DevOps Automation Engineer Job Trends in Milton Keynes

DevOps Automation Engineer
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median DevOps Automation Engineer salary in Milton Keynes is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Automation Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 0.22% - 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% - 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £67,500
75th Percentile - - £68,750
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £75,000 - £67,500

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 423 389 487
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.97% 95.81% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 273 266 378
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,125 £80,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% -

DevOps Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Automation Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

DevOps Automation Engineer job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

DevOps Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Automation Engineer job vacancies in Milton Keynes.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Automation Engineer job vacancies in Milton Keynes

DevOps Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 5 December 2025, DevOps Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Milton Keynes region featuring DevOps Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Change Advisory Board
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Rundeck
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation

DevOps Automation Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Advisory Board
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware