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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 15 31
Rank change year-on-year -7 +16 -12
Contract jobs citing DevOps 59 23 12
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 7.75% 9.75% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.83% 10.50% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 18 10
10th Percentile £342 - £395
25th Percentile £462 £325 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £394 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.95% -28.41% -4.35%
75th Percentile £571 £438 £625
90th Percentile £619 £625 £668
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £492 £394 £513
% change year-on-year +24.95% -23.17% -6.82%

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 600 219 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 78.84% 92.80% 86.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 153 184
10th Percentile £363 £215 £239
25th Percentile £458 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £433 £475
Median % change year-on-year +21.39% -8.95% -5.00%
75th Percentile £598 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £641 £646
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £448 £463
% change year-on-year +17.32% -3.24% -9.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 6
10th Percentile £14.05 £14.23 £18.24
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.12 £23.44
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% -51.56% +142.98%
75th Percentile £37.18 £18.00 £36.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £25.15 £37.37
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.05 £15.91 £27.50
% change year-on-year -5.41% -42.15% +67.68%

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 24 August 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 (1.69%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 54 (91.53%) Azure
2 29 (49.15%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (32.20%) AWS
4 8 (13.56%) Power Platform
5 7 (11.86%) GitHub
5 7 (11.86%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (10.17%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (8.47%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (8.47%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (6.78%) GCP
9 3 (5.08%) Google App Engine
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.39%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.39%) IaaS
10 2 (3.39%) PaaS
10 2 (3.39%) SaaS
11 1 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.25%) Firewall
2 7 (11.86%) DNS
2 7 (11.86%) VPN
3 4 (6.78%) DHCP
3 4 (6.78%) SSH
3 4 (6.78%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) Power BI
2 4 (6.78%) DocumentDB
3 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (22.03%) Git
2 4 (6.78%) GitLab
2 4 (6.78%) NUnit
3 3 (5.08%) Bitbucket
3 3 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.08%) JIRA
3 3 (5.08%) Selenium
3 3 (5.08%) SpecFlow
3 3 (5.08%) TeamCity
3 3 (5.08%) WebDriver
4 2 (3.39%) Jaeger
4 2 (3.39%) MSTest
5 1 (1.69%) Postman
5 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
2 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (8.47%) Finance
3 3 (5.08%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.39%) Military
5 1 (1.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 23 (38.98%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (37.29%) Azure Engineer
3 21 (35.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 17 (28.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (16.95%) Developer
5 10 (16.95%) Senior
6 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) .NET Developer
8 5 (8.47%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Senior Developer
9 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Test Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Cloud Architect
10 2 (3.39%) Project Manager
10 2 (3.39%) Software Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Technical Architect
10 2 (3.39%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (33.90%) Terraform
2 11 (18.64%) .NET
3 9 (15.25%) React
3 9 (15.25%) REST
4 6 (10.17%) .NET Framework
4 6 (10.17%) ASP.NET Web API
5 5 (8.47%) ARM Templates
5 5 (8.47%) Entity Framework
6 4 (6.78%) .NET Core
6 4 (6.78%) ASP.NET
6 4 (6.78%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 3 (5.08%) NHibernate
7 3 (5.08%) SOAP
8 2 (3.39%) Loki
8 2 (3.39%) OAuth
8 2 (3.39%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (1.69%) FastAPI
9 1 (1.69%) Flask
9 1 (1.69%) Material-UI
9 1 (1.69%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (13.56%) Onboarding
3 6 (10.17%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.78%) ARM Cortex
4 4 (6.78%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.78%) Virtual Team
5 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.39%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.69%) CMDB
7 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.69%) NHS
7 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.25%) Linux
2 7 (11.86%) Windows
3 6 (10.17%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (71.19%) CI/CD
2 23 (38.98%) Agile
3 18 (30.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (28.81%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (22.03%) ITIL
6 11 (18.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (16.95%) Scrum
7 10 (16.95%) Validation
8 9 (15.25%) Incident Response
8 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (15.25%) Service Management
8 9 (15.25%) SOLID
9 8 (13.56%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (13.56%) Cloud Security
9 8 (13.56%) Test Automation
9 8 (13.56%) Unit Testing
10 7 (11.86%) Analytics
10 7 (11.86%) Observability
10 7 (11.86%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (10.17%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.34%) C#
1 12 (20.34%) SQL
2 11 (18.64%) JavaScript
3 10 (16.95%) Bicep
3 10 (16.95%) PowerShell
4 8 (13.56%) TypeScript
5 6 (10.17%) Bash
6 3 (5.08%) Java
6 3 (5.08%) Python
7 2 (3.39%) Go
8 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (72.88%) Security Cleared
2 39 (66.10%) SC Cleared
3 13 (22.03%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.47%) Degree
5 3 (5.08%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.39%) CCNP
6 2 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.39%) MCSE
6 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.69%) PMP
7 1 (1.69%) RHCA
7 1 (1.69%) RHCE
7 1 (1.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) NCSC
2 2 (3.39%) GDPR
2 2 (3.39%) GRC
2 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.39%) NIST
2 2 (3.39%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.69%) OpenSCAP
3 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (13.56%) Docker
2 5 (8.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (20.34%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.17%) Ansible
3 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (6.78%) SCCM
4 2 (3.39%) Grafana
4 2 (3.39%) Istio
4 2 (3.39%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.39%) SCOM
4 2 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.69%) Packer
5 1 (1.69%) Rancher
5 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 24 (40.68%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.78%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (6.78%) Oracle
3 4 (6.78%) VMware
4 1 (1.69%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.69%) Red Hat