Lead DevOps Jobs in the West Midlands

Lead Development Operations
England > West Midlands

The median Lead Development Operations salary in the West Midlands is £82,500 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 251 242 288
Rank change year-on-year -9 +46 -72
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 7 6 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.087% 0.10% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.11% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile - - £56,375
25th Percentile £76,250 £51,250 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £60,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +2.13% -18.97%
75th Percentile £89,688 £80,250 £61,563
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,600 £62,125
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
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 7,595 5,244 7,218
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 89.96% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 5,608 3,236 4,815
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £29,453
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,756
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in the West Midlands

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead DevOps in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Lead DevOps in the West Midlands

Lead DevOps
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps in the West Midlands

Lead DevOps
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead DevOps within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham -17 7 £82,500 +37.50% 2
Lead DevOps
England

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Collaborative Culture
2 6 (85.71%) Octopus Deploy
2 6 (85.71%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (85.71%) Cloud Native
2 6 (85.71%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) IIS
2 6 (85.71%) QA
2 6 (85.71%) Release Management
2 6 (85.71%) TeamCity
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) High Availability
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (71.43%) SaaS
4 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
4 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
4 4 (57.14%) Windows
4 4 (57.14%) VMS
4 4 (57.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (57.14%) Azure Certification
5 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
6 2 (28.57%) SLA
6 2 (28.57%) Service-Level Objective
6 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
7 1 (14.29%) GCP
7 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (85.71%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
1 6 (85.71%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Octopus Deploy
1 6 (85.71%) TeamCity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (57.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) VMS
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Collaborative Culture
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (85.71%) High Availability
2 6 (85.71%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) Release Management
2 6 (85.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Service-Level Objective
5 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform