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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 108 109
Rank change year-on-year -15 +1 -10
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 191 198 433
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.32% 2.55% 2.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.46% 9.88% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 169 134 256
10th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £83,438 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,625
% change year-on-year -7.14% +13.59% -5.19%

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 3,501 2,004 5,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.11% 25.79% 29.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,335 1,225 4,130
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £28,250
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 £69,840 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +9 67 £50,000 -28.57% 25
Berkshire +1 44 £45,000 -45.45% 14
West Sussex +5 36 £70,000 +16.67% 14
Surrey -11 32 £52,500 -25.00% 14
Hampshire -49 29 £60,000 -5.88% 15
Kent -24 15 £29,000 -63.75% 6
Oxfordshire +8 12 £61,250 +27.27% 7
Buckinghamshire -6 11 £49,536 -3.81% 6
East Sussex -14 4 £82,500 +94.12%
Isle of Wight - 4 £45,750 - 1
Sussex - 2 £62,250 - 2
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 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.09%) Confluence
3 3 (1.57%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.05%) IIS
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.52%) Apache
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.05%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 191 (100.00%) Azure
2 33 (17.28%) Power Platform
3 32 (16.75%) GitHub
4 31 (16.23%) SaaS
5 25 (13.09%) AWS
6 23 (12.04%) PaaS
7 21 (10.99%) Entra ID
8 18 (9.42%) Azure AKS
9 17 (8.90%) IaaS
10 15 (7.85%) Datadog
11 14 (7.33%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (6.81%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (6.81%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (6.81%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (6.28%) Azure AI
14 10 (5.24%) Serverless
15 8 (4.19%) OpenShift
16 6 (3.14%) Azure Functions
16 6 (3.14%) Azure Key Vault
17 5 (2.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.76%) Firewall
2 3 (1.57%) BGP
2 3 (1.57%) Internet
3 2 (1.05%) DNS
4 1 (0.52%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.52%) MPLS
4 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (19.37%) SQL Server
2 25 (13.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 20 (10.47%) MongoDB
4 16 (8.38%) Power BI
5 6 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.62%) Metadata
7 3 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.05%) Redis
8 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.52%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (8.38%) Git
2 12 (6.28%) GitLab
3 10 (5.24%) JIRA
3 10 (5.24%) Selenium
4 6 (3.14%) Zephyr
5 4 (2.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (2.09%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.09%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.09%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.57%) NUnit
6 3 (1.57%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.05%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.05%) MSI
7 2 (1.05%) MSTest
7 2 (1.05%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.52%) JMeter
8 1 (0.52%) Toad
General
1 47 (24.61%) Finance
2 45 (23.56%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (18.32%) Social Skills
4 9 (4.71%) Billing
5 8 (4.19%) Retail
6 7 (3.66%) Advertising
7 5 (2.62%) Games
8 4 (2.09%) Aviation
8 4 (2.09%) Marketing
8 4 (2.09%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.57%) Legal
10 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.52%) Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 78 (40.84%) Developer
2 36 (18.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (13.61%) .NET Developer
3 26 (13.61%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (8.38%) Analyst
4 16 (8.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (8.38%) DevOps Systems Engineer
4 16 (8.38%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 16 (8.38%) Linux Engineer
4 16 (8.38%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 16 (8.38%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 16 (8.38%) Systems Engineer
5 14 (7.33%) Lead
6 13 (6.81%) Senior
7 12 (6.28%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (5.76%) Power Platform Developer
8 11 (5.76%) Software Engineer
9 9 (4.71%) Architect
10 8 (4.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.19%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (42.41%) .NET
2 40 (20.94%) ASP.NET
3 38 (19.90%) HTML
4 36 (18.85%) CSS
5 29 (15.18%) React
6 28 (14.66%) ASP.NET Core
7 26 (13.61%) .NET Core
8 16 (8.38%) YAML
9 14 (7.33%) RESTful
9 14 (7.33%) Sass
10 13 (6.81%) Entity Framework
11 12 (6.28%) Ajax
11 12 (6.28%) Blazor
11 12 (6.28%) CSS3
11 12 (6.28%) HTML5
11 12 (6.28%) jQuery
11 12 (6.28%) LESS
11 12 (6.28%) OAuth
12 11 (5.76%) ML.NET
12 11 (5.76%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.33%) Mobile App
1 14 (7.33%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.28%) Low-Code
3 9 (4.71%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (4.19%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.62%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.57%) Social Network
8 2 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.52%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.52%) CMDB
9 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.52%) iPhone
9 1 (0.52%) Life Science
9 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.95%) Linux
2 16 (8.38%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.57%) Windows
4 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.52%) Android
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (100.00%) DevOps
2 89 (46.60%) CI/CD
3 74 (38.74%) Agile
4 48 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (24.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 46 (24.08%) Full-Stack Development
7 41 (21.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (17.28%) AI
9 25 (13.09%) Machine Learning
10 23 (12.04%) Deployment Automation
10 23 (12.04%) User Experience
11 20 (10.47%) Scrum
12 18 (9.42%) Cybersecurity
13 17 (8.90%) Data Modelling
13 17 (8.90%) Observability
13 17 (8.90%) SDLC
13 17 (8.90%) Test Automation
14 16 (8.38%) B2B
14 16 (8.38%) Business Intelligence
14 16 (8.38%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 77 (40.31%) C#
2 58 (30.37%) SQL
3 40 (20.94%) JavaScript
4 39 (20.42%) Python
5 33 (17.28%) Bash
6 27 (14.14%) PowerShell
7 11 (5.76%) Bicep
8 10 (5.24%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.62%) Java
10 3 (1.57%) DataWeave
11 2 (1.05%) Ruby
11 2 (1.05%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.52%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) Delphi
12 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.52%) VB
12 1 (0.52%) VB6
Qualifications
1 14 (7.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.28%) Degree
3 7 (3.66%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.14%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.14%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.14%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.81%) QA
2 5 (2.62%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.09%) WCAG
4 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (11.52%) Docker
2 5 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (30.37%) Terraform
2 19 (9.95%) Ansible
3 17 (8.90%) Kubernetes
4 15 (7.85%) Grafana
4 15 (7.85%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.57%) Scalr
6 2 (1.05%) Argo
6 2 (1.05%) MIIS
7 1 (0.52%) CASB
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 75 (39.27%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.57%) Red Hat
3 10 (5.24%) MuleSoft
4 8 (4.19%) Dynatrace
4 8 (4.19%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.66%) Facebook
5 7 (3.66%) YouTube
6 6 (3.14%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.57%) Cisco
7 3 (1.57%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.57%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.05%) Oracle
9 1 (0.52%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.52%) Databricks
9 1 (0.52%) Genesys
9 1 (0.52%) Google
9 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.52%) Veeam
9 1 (0.52%) VMware
9 1 (0.52%) Zscaler