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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 26 37
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 -10
Contract jobs citing DevOps 20 17 17
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 4.84% 8.02% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.01% 8.72% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 14
10th Percentile £413 £410 £309
25th Percentile £525 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £519
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +15.66% -9.78%
75th Percentile £623 £715 £619
90th Percentile £644 £743 £638
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £575 £588 £538
% change year-on-year -2.13% +9.30% -4.53%

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 333 195 448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 80.63% 91.98% 87.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 146 335
10th Percentile £272 £250 £279
25th Percentile £369 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £656 £745
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -5.09% +0.10% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 29
10th Percentile £16.24 £12.67 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £13.68 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.61 £15.35 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +92.90% -33.88% +22.18%
75th Percentile - £17.03 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £18.03 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £22.21 £35.60 £23.22
% change year-on-year -37.62% +53.35% +36.56%

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 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 (5.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 17 (85.00%) Azure
2 10 (50.00%) AWS
3 8 (40.00%) GitHub
4 6 (30.00%) GCP
5 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (10.00%) SaaS
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.00%) MySQL
3 2 (10.00%) Power BI
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (25.00%) JUnit
2 4 (20.00%) Storybook
3 2 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (5.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) Maven
4 1 (5.00%) Mockito
4 1 (5.00%) Postman
4 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
1 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Marketing
3 3 (15.00%) Electronics
3 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Health Technology
5 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Technical Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) C# Web Application Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Delivery Director
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) CSS
1 6 (30.00%) React
2 5 (25.00%) HTML
2 5 (25.00%) Spring
2 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (20.00%) RESTful
3 4 (20.00%) Vitest
4 2 (10.00%) .NET
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (10.00%) Entity Framework
4 2 (10.00%) REST
4 2 (10.00%) SOAP
5 1 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (5.00%) CSS3
5 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
5 1 (5.00%) HTML5
5 1 (5.00%) Middleware
5 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) PKI
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (50.00%) Agile
3 9 (45.00%) Microservices
4 8 (40.00%) AI
4 8 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
7 4 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (20.00%) Front End Development
7 4 (20.00%) Incident Response
7 4 (20.00%) User Experience
8 3 (15.00%) AI Transformation
8 3 (15.00%) API Development
8 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
8 3 (15.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) Java
2 5 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (15.00%) CCNP
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (15.00%) MCSE
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) NIST
2 3 (15.00%) NCSC
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Ansible
1 3 (15.00%) Podman
1 3 (15.00%) Proxmox
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) SAP
1 3 (15.00%) VMware
1 3 (15.00%) Zscaler
2 2 (10.00%) Databricks
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) Cognos
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk