Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 807 793 927
Rank change year-on-year -14 +134 -186
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 94 167 298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.095% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 81 142 167
10th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £63,750
25th Percentile £70,500 £77,813 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £92,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +8.82% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £107,500 £111,875
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,125 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.03% +6.45% +6.90%

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 93,937 92,745 151,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,282 58,546 84,308
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 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
England +11 88 £80,000 -15.79% 19
UK excluding London -21 52 £80,000 -3.03% 11
Work from Home +36 45 £85,000 -5.56% 14
London +79 32 £85,000 -15.00% 7
South East +12 21 £80,000 +6.67% 1
North of England +29 18 £68,000 -24.44% 7
Yorkshire +67 12 £68,000 -20.00% 2
Midlands 0 7 £82,500 +5.10% 2
South West -25 6 £76,000 -20.00%
West Midlands +26 5 £82,500 +5.10% 1
North West -7 3 £110,000 +22.22% 5
North East - 3 £55,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £81,250 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 94 (100.00%) DevOps
2 68 (72.34%) CI/CD
3 67 (71.28%) Kubernetes
4 63 (67.02%) AWS
5 58 (61.70%) Terraform
6 52 (55.32%) Containerisation
7 49 (52.13%) Docker
8 39 (41.49%) Python
9 38 (40.43%) Azure
10 33 (35.11%) Jenkins
10 33 (35.11%) Infrastructure as Code
11 32 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (34.04%) Microservices
12 29 (30.85%) Deployment Automation
13 24 (25.53%) Agile
14 22 (23.40%) .NET
14 22 (23.40%) Mentoring
15 21 (22.34%) PowerShell
16 20 (21.28%) AWS Certification
16 20 (21.28%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (21.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 19 (20.21%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (20.21%) Social Skills
17 19 (20.21%) GCP
17 19 (20.21%) Git
18 18 (19.15%) Linux
18 18 (19.15%) Public Sector
19 17 (18.09%) GitLab
19 17 (18.09%) Security Cleared
19 17 (18.09%) Puppet

Lead DevOps Engineer 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 4 (4.26%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 63 (67.02%) AWS
2 38 (40.43%) Azure
3 20 (21.28%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (20.21%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (20.21%) GCP
5 16 (17.02%) Datadog
6 15 (15.96%) GitHub
7 13 (13.83%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (13.83%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (9.57%) SaaS
9 6 (6.38%) Amazon S3
10 5 (5.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (5.32%) Azure Storage
10 5 (5.32%) PaaS
11 4 (4.26%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (4.26%) Azure AKS
11 4 (4.26%) IBM Cloud
11 4 (4.26%) OpenShift
11 4 (4.26%) Route 53
11 4 (4.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.38%) DNS
2 1 (1.06%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.06%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.06%) VSAN
2 1 (1.06%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.83%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.32%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.26%) DB2
4 4 (4.26%) RDBMS
4 4 (4.26%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 33 (35.11%) Jenkins
2 19 (20.21%) Git
3 17 (18.09%) GitLab
4 9 (9.57%) CircleCI
5 5 (5.32%) TeamCity
6 4 (4.26%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (3.19%) JUnit
8 2 (2.13%) Selenium
8 2 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.13%) TestNG
9 1 (1.06%) Gatling
9 1 (1.06%) LoadRunner
General
1 19 (20.21%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.15%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.51%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (7.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (6.38%) Finance
6 4 (4.26%) Banking
6 4 (4.26%) Legal
7 1 (1.06%) Automotive
7 1 (1.06%) Games
7 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.40%) .NET
2 10 (10.64%) YAML
3 9 (9.57%) ARM Templates
4 6 (6.38%) React
5 5 (5.32%) REST
6 4 (4.26%) AWS CDK
6 4 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (4.26%) Spring
6 4 (4.26%) Spring XD
7 3 (3.19%) CSS
7 3 (3.19%) HTML
7 3 (3.19%) Node.js
7 3 (3.19%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (2.13%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (1.06%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.57%) Public Cloud
2 8 (8.51%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.26%) Blockchain
3 4 (4.26%) e-Learning
3 4 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (3.19%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.06%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.15%) Linux
2 10 (10.64%) Windows
3 6 (6.38%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.26%) VMS
5 1 (1.06%) CentOS
5 1 (1.06%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (100.00%) DevOps
2 68 (72.34%) CI/CD
3 52 (55.32%) Containerisation
4 33 (35.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (34.04%) Microservices
5 32 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (30.85%) Deployment Automation
7 24 (25.53%) Agile
8 22 (23.40%) Mentoring
9 16 (17.02%) Continuous Delivery
9 16 (17.02%) E-Commerce
9 16 (17.02%) Server Management
9 16 (17.02%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 14 (14.89%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (13.83%) Coaching
12 11 (11.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 10 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (10.64%) Scrum
14 9 (9.57%) Artificial Intelligence
14 9 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (41.49%) Python
2 21 (22.34%) PowerShell
3 15 (15.96%) Bash
4 13 (13.83%) Java
5 8 (8.51%) Go
6 7 (7.45%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.32%) C#
7 5 (5.32%) SQL
8 3 (3.19%) Ruby
9 2 (2.13%) Groovy
9 2 (2.13%) Scala
10 1 (1.06%) C++
Qualifications
1 20 (21.28%) AWS Certification
1 20 (21.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 17 (18.09%) Security Cleared
3 11 (11.70%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.26%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.26%) Degree
5 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.19%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.13%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.32%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.19%) GDPR
System Software
1 49 (52.13%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 67 (71.28%) Kubernetes
2 58 (61.70%) Terraform
3 17 (18.09%) Puppet
4 16 (17.02%) Consul
5 9 (9.57%) Ansible
6 8 (8.51%) Prometheus
7 4 (4.26%) Grafana
7 4 (4.26%) Istio
8 1 (1.06%) Argo
8 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.06%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (7.45%) Red Hat
2 5 (5.32%) Dynatrace
3 4 (4.26%) IBM
3 4 (4.26%) Oracle
3 4 (4.26%) Sybase
4 3 (3.19%) Databricks
4 3 (3.19%) Google
5 1 (1.06%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.06%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.06%) VMware