Lead DevOps Jobs in the South East

Lead Development Operations
England > South East

The median Lead Development Operations salary in the South East is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 361 358 451
Rank change year-on-year -3 +93 -100
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 40 32 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.22% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.26% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 39 31 36
10th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £66,875
25th Percentile £80,000 £71,875 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £77,500 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -1.59% +12.50%
75th Percentile £99,375 £96,875 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 -
England median annual salary £82,500 £92,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -10.33% +2.22% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 16,826 12,386 19,920
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 89.99% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,952 7,966 12,353
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Lead DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in the South East

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead DevOps in the South East.

Salary trend for Lead DevOps in the South East

Lead DevOps
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps in the South East

Lead DevOps
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead DevOps within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire -24 16 £90,000 +20.00%
East Sussex - 10 £80,000 -
Kent - 5 £70,000 - 2
Thames Valley 0 4 £97,500 -9.30% 2
Oxfordshire +5 2 £93,750 +17.19% 1
Surrey -17 2 £72,500 -19.44%
Berkshire +17 1 £120,000 +9.09%
Buckinghamshire -24 1 - - 1
Lead DevOps
England

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Lead DevOps job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (90.00%) AWS
3 26 (65.00%) Terraform
4 24 (60.00%) Kubernetes
5 23 (57.50%) CI/CD
6 21 (52.50%) Docker
7 17 (42.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (40.00%) Microservices
9 15 (37.50%) Containerisation
10 14 (35.00%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (35.00%) .NET
11 13 (32.50%) Jenkins
12 12 (30.00%) Puppet
12 12 (30.00%) AWS Certification
13 11 (27.50%) Python
14 10 (25.00%) E-Commerce
14 10 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
14 10 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
14 10 (25.00%) GitLab
14 10 (25.00%) Datadog
14 10 (25.00%) Consul
14 10 (25.00%) Server Management
14 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
14 10 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (20.00%) Private Cloud
15 8 (20.00%) Azure
16 7 (17.50%) SaaS
16 7 (17.50%) Git

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 36 (90.00%) AWS
2 14 (35.00%) Amazon ECS
3 10 (25.00%) Datadog
4 8 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (20.00%) Azure
5 7 (17.50%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (17.50%) SaaS
6 6 (15.00%) Serverless
7 4 (10.00%) Akamai
7 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
7 4 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
7 4 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (10.00%) Azure AKS
7 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (10.00%) Azure Functions
7 4 (10.00%) Cloudflare
7 4 (10.00%) CloudFront
7 4 (10.00%) GitHub
8 3 (7.50%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Jenkins
2 10 (25.00%) GitLab
3 7 (17.50%) Git
4 2 (5.00%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.50%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Automotive
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 4 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (57.50%) CI/CD
3 17 (42.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (40.00%) Microservices
5 15 (37.50%) Containerisation
6 10 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 10 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
6 10 (25.00%) E-Commerce
6 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (25.00%) Server Management
6 10 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
7 7 (17.50%) Process Improvement
8 5 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (10.00%) Business Process Improvement
9 4 (10.00%) Content Management
9 4 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (10.00%) Digital Content Management
9 4 (10.00%) Migration
9 4 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (27.50%) Python
2 6 (15.00%) Java
3 3 (7.50%) Bash
3 3 (7.50%) SQL
4 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) AWS Certification
2 10 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 21 (52.50%) Docker
2 7 (17.50%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (65.00%) Terraform
2 24 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (30.00%) Puppet
4 10 (25.00%) Consul
5 2 (5.00%) Argo
6 1 (2.50%) Ansible
6 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.50%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) ForgeRock
1 4 (10.00%) Sitecore