Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs

Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 805 791 939
Rank change year-on-year -14 +148 -189
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 102 157 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.097% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 88 136 170
10th Percentile £66,500 £71,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £68,063 £78,038 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £90,625 £107,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +8.47%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer.

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England -19 95 £80,000 -15.79% 25
UK excluding London -41 59 £80,000 -5.88% 19
Work from Home 0 48 £85,000 -5.56% 18
London +72 31 £81,250 -18.75% 5
North of England +13 23 £68,000 -24.44% 7
South East +2 23 £80,000 +6.67% 4
Yorkshire +49 16 £68,000 -20.00% 6
Midlands -8 7 £82,500 +5.10% 6
South West -28 6 £76,000 -20.00% 2
West Midlands -11 5 £82,500 +5.10% 4
North West -13 4 £110,000 +22.22% 1
North East - 3 £55,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £81,250 - 2

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Lead DevOps Engineer 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 featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 102 (100.00%) DevOps
2 72 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 71 (69.61%) Kubernetes
4 68 (66.67%) AWS
5 60 (58.82%) Terraform
6 52 (50.98%) Containerisation
7 51 (50.00%) Docker
8 43 (42.16%) Azure
9 38 (37.25%) Python
10 37 (36.27%) Infrastructure as Code
11 32 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (30.39%) Jenkins
13 30 (29.41%) Microservices
14 29 (28.43%) Deployment Automation
15 27 (26.47%) Mentoring
15 27 (26.47%) Agile
16 23 (22.55%) Azure DevOps
17 22 (21.57%) Git
18 21 (20.59%) PowerShell
18 21 (20.59%) .NET
18 21 (20.59%) GCP
18 21 (20.59%) Public Sector
18 21 (20.59%) Social Skills
19 19 (18.63%) AWS Certification
20 18 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
20 18 (17.65%) Linux
20 18 (17.65%) Security Cleared
20 18 (17.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
21 17 (16.67%) GitHub
22 15 (14.71%) Puppet

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (3.92%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 68 (66.67%) AWS
2 43 (42.16%) Azure
3 23 (22.55%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (20.59%) GCP
5 18 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (16.67%) GitHub
7 15 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (14.71%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (13.73%) Datadog
9 11 (10.78%) SaaS
10 7 (6.86%) Amazon S3
11 6 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (5.88%) PaaS
11 6 (5.88%) Serverless
12 5 (4.90%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (4.90%) Azure Storage
13 4 (3.92%) Azure AKS
13 4 (3.92%) OCI
13 4 (3.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (0.98%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.98%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.98%) VSAN
2 1 (0.98%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.73%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.90%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.92%) DB2
4 4 (3.92%) RDBMS
4 4 (3.92%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.98%) MySQL
5 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (30.39%) Jenkins
2 22 (21.57%) Git
3 15 (14.71%) GitLab
4 11 (10.78%) CircleCI
5 5 (4.90%) TeamCity
6 4 (3.92%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (2.94%) JUnit
8 2 (1.96%) Selenium
8 2 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.96%) TestNG
9 1 (0.98%) Gatling
9 1 (0.98%) LoadRunner
General
1 21 (20.59%) Public Sector
1 21 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.80%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (5.88%) Finance
4 5 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.92%) Banking
5 4 (3.92%) Legal
6 1 (0.98%) Automotive
6 1 (0.98%) Games
6 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.98%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (20.59%) .NET
2 10 (9.80%) YAML
3 9 (8.82%) ARM Templates
4 7 (6.86%) React
5 5 (4.90%) REST
6 4 (3.92%) AWS CDK
6 4 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (3.92%) Spring
6 4 (3.92%) Spring XD
7 3 (2.94%) CSS
7 3 (2.94%) HTML
7 3 (2.94%) Node.js
7 3 (2.94%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (1.96%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (0.98%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.98%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.98%) Azure Blueprints
9 1 (0.98%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.78%) Public Cloud
2 10 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.84%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.92%) Blockchain
4 4 (3.92%) e-Learning
4 4 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.96%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.98%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.98%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.65%) Linux
2 10 (9.80%) Windows
3 6 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.92%) VMS
5 1 (0.98%) CentOS
5 1 (0.98%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (100.00%) DevOps
2 72 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 52 (50.98%) Containerisation
4 37 (36.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (29.41%) Microservices
7 29 (28.43%) Deployment Automation
8 27 (26.47%) Agile
8 27 (26.47%) Mentoring
9 14 (13.73%) Coaching
9 14 (13.73%) Continuous Delivery
9 14 (13.73%) E-Commerce
9 14 (13.73%) Server Management
9 14 (13.73%) Technical Leadership
9 14 (13.73%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 13 (12.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (11.76%) Software Engineering
12 11 (10.78%) Scrum
12 11 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 38 (37.25%) Python
2 21 (20.59%) PowerShell
3 13 (12.75%) Bash
3 13 (12.75%) Java
4 8 (7.84%) Go
5 7 (6.86%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.86%) SQL
6 6 (5.88%) C#
7 3 (2.94%) Ruby
8 2 (1.96%) Groovy
8 2 (1.96%) Scala
9 1 (0.98%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (18.63%) AWS Certification
2 18 (17.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 18 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 11 (10.78%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (3.92%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.92%) Degree
5 3 (2.94%) BC Cleared
5 3 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.90%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.94%) GDPR
3 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
System Software
1 51 (50.00%) Docker
2 4 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.94%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.98%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 71 (69.61%) Kubernetes
2 60 (58.82%) Terraform
3 15 (14.71%) Puppet
4 14 (13.73%) Consul
5 9 (8.82%) Ansible
6 8 (7.84%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.92%) Grafana
7 4 (3.92%) Istio
7 4 (3.92%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.98%) Argo
8 1 (0.98%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.98%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (6.86%) Red Hat
2 5 (4.90%) Dynatrace
3 4 (3.92%) IBM
3 4 (3.92%) Oracle
3 4 (3.92%) Sybase
4 3 (2.94%) Databricks
5 1 (0.98%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.98%) Google
5 1 (0.98%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.98%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.98%) VMware