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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 23 29
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -8
Contract jobs citing DevOps 19 18 24
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 5.08% 7.00% 4.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.13% 8.00% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 20
10th Percentile £412 £410 £312
25th Percentile £413 £475 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £519
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +15.66% -9.78%
75th Percentile £613 £715 £643
90th Percentile £635 £743 £704
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

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 310 225 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 82.89% 87.55% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 161 333
10th Percentile £235 £250 £300
25th Percentile £363 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% - +3.09%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £610
90th Percentile £635 £650 £735
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 18
10th Percentile £18.12 £14.01 £15.15
25th Percentile - £17.03 £19.25
Median hourly rate £29.61 £26.35 £23.48
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% +12.21% +32.30%
75th Percentile £36.00 £36.50 £26.25
90th Percentile - £37.40 £30.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £23.48
% change year-on-year -30.14% +53.31% +44.51%

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 8 January 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 3 (15.79%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) Azure
2 10 (52.63%) GitHub
3 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) GCP
3 5 (26.32%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (21.05%) SaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.26%) dbt
5 1 (5.26%) Paddle
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) MySQL
1 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Metadata
3 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
1 5 (26.32%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) JUnit
2 3 (15.79%) Storybook
3 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.26%) GitLab
4 1 (5.26%) MSTest
4 1 (5.26%) NUnit
4 1 (5.26%) Selenium
4 1 (5.26%) SpecFlow
4 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.26%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Marketing
2 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.79%) Electronics
3 3 (15.79%) Manufacturing
3 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.26%) Health Technology
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Release Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Security Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Applications Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Web Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Web Applications Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) CSS
1 4 (21.05%) HTML
1 4 (21.05%) React
2 3 (15.79%) RESTful
2 3 (15.79%) Spring
2 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
2 3 (15.79%) Vitest
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
3 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (5.26%) CSS3
3 1 (5.26%) Entity Framework
3 1 (5.26%) HTML5
3 1 (5.26%) Middleware
3 1 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) PKI
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) CI/CD
2 10 (52.63%) Agile
3 7 (36.84%) AI
3 7 (36.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (21.05%) Change Management
4 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
4 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
4 4 (21.05%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (21.05%) Incident Response
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (21.05%) Microservices
4 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) AI Transformation
5 3 (15.79%) API Development
5 3 (15.79%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
5 3 (15.79%) Front End Development
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (15.79%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) Java
2 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
2 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 4 (21.05%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 2 (10.53%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Ansible
1 3 (15.79%) Podman
1 3 (15.79%) Proxmox
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Salesforce
2 3 (15.79%) SAP
2 3 (15.79%) Zscaler
3 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.26%) Databricks
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Splunk