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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 121 113
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 -12
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 223 196 428
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.46% 2.40% 2.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.04% 9.17% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 196 130 255
10th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £71,563 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 - £77,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -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 3,694 2,138 5,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.11% 26.15% 29.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,550 1,335 4,066
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £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 2 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 2 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 +20 73 £50,000 -28.83% 30
West Sussex +6 47 £70,000 +16.67% 11
Berkshire +3 43 £45,000 -45.45% 15
Surrey -4 43 £65,000 -7.14% 13
Hampshire -52 32 £60,000 -2.04% 19
Buckinghamshire -8 16 £52,500 +1.94% 9
Kent -17 16 £29,000 -63.75% 5
Oxfordshire -2 14 £57,500 +19.48% 7
Isle of Wight - 4 £50,000 - 1
East Sussex -12 3 £82,500 +65.00%
Sussex - 3 £65,000 - 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 7 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.69%) Confluence
2 6 (2.69%) IIS
3 3 (1.35%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.35%) nginx
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.35%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.35%) SAP IBP
1 3 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.45%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 223 (100.00%) Azure
2 32 (14.35%) Power Platform
3 31 (13.90%) SaaS
4 30 (13.45%) GitHub
5 25 (11.21%) AWS
6 22 (9.87%) PaaS
7 21 (9.42%) Azure AI
7 21 (9.42%) Azure AKS
8 20 (8.97%) Entra ID
9 18 (8.07%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (7.62%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (7.17%) IaaS
12 15 (6.73%) Datadog
13 14 (6.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 14 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (4.93%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (4.93%) Serverless
15 10 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (3.59%) Azure Functions
16 8 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.14%) Firewall
2 5 (2.24%) Internet
3 3 (1.35%) BGP
4 2 (0.90%) DNS
5 1 (0.45%) IP Telephony
5 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (21.08%) SQL Server
2 43 (19.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 37 (16.59%) MongoDB
4 16 (7.17%) Power BI
5 8 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.69%) Metadata
7 4 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.35%) Redis
8 3 (1.35%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.90%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.45%) GIS
10 1 (0.45%) MS Access
10 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.45%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (10.76%) Git
2 14 (6.28%) GitLab
3 13 (5.83%) JIRA
4 9 (4.04%) Selenium
5 6 (2.69%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.69%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (2.69%) Zephyr
6 4 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.79%) NUnit
6 4 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (1.35%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.35%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.90%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.90%) JMeter
8 2 (0.90%) MSI
8 2 (0.90%) MSTest
8 2 (0.90%) Postman
8 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.45%) utPLSQL
General
1 50 (22.42%) Finance
2 44 (19.73%) Social Skills
3 40 (17.94%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.93%) Advertising
5 9 (4.04%) Games
5 9 (4.04%) Retail
6 6 (2.69%) Billing
6 6 (2.69%) Marketing
7 5 (2.24%) Aviation
8 4 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.35%) Legal
9 3 (1.35%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.35%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.90%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.45%) Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (43.05%) Developer
2 49 (21.97%) .NET Developer
3 40 (17.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (12.11%) Azure Engineer
5 21 (9.42%) Lead
6 20 (8.97%) Analyst
7 17 (7.62%) Systems Engineer
8 15 (6.73%) DevOps Systems Engineer
8 15 (6.73%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 15 (6.73%) Linux Engineer
8 15 (6.73%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 15 (6.73%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 15 (6.73%) Senior
9 14 (6.28%) Software Engineer
10 13 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (5.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.38%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (4.48%) Architect
13 9 (4.04%) Power Platform Developer
14 8 (3.59%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (46.64%) .NET
2 63 (28.25%) ASP.NET
3 49 (21.97%) ASP.NET Core
4 47 (21.08%) .NET Core
5 45 (20.18%) HTML
6 43 (19.28%) CSS
7 35 (15.70%) React
8 24 (10.76%) Blazor
9 23 (10.31%) Entity Framework
9 23 (10.31%) RESTful
10 20 (8.97%) ML.NET
11 17 (7.62%) YAML
12 15 (6.73%) jQuery
13 14 (6.28%) Ajax
13 14 (6.28%) REST
13 14 (6.28%) Sass
14 13 (5.83%) ARM Templates
14 13 (5.83%) OAuth
15 12 (5.38%) CSS3
15 12 (5.38%) LESS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.62%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.73%) Mobile App
3 14 (6.28%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (5.38%) Cloud Native
5 11 (4.93%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (4.48%) Low-Code
7 8 (3.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.24%) Social Network
10 4 (1.79%) iPhone
11 2 (0.90%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.45%) IoT
12 1 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.87%) Linux
2 15 (6.73%) Ubuntu
3 7 (3.14%) Windows
4 4 (1.79%) Android
5 1 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (100.00%) DevOps
2 102 (45.74%) CI/CD
3 93 (41.70%) Agile
4 63 (28.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 49 (21.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 47 (21.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 46 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (18.83%) AI
9 33 (14.80%) Machine Learning
10 27 (12.11%) User Experience
11 25 (11.21%) Scrum
12 24 (10.76%) Deployment Automation
12 24 (10.76%) Microservices
12 24 (10.76%) SDLC
13 21 (9.42%) Multithreading
13 21 (9.42%) MVC
14 19 (8.52%) Observability
15 18 (8.07%) Software Engineering
15 18 (8.07%) Test Automation
16 17 (7.62%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 105 (47.09%) C#
2 81 (36.32%) SQL
3 52 (23.32%) JavaScript
4 38 (17.04%) Python
5 34 (15.25%) Bash
5 34 (15.25%) PowerShell
6 18 (8.07%) Bicep
7 11 (4.93%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.59%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.69%) Java
10 3 (1.35%) DataWeave
11 2 (0.90%) Ruby
11 2 (0.90%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.45%) C++
12 1 (0.45%) Delphi
12 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.45%) VB
12 1 (0.45%) VB6
Qualifications
1 16 (7.17%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.48%) Degree
3 8 (3.59%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.69%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.69%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.69%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.76%) QA
2 5 (2.24%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (13.00%) Docker
2 7 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) Firmware
4 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 58 (26.01%) Terraform
2 23 (10.31%) Kubernetes
3 19 (8.52%) Ansible
3 19 (8.52%) Grafana
3 19 (8.52%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.35%) Scalr
5 2 (0.90%) Argo
5 2 (0.90%) MIIS
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 100 (44.84%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.31%) Red Hat
3 11 (4.93%) Facebook
3 11 (4.93%) YouTube
4 10 (4.48%) MuleSoft
5 8 (3.59%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.59%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.69%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.79%) Google
8 3 (1.35%) Cisco
8 3 (1.35%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.35%) Oracle
8 3 (1.35%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.35%) SAP
9 2 (0.90%) Databricks
9 2 (0.90%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.45%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.45%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.45%) RedGate
10 1 (0.45%) Veeam