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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 22 40
Rank change year-on-year +6 +18 -18
Contract jobs citing DevOps 51 13 10
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 7.50% 6.99% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.66% 7.47% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 13 8
10th Percentile £406 £322 £305
25th Percentile £462 £325 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £418 £556
Median % change year-on-year +31.74% -24.94% -7.29%
75th Percentile £598 £743 £630
90th Percentile £632 - £643
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £419 £550
% change year-on-year +25.30% -23.82% -8.33%

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 528 174 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 77.65% 93.55% 85.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 135 259
10th Percentile £313 £286 £296
25th Percentile £413 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +1.56% +1.05%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £599
90th Percentile £640 £650 £725
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 3 24
10th Percentile £15.05 £15.70 £15.85
25th Percentile £15.80 £16.38 £17.64
Median hourly rate £16.35 £19.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -18.16% +132.15%
75th Percentile £18.32 £37.13 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £47.10 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £14.20 £25.00
% change year-on-year +15.14% -43.20% +150.00%

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 19 April 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 2 (3.92%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 48 (94.12%) Azure
2 27 (52.94%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (39.22%) AWS
4 11 (21.57%) GitHub
4 11 (21.57%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (17.65%) Power Platform
6 7 (13.73%) GCP
7 3 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (5.88%) Google App Engine
7 3 (5.88%) SaaS
8 2 (3.92%) IaaS
8 2 (3.92%) PaaS
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.96%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.96%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) Firewall
2 2 (3.92%) DNS
3 1 (1.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.65%) Power BI
2 5 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.84%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.88%) MySQL
5 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.96%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.96%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Git
1 6 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.80%) JUnit
3 4 (7.84%) GitLab
3 4 (7.84%) Storybook
4 3 (5.88%) Jaeger
4 3 (5.88%) JIRA
5 2 (3.92%) Postman
5 2 (3.92%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.96%) Maven
6 1 (1.96%) Mockito
6 1 (1.96%) NUnit
6 1 (1.96%) Selenium
6 1 (1.96%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.96%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.96%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 7 (13.73%) Finance
3 4 (7.84%) Marketing
4 3 (5.88%) Electronics
4 3 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.92%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (35.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 16 (31.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 15 (29.41%) Developer
5 11 (21.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (13.73%) Architect
7 6 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (9.80%) Senior
8 5 (9.80%) Technical Architect
9 3 (5.88%) .NET Developer
9 3 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (5.88%) Senior Developer
9 3 (5.88%) ServiceNow Developer
9 3 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 2 (3.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 2 (3.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.92%) Data Engineer
10 2 (3.92%) Project Manager
10 2 (3.92%) Site Engineer
10 2 (3.92%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.69%) .NET
1 8 (15.69%) React
2 6 (11.76%) CSS
3 5 (9.80%) REST
3 5 (9.80%) RESTful
3 5 (9.80%) Spring
3 5 (9.80%) Spring Boot
4 4 (7.84%) .NET Framework
4 4 (7.84%) HTML
4 4 (7.84%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (7.84%) SOAP
4 4 (7.84%) Vitest
5 3 (5.88%) Entity Framework
5 3 (5.88%) Loki
5 3 (5.88%) OAuth
6 2 (3.92%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.92%) JSON
6 2 (3.92%) LINQ
6 2 (3.92%) Material-UI
6 2 (3.92%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.84%) Virtual Team
4 3 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.88%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.96%) CMDB
6 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Windows
3 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 24 (47.06%) Agile
3 18 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (21.57%) Microservices
6 10 (19.61%) Incident Response
6 10 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (15.69%) Data Modelling
9 7 (13.73%) Containerisation
9 7 (13.73%) ITIL
9 7 (13.73%) Scrum
9 7 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (11.76%) Cloud Security
10 6 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
10 6 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (11.76%) User Experience
11 5 (9.80%) API Development
11 5 (9.80%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (9.80%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.53%) JavaScript
2 11 (21.57%) SQL
3 8 (15.69%) TypeScript
4 6 (11.76%) C#
4 6 (11.76%) Java
5 5 (9.80%) PowerShell
5 5 (9.80%) Python
6 4 (7.84%) Bash
6 4 (7.84%) Bicep
6 4 (7.84%) Go
7 2 (3.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (70.59%) SC Cleared
1 36 (70.59%) Security Cleared
2 9 (17.65%) DV Cleared
3 5 (9.80%) CCNP
3 5 (9.80%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (9.80%) MCSE
3 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.92%) Degree
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.96%) PMP
6 1 (1.96%) RHCA
6 1 (1.96%) RHCE
6 1 (1.96%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) NCSC
2 5 (9.80%) NIST
3 4 (7.84%) GDPR
3 4 (7.84%) PCI DSS
4 3 (5.88%) GRC
5 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.96%) OpenSCAP
5 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (25.49%) Terraform
2 7 (13.73%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.80%) Grafana
3 5 (9.80%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.88%) Istio
4 3 (5.88%) Rancher
4 3 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.92%) Ansible
6 1 (1.96%) Packer
6 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 15 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.80%) VMware
3 4 (7.84%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.88%) SAP
5 2 (3.92%) Databricks
6 1 (1.96%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.96%) Cognos
6 1 (1.96%) Oracle
6 1 (1.96%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud