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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 23 39
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 -15
Contract jobs citing DevOps 25 18 13
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 5.39% 8.26% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.72% 8.91% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 10
10th Percentile £413 £364 £307
25th Percentile £513 £412 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +4.44% -4.26%
75th Percentile £613 £701 £625
90th Percentile £640 £743 £643
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% -3.34%

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 372 202 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 80.17% 92.66% 87.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 154 310
10th Percentile £271 £250 £275
25th Percentile £375 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £660
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 29
10th Percentile - £13.10 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £21.78 £18.70 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +16.47% -19.45% +22.18%
75th Percentile £29.61 £19.60 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £20.14 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.32 £24.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -23.67% - +45.45%

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 26 February 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 1 (4.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 22 (88.00%) Azure
2 13 (52.00%) AWS
3 10 (40.00%) GitHub
4 8 (32.00%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (32.00%) GCP
5 6 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (8.00%) Google App Engine
6 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (8.00%) SaaS
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.00%) MySQL
3 2 (8.00%) Power BI
3 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (20.00%) JUnit
2 4 (16.00%) Git
2 4 (16.00%) Storybook
3 2 (8.00%) GitLab
3 2 (8.00%) Jaeger
4 1 (4.00%) JIRA
4 1 (4.00%) Maven
4 1 (4.00%) Mockito
4 1 (4.00%) Postman
4 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (20.00%) Finance
1 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.00%) Marketing
3 3 (12.00%) Electronics
3 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Health Technology
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
4 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Technical Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Site Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) C# Web Application Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Delivery Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) CSS
1 6 (24.00%) React
2 5 (20.00%) HTML
2 5 (20.00%) Spring
2 5 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (16.00%) .NET
3 4 (16.00%) REST
3 4 (16.00%) RESTful
3 4 (16.00%) SOAP
3 4 (16.00%) Vitest
4 3 (12.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (8.00%) .NET Framework
5 2 (8.00%) Entity Framework
5 2 (8.00%) Loki
5 2 (8.00%) OAuth
6 1 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (4.00%) CSS3
6 1 (4.00%) JPA
6 1 (4.00%) JSON
6 1 (4.00%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) PKI
2 3 (12.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (48.00%) Agile
3 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (36.00%) Microservices
4 8 (32.00%) AI
4 8 (32.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (28.00%) Data Modelling
5 7 (28.00%) Incident Response
6 6 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (20.00%) Scrum
7 5 (20.00%) User Experience
8 4 (16.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
8 4 (16.00%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (16.00%) Front End Development
9 3 (12.00%) AI Transformation
9 3 (12.00%) Roadmaps
9 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
1 8 (32.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (24.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.00%) Java
3 5 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (12.00%) Bash
4 3 (12.00%) Go
5 2 (8.00%) C#
6 1 (4.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (36.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (24.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (12.00%) CCNP
4 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (12.00%) MCSE
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) GDPR
1 4 (16.00%) NIST
1 4 (16.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (12.00%) NCSC
3 2 (8.00%) GRC
4 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Grafana
1 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (12.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.00%) Podman
2 3 (12.00%) Proxmox
2 3 (12.00%) Rancher
2 3 (12.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) Istio
4 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) SAP
1 3 (12.00%) VMware
1 3 (12.00%) Zscaler
2 2 (8.00%) Databricks
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.00%) Cognos
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Splunk