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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 29 18
Rank change year-on-year +15 -11 +15
Contract jobs citing DevOps 24 14 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 10.04% 4.79% 8.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.96% 5.53% 8.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 48
10th Percentile - £400 £379
25th Percentile £325 £499 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +9.09% +1.15%
75th Percentile £438 £638 £700
90th Percentile £625 £675 £745
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £413 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -25.00% - -

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 219 253 623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 91.63% 86.64% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 186 494
10th Percentile £216 £234 £313
25th Percentile £350 £376 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -7.50% +2.04%
75th Percentile £538 £539 £600
90th Percentile £632 £632 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £435 £450 £510
% change year-on-year -3.33% -11.76% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 7
10th Percentile £14.08 £17.31 £13.16
25th Percentile £14.98 £19.98 £13.17
Median hourly rate £16.50 £30.00 £13.57
Median % change year-on-year -45.02% +121.08% +10.24%
75th Percentile £18.00 £36.37 £20.25
90th Percentile £28.73 £37.25 £21.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.91 £30.00 £16.40
% change year-on-year -46.97% +82.93% +21.48%

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
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 15 September 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 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 4 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) Azure
2 14 (58.33%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (25.00%) AWS
3 6 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (25.00%) Serverless
4 5 (20.83%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (16.67%) ChatGPT
5 4 (16.67%) GitHub
6 3 (12.50%) SaaS
7 2 (8.33%) GCP
7 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (4.17%) dbt
8 1 (4.17%) Paddle
8 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
8 1 (4.17%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (16.67%) Big Data
3 3 (12.50%) Metadata
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (8.33%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 13 (54.17%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) GitLab
3 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (8.33%) Git
3 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.33%) QARun
3 2 (8.33%) WinRunner
4 1 (4.17%) MSTest
4 1 (4.17%) NUnit
4 1 (4.17%) Selenium
4 1 (4.17%) SpecFlow
4 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
4 1 (4.17%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.33%) Retail
3 1 (4.17%) Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Analyst
1 8 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 4 (16.67%) Integration Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Integration Test Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Release Manager
3 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Architect
5 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Environment And Release Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Hugging Face
1 4 (16.67%) NumPy
1 4 (16.67%) Pandas
1 4 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 4 (16.67%) scikit-learn
1 4 (16.67%) Web Services
1 4 (16.67%) WebdriverIO
2 3 (12.50%) Prophet
3 2 (8.33%) Middleware
4 1 (4.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Agile
2 10 (41.67%) Test Automation
3 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 9 (37.50%) Logistics
3 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (37.50%) System Integration Testing
4 8 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 8 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 8 (33.33%) Test Planning
4 8 (33.33%) Waterfall
5 7 (29.17%) Migration
6 6 (25.00%) Data Migration
6 6 (25.00%) Defect Management
6 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (25.00%) SDLC
6 6 (25.00%) Validation
7 5 (20.83%) End-to-End Testing
7 5 (20.83%) OCR
8 4 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (16.67%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) C#
1 7 (29.17%) Python
1 7 (29.17%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) VB
3 2 (8.33%) Korn
4 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) GDPR
2 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (12.50%) Sage
4 2 (8.33%) Ab Initio
4 2 (8.33%) Citrix
4 2 (8.33%) Google
4 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.17%) JDA
5 1 (4.17%) UiPath