Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 702 682 783
Rank change year-on-year -20 +101 -151
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 53 68 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 46 55 66
10th Percentile £66,500 £68,497 £52,434
25th Percentile £66,750 £72,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £109,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 69,645 52,139 69,731
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.14% 95.71%
Number of salaries quoted 49,228 29,915 42,540
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 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
North of England +18 20 £68,000 -24.44% 8
South East +8 20 £80,000 +6.67% 7
Yorkshire +57 14 £68,000 -20.00% 4
Midlands -5 7 £82,500 +5.10% 3
South West -17 6 £76,000 -20.00% 2
West Midlands +16 5 £82,500 +5.10% 3
North West -1 3 £110,000 +18.92% 4
North East - 3 £55,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £81,250 -
Lead DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 53 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (83.02%) Kubernetes
3 43 (81.13%) AWS
4 37 (69.81%) CI/CD
5 36 (67.92%) Terraform
6 35 (66.04%) Docker
7 28 (52.83%) Containerisation
8 21 (39.62%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (37.74%) Deployment Automation
10 18 (33.96%) Azure
11 17 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (30.19%) Public Sector
13 15 (28.30%) Jenkins
14 14 (26.42%) .NET
14 14 (26.42%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (24.53%) GCP
16 12 (22.64%) Microservices
17 11 (20.75%) AWS Certification
17 11 (20.75%) GitLab
17 11 (20.75%) Datadog
17 11 (20.75%) Continuous Delivery
17 11 (20.75%) GitHub
17 11 (20.75%) Consul
17 11 (20.75%) E-Commerce
17 11 (20.75%) Vulnerability Assessment
17 11 (20.75%) Puppet
17 11 (20.75%) Security Cleared
17 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
17 11 (20.75%) Server Management
17 11 (20.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.55%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 43 (81.13%) AWS
2 18 (33.96%) Azure
3 14 (26.42%) Amazon ECS
4 13 (24.53%) GCP
5 11 (20.75%) Datadog
5 11 (20.75%) GitHub
6 9 (16.98%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (15.09%) SaaS
8 7 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (11.32%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (5.66%) Amazon S3
11 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (3.77%) Azure AKS
11 2 (3.77%) CloudFront
11 2 (3.77%) IBM Cloud
11 2 (3.77%) OCI
11 2 (3.77%) OpenShift
11 2 (3.77%) PaaS
11 2 (3.77%) Route 53
11 2 (3.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.89%) VSAN
1 1 (1.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.32%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.66%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.77%) DB2
3 2 (3.77%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.89%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (28.30%) Jenkins
2 11 (20.75%) GitLab
3 9 (16.98%) CircleCI
4 5 (9.43%) TeamCity
5 4 (7.55%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (3.77%) Git
General
1 16 (30.19%) Public Sector
2 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.98%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.89%) Automotive
5 1 (1.89%) Banking
5 1 (1.89%) Finance
5 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (26.42%) .NET
2 3 (5.66%) AWS CDK
3 2 (3.77%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (3.77%) Spring
3 2 (3.77%) Spring XD
4 1 (1.89%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (16.98%) Public Cloud
2 7 (13.21%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (3.77%) Blockchain
4 2 (3.77%) e-Learning
4 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.77%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.21%) Linux
2 5 (9.43%) Windows
3 4 (7.55%) VMS
4 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (69.81%) CI/CD
3 28 (52.83%) Containerisation
4 21 (39.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (37.74%) Deployment Automation
6 17 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (22.64%) Microservices
8 11 (20.75%) Continuous Delivery
8 11 (20.75%) E-Commerce
8 11 (20.75%) Server Management
8 11 (20.75%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 10 (18.87%) Mentoring
10 9 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (13.21%) Agile
11 7 (13.21%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (13.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 4 (7.55%) Coaching
12 4 (7.55%) Collaborative Culture
12 4 (7.55%) Continuous Integration
12 4 (7.55%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.87%) Python
2 8 (15.09%) PowerShell
3 6 (11.32%) Bash
4 4 (7.55%) Java
4 4 (7.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (20.75%) AWS Certification
1 11 (20.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 11 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.77%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.89%) Degree
5 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) QA
2 3 (5.66%) Data Quality
System Software
1 35 (66.04%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.89%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 44 (83.02%) Kubernetes
2 36 (67.92%) Terraform
3 11 (20.75%) Consul
3 11 (20.75%) Puppet
4 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.89%) Ansible
5 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.89%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (9.43%) Red Hat
2 3 (5.66%) Databricks
3 2 (3.77%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.77%) IBM
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle
3 2 (3.77%) Sybase
4 1 (1.89%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.89%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.89%) VMware