Azure DevOps Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 113 108
Rank change year-on-year -12 -5 +14
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 86 42 225
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.10% 1.49% 2.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.51% 4.62% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 67 32 173
10th Percentile £39,750 £44,350 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £70,750
90th Percentile £81,000 £82,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +13.82% -5.38%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,908 909 2,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 24.44% 32.15% 26.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,158 712 2,157
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.23%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,786
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 West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in the South West

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Azure DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the South West over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in the South West

Azure DevOps
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Bristol -11 27 £60,000 -14.29% 8
Somerset -20 22 £70,000 -9.68% 6
Devon -12 18 £52,500 - 2
Dorset +1 6 £50,000 +1.52% 3
Gloucestershire -36 5 £32,500 -50.00% 1
Wiltshire -16 4 £65,000 +23.81% 2
Cornwall - 4 £52,373 -
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.81%) Confluence
3 4 (4.65%) Apache
4 2 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.33%) IIS
5 1 (1.16%) Drupal
5 1 (1.16%) nginx
5 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.16%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Visualfiles
2 1 (1.16%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 86 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (25.58%) GitHub
3 14 (16.28%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (12.79%) Entra ID
4 11 (12.79%) Serverless
5 9 (10.47%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (9.30%) AWS
6 8 (9.30%) Azure Functions
7 7 (8.14%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (8.14%) SaaS
8 6 (6.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (6.98%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (6.98%) IaaS
8 6 (6.98%) PaaS
9 4 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (4.65%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.65%) GCP
9 4 (4.65%) Power Platform
9 4 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.47%) Network Security
2 6 (6.98%) VPN
3 2 (2.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (5.81%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.49%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (2.33%) Big Data
5 2 (2.33%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.33%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.33%) Metadata
5 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.33%) MySQL
5 2 (2.33%) Power BI
5 2 (2.33%) Redis
5 2 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.16%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.16%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 21 (24.42%) JIRA
2 19 (22.09%) Cypress.io
3 18 (20.93%) Git
4 15 (17.44%) Selenium
5 7 (8.14%) Jenkins
6 5 (5.81%) GitLab
7 3 (3.49%) JMeter
7 3 (3.49%) MSI
8 2 (2.33%) MLflow
8 2 (2.33%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.33%) TestRail
9 1 (1.16%) Gatling
9 1 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.16%) Vagrant
9 1 (1.16%) Vite
9 1 (1.16%) Xcode
General
1 26 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (11.63%) Automotive
4 8 (9.30%) Finance
5 7 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.98%) Law
7 2 (2.33%) Billing
7 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.33%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (25.58%) Lead
2 17 (19.77%) Developer
3 16 (18.60%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (15.12%) QA Leader
5 11 (12.79%) Test Leader
6 9 (10.47%) IT Engineer
6 9 (10.47%) IT Support
6 9 (10.47%) IT Support Engineer
6 9 (10.47%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 9 (10.47%) Senior
6 9 (10.47%) Server Engineer
6 9 (10.47%) Server Support
6 9 (10.47%) Support Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Analyst
7 7 (8.14%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Systems Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Systems Support
7 7 (8.14%) Systems Support Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 5 (5.81%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (23.26%) Playwright
2 17 (19.77%) .NET
3 8 (9.30%) .NET Core
3 8 (9.30%) RESTful
4 7 (8.14%) ASP.NET
4 7 (8.14%) CSS
4 7 (8.14%) HTML
5 6 (6.98%) .NET Framework
5 6 (6.98%) CSS3
5 6 (6.98%) HTML5
6 5 (5.81%) ASP.NET Core
6 5 (5.81%) REST
7 4 (4.65%) Blazor
8 3 (3.49%) ATL
8 3 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (3.49%) GeoJSON
8 3 (3.49%) JSON
8 3 (3.49%) React
8 3 (3.49%) WAMP
8 3 (3.49%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.30%) Security Posture
2 6 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.98%) Podcast
2 6 (6.98%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.81%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.81%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.33%) iPhone
4 2 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.44%) Linux
2 11 (12.79%) Windows
3 7 (8.14%) VMS
4 3 (3.49%) Unix
5 2 (2.33%) Android
6 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (100.00%) DevOps
2 60 (69.77%) CI/CD
3 34 (39.53%) Agile
4 30 (34.88%) Test Automation
5 25 (29.07%) SDLC
6 24 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (24.42%) Root Cause Analysis
8 17 (19.77%) API Testing
9 16 (18.60%) Manual Testing
9 16 (18.60%) Regression Testing
10 14 (16.28%) AI
10 14 (16.28%) Scrum
10 14 (16.28%) User Acceptance Testing
11 12 (13.95%) Acceptance Criteria
11 12 (13.95%) Customer Service
11 12 (13.95%) DevSecOps
12 11 (12.79%) Mentoring
13 10 (11.63%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (11.63%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (23.26%) C#
2 18 (20.93%) SQL
3 15 (17.44%) Bicep
4 13 (15.12%) Bash
5 12 (13.95%) JavaScript
5 12 (13.95%) PowerShell
5 12 (13.95%) Python
6 7 (8.14%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.98%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.33%) PHP
8 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.33%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.33%) VB
9 1 (1.16%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.47%) Azure Certification
4 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (5.81%) ISTQB
6 4 (4.65%) Degree
7 3 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.33%) BC Cleared
8 2 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.16%) CCNA
9 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (29.07%) QA
2 18 (20.93%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.81%) WCAG
4 4 (4.65%) NCSC
5 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.33%) GDPR
5 2 (2.33%) IFRS
5 2 (2.33%) IFRS 17
5 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.33%) SLA
5 2 (2.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (24.42%) Docker
2 19 (22.09%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.98%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.98%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (24.42%) Terraform
2 9 (10.47%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.81%) Ansible
4 4 (4.65%) Grafana
4 4 (4.65%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.65%) Puppet
5 1 (1.16%) Consul
5 1 (1.16%) Packer
5 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (38.37%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.98%) ScienceLogic
2 6 (6.98%) VMware
3 4 (4.65%) Databricks
4 3 (3.49%) Google
5 1 (1.16%) Adobe
5 1 (1.16%) TOWER Software