DevOps Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

DevOps
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 24 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing DevOps 29 20 37
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 10.14% 6.62% 6.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.42% 7.72% 6.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 31
10th Percentile £325 £403 £375
25th Percentile £409 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £588 £513
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +14.63% -6.82%
75th Percentile £603 £650 £700
90th Percentile £643 £681 £743
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £463 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -15.91% +7.32% -6.82%

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 254 259 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 88.81% 85.76% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 186 411
10th Percentile £228 £248 £275
25th Percentile £350 £383 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -8.65% +7.22%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £600
90th Percentile £639 £638 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £438 £475 £520
% change year-on-year -7.89% -8.65% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 13
10th Percentile £15.12 £14.25 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.83 £13.57
Median hourly rate £29.61 £26.25 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% +28.05% +60.78%
75th Percentile - £36.19 £24.00
90th Percentile - £37.12 £28.80
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.00 £30.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +46.34% +49.09%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Milton Keynes

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing DevOps

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (13.79%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 20 (68.97%) Azure
2 12 (41.38%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (37.93%) AWS
3 11 (37.93%) GitHub
4 7 (24.14%) GCP
5 6 (20.69%) Amazon S3
5 6 (20.69%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (20.69%) Serverless
6 5 (17.24%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (13.79%) Amazon Bedrock
7 4 (13.79%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (13.79%) ChatGPT
8 3 (10.34%) SaaS
9 2 (6.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (3.45%) dbt
10 1 (3.45%) Paddle
10 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
10 1 (3.45%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) DNS
2 2 (6.90%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.79%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (13.79%) Big Data
3 3 (10.34%) Metadata
3 3 (10.34%) MySQL
3 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (44.83%) JIRA
2 5 (17.24%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.34%) Git
3 3 (10.34%) GitLab
3 3 (10.34%) JUnit
3 3 (10.34%) Storybook
4 2 (6.90%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.45%) MSTest
5 1 (3.45%) NUnit
5 1 (3.45%) Selenium
5 1 (3.45%) SpecFlow
5 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.45%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
2 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.34%) Electronics
3 3 (10.34%) Manufacturing
3 3 (10.34%) Marketing
3 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.90%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.45%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 4 (13.79%) Analyst
1 4 (13.79%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (13.79%) Data Scientist
1 4 (13.79%) Developer
1 4 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (13.79%) Integration Analyst
1 4 (13.79%) Integration Test Analyst
1 4 (13.79%) Release Manager
1 4 (13.79%) Test Analyst
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (10.34%) Senior
3 2 (6.90%) Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) C# Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Applications Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Web Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) CSS
1 4 (13.79%) HTML
1 4 (13.79%) Hugging Face
1 4 (13.79%) NumPy
1 4 (13.79%) Pandas
1 4 (13.79%) PyTorch
1 4 (13.79%) React
1 4 (13.79%) scikit-learn
1 4 (13.79%) WebdriverIO
2 3 (10.34%) Prophet
2 3 (10.34%) RESTful
2 3 (10.34%) Spring
2 3 (10.34%) Spring Boot
2 3 (10.34%) Vitest
3 2 (6.90%) Web Services
4 1 (3.45%) .NET
4 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.45%) HTML5
4 1 (3.45%) Middleware
4 1 (3.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) PKI
2 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) CI/CD
2 12 (41.38%) Agile
3 9 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (27.59%) End-to-End Testing
5 7 (24.14%) AI
5 7 (24.14%) Containerisation
5 7 (24.14%) Software Testing
6 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
7 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (17.24%) Logistics
7 5 (17.24%) Microservices
7 5 (17.24%) Migration
7 5 (17.24%) OCR
7 5 (17.24%) Scrum
7 5 (17.24%) System Integration Testing
8 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
8 4 (13.79%) Integration Testing
8 4 (13.79%) Statistical Analysis
8 4 (13.79%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) Python
2 8 (27.59%) SQL
3 6 (20.69%) C#
4 4 (13.79%) Java
4 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
4 4 (13.79%) VB
5 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.90%) Korn
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Terraform
2 3 (10.34%) Ansible
2 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Podman
2 3 (10.34%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
1 6 (20.69%) Salesforce
2 3 (10.34%) Sage
2 3 (10.34%) SAP
2 3 (10.34%) Zscaler
3 2 (6.90%) Ab Initio
3 2 (6.90%) Google
3 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) JDA
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk
4 1 (3.45%) UiPath
32 DevOps jobs in Milton Keynes