DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Development Operations Engineer
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Milton Keynes is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 35 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.50% 1.53% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 1.59% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £469 £436 -
25th Percentile £478 £472 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% - -
75th Percentile £553 £597 -
90th Percentile £566 £629 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £538 -
% change year-on-year +2.33% - -

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 571 189 435
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.64% 96.43% 93.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 141 329
10th Percentile £318 £263 £254
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -2.06% +2.65%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £590
90th Percentile £639 £650 £690
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £520 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +3.90% +0.10% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 5 30
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.30 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.25 £18.00
Median hourly rate £27.43 £19.00 £22.90
Median % change year-on-year +44.34% -17.02% +73.99%
75th Percentile £36.00 £53.75 £29.25
90th Percentile £39.63 £63.50 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £19.34 £19.00 £23.88
% change year-on-year +1.79% -20.42% +28.50%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 22 March 2026, 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 DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) AI Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) GDPR
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitOps
3 1 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry

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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) AI Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) GitOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Podman
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Proxmox
1 1 (33.33%) Rancher
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Zscaler