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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 31 28
Rank change year-on-year +13 -3 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 25 18 25
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 7.46% 6.41% 5.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.83% 7.35% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 15 19
10th Percentile £333 £462 £420
25th Percentile £413 £549 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £609 £743 £643
90th Percentile £648 - £709
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -19.23% +23.81% -6.67%

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 283 245 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 84.48% 87.19% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 174 347
10th Percentile £224 £247 £275
25th Percentile £361 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.96% +4.62%
75th Percentile £541 £587 £600
90th Percentile £621 £669 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £441 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -11.75% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 14
10th Percentile £14.90 £13.61 £14.02
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.09 £19.25
Median hourly rate £29.61 £26.35 £23.88
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% +10.37% +42.54%
75th Percentile £31.21 £36.56 £26.25
90th Percentile £36.00 £37.37 £30.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £25.15 £35.08 £22.50
% change year-on-year -28.31% +55.92% +45.16%

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 16 December 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 3 (12.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 18 (72.00%) Azure
2 11 (44.00%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (40.00%) AWS
3 10 (40.00%) GitHub
4 5 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 5 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (20.00%) GCP
4 5 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (20.00%) Serverless
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon Bedrock
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (16.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (16.00%) ChatGPT
5 4 (16.00%) SaaS
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.00%) Paddle
6 1 (4.00%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (16.00%) Big Data
2 3 (12.00%) MySQL
2 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.00%) Metadata
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (44.00%) JIRA
2 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (12.00%) Git
3 3 (12.00%) JUnit
3 3 (12.00%) Storybook
4 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.00%) GitLab
5 1 (4.00%) MSTest
5 1 (4.00%) NUnit
5 1 (4.00%) Selenium
5 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (4.00%) TeamCity
5 1 (4.00%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.00%) Marketing
4 3 (12.00%) Electronics
4 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.00%) Health Technology
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Data Scientist
1 4 (16.00%) Developer
1 4 (16.00%) Release Manager
2 3 (12.00%) Architect
2 3 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Integration Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Integration Test Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Senior
3 2 (8.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) C# Application Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior C# Application Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Web Applications Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) CSS
1 4 (16.00%) HTML
1 4 (16.00%) Hugging Face
1 4 (16.00%) NumPy
1 4 (16.00%) Pandas
1 4 (16.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (16.00%) React
1 4 (16.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (12.00%) Prophet
2 3 (12.00%) RESTful
2 3 (12.00%) Spring
2 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (12.00%) Vitest
3 2 (8.00%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.00%) HTML5
4 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) PKI
2 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (56.00%) Agile
3 7 (28.00%) AI
4 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (24.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 6 (24.00%) Scrum
5 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.00%) Microservices
5 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.00%) Software Testing
6 4 (16.00%) Change Management
6 4 (16.00%) Data Modelling
6 4 (16.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (16.00%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (16.00%) Statistical Analysis
6 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (16.00%) Time Series Forecasting
6 4 (16.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) Python
1 8 (32.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.00%) C#
2 4 (16.00%) Java
2 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
2 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Ansible
1 3 (12.00%) Podman
1 3 (12.00%) Proxmox
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Sage
2 3 (12.00%) SAP
2 3 (12.00%) Zscaler
3 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.00%) JDA
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk