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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 14 31
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 -12
Contract jobs citing DevOps 58 24 13
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 8.09% 10.04% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.28% 10.86% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 19 11
10th Percentile £359 - £400
25th Percentile £462 £325 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £413 £600
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% -31.25% -
75th Percentile £575 £438 £638
90th Percentile £622 £625 £675
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £492 £413 £550
% change year-on-year +19.27% -25.00% -

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 564 221 255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 78.66% 92.47% 86.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 154 190
10th Percentile £362 £216 £233
25th Percentile £458 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £428 £463
Median % change year-on-year +22.81% -7.57% -7.50%
75th Percentile £598 £538 £550
90th Percentile £638 £635 £639
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £448 £450
% change year-on-year +17.32% -0.56% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 6
10th Percentile £13.89 £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 £43.75 £18.00 £36.56
90th Percentile £49.05 £25.15 £37.37
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.05 £15.38 £30.00
% change year-on-year -2.11% -48.75% +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 5 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:

Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 54 (93.10%) Azure
2 26 (44.83%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (34.48%) AWS
4 8 (13.79%) Power Platform
5 7 (12.07%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (12.07%) GitHub
5 7 (12.07%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (10.34%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (10.34%) Entra ID
7 4 (6.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (5.17%) Azure Functions
8 3 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (5.17%) GCP
8 3 (5.17%) Serverless
9 2 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.45%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.45%) Google App Engine
9 2 (3.45%) IaaS
9 2 (3.45%) PaaS
9 2 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.24%) Firewall
2 7 (12.07%) DNS
2 7 (12.07%) VPN
3 4 (6.90%) DHCP
3 4 (6.90%) SSH
3 4 (6.90%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) Power BI
2 3 (5.17%) DocumentDB
3 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (18.97%) Git
2 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.17%) Bitbucket
3 3 (5.17%) GitLab
3 3 (5.17%) JIRA
3 3 (5.17%) NUnit
3 3 (5.17%) Selenium
3 3 (5.17%) SpecFlow
3 3 (5.17%) TeamCity
3 3 (5.17%) WebDriver
4 2 (3.45%) MSTest
5 1 (1.72%) Jaeger
General
1 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
2 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (8.62%) Finance
3 4 (6.90%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Military
5 1 (1.72%) Local Government
5 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (39.66%) Azure Engineer
1 23 (39.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (36.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 19 (32.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (18.97%) Senior
5 7 (12.07%) Developer
5 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) .NET Developer
8 4 (6.90%) Architect
8 4 (6.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (5.17%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Test Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Project Manager
10 2 (3.45%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.45%) Software Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Technical Architect
10 2 (3.45%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (36.21%) Terraform
2 8 (13.79%) .NET
2 8 (13.79%) React
3 7 (12.07%) REST
4 6 (10.34%) ARM Templates
5 5 (8.62%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (6.90%) .NET Core
6 4 (6.90%) .NET Framework
6 4 (6.90%) Entity Framework
7 3 (5.17%) ASP.NET
7 3 (5.17%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 3 (5.17%) NHibernate
8 2 (3.45%) SOAP
9 1 (1.72%) FastAPI
9 1 (1.72%) Flask
9 1 (1.72%) Loki
9 1 (1.72%) OAuth
9 1 (1.72%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (1.72%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (12.07%) Onboarding
3 6 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 5 (8.62%) Public Cloud
5 4 (6.90%) ARM Cortex
5 4 (6.90%) Virtual Team
6 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.45%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.72%) CMDB
8 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.72%) NHS
8 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.79%) Linux
2 7 (12.07%) Windows
3 6 (10.34%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (74.14%) CI/CD
2 22 (37.93%) Agile
3 20 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (31.03%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (20.69%) ITIL
6 11 (18.97%) Cloud Security
6 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (15.52%) Validation
8 8 (13.79%) Analytics
8 8 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (13.79%) Incident Response
8 8 (13.79%) Migration
8 8 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (13.79%) Scrum
8 8 (13.79%) Service Management
8 8 (13.79%) SOLID
8 8 (13.79%) Test Automation
9 7 (12.07%) Log Analytics
9 7 (12.07%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.69%) Bicep
2 10 (17.24%) C#
2 10 (17.24%) PowerShell
2 10 (17.24%) SQL
3 8 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 7 (12.07%) TypeScript
5 6 (10.34%) Bash
6 3 (5.17%) Java
6 3 (5.17%) Python
7 1 (1.72%) Go
Qualifications
1 45 (77.59%) Security Cleared
2 40 (68.97%) SC Cleared
3 13 (22.41%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.62%) Degree
5 3 (5.17%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.45%) CCNP
6 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.45%) MCSE
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.72%) PMP
7 1 (1.72%) RHCA
7 1 (1.72%) RHCE
7 1 (1.72%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) NCSC
2 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.45%) NIST
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) GRC
3 1 (1.72%) OpenSCAP
3 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (12.07%) Docker
2 6 (10.34%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (18.97%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.07%) Ansible
3 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (6.90%) SCCM
4 2 (3.45%) SCOM
5 1 (1.72%) Grafana
5 1 (1.72%) Istio
5 1 (1.72%) Packer
5 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.72%) Rancher
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (44.83%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.62%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.90%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (6.90%) VMware
4 3 (5.17%) Oracle
5 1 (1.72%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat