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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 109 107
Rank change year-on-year -26 -2 -9
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 178 193 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.24% 2.50% 2.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.85% 9.30% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 158 139 250
10th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,656 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +24.44% -13.46%
75th Percentile £70,938 £83,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 - £75,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +13.82% -5.38%

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 3,671 2,075 5,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.54% 26.87% 30.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,208 1,306 4,000
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £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 15 May 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 15 May 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 0 64 £46,250 -38.33% 50
Berkshire -1 47 £45,000 -45.45% 31
Surrey -20 31 £50,000 -33.33% 6
Hampshire -42 31 £71,250 +18.75% 8
West Sussex -6 26 £70,000 +16.67% 4
Kent -22 14 £29,000 -63.75% 5
Buckinghamshire -12 9 £47,893 -18.48% 10
Oxfordshire 0 8 £66,250 +24.71% 14
East Sussex -15 7 £82,500 +94.12%
Isle of Wight - 3 £41,500 - 1
Sussex - 1 £59,500 -
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 6 (3.37%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.69%) Anypoint
2 3 (1.69%) Confluence
2 3 (1.69%) IIS
3 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 178 (100.00%) Azure
2 37 (20.79%) Power Platform
3 35 (19.66%) GitHub
4 26 (14.61%) AWS
5 24 (13.48%) SaaS
6 18 (10.11%) Azure Logic Apps
7 15 (8.43%) Entra ID
7 15 (8.43%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (8.43%) PaaS
8 13 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (6.74%) Datadog
10 11 (6.18%) Azure AKS
10 11 (6.18%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (6.18%) IaaS
11 8 (4.49%) OpenShift
12 7 (3.93%) Azure AI
13 5 (2.81%) Serverless
14 4 (2.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 4 (2.25%) Power Automate
14 4 (2.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.74%) Firewall
2 3 (1.69%) BGP
2 3 (1.69%) DNS
3 2 (1.12%) Internet
4 1 (0.56%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.56%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (19.10%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (8.43%) Power BI
3 12 (6.74%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.81%) Metadata
4 5 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.56%) MySQL
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.56%) Redis
7 1 (0.56%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (13.48%) Git
2 15 (8.43%) GitLab
3 12 (6.74%) Selenium
4 10 (5.62%) JIRA
5 8 (4.49%) Jenkins
6 6 (3.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.25%) Snyk
7 4 (2.25%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.25%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.69%) MLflow
8 3 (1.69%) NUnit
8 3 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.69%) Robot Framework
8 3 (1.69%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.12%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.12%) Jasmine
9 2 (1.12%) MSTest
10 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
General
1 54 (30.34%) Analytical Skills
2 42 (23.60%) Finance
3 29 (16.29%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.06%) Billing
5 7 (3.93%) Retail
6 4 (2.25%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.69%) Advertising
7 3 (1.69%) Aviation
7 3 (1.69%) Games
7 3 (1.69%) Legal
8 2 (1.12%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.12%) Banking
8 2 (1.12%) Marketing
9 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 72 (40.45%) Developer
2 32 (17.98%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (13.48%) Azure Engineer
4 22 (12.36%) Lead
5 16 (8.99%) Power Platform Developer
6 15 (8.43%) DevOps Systems Engineer
6 15 (8.43%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 15 (8.43%) Linux Engineer
6 15 (8.43%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 15 (8.43%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 15 (8.43%) Senior
6 15 (8.43%) Systems Engineer
7 14 (7.87%) .NET Developer
7 14 (7.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (6.74%) Analyst
8 12 (6.74%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (5.06%) Applications Developer
9 9 (5.06%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Software Developer
11 7 (3.93%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (39.33%) .NET
2 34 (19.10%) HTML
3 33 (18.54%) CSS
4 29 (16.29%) ASP.NET
5 26 (14.61%) React
6 19 (10.67%) .NET Core
7 18 (10.11%) ASP.NET Core
8 14 (7.87%) Bootstrap
8 14 (7.87%) React Native
9 13 (7.30%) OAuth
10 12 (6.74%) CSS3
10 12 (6.74%) HTML5
10 12 (6.74%) REST
10 12 (6.74%) Sass
11 11 (6.18%) Ajax
11 11 (6.18%) jQuery
11 11 (6.18%) LESS
11 11 (6.18%) RESTful
12 9 (5.06%) YAML
13 8 (4.49%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.11%) Low-Code
2 15 (8.43%) Mobile App
3 13 (7.30%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.25%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.69%) Life Science
7 3 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.12%) Social Network
9 1 (0.56%) CMDB
9 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.56%) iPhone
9 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.24%) Linux
2 15 (8.43%) Ubuntu
3 5 (2.81%) Windows
4 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.56%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) VMS
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (100.00%) DevOps
2 88 (49.44%) CI/CD
3 68 (38.20%) Agile
4 50 (28.09%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (25.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (21.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (18.54%) Full-Stack Development
8 28 (15.73%) AI
9 26 (14.61%) Deployment Automation
10 22 (12.36%) Cybersecurity
11 21 (11.80%) Machine Learning
11 21 (11.80%) Scrum
12 19 (10.67%) B2B
13 18 (10.11%) Data Governance
13 18 (10.11%) Data Modelling
13 18 (10.11%) Test Automation
13 18 (10.11%) Unit Testing
13 18 (10.11%) User Experience
14 17 (9.55%) Containerisation
14 17 (9.55%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 62 (34.83%) C#
2 52 (29.21%) SQL
3 43 (24.16%) Python
4 39 (21.91%) JavaScript
5 29 (16.29%) Bash
6 21 (11.80%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.49%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.37%) Bicep
9 5 (2.81%) Java
10 3 (1.69%) DataWeave
11 2 (1.12%) C++
11 2 (1.12%) Delphi
11 2 (1.12%) VB
11 2 (1.12%) VB6
12 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (10.11%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.87%) Degree
3 11 (6.18%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.93%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.25%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.62%) QA
2 4 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.69%) WCAG
4 2 (1.12%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (14.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (29.78%) Terraform
2 21 (11.80%) Ansible
3 19 (10.67%) Kubernetes
4 13 (7.30%) Grafana
4 13 (7.30%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.69%) Scalr
6 2 (1.12%) MIIS
7 1 (0.56%) Argo
7 1 (0.56%) CASB
Vendors
1 62 (34.83%) Microsoft
2 24 (13.48%) Red Hat
3 10 (5.62%) MuleSoft
4 8 (4.49%) Dynatrace
5 5 (2.81%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.25%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.69%) Black Duck
7 3 (1.69%) Cisco
7 3 (1.69%) Coverity
7 3 (1.69%) Facebook
7 3 (1.69%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.69%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.69%) YouTube
8 2 (1.12%) Databricks
9 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.56%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.56%) Genesys
9 1 (0.56%) New Relic
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle
9 1 (0.56%) Zscaler