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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 26 39
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 -16
Contract jobs citing DevOps 47 12 10
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 6.92% 6.12% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.92% 6.56% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 12 8
10th Percentile £402 £321 £305
25th Percentile £463 £363 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £419 £556
Median % change year-on-year +31.26% -24.67% -9.18%
75th Percentile £600 £743 £630
90th Percentile £638 - £643
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £421 £550
% change year-on-year +30.80% -23.55% -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 527 183 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 77.61% 93.37% 85.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 142 264
10th Percentile £313 £262 £286
25th Percentile £413 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £487
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% +1.39% +2.53%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £725
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £501 £475
% change year-on-year +4.90% +5.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 27
10th Percentile £15.05 £12.98 £15.85
25th Percentile - £14.44 £17.82
Median hourly rate £16.35 £17.25 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -27.37% +137.50%
75th Percentile £18.32 £28.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £43.78 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £14.20 £25.00
% change year-on-year +15.14% -43.20% +150.00%

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 12 April 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 (4.26%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 44 (93.62%) Azure
2 26 (55.32%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (44.68%) AWS
4 13 (27.66%) GitHub
5 10 (21.28%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (17.02%) GCP
7 7 (14.89%) Power Platform
8 3 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (6.38%) Google App Engine
8 3 (6.38%) SaaS
9 2 (4.26%) IaaS
9 2 (4.26%) PaaS
10 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
10 1 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (2.13%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) DNS
2 3 (6.38%) Firewall
3 1 (2.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) Power BI
2 5 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.38%) MySQL
5 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.13%) DocumentDB
6 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Git
2 6 (12.77%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.64%) JUnit
4 4 (8.51%) Storybook
5 3 (6.38%) GitLab
5 3 (6.38%) Jaeger
5 3 (6.38%) JIRA
6 2 (4.26%) Postman
6 2 (4.26%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.13%) Maven
7 1 (2.13%) Mockito
7 1 (2.13%) NUnit
7 1 (2.13%) Selenium
7 1 (2.13%) SpecFlow
7 1 (2.13%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.13%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (19.15%) Public Sector
2 7 (14.89%) Finance
3 4 (8.51%) Marketing
4 3 (6.38%) Electronics
4 3 (6.38%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.38%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (31.91%) Developer
2 13 (27.66%) Azure Engineer
2 13 (27.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (23.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 9 (19.15%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Architect
5 6 (12.77%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Senior
6 5 (10.64%) Technical Architect
7 3 (6.38%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.38%) ServiceNow Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Site Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.02%) .NET
1 8 (17.02%) React
2 6 (12.77%) CSS
3 5 (10.64%) REST
3 5 (10.64%) RESTful
3 5 (10.64%) Spring
3 5 (10.64%) Spring Boot
4 4 (8.51%) .NET Framework
4 4 (8.51%) HTML
4 4 (8.51%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (8.51%) SOAP
4 4 (8.51%) Vitest
5 3 (6.38%) Entity Framework
5 3 (6.38%) Loki
5 3 (6.38%) OAuth
6 2 (4.26%) .NET Core
6 2 (4.26%) JSON
6 2 (4.26%) LINQ
6 2 (4.26%) Material-UI
6 2 (4.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.77%) Public Cloud
3 5 (10.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (8.51%) Virtual Team
5 3 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (6.38%) Security Posture
6 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.26%) PKI
7 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (70.21%) CI/CD
2 24 (51.06%) Agile
3 19 (40.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (27.66%) Incident Response
5 11 (23.40%) Microservices
5 11 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (21.28%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (19.15%) Containerisation
8 8 (17.02%) Data Modelling
9 7 (14.89%) AI
9 7 (14.89%) ITIL
9 7 (14.89%) Scrum
9 7 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (12.77%) Cloud Security
10 6 (12.77%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (12.77%) Enterprise Architecture
10 6 (12.77%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (12.77%) User Experience
11 5 (10.64%) API Development
11 5 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.53%) JavaScript
2 11 (23.40%) SQL
3 8 (17.02%) PowerShell
3 8 (17.02%) Python
3 8 (17.02%) TypeScript
4 6 (12.77%) C#
4 6 (12.77%) Java
5 4 (8.51%) Bash
5 4 (8.51%) Bicep
5 4 (8.51%) Go
6 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (68.09%) Security Cleared
2 29 (61.70%) SC Cleared
3 12 (25.53%) DV Cleared
4 5 (10.64%) CCNP
4 5 (10.64%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (10.64%) MCSE
4 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (4.26%) Degree
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) NCSC
2 6 (12.77%) NIST
3 4 (8.51%) GDPR
3 4 (8.51%) PCI DSS
4 3 (6.38%) GRC
5 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 6 (12.77%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (27.66%) Terraform
2 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.64%) Grafana
3 5 (10.64%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.38%) Ansible
4 3 (6.38%) Istio
4 3 (6.38%) Rancher
4 3 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (4.26%) Podman
5 2 (4.26%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 14 (29.79%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.64%) VMware
3 3 (6.38%) SAP
3 3 (6.38%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.26%) Databricks
4 2 (4.26%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.13%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.13%) Cognos
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle
5 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Splunk