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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 132 95
Rank change year-on-year +12 -37 +17
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 228 199 385
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.40% 2.30% 2.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.93% 8.68% 9.15%
Number of salaries quoted 198 129 220
10th Percentile £40,250 £45,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,750 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -5.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 - £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -

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 3,847 2,293 4,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.69% 26.46% 28.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,698 1,420 3,079
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 28 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 28 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 +6 71 £52,500 -25.00% 33
West Sussex +7 52 £70,000 +16.67% 7
Surrey -7 47 £65,000 -3.70% 8
Berkshire +6 34 £50,000 -39.39% 21
Hampshire -51 34 £60,000 -4.00% 13
Buckinghamshire -12 20 £57,500 +11.65% 7
Oxfordshire -4 17 £57,500 +17.95% 5
Kent -25 14 £29,000 -57.04% 7
Isle of Wight - 6 £50,000 - 5
Sussex - 3 £65,000 - 1
East Sussex -11 2 £86,250 +72.50%
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 10 (4.39%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.07%) IIS
3 6 (2.63%) Confluence
4 5 (2.19%) nginx
5 3 (1.32%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.44%) Apache
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.75%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.63%) SAP IBP
1 6 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.88%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 228 (100.00%) Azure
2 28 (12.28%) Power Platform
2 28 (12.28%) SaaS
3 24 (10.53%) GitHub
4 22 (9.65%) Azure AI
4 22 (9.65%) Azure AKS
5 21 (9.21%) AWS
5 21 (9.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 21 (9.21%) Entra ID
6 20 (8.77%) Azure Monitor
7 19 (8.33%) PaaS
8 18 (7.89%) Azure Key Vault
8 18 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (6.58%) Datadog
9 15 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (6.14%) Azure Service Bus
11 12 (5.26%) IaaS
12 11 (4.82%) Serverless
13 8 (3.51%) Azure Functions
13 8 (3.51%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.63%) Internet
2 5 (2.19%) Firewall
3 3 (1.32%) BGP
3 3 (1.32%) VPN
4 2 (0.88%) DNS
5 1 (0.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (23.25%) SQL Server
2 50 (21.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 40 (17.54%) MongoDB
4 16 (7.02%) Power BI
5 9 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.63%) Metadata
8 5 (2.19%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.32%) Redis
10 2 (0.88%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.88%) MS Access
10 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.44%) MySQL
11 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (12.28%) Git
2 16 (7.02%) JIRA
3 13 (5.70%) GitLab
4 9 (3.95%) Selenium
5 8 (3.51%) Octopus Deploy
6 7 (3.07%) Jenkins
7 6 (2.63%) Zephyr
8 5 (2.19%) NUnit
9 4 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.32%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.32%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.88%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.88%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.88%) JMeter
11 2 (0.88%) MSI
11 2 (0.88%) MSTest
11 2 (0.88%) Postman
11 2 (0.88%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
General
1 52 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 44 (19.30%) Finance
3 34 (14.91%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.26%) Advertising
5 11 (4.82%) Games
6 8 (3.51%) Retail
7 7 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.07%) Marketing
8 6 (2.63%) Aviation
9 5 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.75%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.32%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.32%) Legal
12 2 (0.88%) Billing
12 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (41.23%) Developer
2 57 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 37 (16.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (12.28%) Lead
5 25 (10.96%) Azure Engineer
6 20 (8.77%) Analyst
7 17 (7.46%) Senior
8 16 (7.02%) Software Engineer
9 14 (6.14%) Systems Engineer
10 13 (5.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.82%) DevOps Systems Engineer
11 11 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (4.82%) Lead Developer
11 11 (4.82%) Linux DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.82%) Linux Engineer
11 11 (4.82%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 11 (4.82%) Linux/Unix DevOps
12 9 (3.95%) Architect
12 9 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (3.51%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (48.25%) .NET
2 71 (31.14%) ASP.NET
3 55 (24.12%) ASP.NET Core
4 52 (22.81%) .NET Core
5 44 (19.30%) HTML
6 42 (18.42%) CSS
7 33 (14.47%) React
8 28 (12.28%) Blazor
9 27 (11.84%) Entity Framework
10 23 (10.09%) RESTful
11 21 (9.21%) ML.NET
12 18 (7.89%) YAML
13 17 (7.46%) REST
14 15 (6.58%) ARM Templates
15 14 (6.14%) jQuery
16 13 (5.70%) Ajax
16 13 (5.70%) OAuth
16 13 (5.70%) Sass
17 12 (5.26%) CSS3
17 12 (5.26%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.46%) Greenfield Project
1 17 (7.46%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (4.82%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.07%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.75%) iPhone
8 4 (1.75%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.75%) Social Network
9 3 (1.32%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.88%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.44%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.44%) IoT
11 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.65%) Linux
2 13 (5.70%) Ubuntu
3 11 (4.82%) Windows
4 4 (1.75%) Android
5 3 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.88%) Debian
6 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.88%) Rocky
7 1 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (100.00%) DevOps
2 99 (43.42%) CI/CD
3 91 (39.91%) Agile
4 65 (28.51%) Full-Stack Development
5 52 (22.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 48 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (19.74%) AI
9 34 (14.91%) Machine Learning
10 29 (12.72%) Microservices
11 27 (11.84%) SDLC
12 26 (11.40%) User Experience
13 23 (10.09%) MVC
13 23 (10.09%) Scrum
14 22 (9.65%) Mentoring
14 22 (9.65%) Multithreading
15 21 (9.21%) Analytics
15 21 (9.21%) Observability
15 21 (9.21%) Software Engineering
16 20 (8.77%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 113 (49.56%) C#
2 87 (38.16%) SQL
3 48 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 39 (17.11%) PowerShell
5 38 (16.67%) Python
6 32 (14.04%) Bash
7 22 (9.65%) Bicep
8 12 (5.26%) TypeScript
9 10 (4.39%) 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%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (6.58%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.26%) Degree
3 9 (3.95%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.63%) ISTQB
5 5 (2.19%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.44%) CBAP
7 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.60%) QA
2 5 (2.19%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.75%) WCAG
4 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (14.91%) Docker
2 10 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (0.88%) Xen
5 1 (0.44%) Firmware
5 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 53 (23.25%) Terraform
2 27 (11.84%) Kubernetes
3 23 (10.09%) Grafana
3 23 (10.09%) Prometheus
4 17 (7.46%) Ansible
5 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.32%) Scalr
6 2 (0.88%) Argo
6 2 (0.88%) FlexNet
6 2 (0.88%) MIIS
6 2 (0.88%) Rancher
6 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 107 (46.93%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.21%) Red Hat
3 12 (5.26%) Facebook
3 12 (5.26%) YouTube
4 9 (3.95%) MuleSoft
5 8 (3.51%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.07%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.63%) SAP
8 5 (2.19%) Oracle
9 4 (1.75%) Google
10 3 (1.32%) Cisco
10 3 (1.32%) Databricks
10 3 (1.32%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.32%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.88%) JD Edwards
11 2 (0.88%) NetApp
11 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.88%) RedGate
12 1 (0.44%) Veeam