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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 135 82
Rank change year-on-year +9 -53 +33
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 225 188 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.32% 2.13% 2.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.80% 8.15% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 191 118 217
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,063 £48,750 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.80% +6.15% -

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 3,879 2,307 3,849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 22.67% 26.13% 27.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,776 1,415 2,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -8.26% -5.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £64,025 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.71% - -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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +12 68 £57,500 -14.81% 60
West Sussex +12 52 £70,000 +16.67% 5
Surrey +5 51 £70,000 +3.70% 23
Hampshire -51 31 £60,000 -4.00% 11
Berkshire +9 29 £57,500 -30.30% 34
Buckinghamshire -2 20 £62,500 +21.36% 14
Oxfordshire -12 19 £57,500 +21.05% 13
Kent -21 14 £29,000 -53.60% 12
Isle of Wight - 7 £50,000 - 5
Sussex -3 3 £65,000 +44.44%
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 11 (4.89%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.00%) Confluence
3 7 (3.11%) IIS
4 5 (2.22%) nginx
5 3 (1.33%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.44%) Apache
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
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 29 (12.89%) Power Platform
3 27 (12.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 25 (11.11%) SaaS
5 24 (10.67%) Azure AI
5 24 (10.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 23 (10.22%) GitHub
7 22 (9.78%) Azure Monitor
8 21 (9.33%) AWS
8 21 (9.33%) Azure AKS
8 21 (9.33%) Entra ID
9 19 (8.44%) Azure Service Bus
10 17 (7.56%) PaaS
11 16 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (6.22%) Datadog
13 12 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (5.33%) Serverless
14 10 (4.44%) IaaS
15 9 (4.00%) Azure Functions
16 8 (3.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.67%) Internet
2 3 (1.33%) Firewall
2 3 (1.33%) VPN
3 2 (0.89%) DNS
3 2 (0.89%) HTTP
4 1 (0.44%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 52 (23.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 42 (18.67%) MongoDB
4 18 (8.00%) Power BI
5 12 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.56%) Metadata
8 7 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (3.11%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.33%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.33%) Redis
9 3 (1.33%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.89%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.89%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.89%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.89%) MS Access
10 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (16.00%) Git
2 18 (8.00%) JIRA
3 10 (4.44%) GitLab
4 9 (4.00%) Selenium
5 8 (3.56%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (2.67%) NUnit
7 5 (2.22%) Jenkins
7 5 (2.22%) Zephyr
8 4 (1.78%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (1.33%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.33%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.89%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.89%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.89%) JMeter
10 2 (0.89%) MSI
10 2 (0.89%) MSTest
10 2 (0.89%) Postman
10 2 (0.89%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.44%) utPLSQL
General
1 59 (26.22%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.89%) Finance
3 27 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.33%) Advertising
5 11 (4.89%) Games
5 11 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.56%) Retail
7 7 (3.11%) Aviation
7 7 (3.11%) Marketing
8 5 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.22%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.78%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.33%) Legal
11 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (42.67%) Developer
2 64 (28.44%) .NET Developer
3 32 (14.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (13.78%) Lead
5 23 (10.22%) Senior
6 22 (9.78%) Azure Engineer
7 17 (7.56%) Analyst
8 16 (7.11%) Software Engineer
9 15 (6.67%) Lead Developer
10 12 (5.33%) Systems Engineer
11 11 (4.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.89%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (4.89%) Lead .NET Developer
12 9 (4.00%) Architect
12 9 (4.00%) DevOps Systems Engineer
12 9 (4.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
12 9 (4.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
12 9 (4.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
13 7 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (50.67%) .NET
2 76 (33.78%) ASP.NET
3 59 (26.22%) ASP.NET Core
4 55 (24.44%) .NET Core
5 43 (19.11%) HTML
6 41 (18.22%) CSS
7 35 (15.56%) React
8 32 (14.22%) Blazor
9 28 (12.44%) Entity Framework
10 23 (10.22%) RESTful
11 22 (9.78%) REST
12 21 (9.33%) ML.NET
13 19 (8.44%) YAML
14 15 (6.67%) ARM Templates
15 13 (5.78%) jQuery
15 13 (5.78%) OAuth
16 12 (5.33%) Ajax
16 12 (5.33%) CSS3
16 12 (5.33%) LINQ
16 12 (5.33%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.22%) Product Ownership
2 17 (7.56%) Greenfield Project
2 17 (7.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (6.22%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.33%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.44%) Mobile App
6 9 (4.00%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.78%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.78%) iPhone
10 4 (1.78%) Social Network
11 3 (1.33%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.89%) Autonomous Agent
12 2 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.89%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.89%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
13 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.89%) Linux
2 13 (5.78%) Windows
3 11 (4.89%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.78%) Android
5 3 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.89%) Debian
6 2 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.89%) Rocky
7 1 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (100.00%) DevOps
2 98 (43.56%) CI/CD
3 92 (40.89%) Agile
4 66 (29.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 51 (22.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 46 (20.44%) AI
7 45 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (18.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 35 (15.56%) Machine Learning
10 33 (14.67%) Microservices
11 29 (12.89%) Mentoring
12 28 (12.44%) SDLC
13 26 (11.56%) MVC
14 25 (11.11%) Scrum
14 25 (11.11%) User Experience
15 23 (10.22%) Analytics
16 22 (9.78%) Multithreading
17 21 (9.33%) Software Engineering
18 20 (8.89%) Data Modelling
18 20 (8.89%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 118 (52.44%) C#
2 86 (38.22%) SQL
3 44 (19.56%) JavaScript
4 37 (16.44%) PowerShell
4 37 (16.44%) Python
5 29 (12.89%) Bash
6 20 (8.89%) Bicep
7 13 (5.78%) TypeScript
8 11 (4.89%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.22%) Java
10 3 (1.33%) DataWeave
10 3 (1.33%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.89%) Ruby
12 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (7.11%) Degree
2 13 (5.78%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.56%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.22%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.78%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.44%) CBAP
9 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (16.44%) QA
2 5 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.78%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.78%) WCAG
4 2 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.89%) GDPR
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (16.44%) Docker
2 11 (4.89%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.89%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (0.89%) Xen
5 1 (0.44%) Firmware
5 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (21.33%) Terraform
2 25 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 22 (9.78%) Grafana
3 22 (9.78%) Prometheus
4 15 (6.67%) Ansible
5 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.33%) Scalr
6 2 (0.89%) Argo
6 2 (0.89%) FlexNet
6 2 (0.89%) MIIS
6 2 (0.89%) Rancher
6 2 (0.89%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 104 (46.22%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.00%) Red Hat
3 12 (5.33%) Facebook
3 12 (5.33%) YouTube
4 8 (3.56%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.11%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.11%) MuleSoft
5 7 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.67%) Oracle
6 6 (2.67%) SAP
7 4 (1.78%) Google
7 4 (1.78%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.33%) Databricks
9 2 (0.89%) Informatica
9 2 (0.89%) JD Edwards
9 2 (0.89%) NetApp
9 2 (0.89%) RedGate
9 2 (0.89%) Talend
10 1 (0.44%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.44%) Veeam