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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 91 135
Rank change year-on-year +4 +44 -46
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 235 286 212
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.20% 3.20% 2.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.31% 9.76% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 138 198 169
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,797 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +13.04% -9.80%
75th Percentile £72,438 £79,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,425 £83,750 £80,000
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 3,216 2,929 3,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.09% 32.75% 32.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,764 1,603 2,872
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £69,840 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 24 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 24 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 +11 124 £45,000 -33.94% 44
Berkshire +13 96 £47,500 -42.42% 26
Hampshire +12 36 £74,750 +15.00% 18
Buckinghamshire -8 22 £35,000 -41.67% 12
Surrey -41 18 £50,000 -28.57% 15
Middlesex +17 14 - - 1
West Sussex +6 13 £70,000 +16.67% 9
East Sussex -7 11 £82,500 +94.12% 9
Kent -13 8 £51,250 -34.92% 8
Oxfordshire +9 6 £68,750 +29.41% 6
Isle of Wight - 5 £41,500 - 10
Sussex - 4 £45,000 -
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 18 (7.66%) IIS
2 6 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.70%) Apache
4 3 (1.28%) Appian
4 3 (1.28%) Confluence
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 69 (29.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 166 (70.64%) Azure
2 38 (16.17%) Power Platform
3 36 (15.32%) GitHub
4 28 (11.91%) AWS
5 16 (6.81%) PaaS
6 15 (6.38%) Azure Logic Apps
6 15 (6.38%) SaaS
7 14 (5.96%) Entra ID
7 14 (5.96%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (4.26%) GCP
10 8 (3.40%) Azure AKS
10 8 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (3.40%) IaaS
11 6 (2.55%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (2.13%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (2.13%) Snowflake
13 4 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.11%) DNS
2 10 (4.26%) Firewall
3 2 (0.85%) VPN
4 1 (0.43%) AMQP
4 1 (0.43%) HTTP
4 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.43%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.43%) MPLS
4 1 (0.43%) SSL
4 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.34%) SQL Server
2 19 (8.09%) Power BI
3 15 (6.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (1.28%) Airbyte
4 3 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.85%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.85%) Data Hub
5 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.85%) Looker
5 2 (0.85%) Metadata
5 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.85%) Tableau
6 1 (0.43%) Big Data
6 1 (0.43%) MySQL
6 1 (0.43%) Redis
6 1 (0.43%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 76 (32.34%) JIRA
2 69 (29.36%) eCATT
3 38 (16.17%) NeoLoad
4 35 (14.89%) Git
5 24 (10.21%) Selenium
6 20 (8.51%) Robot Framework
7 19 (8.09%) Snyk
8 14 (5.96%) Jenkins
9 7 (2.98%) GitLab
10 5 (2.13%) Visual Studio
11 3 (1.28%) MLflow
11 3 (1.28%) Storybook
12 2 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.85%) TestRail
13 1 (0.43%) Appium
13 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 120 (51.06%) Finance
2 71 (30.21%) Marketing
3 69 (29.36%) Manufacturing
4 51 (21.70%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (21.28%) Presentation Skills
6 41 (17.45%) Social Skills
7 40 (17.02%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.98%) Billing
9 4 (1.70%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.28%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.28%) Banking
10 3 (1.28%) Retail
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) International Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Law
11 1 (0.43%) Legal
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (25.96%) Lead
2 57 (24.26%) Analyst
3 45 (19.15%) Senior
4 38 (16.17%) Developer
5 27 (11.49%) Test Leader
6 25 (10.64%) Test Analyst
7 20 (8.51%) Software Engineer
8 18 (7.66%) Azure Engineer
9 17 (7.23%) Automation Test Lead
9 17 (7.23%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.96%) IT Engineer
11 13 (5.53%) IT Support
11 13 (5.53%) IT Support Engineer
11 13 (5.53%) Support Engineer
12 12 (5.11%) Performance Analyst
12 12 (5.11%) Performance Test Analyst
12 12 (5.11%) Power Platform Developer
12 12 (5.11%) Software Support Engineer
12 12 (5.11%) Testing Analyst
13 10 (4.26%) Performance Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (23.83%) .NET
2 20 (8.51%) React
3 16 (6.81%) ASP.NET
4 15 (6.38%) CSS
4 15 (6.38%) HTML
5 14 (5.96%) .NET Framework
6 12 (5.11%) Bootstrap
6 12 (5.11%) Entity Framework
6 12 (5.11%) React Native
6 12 (5.11%) WinForms
7 8 (3.40%) .NET Core
8 6 (2.55%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.55%) ARM Templates
8 6 (2.55%) Next.js
8 6 (2.55%) RESTful
9 5 (2.13%) REST
9 5 (2.13%) scikit-learn
9 5 (2.13%) YAML
10 4 (1.70%) Kafka
10 4 (1.70%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.23%) Low-Code
2 15 (6.38%) Mobile App
2 15 (6.38%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.11%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.40%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.28%) Life Science
9 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.43%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.43%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.43%) Social Network
10 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.32%) Windows
2 23 (9.79%) Linux
3 8 (3.40%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.98%) VMS
5 3 (1.28%) Android
5 3 (1.28%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Unix
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (70.64%) DevOps
2 93 (39.57%) CI/CD
3 89 (37.87%) Test Management
4 86 (36.60%) Agile
5 69 (29.36%) Roadmaps
5 69 (29.36%) Source to Pay
6 63 (26.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 60 (25.53%) Test Automation
8 58 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (23.83%) ERP
10 51 (21.70%) Visualisation
11 50 (21.28%) Product Roadmap
12 43 (18.30%) Risk Management
13 41 (17.45%) Performance Testing
13 41 (17.45%) Test Strategy
14 39 (16.60%) Infrastructure as Code
15 38 (16.17%) Requirements Gathering
16 35 (14.89%) Continuous Delivery
17 30 (12.77%) Scrum
18 28 (11.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 57 (24.26%) SQL
2 39 (16.60%) C#
3 37 (15.74%) Python
4 20 (8.51%) JavaScript
5 17 (7.23%) Bash
5 17 (7.23%) PowerShell
6 13 (5.53%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.98%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.55%) Java
9 4 (1.70%) C++
10 2 (0.85%) Bicep
10 2 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.85%) Delphi
10 2 (0.85%) VB
10 2 (0.85%) VB6
11 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.43%) Perl
11 1 (0.43%) R
11 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (14.04%) Degree
2 23 (9.79%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.36%) DV Cleared
4 20 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.40%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.55%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.55%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.70%) ISEB
7 4 (1.70%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.70%) PMP
7 4 (1.70%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (19.57%) QA
2 12 (5.11%) PMO
3 6 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.13%) NCSC
4 5 (2.13%) NIST
5 4 (1.70%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (7.23%) Docker
2 7 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 69 (29.36%) HP ALM
2 51 (21.70%) Terraform
3 27 (11.49%) Ansible
4 20 (8.51%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.70%) Grafana
5 4 (1.70%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.85%) Nessus
7 1 (0.43%) CASB
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.43%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 69 (29.36%) HP
1 69 (29.36%) SAP
2 56 (23.83%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.66%) Black Duck
3 18 (7.66%) Coverity
4 12 (5.11%) Sage
4 12 (5.11%) Xamarin
5 8 (3.40%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.98%) Google
6 7 (2.98%) Zoho
7 6 (2.55%) Databricks
8 5 (2.13%) VMware
9 4 (1.70%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (1.70%) Rackspace
9 4 (1.70%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.28%) Blue Prism
10 3 (1.28%) UiPath
11 2 (0.85%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.85%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.85%) Talend