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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 26 22
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 +14
Contract jobs citing DevOps 28 19 44
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 10.65% 6.53% 7.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.62% 7.60% 7.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 38
10th Percentile £325 £405 £382
25th Percentile £350 £499 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £519
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +15.66% -5.68%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £691
90th Percentile £645 £683 £743
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £563 £519
% change year-on-year -24.44% +8.43% -5.68%

All Process and 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 241 250 565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 91.63% 85.91% 93.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 182 445
10th Percentile £239 £250 £279
25th Percentile £329 £373 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £515
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -10.19% +4.04%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £613
90th Percentile £635 £625 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £433 £463 £524
% change year-on-year -6.49% -11.78% +4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 7
10th Percentile £14.71 £17.31 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.81 £19.98 £13.17
Median hourly rate £23.81 £30.00 £13.57
Median % change year-on-year -20.65% +121.08% +8.56%
75th Percentile £29.61 £36.37 £20.25
90th Percentile - £37.25 £21.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.00 £30.00 £16.40
% change year-on-year -40.00% +82.93% +17.14%

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 15 October 2025.

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 4 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 19 (67.86%) Azure
2 14 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (28.57%) AWS
3 8 (28.57%) GitHub
4 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
4 6 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (21.43%) Serverless
5 5 (17.86%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (14.29%) ChatGPT
6 4 (14.29%) GCP
7 3 (10.71%) SaaS
8 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (3.57%) dbt
9 1 (3.57%) Paddle
9 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
9 1 (3.57%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) DNS
2 2 (7.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (14.29%) Big Data
3 3 (10.71%) Metadata
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.57%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 13 (46.43%) JIRA
2 3 (10.71%) Git
2 3 (10.71%) GitLab
3 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.57%) MSTest
4 1 (3.57%) NUnit
4 1 (3.57%) QARun
4 1 (3.57%) Selenium
4 1 (3.57%) SpecFlow
4 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.57%) WebDriver
4 1 (3.57%) WinRunner
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Finance
2 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.14%) Retail
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Banking
3 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.57%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Analyst
1 6 (21.43%) Test Analyst
2 4 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Integration Analyst
2 4 (14.29%) Integration Test Analyst
2 4 (14.29%) Release Manager
2 4 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) C# Developer
5 1 (3.57%) C# Web Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Applications Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) Hugging Face
1 4 (14.29%) NumPy
1 4 (14.29%) Pandas
1 4 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 4 (14.29%) scikit-learn
1 4 (14.29%) WebdriverIO
2 3 (10.71%) Prophet
2 3 (10.71%) Web Services
3 2 (7.14%) Middleware
4 1 (3.57%) .NET
4 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (3.57%) CSS
4 1 (3.57%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.57%) HTML
4 1 (3.57%) HTML5
4 1 (3.57%) JSON
4 1 (3.57%) REST
4 1 (3.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) PKI
2 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Windows
2 3 (10.71%) Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) CI/CD
2 11 (39.29%) Agile
3 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 7 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (25.00%) Logistics
5 7 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
6 6 (21.43%) Integration Testing
6 6 (21.43%) Migration
6 6 (21.43%) Software Testing
6 6 (21.43%) Test Planning
6 6 (21.43%) Waterfall
7 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (17.86%) Data Migration
7 5 (17.86%) Defect Management
7 5 (17.86%) End-to-End Testing
7 5 (17.86%) OCR
7 5 (17.86%) Scrum
7 5 (17.86%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) C#
3 6 (21.43%) SQL
4 5 (17.86%) VB
5 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 2 (7.14%) Korn
7 1 (3.57%) Java
7 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) NIST
2 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Terraform
2 3 (10.71%) Ansible
2 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Podman
2 3 (10.71%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) Salesforce
3 3 (10.71%) Sage
3 3 (10.71%) Zscaler
4 2 (7.14%) Ab Initio
4 2 (7.14%) Google
4 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.57%) Citrix
5 1 (3.57%) JDA
5 1 (3.57%) Splunk
5 1 (3.57%) UiPath