DevOps Contracts in Milton Keynes

DevOps
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 31 24
Rank change year-on-year +13 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 20 12 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.90% 3.37% 7.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.53% 4.00% 7.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 49
10th Percentile £323 £390 £384
25th Percentile - £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -45.83% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £423 £625 £715
90th Percentile £433 £685 £753
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £350 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -36.36% -8.33% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 190 300 710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 94.06% 84.27% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 217 573
10th Percentile £212 £240 £313
25th Percentile £338 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.56% +1.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £580
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £435 £474 £500
% change year-on-year -8.18% -5.25% +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 16 4
10th Percentile £14.39 £15.85 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.12 £17.19 £13.17
Median hourly rate £16.69 £20.25 £13.37
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% +51.46% +16.97%
75th Percentile £18.00 £39.75 £14.87
90th Percentile £23.83 £48.75 £17.20
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.25 £25.00 £16.40
% change year-on-year -39.00% +52.44% +33.23%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Milton Keynes

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Milton Keynes.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Milton Keynes

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Milton Keynes.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Milton Keynes

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) Azure
2 14 (70.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) AWS
4 5 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 5 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (25.00%) Serverless
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon Bedrock
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (20.00%) ChatGPT
6 3 (15.00%) GitHub
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (10.00%) GCP
7 2 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (5.00%) Textract
8 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (20.00%) Big Data
3 2 (10.00%) DocumentDB
3 2 (10.00%) MS Access
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) QARun
2 2 (10.00%) WinRunner
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Analyst
1 8 (40.00%) Test Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 4 (20.00%) Integration Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Integration Test Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Junior
5 1 (5.00%) Junior .NET Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Junior Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Hugging Face
1 4 (20.00%) NumPy
1 4 (20.00%) Pandas
1 4 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (20.00%) scikit-learn
1 4 (20.00%) Web Services
1 4 (20.00%) WebdriverIO
2 3 (15.00%) Prophet
3 2 (10.00%) .NET
3 2 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (10.00%) Entity Framework
3 2 (10.00%) Middleware
3 2 (10.00%) NHibernate
3 2 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (5.00%) JSON
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Agile
2 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (40.00%) Integration Testing
3 8 (40.00%) Logistics
3 8 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 8 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
3 8 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 8 (40.00%) Test Planning
3 8 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 6 (30.00%) Data Migration
4 6 (30.00%) Defect Management
4 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (30.00%) Migration
4 6 (30.00%) Scrum
4 6 (30.00%) SDLC
5 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (25.00%) OCR
5 5 (25.00%) Validation
6 4 (20.00%) Test Management
6 4 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) C#
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 7 (35.00%) Python
3 6 (30.00%) VB
4 2 (10.00%) Korn
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Terraform
2 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Sage
3 2 (10.00%) Ab Initio
3 2 (10.00%) Citrix
3 2 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) UiPath