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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 13 32
Rank change year-on-year -5 +19 -9
Contract jobs citing DevOps 66 23 12
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 8.58% 10.13% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.80% 10.85% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 18 9
10th Percentile £365 £324 £390
25th Percentile £462 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £375 £600
Median % change year-on-year +31.20% -37.50% -
75th Percentile £598 £436 £625
90th Percentile £623 £494 £685
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £492 £375 £550
% change year-on-year +31.20% -31.82% -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 611 212 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.45% 93.39% 84.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 146 207
10th Percentile £351 £249 £253
25th Percentile £456 £353 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% -2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £558 £560
90th Percentile £638 £663 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £444 £465
% change year-on-year +18.31% -4.57% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 12
10th Percentile - £14.39 -
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.12 £15.85
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.69 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -17.60% +53.76%
75th Percentile £17.91 £18.00 £39.75
90th Percentile £32.64 £23.83 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £15.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.21% -44.55% +83.52%

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 18 July 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 (3.03%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (93.94%) Azure
2 33 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (37.88%) AWS
4 9 (13.64%) GitHub
4 9 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (13.64%) Power Platform
5 7 (10.61%) GCP
6 5 (7.58%) Google App Engine
7 4 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (4.55%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (3.03%) IaaS
9 2 (3.03%) PaaS
9 2 (3.03%) SaaS
10 1 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.52%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.52%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.61%) Firewall
2 5 (7.58%) DNS
2 5 (7.58%) VPN
3 3 (4.55%) DHCP
3 3 (4.55%) SSH
3 3 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.64%) Power BI
2 4 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.55%) DocumentDB
4 2 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (22.73%) Git
2 6 (9.09%) GitLab
3 5 (7.58%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.06%) Jaeger
4 4 (6.06%) NUnit
5 3 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 3 (4.55%) JIRA
5 3 (4.55%) Selenium
5 3 (4.55%) SpecFlow
5 3 (4.55%) TeamCity
5 3 (4.55%) WebDriver
6 2 (3.03%) JUnit
6 2 (3.03%) MSTest
6 2 (3.03%) Postman
6 2 (3.03%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.52%) Maven
7 1 (1.52%) Mockito
7 1 (1.52%) Storybook
General
1 7 (10.61%) Public Sector
2 5 (7.58%) Finance
3 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.03%) Military
4 1 (1.52%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (34.85%) Azure Engineer
3 22 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 16 (24.24%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (22.73%) Developer
6 10 (15.15%) Senior
7 6 (9.09%) Architect
7 6 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) .NET Developer
8 5 (7.58%) ServiceNow Developer
8 5 (7.58%) Technical Architect
9 4 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Test Automation Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Test Engineer
11 2 (3.03%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (3.03%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.70%) .NET
2 11 (16.67%) REST
3 10 (15.15%) React
4 6 (9.09%) .NET Framework
4 6 (9.09%) SOAP
5 5 (7.58%) ASP.NET Web API
5 5 (7.58%) Entity Framework
5 5 (7.58%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (6.06%) .NET Core
6 4 (6.06%) Loki
6 4 (6.06%) OAuth
7 3 (4.55%) ARM Templates
7 3 (4.55%) ASP.NET
7 3 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 3 (4.55%) CSS
8 2 (3.03%) Material-UI
8 2 (3.03%) NHibernate
8 2 (3.03%) RESTful
8 2 (3.03%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (10.61%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.61%) Onboarding
3 6 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.06%) Security Posture
4 4 (6.06%) Virtual Team
5 3 (4.55%) ARM Cortex
6 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.52%) CMDB
7 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (18.18%) Linux
2 6 (9.09%) Windows
3 4 (6.06%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 27 (40.91%) Agile
3 22 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (24.24%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (19.70%) ITIL
6 12 (18.18%) Scrum
7 11 (16.67%) Incident Response
8 9 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (13.64%) Service Management
8 9 (13.64%) Unit Testing
9 8 (12.12%) Containerisation
9 8 (12.12%) Microservices
9 8 (12.12%) Observability
9 8 (12.12%) SOLID
9 8 (12.12%) Test Automation
9 8 (12.12%) Validation
10 7 (10.61%) Cloud Security
11 6 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (21.21%) JavaScript
2 13 (19.70%) SQL
3 12 (18.18%) C#
4 10 (15.15%) PowerShell
5 9 (13.64%) TypeScript
6 8 (12.12%) Bash
6 8 (12.12%) Bicep
7 7 (10.61%) Python
8 5 (7.58%) Go
8 5 (7.58%) Java
9 2 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (69.70%) Security Cleared
2 43 (65.15%) SC Cleared
3 15 (22.73%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.58%) CCNP
4 5 (7.58%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (7.58%) MCSE
4 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (6.06%) Degree
6 3 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.03%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.52%) PMP
8 1 (1.52%) RHCA
8 1 (1.52%) RHCE
8 1 (1.52%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) NCSC
2 5 (7.58%) GDPR
2 5 (7.58%) NIST
2 5 (7.58%) PCI DSS
3 4 (6.06%) GRC
4 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.52%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 8 (12.12%) Docker
2 3 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.03%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (30.30%) Terraform
2 13 (19.70%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.09%) Grafana
3 6 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 5 (7.58%) Ansible
5 4 (6.06%) Istio
5 4 (6.06%) Rancher
6 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.55%) SCCM
6 3 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.52%) Packer
7 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.52%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.61%) ServiceNow
3 6 (9.09%) VMware
4 3 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (4.55%) Oracle
5 1 (1.52%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.52%) Cognos
5 1 (1.52%) Databricks
5 1 (1.52%) Red Hat