Lead DevOps Jobs

Lead Development Operations
UK

The median Lead Development Operations salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 764 708 799
Rank change year-on-year -56 +91 -129
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 158 240 526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.26% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.28% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 138 205 273
10th Percentile £66,500 £70,000 £65,250
25th Percentile £71,938 £77,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,750 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £82,818 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +14.29%

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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
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 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 -45 151 £80,000 -11.11% 27
Work from Home +11 87 £85,000 -5.56% 18
UK excluding London -79 86 £80,000 -3.40% 22
London +7 59 £80,000 -20.00% 5
South East +5 39 £90,000 +16.13% 3
North of England +1 27 £68,000 -20.00% 8
Yorkshire +52 18 £68,000 -22.29% 5
Midlands -24 14 £82,500 +43.48% 9
West Midlands -8 8 £82,500 +37.50% 5
East Midlands -28 6 £80,000 +45.45% 4
North West -24 5 £110,000 +32.82% 3
South West -39 5 £76,000 -20.00% 1
North East - 4 £56,250 -
East of England - 1 £100,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 158 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (68.99%) AWS
3 97 (61.39%) Kubernetes
4 94 (59.49%) CI/CD
5 80 (50.63%) Terraform
6 69 (43.67%) Docker
7 65 (41.14%) Containerisation
8 61 (38.61%) Azure
9 50 (31.65%) Infrastructure as Code
10 49 (31.01%) Python
11 44 (27.85%) Microservices
12 39 (24.68%) Jenkins
13 37 (23.42%) Mentoring
14 36 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
15 33 (20.89%) Azure DevOps
15 33 (20.89%) Java
15 33 (20.89%) Agile
16 31 (19.62%) .NET
16 31 (19.62%) Linux
16 31 (19.62%) Git
17 29 (18.35%) Amazon ECS
17 29 (18.35%) Social Skills
18 28 (17.72%) Deployment Automation
19 27 (17.09%) GitHub
20 26 (16.46%) Amazon EKS
21 24 (15.19%) GCP
22 23 (14.56%) PowerShell
23 22 (13.92%) Public Cloud
24 21 (13.29%) Public Sector
24 21 (13.29%) Software Engineering

Lead DevOps 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 6 (3.80%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 109 (68.99%) AWS
2 61 (38.61%) Azure
3 33 (20.89%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (18.35%) Amazon ECS
5 27 (17.09%) GitHub
6 26 (16.46%) Amazon EKS
7 24 (15.19%) GCP
8 21 (13.29%) SaaS
9 19 (12.03%) Amazon S3
10 17 (10.76%) Serverless
11 16 (10.13%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (8.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (8.86%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (8.23%) Datadog
14 12 (7.59%) Azure AKS
15 10 (6.33%) CloudFront
16 9 (5.70%) Akamai
16 9 (5.70%) Amazon SQS
16 9 (5.70%) AWS Fargate
16 9 (5.70%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.80%) DNS
2 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.63%) VSAN
2 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.49%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (3.16%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.53%) DB2
4 4 (2.53%) RDBMS
4 4 (2.53%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.90%) MySQL
5 3 (1.90%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 39 (24.68%) Jenkins
2 31 (19.62%) Git
3 19 (12.03%) GitLab
4 14 (8.86%) CircleCI
5 7 (4.43%) TeamCity
6 6 (3.80%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.90%) JUnit
8 2 (1.27%) Selenium
8 2 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.27%) TestNG
9 1 (0.63%) Gatling
9 1 (0.63%) LoadRunner
General
1 29 (18.35%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.29%) Public Sector
3 10 (6.33%) Organisational Skills
4 9 (5.70%) Automotive
4 9 (5.70%) Finance
5 5 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.53%) Banking
6 4 (2.53%) Legal
7 2 (1.27%) Marketing
8 1 (0.63%) Games
8 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Law
8 1 (0.63%) Retail
8 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (19.62%) .NET
2 11 (6.96%) ARM Templates
3 10 (6.33%) YAML
4 9 (5.70%) React
5 7 (4.43%) REST
6 6 (3.80%) Node.js
7 4 (2.53%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.53%) Spring
7 4 (2.53%) Spring XD
8 3 (1.90%) CSS
8 3 (1.90%) HTML
8 3 (1.90%) Kafka
8 3 (1.90%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (1.27%) Lambda Expressions
9 2 (1.27%) RESTful
10 1 (0.63%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.92%) Public Cloud
2 10 (6.33%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (6.33%) Private Cloud
3 9 (5.70%) Mobile App
4 8 (5.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.16%) Blockchain
6 4 (2.53%) e-Learning
6 4 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.90%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.63%) IoT
9 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.63%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 31 (19.62%) Linux
2 12 (7.59%) Windows
3 8 (5.06%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (100.00%) DevOps
2 94 (59.49%) CI/CD
3 65 (41.14%) Containerisation
4 50 (31.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (27.85%) Microservices
6 37 (23.42%) Mentoring
7 36 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (20.89%) Agile
9 28 (17.72%) Deployment Automation
10 21 (13.29%) Software Engineering
11 16 (10.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (9.49%) Coaching
12 15 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (8.86%) Fintech
13 14 (8.86%) Scrum
13 14 (8.86%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (8.23%) Continuous Delivery
14 13 (8.23%) E-Commerce
14 13 (8.23%) Server Management
14 13 (8.23%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 49 (31.01%) Python
2 33 (20.89%) Java
3 23 (14.56%) PowerShell
4 12 (7.59%) Bash
5 9 (5.70%) C#
6 7 (4.43%) Go
6 7 (4.43%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.43%) SQL
7 3 (1.90%) Groovy
7 3 (1.90%) Ruby
8 2 (1.27%) Scala
9 1 (0.63%) C++
9 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (13.29%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.66%) AWS Certification
3 17 (10.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 15 (9.49%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.80%) Degree
6 5 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.53%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.90%) BC Cleared
9 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.43%) QA
2 3 (1.90%) GDPR
3 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (43.67%) Docker
2 12 (7.59%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.90%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 97 (61.39%) Kubernetes
2 80 (50.63%) Terraform
3 16 (10.13%) Puppet
4 13 (8.23%) Ansible
4 13 (8.23%) Consul
5 10 (6.33%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.80%) Grafana
7 4 (2.53%) Istio
7 4 (2.53%) Karpenter
8 3 (1.90%) Argo
9 2 (1.27%) Packer
10 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.63%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (5.70%) ForgeRock
1 9 (5.70%) Sitecore
2 7 (4.43%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.16%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.53%) IBM
4 4 (2.53%) Oracle
4 4 (2.53%) Sybase
5 3 (1.90%) Google
6 2 (1.27%) Databricks
6 2 (1.27%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.27%) Splunk
7 1 (0.63%) VMware