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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 90 114
Rank change year-on-year -3 +24 -23
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 234 297 174
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.28% 3.05% 2.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.16% 9.46% 6.74%
Number of salaries quoted 132 209 133
10th Percentile £32,500 £46,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,625 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £94,500
England median annual salary £66,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +3.85% -2.99%

All Cloud 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 3,268 3,138 2,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.86% 32.27% 35.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,775 1,751 2,117
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £29,062
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,125 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% +12.62% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +2 116 £66,250 - 16
Berkshire +13 84 £67,500 -12.90% 5
Hampshire +20 41 £77,500 +19.23% 14
Buckinghamshire -4 25 £35,000 -41.67% 6
Surrey -47 20 £50,000 -29.82% 6
Middlesex +17 17 £37,500 - 1
West Sussex +6 15 £60,000 - 2
East Sussex +6 11 £60,000 +29.73% 2
Kent -3 9 £37,500 -52.38% 6
Oxfordshire +22 7 £68,750 +19.57% 5
Sussex - 4 £45,000 -
Isle of Wight - 3 £42,500 - 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 19 (8.12%) IIS
2 9 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.56%) Appian
4 5 (2.14%) Apache
4 5 (2.14%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.28%) Confluence
5 3 (1.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 69 (29.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 165 (70.51%) Azure
2 33 (14.10%) GitHub
3 32 (13.68%) Power Platform
4 27 (11.54%) AWS
5 19 (8.12%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (3.85%) Entra ID
7 9 (3.85%) GCP
7 9 (3.85%) PaaS
7 9 (3.85%) SaaS
8 8 (3.42%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (3.42%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (2.56%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.56%) MinIO
10 5 (2.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.13%) DNS
2 3 (1.28%) Firewall
2 3 (1.28%) VPN
3 1 (0.43%) AMQP
3 1 (0.43%) HTTP
3 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.43%) SSL
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.97%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.69%) Power BI
3 14 (5.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (2.14%) Airbyte
6 3 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.28%) MySQL
6 3 (1.28%) Tableau
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.85%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.85%) Data Hub
7 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.85%) Looker
7 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.43%) Big Data
8 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.43%) Metadata
8 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 77 (32.91%) JIRA
2 69 (29.49%) eCATT
3 39 (16.67%) Git
4 38 (16.24%) NeoLoad
5 25 (10.68%) Selenium
6 23 (9.83%) Robot Framework
7 22 (9.40%) Snyk
8 14 (5.98%) Jenkins
9 8 (3.42%) GitLab
10 6 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (2.56%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.71%) Storybook
12 3 (1.28%) MSBuild
12 3 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.85%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.85%) MLflow
13 2 (0.85%) TestRail
14 1 (0.43%) Postman
14 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
General
1 114 (48.72%) Finance
2 71 (30.34%) Marketing
3 69 (29.49%) Manufacturing
4 50 (21.37%) Presentation Skills
5 44 (18.80%) Social Skills
6 40 (17.09%) Influencing Skills
7 36 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.14%) Retail
9 4 (1.71%) Legal
10 3 (1.28%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.28%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.85%) Banking
11 2 (0.85%) Military
12 1 (0.43%) Advertising
12 1 (0.43%) Billing
12 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.43%) International Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Law
12 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (27.78%) Lead
