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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 85 121
Rank change year-on-year -8 +36 -35
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 226 291 178
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.20% 3.18% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.07% 9.71% 6.64%
Number of salaries quoted 127 202 138
10th Percentile £32,500 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,875 £53,688 £51,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +17.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £72,188
90th Percentile £91,000 £83,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 3,196 2,997 2,680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.05% 32.78% 33.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,714 1,622 2,213
10th Percentile £28,400 £32,750 £29,183
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,125 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% -6.92%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +5 114 £45,000 -33.33% 64
Berkshire +5 85 £50,000 -39.39% 37
Hampshire +19 39 £77,500 +19.23% 28
Buckinghamshire -8 22 £35,000 -41.67% 17
Middlesex +17 17 £37,500 - 1
Surrey -47 17 £50,000 -28.57% 11
West Sussex +8 13 £60,000 - 6
East Sussex +4 10 £72,000 +69.41% 7
Kent -11 9 £37,500 -57.14% 14
Oxfordshire +19 7 £68,750 +19.57% 10
Isle of Wight - 5 £41,500 - 7
Sussex - 4 £45,000 - 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 17 (7.52%) IIS
2 9 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.65%) Apache
3 6 (2.65%) Appian
3 6 (2.65%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.88%) Confluence
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (5.75%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.44%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 69 (30.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 157 (69.47%) Azure
2 33 (14.60%) GitHub
2 33 (14.60%) Power Platform
3 26 (11.50%) AWS
4 14 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (4.87%) PaaS
6 10 (4.42%) Entra ID
6 10 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.42%) SaaS
7 9 (3.98%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (3.54%) GCP
9 7 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.65%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.65%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (2.65%) MinIO
11 5 (2.21%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.21%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.77%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.77%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.31%) DNS
2 6 (2.65%) Firewall
3 2 (0.88%) VPN
4 1 (0.44%) AMQP
4 1 (0.44%) HTTP
4 1 (0.44%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.44%) MPLS
4 1 (0.44%) SSL
4 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.50%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.52%) Power BI
3 15 (6.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (2.21%) Airbyte
5 3 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.88%) Data Hub
6 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.88%) Looker
6 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.88%) Tableau
7 1 (0.44%) Big Data
7 1 (0.44%) Metadata
7 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.44%) MySQL
7 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 75 (33.19%) JIRA
2 69 (30.53%) eCATT
3 38 (16.81%) NeoLoad
4 34 (15.04%) Git
5 27 (11.95%) Selenium
6 23 (10.18%) Robot Framework
7 22 (9.73%) Snyk
8 14 (6.19%) Jenkins
9 8 (3.54%) GitLab
10 5 (2.21%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.77%) Storybook
12 3 (1.33%) MLflow
13 2 (0.88%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.88%) TestRail
14 1 (0.44%) Appium
14 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
14 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
14 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 116 (51.33%) Finance
2 71 (31.42%) Marketing
3 69 (30.53%) Manufacturing
4 50 (22.12%) Presentation Skills
5 45 (19.91%) Social Skills
6 42 (18.58%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (17.70%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.77%) Legal
8 4 (1.77%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.33%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.33%) Billing
10 2 (0.88%) Banking
10 2 (0.88%) Retail
11 1 (0.44%) Advertising
11 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.44%) International Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Law
11 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (27.88%) Lead
2 59 (26.11%) Analyst
