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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 15 28
Rank change year-on-year -7 +13 -10
Contract jobs citing DevOps 61 24 12
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 8.21% 10.13% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.37% 10.91% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 19 10
10th Percentile £344 - £395
25th Percentile £462 £325 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £413 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% -25.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £438 £625
90th Percentile £622 £625 £668
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £492 £413 £513
% change year-on-year +19.27% -19.51% -10.87%

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 588 220 252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.14% 92.83% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 153 185
10th Percentile £363 £215 £235
25th Percentile £462 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £474
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.29% -5.25%
75th Percentile £598 £543 £550
90th Percentile £638 £639 £638
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £438 £458
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.37% -10.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 6
10th Percentile £13.95 £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 £46.40 £25.15 £37.37
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.05 £15.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -2.90% -43.64% +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 30 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 (1.64%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 56 (91.80%) Azure
2 28 (45.90%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (36.07%) AWS
4 8 (13.11%) GitHub
4 8 (13.11%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (13.11%) Power Platform
5 7 (11.48%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (9.84%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (9.84%) Entra ID
7 4 (6.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (4.92%) Azure Functions
8 3 (4.92%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (4.92%) GCP
8 3 (4.92%) Serverless
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.28%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.28%) Google App Engine
9 2 (3.28%) IaaS
9 2 (3.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.39%) Firewall
2 7 (11.48%) DNS
2 7 (11.48%) VPN
3 4 (6.56%) DHCP
3 4 (6.56%) SSH
3 4 (6.56%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) Power BI
2 4 (6.56%) DocumentDB
3 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (19.67%) Git
2 4 (6.56%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.56%) NUnit
3 3 (4.92%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.92%) GitLab
3 3 (4.92%) JIRA
3 3 (4.92%) Selenium
3 3 (4.92%) SpecFlow
3 3 (4.92%) TeamCity
3 3 (4.92%) WebDriver
4 2 (3.28%) Jaeger
4 2 (3.28%) MSTest
5 1 (1.64%) Postman
5 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (11.48%) Public Sector
2 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (8.20%) Finance
3 4 (6.56%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Military
5 1 (1.64%) Local Government
5 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (37.70%) Azure Engineer
1 23 (37.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (34.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 19 (31.15%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (18.03%) Senior
5 9 (14.75%) Developer
6 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) .NET Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Architect
9 4 (6.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (4.92%) Test Automation Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Test Engineer
11 2 (3.28%) Project Manager
11 2 (3.28%) Senior Developer
11 2 (3.28%) Software Engineer
11 2 (3.28%) Technical Architect
11 2 (3.28%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (37.70%) Terraform
2 11 (18.03%) .NET
3 9 (14.75%) React
4 8 (13.11%) REST
5 6 (9.84%) .NET Framework
5 6 (9.84%) ARM Templates
5 6 (9.84%) ASP.NET Web API
6 5 (8.20%) Entity Framework
7 4 (6.56%) .NET Core
7 4 (6.56%) ASP.NET
7 4 (6.56%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 3 (4.92%) NHibernate
9 2 (3.28%) Loki
9 2 (3.28%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (3.28%) SOAP
10 1 (1.64%) FastAPI
10 1 (1.64%) Flask
10 1 (1.64%) Material-UI
10 1 (1.64%) Pulumi
10 1 (1.64%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (13.11%) Onboarding
3 6 (9.84%) Cloud Native
4 5 (8.20%) Public Cloud
5 4 (6.56%) ARM Cortex
5 4 (6.56%) Virtual Team
6 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.92%) Security Posture
7 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.64%) CMDB
8 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.64%) NHS
8 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.75%) Linux
2 7 (11.48%) Windows
3 6 (9.84%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (73.77%) CI/CD
2 24 (39.34%) Agile
3 21 (34.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (29.51%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (19.67%) ITIL
6 11 (18.03%) Cloud Security
6 11 (18.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (16.39%) Validation
8 9 (14.75%) Incident Response
8 9 (14.75%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (14.75%) Scrum
8 9 (14.75%) SOLID
9 8 (13.11%) Analytics
9 8 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (13.11%) Migration
9 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (13.11%) Service Management
9 8 (13.11%) Test Automation
10 7 (11.48%) Network Virtualisation
10 7 (11.48%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.67%) Bicep
1 12 (19.67%) C#
1 12 (19.67%) SQL
2 11 (18.03%) PowerShell
3 10 (16.39%) JavaScript
4 8 (13.11%) TypeScript
5 7 (11.48%) Bash
6 4 (6.56%) Python
7 3 (4.92%) Java
8 2 (3.28%) Go
9 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (75.41%) Security Cleared
2 41 (67.21%) SC Cleared
3 13 (21.31%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.20%) Degree
5 3 (4.92%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.28%) CCNP
6 2 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.28%) MCSE
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.64%) PMP
7 1 (1.64%) RHCA
7 1 (1.64%) RHCE
7 1 (1.64%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) NCSC
2 2 (3.28%) GDPR
2 2 (3.28%) GRC
2 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.28%) NIST
2 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) OpenSCAP
3 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (13.11%) Docker
2 6 (9.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.28%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (21.31%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.48%) Ansible
3 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (6.56%) SCCM
4 2 (3.28%) Grafana
4 2 (3.28%) Istio
4 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.28%) SCOM
4 2 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.64%) Packer
5 1 (1.64%) Rancher
5 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 26 (42.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.20%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.56%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (6.56%) Oracle
3 4 (6.56%) VMware
4 1 (1.64%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.64%) Red Hat