Azure DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Milton Keynes is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.38% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 495 192 450
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.19% 96.00% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 141 343
10th Percentile £309 £261 £265
25th Percentile £406 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £593 £590 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £660
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £513 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +2.40% +0.10% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 4 31
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.65 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.13 £17.82
Median hourly rate £29.61 £18.85 £22.58
Median % change year-on-year +57.08% -16.52% +71.58%
75th Percentile £36.00 £32.88 £28.50
90th Percentile £39.63 £55.15 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £19.34 £21.50 £23.75
% change year-on-year -10.05% -9.47% +48.44%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Milton Keynes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Milton Keynes

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 8 March 2026, Azure DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Milton Keynes region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) AI Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) Podman
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) AI Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Podman
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (50.00%) Rancher
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Zscaler