3 45 (19.91%) Senior
4 30 (13.27%) Test Leader
5 28 (12.39%) Developer
5 28 (12.39%) Test Analyst
6 21 (9.29%) Software Engineer
7 20 (8.85%) Automation Test Lead
8 14 (6.19%) IT Engineer
9 13 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (5.75%) IT Support
9 13 (5.75%) IT Support Engineer
9 13 (5.75%) Support Engineer
10 12 (5.31%) Performance Analyst
10 12 (5.31%) Performance Test Analyst
10 12 (5.31%) Software Support Engineer
10 12 (5.31%) Testing Analyst
11 11 (4.87%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (4.42%) Performance Test Leader
13 9 (3.98%) Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (24.34%) .NET
2 16 (7.08%) React
3 14 (6.19%) .NET Framework
4 13 (5.75%) ASP.NET
5 12 (5.31%) Entity Framework
5 12 (5.31%) WinForms
6 11 (4.87%) CSS
6 11 (4.87%) HTML
7 9 (3.98%) Bootstrap
7 9 (3.98%) Next.js
7 9 (3.98%) React Native
8 7 (3.10%) Kafka
9 6 (2.65%) .NET Core
9 6 (2.65%) Apache NiFi
9 6 (2.65%) ARM Templates
9 6 (2.65%) RESTful
10 5 (2.21%) scikit-learn
10 5 (2.21%) YAML
11 4 (1.77%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.77%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.41%) Product Ownership
2 17 (7.52%) Cloud Native
3 14 (6.19%) Low-Code
4 13 (5.75%) Mobile App
5 10 (4.42%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.54%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.33%) Life Science
9 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.88%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.44%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.44%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.44%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (17.26%) Windows
2 19 (8.41%) Linux
3 7 (3.10%) VMS
4 4 (1.77%) Android
4 4 (1.77%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.77%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.44%) Unix
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (69.47%) DevOps
2 93 (41.15%) CI/CD
3 92 (40.71%) Agile
4 91 (40.27%) Test Management
5 69 (30.53%) Roadmaps
5 69 (30.53%) Source to Pay
6 67 (29.65%) Test Automation
7 66 (29.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (24.78%) ERP
9 55 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
10 50 (22.12%) Product Roadmap
10 50 (22.12%) Visualisation
11 44 (19.47%) Test Strategy
12 43 (19.03%) Risk Management
13 41 (18.14%) Infrastructure as Code
13 41 (18.14%) Performance Testing
14 38 (16.81%) Requirements Gathering
15 35 (15.49%) Continuous Delivery
15 35 (15.49%) Scrum
16 34 (15.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 53 (23.45%) SQL
2 36 (15.93%) C#
3 34 (15.04%) Python
4 16 (7.08%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.75%) Bash
6 12 (5.31%) JavaScript
6 12 (5.31%) T-SQL
7 7 (3.10%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.65%) Java
9 4 (1.77%) C++
10 3 (1.33%) Bicep
11 2 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.44%) Delphi
12 1 (0.44%) Perl
12 1 (0.44%) R
12 1 (0.44%) VB
12 1 (0.44%) VB6
12 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (14.16%) Degree
2 25 (11.06%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.73%) DV Cleared
4 19 (8.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.98%) ISTQB
6 8 (3.54%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.54%) Master's Degree
7 7 (3.10%) ISEB
8 6 (2.65%) SC Cleared
9 4 (1.77%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.77%) PMP
10 2 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (23.01%) QA
2 12 (5.31%) PMO
3 7 (3.10%) Software Quality Assurance
4 6 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.21%) NCSC
5 5 (2.21%) NIST
6 4 (1.77%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (6.64%) Docker
2 7 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 69 (30.53%) HP ALM
2 47 (20.80%) Terraform
3 26 (11.50%) Ansible
4 21 (9.29%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.77%) Grafana
5 4 (1.77%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.88%) Nessus
7 1 (0.44%) CASB
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.44%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 69 (30.53%) HP
1 69 (30.53%) SAP
2 54 (23.89%) Microsoft
3 21 (9.29%) Black Duck
4 20 (8.85%) Coverity
5 12 (5.31%) Sage
5 12 (5.31%) Xamarin
6 8 (3.54%) VMware
7 7 (3.10%) Databricks
7 7 (3.10%) Google
7 7 (3.10%) Zoho
8 6 (2.65%) BiZZdesign
8 6 (2.65%) Rackspace
8 6 (2.65%) UiPath
9 5 (2.21%) Blue Prism
10 4 (1.77%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.77%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.88%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.88%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.88%) Talend