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

 6 months to
26 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 13 28
Rank change year-on-year -7 +15 -10
Contract jobs citing DevOps 53 26 15
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 8.08% 10.44% 5.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.25% 11.45% 6.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 21 12
10th Percentile £349 - £406
25th Percentile £462 £325 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £420 £613
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -31.43% +11.36%
75th Percentile £560 £438 £656
90th Percentile £622 £625 £686
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £492 £423 £550
% change year-on-year +16.45% -23.18% -

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 517 227 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 78.81% 91.16% 86.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 159 181
10th Percentile £359 £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 £592 £536 £538
90th Percentile £625 £627 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £435 £463
% change year-on-year +20.69% -5.95% -10.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 7
10th Percentile £13.78 £14.39 £17.31
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.12 £19.98
Median hourly rate £17.50 £17.94 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.43% -40.22% +121.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £26.71 £36.37
90th Percentile £54.35 £29.61 £37.25
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.05 £15.91 £30.00
% change year-on-year -11.69% -46.97% +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 26 September 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:

Cloud Services
1 49 (92.45%) Azure
2 22 (41.51%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (33.96%) AWS
4 7 (13.21%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (13.21%) Power Platform
5 6 (11.32%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (11.32%) Entra ID
5 6 (11.32%) GitHub
5 6 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (7.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (5.66%) Azure Functions
7 3 (5.66%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (5.66%) GCP
7 3 (5.66%) Serverless
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.77%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.77%) Google App Engine
8 2 (3.77%) IaaS
8 2 (3.77%) PaaS
8 2 (3.77%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.98%) Firewall
2 7 (13.21%) DNS
2 7 (13.21%) VPN
3 4 (7.55%) DHCP
3 4 (7.55%) SSH
3 4 (7.55%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.66%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.21%) Power BI
2 3 (5.66%) DocumentDB
3 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (20.75%) Git
2 4 (7.55%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.66%) Bitbucket
3 3 (5.66%) GitLab
3 3 (5.66%) NUnit
3 3 (5.66%) Selenium
3 3 (5.66%) SpecFlow
3 3 (5.66%) TeamCity
3 3 (5.66%) WebDriver
4 2 (3.77%) JIRA
4 2 (3.77%) MSTest
5 1 (1.89%) Jaeger
General
1 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
2 4 (7.55%) Finance
3 3 (5.66%) Military
3 3 (5.66%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Local Government
4 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (41.51%) Azure Engineer
1 22 (41.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (37.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 18 (33.96%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (18.87%) Senior
5 7 (13.21%) Developer
6 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (11.32%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (9.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) .NET Developer
8 4 (7.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Architect
9 3 (5.66%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Test Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
10 2 (3.77%) Monitoring Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow Developer
10 2 (3.77%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (37.74%) Terraform
2 8 (15.09%) .NET
2 8 (15.09%) React
3 7 (13.21%) REST
4 6 (11.32%) ARM Templates
5 5 (9.43%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (7.55%) .NET Core
6 4 (7.55%) .NET Framework
6 4 (7.55%) Entity Framework
7 3 (5.66%) ASP.NET
7 3 (5.66%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 3 (5.66%) NHibernate
8 2 (3.77%) SOAP
9 1 (1.89%) FastAPI
9 1 (1.89%) Flask
9 1 (1.89%) Loki
9 1 (1.89%) OAuth
9 1 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (13.21%) Onboarding
3 5 (9.43%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.55%) ARM Cortex
4 4 (7.55%) Public Cloud
4 4 (7.55%) Virtual Team
5 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.77%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.89%) CMDB
7 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.09%) Linux
2 6 (11.32%) Windows
2 6 (11.32%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (75.47%) CI/CD
2 18 (33.96%) Agile
2 18 (33.96%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (32.08%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (20.75%) Cloud Security
4 11 (20.75%) ITIL
5 10 (18.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (16.98%) Validation
7 8 (15.09%) Migration
7 8 (15.09%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (15.09%) Service Management
7 8 (15.09%) SOLID
7 8 (15.09%) Test Automation
8 7 (13.21%) Analytics
8 7 (13.21%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (13.21%) DevSecOps
8 7 (13.21%) Incident Response
8 7 (13.21%) Log Analytics
8 7 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (13.21%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.75%) Bicep
2 10 (18.87%) C#
2 10 (18.87%) PowerShell
3 9 (16.98%) SQL
4 8 (15.09%) JavaScript
5 7 (13.21%) TypeScript
6 6 (11.32%) Bash
7 3 (5.66%) Java
7 3 (5.66%) Python
8 1 (1.89%) Go
Qualifications
1 41 (77.36%) Security Cleared
2 36 (67.92%) SC Cleared
3 12 (22.64%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.66%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.66%) Degree
5 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.89%) CCNP
6 1 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.89%) MCSE
6 1 (1.89%) RHCA
6 1 (1.89%) RHCE
6 1 (1.89%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) NCSC
2 1 (1.89%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) GRC
2 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.89%) NIST
2 1 (1.89%) OpenSCAP
2 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (11.32%) Active Directory
1 6 (11.32%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.89%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (18.87%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.32%) Ansible
3 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (7.55%) SCCM
4 2 (3.77%) SCOM
5 1 (1.89%) Grafana
5 1 (1.89%) Istio
5 1 (1.89%) Packer
5 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.89%) Rancher
5 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 23 (43.40%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.43%) ServiceNow
3 4 (7.55%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (5.66%) Oracle
4 3 (5.66%) VMware
5 1 (1.89%) Red Hat
37 DevOps jobs in Milton Keynes