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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 24 37
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 -16
Contract jobs citing DevOps 33 14 11
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 5.28% 6.90% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.79% 7.41% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 13 9
10th Percentile £392 £338 £306
25th Percentile £413 £409 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £610 £743 £625
90th Percentile £638 - £643
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -8.33%

All Process & 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 486 189 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 77.76% 93.10% 86.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 144 279
10th Percentile £311 £251 £249
25th Percentile £412 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -1.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £705
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £505 £490
% change year-on-year +3.96% +3.06% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 4 27
10th Percentile £15.07 £12.98 £15.85
25th Percentile - £14.44 £17.82
Median hourly rate £16.35 £17.25 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -27.37% +137.50%
75th Percentile £23.51 £28.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £43.78 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £19.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -13.95% -24.00% +150.00%

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 29 March 2026.

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 2 (6.06%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (90.91%) Azure
2 17 (51.52%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (48.48%) AWS
4 13 (39.39%) GitHub
5 9 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (24.24%) GCP
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (9.09%) Google App Engine
7 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.03%) Pulumi
8 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.09%) MySQL
2 3 (9.09%) Power BI
2 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.03%) DocumentDB
4 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Git
2 6 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 5 (15.15%) JUnit
4 4 (12.12%) Storybook
5 3 (9.09%) GitLab
5 3 (9.09%) Jaeger
5 3 (9.09%) JIRA
6 2 (6.06%) Postman
6 2 (6.06%) Visual Studio
7 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.03%) Maven
7 1 (3.03%) Mockito
7 1 (3.03%) NUnit
7 1 (3.03%) Selenium
7 1 (3.03%) SpecFlow
7 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
7 1 (3.03%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.18%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Marketing
4 3 (9.09%) Electronics
4 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Developer
2 6 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (15.15%) Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Senior
4 4 (12.12%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Technical Architect
5 3 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Site Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) .NET
1 7 (21.21%) React
2 6 (18.18%) CSS
3 5 (15.15%) REST
3 5 (15.15%) RESTful
3 5 (15.15%) Spring
3 5 (15.15%) Spring Boot
4 4 (12.12%) .NET Framework
4 4 (12.12%) HTML
4 4 (12.12%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (12.12%) SOAP
4 4 (12.12%) Vitest
5 3 (9.09%) Entity Framework
5 3 (9.09%) Loki
5 3 (9.09%) OAuth
6 2 (6.06%) JSON
6 2 (6.06%) LINQ
6 2 (6.06%) Material-UI
6 2 (6.06%) Swagger
7 1 (3.03%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.09%) PKI
2 3 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 3 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 18 (54.55%) Agile
3 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (30.30%) Microservices
5 9 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 9 (27.27%) Incident Response
6 8 (24.24%) AI
6 8 (24.24%) Data Modelling
7 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (21.21%) Scrum
8 6 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (18.18%) User Experience
9 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (15.15%) End-to-End Testing
9 5 (15.15%) ITIL
9 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (15.15%) Unit Testing
10 4 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (12.12%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 11 (33.33%) SQL
2 9 (27.27%) Python
3 7 (21.21%) PowerShell
3 7 (21.21%) TypeScript
4 6 (18.18%) Java
5 5 (15.15%) C#
6 4 (12.12%) Bash
6 4 (12.12%) Go
7 2 (6.06%) T-SQL
8 1 (3.03%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 19 (57.58%) Security Cleared
2 15 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 8 (24.24%) DV Cleared
4 4 (12.12%) CCNP
4 4 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (12.12%) MCSE
4 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (6.06%) Degree
7 1 (3.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) NIST
2 4 (12.12%) GDPR
2 4 (12.12%) NCSC
2 4 (12.12%) PCI DSS
3 3 (9.09%) GRC
4 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 6 (18.18%) Terraform
2 5 (15.15%) Grafana
2 5 (15.15%) Prometheus
3 4 (12.12%) Ansible
4 3 (9.09%) Istio
4 3 (9.09%) Podman
4 3 (9.09%) Proxmox
4 3 (9.09%) Rancher
4 3 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) VMware
3 3 (9.09%) SAP
3 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 3 (9.09%) Zscaler
4 2 (6.06%) Databricks
5 1 (3.03%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.03%) Cognos
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Splunk