Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 751 766 882
Rank change year-on-year +15 +116 -161
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 84 160 256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.099% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.19% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 73 135 157
10th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £71,750 £78,750 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £95,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £92,500 £107,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £114,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £93,750 £85,000
% change year-on-year -14.67% +10.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,497 84,397 127,287
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,179 53,484 75,704
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,809 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in England

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in England

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in England

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
London +73 32 £85,000 -15.00% 7
South East +19 21 £80,000 +6.67% 1
North of England +11 15 £68,000 -24.44% 9
Yorkshire +75 10 £68,000 -18.81% 3
Midlands +20 7 £82,500 +5.10% 3
South West -21 6 £76,000 -20.00%
West Midlands +18 5 £82,500 +5.10% 1
North East - 3 £55,000 -
North West -1 2 £110,000 +22.22% 6
East Midlands -11 2 £81,250 +25.00% 2
Lead DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 across the England region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 84 (100.00%) DevOps
2 59 (70.24%) CI/CD
2 59 (70.24%) Kubernetes
3 54 (64.29%) AWS
4 51 (60.71%) Terraform
5 48 (57.14%) Containerisation
6 45 (53.57%) Docker
7 33 (39.29%) Azure
7 33 (39.29%) Python
8 31 (36.90%) Microservices
9 29 (34.52%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (34.52%) Jenkins
10 27 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 26 (30.95%) Deployment Automation
12 21 (25.00%) PowerShell
12 21 (25.00%) .NET
13 20 (23.81%) Agile
13 20 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (21.43%) AWS Certification
14 18 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (21.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (20.24%) Social Skills
15 17 (20.24%) Mentoring
16 16 (19.05%) Git
16 16 (19.05%) Linux
16 16 (19.05%) Public Sector
16 16 (19.05%) GitLab
17 15 (17.86%) Datadog
17 15 (17.86%) GCP
17 15 (17.86%) Continuous Delivery

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (4.76%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 54 (64.29%) AWS
2 33 (39.29%) Azure
3 20 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
5 15 (17.86%) Datadog
5 15 (17.86%) GCP
6 11 (13.10%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (11.90%) GitHub
8 9 (10.71%) SaaS
9 8 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (7.14%) Amazon S3
11 5 (5.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (5.95%) Azure Storage
12 4 (4.76%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (4.76%) Azure AKS
12 4 (4.76%) IBM Cloud
12 4 (4.76%) OCI
12 4 (4.76%) OpenShift
12 4 (4.76%) PaaS
12 4 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (1.19%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.19%) VSAN
2 1 (1.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.48%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.95%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.76%) DB2
4 4 (4.76%) RDBMS
4 4 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (34.52%) Jenkins
2 16 (19.05%) Git
2 16 (19.05%) GitLab
3 7 (8.33%) CircleCI
4 5 (5.95%) TeamCity
5 4 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.19%) Gatling
7 1 (1.19%) JUnit
7 1 (1.19%) LoadRunner
General
1 17 (20.24%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (8.33%) Finance
4 7 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.76%) Banking
6 1 (1.19%) Automotive
6 1 (1.19%) Games
6 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.19%) Law
6 1 (1.19%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.00%) .NET
2 10 (11.90%) YAML
3 9 (10.71%) ARM Templates
4 6 (7.14%) React
5 5 (5.95%) REST
6 4 (4.76%) AWS CDK
6 4 (4.76%) Spring
6 4 (4.76%) Spring XD
7 3 (3.57%) CSS
7 3 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.57%) HTML
8 2 (2.38%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.76%) Blockchain
3 4 (4.76%) e-Learning
3 4 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (3.57%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.38%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.19%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.05%) Linux
2 10 (11.90%) Windows
3 6 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.76%) VMS
5 1 (1.19%) CentOS
5 1 (1.19%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (100.00%) DevOps
2 59 (70.24%) CI/CD
3 48 (57.14%) Containerisation
4 31 (36.90%) Microservices
5 29 (34.52%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 26 (30.95%) Deployment Automation
8 20 (23.81%) Agile
9 17 (20.24%) Mentoring
10 15 (17.86%) Continuous Delivery
10 15 (17.86%) E-Commerce
10 15 (17.86%) Server Management
10 15 (17.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 10 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (11.90%) Scrum
11 10 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence
12 9 (10.71%) Coaching
13 8 (9.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (39.29%) Python
2 21 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 15 (17.86%) Bash
4 12 (14.29%) Java
5 5 (5.95%) C#
5 5 (5.95%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.95%) SQL
6 4 (4.76%) Go
7 2 (2.38%) Groovy
7 2 (2.38%) Scala
8 1 (1.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (21.43%) AWS Certification
1 18 (21.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 15 (17.86%) Security Cleared
3 10 (11.90%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.76%) Degree
5 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.19%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) QA
2 3 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 45 (53.57%) Docker
2 2 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 59 (70.24%) Kubernetes
2 51 (60.71%) Terraform
3 15 (17.86%) Consul
3 15 (17.86%) Puppet
4 7 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.95%) Ansible
6 4 (4.76%) Istio
7 3 (3.57%) Grafana
8 1 (1.19%) Argo
8 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.19%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 5 (5.95%) Dynatrace
3 4 (4.76%) Google
3 4 (4.76%) IBM
3 4 (4.76%) Oracle
3 4 (4.76%) Sybase
4 3 (3.57%) Databricks
5 1 (1.19%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.19%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.19%) VMware