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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 13 32
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 -13
Contract jobs citing DevOps 64 25 11
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 8.29% 11.01% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.39% 11.85% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 20 9
10th Percentile £349 £319 £390
25th Percentile £462 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year +31.20% -31.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £438 £625
90th Percentile £615 £625 £685
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £492 £375 £513
% change year-on-year +31.20% -26.83% -14.58%

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 616 211 276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.79% 92.95% 87.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 146 191
10th Percentile £360 £218 £234
25th Percentile £456 £329 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £598 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £435 £450
% change year-on-year +20.69% -3.33% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 6
10th Percentile £14.51 £14.39 £18.24
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.12 £23.44
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.69 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -47.86% +142.98%
75th Percentile £17.50 £18.00 £36.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £23.83 £37.37
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £15.91 £27.50
% change year-on-year +2.77% -42.15% +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 9 August 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 (1.56%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 59 (92.19%) Azure
2 33 (51.56%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (35.94%) AWS
4 9 (14.06%) GitHub
4 9 (14.06%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 6 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (9.38%) GCP
7 5 (7.81%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (7.81%) Entra ID
7 5 (7.81%) Google App Engine
8 4 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.13%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.13%) IaaS
9 2 (3.13%) PaaS
9 2 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.06%) Firewall
2 7 (10.94%) DNS
2 7 (10.94%) VPN
3 4 (6.25%) DHCP
3 4 (6.25%) SSH
3 4 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.50%) Power BI
2 4 (6.25%) DocumentDB
3 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (25.00%) Git
2 6 (9.38%) GitLab
3 4 (6.25%) Jaeger
3 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.25%) NUnit
4 3 (4.69%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.69%) JIRA
4 3 (4.69%) Selenium
4 3 (4.69%) SpecFlow
4 3 (4.69%) TeamCity
4 3 (4.69%) WebDriver
5 2 (3.13%) MSTest
6 1 (1.56%) JUnit
6 1 (1.56%) Maven
6 1 (1.56%) Mockito
6 1 (1.56%) Postman
6 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
2 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (6.25%) Finance
3 2 (3.13%) Military
3 2 (3.13%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 24 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (35.94%) Azure Engineer
3 22 (34.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 17 (26.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (20.31%) Developer
6 10 (15.63%) Senior
7 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (9.38%) .NET Developer
9 5 (7.81%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (7.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (7.81%) ServiceNow Developer
10 3 (4.69%) Architect
10 3 (4.69%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Test Automation Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Test Engineer
11 2 (3.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (3.13%) Project Manager
11 2 (3.13%) Software Engineer
11 2 (3.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.31%) .NET
2 12 (18.75%) REST
3 9 (14.06%) React
4 6 (9.38%) .NET Framework
4 6 (9.38%) ASP.NET Web API
4 6 (9.38%) SOAP
5 5 (7.81%) ARM Templates
5 5 (7.81%) Entity Framework
5 5 (7.81%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (6.25%) .NET Core
6 4 (6.25%) ASP.NET
6 4 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 4 (6.25%) Loki
6 4 (6.25%) OAuth
7 3 (4.69%) NHibernate
8 1 (1.56%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (1.56%) JPA
8 1 (1.56%) JSON
8 1 (1.56%) LINQ
8 1 (1.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (14.06%) Onboarding
3 6 (9.38%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.25%) ARM Cortex
4 4 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.25%) Security Posture
4 4 (6.25%) Virtual Team
5 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.56%) CMDB
7 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.56%) NHS
7 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.31%) Linux
2 7 (10.94%) Windows
3 6 (9.38%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (71.88%) CI/CD
2 26 (40.63%) Agile
3 21 (32.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (26.56%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (21.88%) ITIL
6 13 (20.31%) Scrum
7 12 (18.75%) Incident Response
8 11 (17.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (15.63%) Observability
9 10 (15.63%) Service Management
9 10 (15.63%) Validation
10 9 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (14.06%) SOLID
11 8 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (12.50%) Cloud Security
11 8 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (12.50%) Test Automation
11 8 (12.50%) Unit Testing
12 7 (10.94%) ITSM
12 7 (10.94%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.31%) JavaScript
2 12 (18.75%) C#
2 12 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 12 (18.75%) SQL
3 10 (15.63%) Bicep
4 9 (14.06%) Bash
5 8 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 6 (9.38%) Python
7 5 (7.81%) Go
8 4 (6.25%) Java
9 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (70.31%) Security Cleared
2 41 (64.06%) SC Cleared
3 14 (21.88%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.81%) Degree
5 3 (4.69%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.13%) CCNP
6 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.13%) MCSE
6 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.56%) PMP
7 1 (1.56%) RHCA
7 1 (1.56%) RHCE
7 1 (1.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) GDPR
1 5 (7.81%) NCSC
1 5 (7.81%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.25%) GRC
3 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.13%) NIST
4 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.56%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 9 (14.06%) Docker
2 5 (7.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (35.94%) Terraform
2 15 (23.44%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.38%) Ansible
3 6 (9.38%) Grafana
3 6 (9.38%) Prometheus
4 4 (6.25%) Istio
4 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (6.25%) Rancher
4 4 (6.25%) SCCM
5 2 (3.13%) SCOM
5 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.56%) Packer
6 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 24 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (6.25%) Oracle
3 4 (6.25%) VMware
4 1 (1.56%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.56%) Red Hat