Lead DevOps Jobs in England

Lead Development Operations
UK > England

The median Lead Development Operations salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 693 705 756
Rank change year-on-year +12 +51 -123
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 129 239 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.26% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.28% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 120 198 251
10th Percentile £66,500 £67,500 £63,750
25th Percentile £72,611 £72,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £92,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +8.24% +3.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £110,500 £115,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £81,250 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -9.72% +5.88% +3.03%

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 80,251 85,470 125,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,137 54,051 75,614
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +72 51 £80,000 -20.00% 14
South East +28 39 £90,000 +16.13% 3
North of England +25 18 £68,000 -18.81% 6
Midlands +9 12 £82,500 +26.92% 4
Yorkshire +85 11 £68,000 -17.58% 1
West Midlands +28 8 £82,500 +19.13% 2
South West -31 5 £76,000 -20.00%
East Midlands -16 4 £81,250 +25.00% 2
North East - 4 £56,250 -
North West -5 3 £110,000 +22.22% 5
East of England - 1 £100,000 -
Lead DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 England region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 129 (100.00%) DevOps
2 82 (63.57%) AWS
3 72 (55.81%) Kubernetes
3 72 (55.81%) CI/CD
4 66 (51.16%) Terraform
5 56 (43.41%) Docker
6 52 (40.31%) Containerisation
7 49 (37.98%) Azure
8 46 (35.66%) Python
9 39 (30.23%) Microservices
9 39 (30.23%) Infrastructure as Code
10 35 (27.13%) Linux
11 32 (24.81%) Java
11 32 (24.81%) Jenkins
12 31 (24.03%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (23.26%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (20.16%) .NET
15 25 (19.38%) PowerShell
15 25 (19.38%) Social Skills
16 24 (18.60%) Amazon ECS
16 24 (18.60%) Deployment Automation
16 24 (18.60%) Agile
17 20 (15.50%) Mentoring
17 20 (15.50%) Public Cloud
18 19 (14.73%) AWS Certification
18 19 (14.73%) Git
19 18 (13.95%) Security Cleared
20 17 (13.18%) SaaS
20 17 (13.18%) Puppet
20 17 (13.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

Lead DevOps 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 6 (4.65%) IIS
2 1 (0.78%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 82 (63.57%) AWS
2 49 (37.98%) Azure
3 30 (23.26%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (18.60%) Amazon ECS
5 17 (13.18%) SaaS
6 15 (11.63%) GCP
7 14 (10.85%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (10.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (10.85%) Datadog
7 14 (10.85%) GitHub
8 13 (10.08%) Serverless
9 10 (7.75%) Azure AKS
10 9 (6.98%) Amazon S3
10 9 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (6.20%) Azure Functions
11 8 (6.20%) CloudFront
12 7 (5.43%) Akamai
12 7 (5.43%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (5.43%) AWS Fargate
12 7 (5.43%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.88%) DNS
2 1 (0.78%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.78%) VSAN
2 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.98%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.33%) MySQL
4 2 (1.55%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.78%) DB2
5 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (24.81%) Jenkins
2 19 (14.73%) Git
3 15 (11.63%) GitLab
4 8 (6.20%) CircleCI
5 7 (5.43%) TeamCity
6 6 (4.65%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.78%) Gatling
8 1 (0.78%) JUnit
8 1 (0.78%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.78%) Terragrunt
General
1 25 (19.38%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.30%) Finance
3 11 (8.53%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.43%) Automotive
5 6 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.33%) Banking
8 2 (1.55%) Marketing
9 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.78%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (20.16%) .NET
2 11 (8.53%) ARM Templates
3 9 (6.98%) YAML
4 7 (5.43%) REST
5 5 (3.88%) React
6 4 (3.10%) AWS CDK
7 3 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.55%) CSS
8 2 (1.55%) HTML
8 2 (1.55%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (1.55%) Node.js
9 1 (0.78%) Azure Blueprints
9 1 (0.78%) SOAP
9 1 (0.78%) Spring
9 1 (0.78%) Spring XD
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.50%) Public Cloud
2 10 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.75%) Private Cloud
3 7 (5.43%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.55%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.55%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.78%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.78%) IoT
8 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.78%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (27.13%) Linux
2 12 (9.30%) Windows
3 7 (5.43%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.10%) VMS
5 1 (0.78%) CentOS
5 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (100.00%) DevOps
2 72 (55.81%) CI/CD
3 52 (40.31%) Containerisation
4 39 (30.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (30.23%) Microservices
5 31 (24.03%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (18.60%) Agile
6 24 (18.60%) Deployment Automation
7 20 (15.50%) Mentoring
8 15 (11.63%) User Stories
9 14 (10.85%) Continuous Delivery
9 14 (10.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (10.85%) E-Commerce
9 14 (10.85%) Server Management
9 14 (10.85%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 12 (9.30%) Cloud Security
11 11 (8.53%) Fintech
11 11 (8.53%) Scrum
12 10 (7.75%) DevSecOps
12 10 (7.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (35.66%) Python
2 32 (24.81%) Java
3 25 (19.38%) PowerShell
4 16 (12.40%) Bash
5 8 (6.20%) C#
6 6 (4.65%) SQL
7 5 (3.88%) Go
7 5 (3.88%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.33%) Groovy
9 2 (1.55%) Scala
10 1 (0.78%) C++
10 1 (0.78%) PHP
10 1 (0.78%) Ruby
10 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (14.73%) AWS Certification
2 18 (13.95%) Security Cleared
3 17 (13.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 14 (10.85%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.65%) Degree
6 5 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.10%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.33%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.75%) QA
2 3 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.55%) SLA
4 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 56 (43.41%) Docker
2 7 (5.43%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 72 (55.81%) Kubernetes
2 66 (51.16%) Terraform
3 17 (13.18%) Puppet
4 14 (10.85%) Consul
5 9 (6.98%) Ansible
6 6 (4.65%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.88%) Grafana
8 3 (2.33%) Istio
9 2 (1.55%) Argo
9 2 (1.55%) Packer
9 2 (1.55%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.78%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (5.43%) ForgeRock
1 7 (5.43%) Sitecore
2 5 (3.88%) Google
3 4 (3.10%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.33%) Databricks
5 2 (1.55%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.55%) Splunk
6 1 (0.78%) IBM
6 1 (0.78%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle
6 1 (0.78%) Sybase
6 1 (0.78%) VMware