenium
6 19 (7.54%) Robot Framework
7 18 (7.14%) Snyk
8 17 (6.75%) GitLab
9 12 (4.76%) Jenkins
10 6 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (2.38%) Visual Studio
11 3 (1.19%) MLflow
12 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.79%) NUnit
12 2 (0.79%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.79%) TestRail
12 2 (0.79%) Zephyr
13 1 (0.40%) Postman
13 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 119 (47.22%) Finance
2 72 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (27.78%) Marketing
4 69 (27.38%) Manufacturing
5 50 (19.84%) Presentation Skills
6 40 (15.87%) Influencing Skills
7 35 (13.89%) Social Skills
8 9 (3.57%) Billing
9 5 (1.98%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.59%) Retail
11 3 (1.19%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.19%) Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Advertising
12 1 (0.40%) Games
12 1 (0.40%) International Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Legal
12 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (23.02%) Lead
2 56 (22.22%) Analyst
3 51 (20.24%) Developer
4 45 (17.86%) Senior
5 26 (10.32%) Test Leader
6 24 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 23 (9.13%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (8.33%) Test Analyst
9 20 (7.94%) Software Engineer
10 16 (6.35%) Automation Test Lead
10 16 (6.35%) Power Platform Developer
11 14 (5.56%) IT Engineer
12 13 (5.16%) IT Support
12 13 (5.16%) IT Support Engineer
12 13 (5.16%) Support Engineer
13 12 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (4.76%) Performance Analyst
13 12 (4.76%) Performance Test Analyst
13 12 (4.76%) Software Support Engineer
13 12 (4.76%) Testing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (23.41%) .NET
2 22 (8.73%) ASP.NET
2 22 (8.73%) React
3 21 (8.33%) CSS
3 21 (8.33%) HTML
4 16 (6.35%) Bootstrap
4 16 (6.35%) React Native
5 13 (5.16%) .NET Framework
5 13 (5.16%) Entity Framework
5 13 (5.16%) OAuth
6 12 (4.76%) WinForms
7 10 (3.97%) .NET Core
7 10 (3.97%) REST
8 8 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (3.17%) SAML
9 7 (2.78%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.78%) JSON
9 7 (2.78%) RESTful
10 6 (2.38%) YAML
11 5 (1.98%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.94%) Low-Code
2 17 (6.75%) Mobile App
3 13 (5.16%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.78%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.19%) Life Science
9 2 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.40%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.40%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.40%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.40%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.40%) Social Network
10 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.30%) Windows
2 25 (9.92%) Linux
3 10 (3.97%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.79%) VMS
5 1 (0.40%) Android
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (72.62%) DevOps
2 96 (38.10%) CI/CD
3 88 (34.92%) Agile
3 88 (34.92%) Test Management
4 75 (29.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 69 (27.38%) Source to Pay
6 68 (26.98%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (26.98%) Roadmaps
7 60 (23.81%) Test Automation
8 56 (22.22%) ERP
8 56 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 52 (20.63%) Visualisation
10 50 (19.84%) Product Roadmap
11 43 (17.06%) Risk Management
12 42 (16.67%) Test Strategy
13 41 (16.27%) Performance Testing
13 41 (16.27%) Requirements Gathering
14 35 (13.89%) Continuous Delivery
15 29 (11.51%) Scrum
16 26 (10.32%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 62 (24.60%) SQL
2 46 (18.25%) C#
3 39 (15.48%) Python
4 24 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 23 (9.13%) Bash
6 22 (8.73%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.16%) T-SQL
8 7 (2.78%) Java
9 6 (2.38%) Bicep
10 5 (1.98%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.59%) C++
12 2 (0.79%) Delphi
12 2 (0.79%) VB
12 2 (0.79%) VB6
13 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.40%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (11.51%) Degree
2 27 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 26 (10.32%) DV Cleared
4 20 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.17%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.59%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.19%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.79%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (15.08%) QA
2 8 (3.17%) PMO
3 6 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.98%) NCSC
4 5 (1.98%) NIST
5 3 (1.19%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (9.13%) Docker
2 2 (0.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 69 (27.38%) HP ALM
2 58 (23.02%) Terraform
3 28 (11.11%) Ansible
4 22 (8.73%) Kubernetes
5 13 (5.16%) Grafana
5 13 (5.16%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.79%) Nessus
7 1 (0.40%) CASB
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.40%) MIIS
7 1 (0.40%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.40%) Scalr
Vendors
1 69 (27.38%) HP
1 69 (27.38%) SAP
2 55 (21.83%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 17 (6.75%) Black Duck
4 17 (6.75%) Coverity
5 12 (4.76%) Sage
5 12 (4.76%) Xamarin
6 8 (3.17%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.98%) Google
7 5 (1.98%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.98%) Zoho
8 4 (1.59%) VMware
9 3 (1.19%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (1.19%) Cisco
9 3 (1.19%) Databricks
9 3 (1.19%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.19%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.79%) Oracle
10 2 (0.79%) Salesforce