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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 96 92
Rank change year-on-year -47 -4 +15
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 225 258 335
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.19% 2.88% 2.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.18% 10.45% 9.49%
Number of salaries quoted 178 122 198
10th Percentile £42,500 £33,750 £41,779
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £60,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.05% -10.74% +3.85%
75th Percentile £73,438 £81,563 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,875 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.26% -1.48% +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 3,643 2,468 3,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 19.22% 27.57% 28.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,785 1,522 1,971
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -15.18% +1.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,710 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.52% -7.69% +4.00%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -33 86 £62,500 -16.67% 91
Surrey -3 49 £70,000 +3.70% 26
West Sussex -1 44 £70,000 +16.67% 6
Berkshire -40 36 £65,000 -21.21% 50
Oxfordshire -11 29 £60,000 +20.00% 20
Hampshire -80 24 £60,000 -4.00% 38
Buckinghamshire -1 21 £65,000 +2.77% 25
Kent -19 15 £29,000 -55.38% 8
Isle of Wight - 6 £50,000 -
Sussex -12 2 £67,500 +50.00% 1
Middlesex -8 1 £38,500 +2.67%
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 13 (5.78%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.44%) Confluence
3 7 (3.11%) IIS
4 5 (2.22%) nginx
5 2 (0.89%) Apache
5 2 (0.89%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (5.33%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.78%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.67%) SAP IBP
1 6 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.89%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 2 (0.89%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 225 (100.00%) Azure
2 40 (17.78%) Power Platform
3 34 (15.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 28 (12.44%) Azure Key Vault
5 23 (10.22%) Azure AI
5 23 (10.22%) Azure Monitor
5 23 (10.22%) SaaS
6 21 (9.33%) Azure AKS
7 20 (8.89%) Azure Service Bus
7 20 (8.89%) Entra ID
8 17 (7.56%) PaaS
9 15 (6.67%) AWS
10 14 (6.22%) GitHub
11 13 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (4.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (4.89%) PowerApps
13 10 (4.44%) IaaS
14 9 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (4.00%) Azure Functions
14 9 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.67%) Internet
2 3 (1.33%) VPN
3 2 (0.89%) DNS
3 2 (0.89%) Firewall
3 2 (0.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (30.22%) SQL Server
2 53 (23.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 46 (20.44%) MongoDB
4 29 (12.89%) Power BI
5 16 (7.11%) Metadata
6 14 (6.22%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (4.44%) NoSQL
8 10 (4.44%) Star Schema
9 9 (4.00%) Amazon QuickSight
9 9 (4.00%) DynamoDB
9 9 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (2.22%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.78%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.33%) Redis
14 2 (0.89%) Delta Lake
14 2 (0.89%) MS Access
14 2 (0.89%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (18.67%) Git
2 29 (12.89%) JIRA
3 5 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
3 5 (2.22%) Selenium
4 3 (1.33%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.33%) JMeter
4 3 (1.33%) NUnit
4 3 (1.33%) Zephyr
5 2 (0.89%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.89%) GitLab
5 2 (0.89%) MSI
5 2 (0.89%) Postman
5 2 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.44%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.44%) Eclipse RCP
6 1 (0.44%) Gatling
6 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.44%) Snyk
General
1 62 (27.56%) Social Skills
2 44 (19.56%) Finance
3 15 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.33%) Advertising
6 11 (4.89%) Games
7 10 (4.44%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.67%) Marketing
8 6 (2.67%) Retail
9 5 (2.22%) Aviation
9 5 (2.22%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.33%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.89%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.44%) Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (42.22%) Developer
2 69 (30.67%) .NET Developer
3 31 (13.78%) Azure Engineer
4 29 (12.89%) Lead
4 29 (12.89%) Senior
5 27 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (8.00%) Analyst
7 16 (7.11%) Lead Developer
8 15 (6.67%) Software Engineer
9 14 (6.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 14 (6.22%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (5.33%) Lead .NET Developer