2 62 (26.50%) Analyst
3 49 (20.94%) Senior
4 30 (12.82%) Test Leader
5 28 (11.97%) Test Analyst
6 22 (9.40%) Developer
6 22 (9.40%) Software Engineer
7 20 (8.55%) Automation Test Lead
8 17 (7.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (5.98%) IT Engineer
10 13 (5.56%) IT Support
10 13 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
10 13 (5.56%) Support Engineer
11 12 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (5.13%) Performance Analyst
11 12 (5.13%) Performance Test Analyst
11 12 (5.13%) Software Support Engineer
11 12 (5.13%) Testing Analyst
12 10 (4.27%) Performance Test Leader
12 10 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (24.36%) .NET
2 15 (6.41%) ASP.NET
3 14 (5.98%) .NET Framework
3 14 (5.98%) React
4 12 (5.13%) Entity Framework
4 12 (5.13%) WinForms
5 11 (4.70%) CSS
5 11 (4.70%) HTML
6 9 (3.85%) ARM Templates
6 9 (3.85%) Bootstrap
6 9 (3.85%) Next.js
7 7 (2.99%) .NET Core
7 7 (2.99%) Kafka
8 6 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (2.56%) JSON
8 6 (2.56%) React Native
8 6 (2.56%) REST
8 6 (2.56%) RESTful
9 5 (2.14%) YAML
10 4 (1.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.83%) Cloud Native
1 23 (9.83%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.13%) Low-Code
4 10 (4.27%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.42%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.85%) Life Science
8 2 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.43%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.43%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (17.52%) Windows
2 20 (8.55%) Linux
3 8 (3.42%) VMS
4 4 (1.71%) Android
4 4 (1.71%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.28%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (70.51%) DevOps
2 96 (41.03%) Agile
3 94 (40.17%) CI/CD
4 93 (39.74%) Test Management
5 71 (30.34%) Roadmaps
6 69 (29.49%) Source to Pay
7 67 (28.63%) Test Automation
8 66 (28.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (23.93%) ERP
10 53 (22.65%) Problem-Solving
11 51 (21.79%) Product Roadmap
11 51 (21.79%) Visualisation
12 46 (19.66%) Test Strategy
13 43 (18.38%) Risk Management
14 42 (17.95%) Performance Testing
15 41 (17.52%) Infrastructure as Code
16 39 (16.67%) Mentoring
17 38 (16.24%) Requirements Gathering
18 35 (14.96%) Continuous Delivery
18 35 (14.96%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 59 (25.21%) SQL
2 42 (17.95%) C#
3 34 (14.53%) Python
4 25 (10.68%) PowerShell
5 15 (6.41%) Bash
6 13 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.13%) T-SQL
8 8 (3.42%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.56%) Bicep
10 4 (1.71%) C++
10 4 (1.71%) Java
11 2 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.43%) Delphi
12 1 (0.43%) Go
12 1 (0.43%) Korn
12 1 (0.43%) Perl
12 1 (0.43%) R
12 1 (0.43%) VB
12 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (12.39%) Degree
2 27 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.40%) DV Cleared
4 19 (8.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.70%) ISTQB
6 9 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.85%) ISEB
7 8 (3.42%) SC Cleared
8 7 (2.99%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.71%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.71%) PMP
10 2 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (22.22%) QA
2 12 (5.13%) PMO
3 7 (2.99%) Software Quality Assurance
4 5 (2.14%) GDPR
4 5 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.14%) NCSC
4 5 (2.14%) NIST
5 4 (1.71%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 24 (10.26%) Docker
2 7 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 69 (29.49%) HP ALM
2 48 (20.51%) Terraform
3 29 (12.39%) Kubernetes
4 25 (10.68%) Ansible
5 7 (2.99%) Grafana
5 7 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.85%) Nessus
8 1 (0.43%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 69 (29.49%) HP
1 69 (29.49%) SAP
2 57 (24.36%) Microsoft
3 21 (8.97%) Black Duck
4 20 (8.55%) Coverity
5 12 (5.13%) Sage
5 12 (5.13%) Xamarin
6 9 (3.85%) Databricks
7 8 (3.42%) Google
7 8 (3.42%) Rackspace
8 7 (2.99%) VMware
8 7 (2.99%) Zoho
9 6 (2.56%) BiZZdesign
9 6 (2.56%) UiPath
10 5 (2.14%) Blue Prism
11 4 (1.71%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.28%) Oracle
12 3 (1.28%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.85%) Informatica
13 2 (0.85%) New Relic