Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs in London

Lead Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 548 703
Rank change year-on-year +79 +155 -198
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 32 79 174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.24% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 27 66 89
10th Percentile £71,750 £81,250 £71,000
25th Percentile £72,611 £89,512 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £97,875 £110,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £125,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £95,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% -5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,259 33,394 64,825
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 95.02% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,752 24,563 34,933
10th Percentile £38,138 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Central London +29 3 £75,000 -28.57%
South London - 3 £110,000 -
Lead DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 London region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (68.75%) CI/CD
3 21 (65.63%) Containerisation
3 21 (65.63%) Python
4 18 (56.25%) Azure
4 18 (56.25%) Microservices
5 17 (53.13%) Terraform
6 16 (50.00%) Kubernetes
7 14 (43.75%) Git
8 13 (40.63%) PowerShell
8 13 (40.63%) AWS
8 13 (40.63%) Agile
8 13 (40.63%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (34.38%) Docker
9 11 (34.38%) Jenkins
10 10 (31.25%) Mentoring
10 10 (31.25%) YAML
10 10 (31.25%) Scrum
11 9 (28.13%) Linux
11 9 (28.13%) Bash
12 8 (25.00%) ARM Templates
12 8 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
13 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (21.88%) Cloud Security
13 7 (21.88%) Software Engineering
13 7 (21.88%) Security Management
13 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
13 7 (21.88%) Deployment Automation

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (56.25%) Azure
2 13 (40.63%) AWS
2 13 (40.63%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (18.75%) GCP
4 5 (15.63%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (15.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (15.63%) Azure Storage
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.38%) Datadog
5 3 (9.38%) IaaS
5 3 (9.38%) PaaS
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (6.25%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.25%) IBM Cloud
6 2 (6.25%) OCI
6 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
6 2 (6.25%) Pulumi
6 2 (6.25%) Route 53
6 2 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
2 5 (15.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.25%) DB2
3 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.25%) RDBMS
3 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (43.75%) Git
2 11 (34.38%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.50%) GitLab
4 2 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.13%) Gatling
5 1 (3.13%) JUnit
5 1 (3.13%) LoadRunner
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Finance
2 6 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (9.38%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Law
5 1 (3.13%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) YAML
2 8 (25.00%) ARM Templates
3 6 (18.75%) .NET
3 6 (18.75%) React
4 5 (15.63%) REST
5 3 (9.38%) CSS
5 3 (9.38%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (9.38%) HTML
6 2 (6.25%) Spring
6 2 (6.25%) Spring XD
7 1 (3.13%) AWS CDK
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.25%) Blockchain
2 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.25%) e-Learning
2 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
2 5 (15.63%) Windows
2 5 (15.63%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.13%) CentOS
3 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (68.75%) CI/CD
3 21 (65.63%) Containerisation
4 18 (56.25%) Microservices
5 13 (40.63%) Agile
5 13 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (31.25%) Mentoring
6 10 (31.25%) Scrum
7 8 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (21.88%) Cloud Security
8 7 (21.88%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (21.88%) Security Management
8 7 (21.88%) Software Engineering
9 6 (18.75%) Coaching
9 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (15.63%) SDLC
10 5 (15.63%) Software Delivery
11 4 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (12.50%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 21 (65.63%) Python
2 13 (40.63%) PowerShell
3 9 (28.13%) Bash
4 6 (18.75%) Java
5 5 (15.63%) C#
5 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
6 4 (12.50%) Go
7 2 (6.25%) Groovy
7 2 (6.25%) Scala
8 1 (3.13%) C++
8 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) AWS Certification
1 6 (18.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (9.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 11 (34.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (53.13%) Terraform
2 16 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (15.63%) Prometheus
4 4 (12.50%) Istio
5 3 (9.38%) Consul
5 3 (9.38%) Grafana
5 3 (9.38%) Puppet
6 2 (6.25%) Ansible
7 1 (3.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Google
2 3 (9.38%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.25%) IBM
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.25%) Sybase