11 10 (4.44%) Project Manager
11 10 (4.44%) Systems Engineer
12 9 (4.00%) Technical Manager
13 8 (3.56%) Architect
13 8 (3.56%) Telecoms Manager
14 7 (3.11%) DevOps Systems Engineer
14 7 (3.11%) Linux Systems Engineer
14 7 (3.11%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (48.89%) .NET
2 79 (35.11%) ASP.NET
3 63 (28.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 52 (23.11%) .NET Core
5 41 (18.22%) HTML
6 39 (17.33%) CSS
7 33 (14.67%) Terraform
8 32 (14.22%) Blazor
8 32 (14.22%) React
9 30 (13.33%) Entity Framework
10 21 (9.33%) REST
11 20 (8.89%) ML.NET
11 20 (8.89%) RESTful
12 16 (7.11%) YAML
13 15 (6.67%) jQuery
14 13 (5.78%) ARM Templates
15 12 (5.33%) gRPC
15 12 (5.33%) LINQ
16 10 (4.44%) CSS3
16 10 (4.44%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.78%) Product Ownership
2 21 (9.33%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (7.56%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (7.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (5.78%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (4.89%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.00%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.56%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.78%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.78%) iPhone
8 4 (1.78%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.78%) Social Network
9 3 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.89%) Autonomous Agent
10 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.89%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.44%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.44%) IoT
11 1 (0.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.33%) Windows
2 18 (8.00%) Linux
3 9 (4.00%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.78%) Android
5 2 (0.89%) Debian
5 2 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.89%) Rocky
5 2 (0.89%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (100.00%) DevOps
2 103 (45.78%) Agile
3 95 (42.22%) CI/CD
4 66 (29.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 50 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 46 (20.44%) AI
7 42 (18.67%) Scrum
8 40 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (15.11%) Machine Learning
10 32 (14.22%) Analytics
11 31 (13.78%) Microservices
12 30 (13.33%) Mentoring
13 29 (12.89%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (12.44%) Business Intelligence
14 28 (12.44%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (12.00%) SDLC
16 25 (11.11%) MVC
17 24 (10.67%) Data Modelling
18 22 (9.78%) User Experience
19 21 (9.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 125 (55.56%) C#
2 84 (37.33%) SQL
3 46 (20.44%) JavaScript
4 40 (17.78%) Python
5 26 (11.56%) PowerShell
6 17 (7.56%) Bash
6 17 (7.56%) Bicep
7 12 (5.33%) TypeScript
8 11 (4.89%) T-SQL
9 7 (3.11%) Java
10 3 (1.33%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.89%) Ruby
12 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (14.22%) Degree
2 10 (4.44%) PMI Certification
2 10 (4.44%) PMP
2 10 (4.44%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.56%) Azure Certification
3 8 (3.56%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.78%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.33%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (0.89%) CBAP
6 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.44%) CSPO
7 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.44%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.56%) QA
2 12 (5.33%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (4.00%) GDPR
4 3 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.89%) WCAG
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 24 (10.67%) Docker
2 11 (4.89%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.89%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (0.89%) Xen
5 1 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (7.11%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.78%) Ansible
3 12 (5.33%) Grafana
3 12 (5.33%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.89%) Argo
5 2 (0.89%) FlexNet
5 2 (0.89%) Rancher
5 2 (0.89%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 111 (49.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.33%) Facebook
2 12 (5.33%) YouTube
3 9 (4.00%) Informatica
3 9 (4.00%) Pega
3 9 (4.00%) Red Hat
3 9 (4.00%) Talend
4 8 (3.56%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.67%) SAP
6 5 (2.22%) Databricks
6 5 (2.22%) Oracle
6 5 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.78%) Google
7 4 (1.78%) HP
7 4 (1.78%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.89%) JD Edwards
8 2 (0.89%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.89%) NetApp
8 2 (0.89%) RedGate
9 1 (0.44%) Axway