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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 12 25
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 47 27 16
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 7.54% 10.67% 5.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.49% 11.59% 6.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 22 13
10th Percentile £358 - £413
25th Percentile £462 £325 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £423 £625
Median % change year-on-year +16.45% -32.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £560 £541 £650
90th Percentile £622 £625 £685
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £492 £425 £575
% change year-on-year +15.76% -26.09% +4.55%

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 495 233 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.45% 92.09% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 158 181
10th Percentile £360 £229 £250
25th Percentile £450 £329 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £474
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.29% -7.11%
75th Percentile £598 £535 £538
90th Percentile £638 £628 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £430 £463
% change year-on-year +22.09% -7.03% -10.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 7
10th Percentile £13.78 £14.71 £17.31
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.81 £19.98
Median hourly rate £17.50 £23.81 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.49% -20.65% +121.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £29.61 £36.37
90th Percentile £54.35 - £37.25
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.05 £18.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.94% -40.00% +82.93%

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 2 October 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 (2.13%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 43 (91.49%) Azure
2 18 (38.30%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (31.91%) AWS
4 7 (14.89%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (14.89%) Power Platform
5 6 (12.77%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (12.77%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (8.51%) GitHub
6 4 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Functions
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (6.38%) GCP
7 3 (6.38%) Serverless
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.26%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.26%) Google App Engine
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.89%) Firewall
1 7 (14.89%) VPN
2 5 (10.64%) DNS
3 4 (8.51%) DHCP
3 4 (8.51%) SSH
3 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
4 3 (6.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) Power BI
2 3 (6.38%) DocumentDB
2 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (23.40%) Git
2 3 (6.38%) GitLab
2 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.38%) NUnit
3 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.26%) MSTest
3 2 (4.26%) Selenium
3 2 (4.26%) SpecFlow
3 2 (4.26%) TeamCity
3 2 (4.26%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.13%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.13%) JIRA
4 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (10.64%) Finance
2 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.51%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.38%) Military
4 1 (2.13%) Automotive
4 1 (2.13%) Local Government
4 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (42.55%) Azure Engineer
1 20 (42.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (40.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 15 (31.91%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Senior
5 6 (12.77%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) .NET Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) .NET Software Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Architect
9 2 (4.26%) C# Software Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Consultant
9 2 (4.26%) DevOps Consultant
9 2 (4.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.04%) Terraform
2 8 (17.02%) REST
3 7 (14.89%) .NET
3 7 (14.89%) React
4 6 (12.77%) ARM Templates
4 6 (12.77%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (6.38%) .NET Core
5 3 (6.38%) .NET Framework
5 3 (6.38%) ASP.NET
5 3 (6.38%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 3 (6.38%) Entity Framework
5 3 (6.38%) NHibernate
6 2 (4.26%) SOAP
7 1 (2.13%) FastAPI
7 1 (2.13%) Flask
7 1 (2.13%) Loki
7 1 (2.13%) OAuth
7 1 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (14.89%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.51%) ARM Cortex
3 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.26%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.26%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.13%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.13%) CMDB
6 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.13%) NHS
6 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Linux
2 7 (14.89%) Windows
2 7 (14.89%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (72.34%) CI/CD
2 17 (36.17%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (29.79%) Agile
4 13 (27.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (21.28%) ITIL
6 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (17.02%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (17.02%) Scrum
6 8 (17.02%) Service Management
6 8 (17.02%) SOLID
6 8 (17.02%) Validation
7 7 (14.89%) Analytics
7 7 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (14.89%) Cloud Security
7 7 (14.89%) Log Analytics
8 6 (12.77%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (12.77%) Observability
8 6 (12.77%) Service Delivery
8 6 (12.77%) TDD
8 6 (12.77%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.28%) PowerShell
2 9 (19.15%) Bicep
3 8 (17.02%) C#
3 8 (17.02%) SQL
4 6 (12.77%) Bash
4 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
4 6 (12.77%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.38%) Python
6 2 (4.26%) Java
7 1 (2.13%) Go
Qualifications
1 34 (72.34%) Security Cleared
2 29 (61.70%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.89%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.38%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.38%) Degree
5 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.13%) RHCA
6 1 (2.13%) RHCE
6 1 (2.13%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) NCSC
2 1 (2.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) GRC
2 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.13%) OpenSCAP
2 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (14.89%) Docker
2 6 (12.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (25.53%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.77%) Ansible
3 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (8.51%) SCCM
4 2 (4.26%) SCOM
5 1 (2.13%) Grafana
5 1 (2.13%) Istio
5 1 (2.13%) Packer
5 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.13%) Rancher
5 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 20 (42.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.64%) ServiceNow
3 4 (8.51%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle
5 2 (4.26%) VMware
6 1 (2.13%) Red Hat