Lead DevOps Jobs with Work from Home Options

Lead Development Operations
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Development Operations salary in Work from Home is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 522 644
Rank change year-on-year +17 +122 -178
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 83 133 230
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.33% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.34% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 80 116 133
10th Percentile £67,925 £69,249 £63,750
25th Percentile £76,250 £79,688 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £102,138 £104,395 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £119,375 £109,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,493 38,719 69,510
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.10% 95.92% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 24,836 27,518 42,305
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead DevOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead DevOps.

Lead DevOps salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead DevOps
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead DevOps over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Lead DevOps salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 21 May 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 83 (100.00%) DevOps
2 58 (69.88%) AWS
3 50 (60.24%) Kubernetes
4 47 (56.63%) CI/CD
5 38 (45.78%) Terraform
6 36 (43.37%) Docker
7 35 (42.17%) Containerisation
8 33 (39.76%) Python
9 29 (34.94%) Azure
10 27 (32.53%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (30.12%) Java
12 23 (27.71%) Microservices
12 23 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (24.10%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (24.10%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (22.89%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (22.89%) Jenkins
14 19 (22.89%) Git
14 19 (22.89%) SaaS
14 19 (22.89%) .NET
14 19 (22.89%) Linux
15 16 (19.28%) Social Skills
16 15 (18.07%) PowerShell
16 15 (18.07%) Mentoring
17 13 (15.66%) Continuous Improvement
17 13 (15.66%) Serverless
17 13 (15.66%) AWS Lambda
18 12 (14.46%) Azure AKS
18 12 (14.46%) Amazon S3
18 12 (14.46%) Bash

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (7.23%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 58 (69.88%) AWS
2 29 (34.94%) Azure
3 20 (24.10%) Amazon ECS
3 20 (24.10%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (22.89%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (22.89%) SaaS
5 13 (15.66%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (15.66%) Serverless
6 12 (14.46%) Amazon S3
6 12 (14.46%) Azure AKS
7 11 (13.25%) GitHub
8 10 (12.05%) CloudFront
9 9 (10.84%) Akamai
9 9 (10.84%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (10.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (10.84%) AWS Fargate
9 9 (10.84%) Azure Functions
9 9 (10.84%) Cloudflare
10 6 (7.23%) Datadog
11 5 (6.02%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) DNS
1 1 (1.20%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.20%) VSAN
1 1 (1.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.61%) MySQL
3 2 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.41%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.20%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (22.89%) Git
1 19 (22.89%) Jenkins
2 8 (9.64%) GitLab
3 7 (8.43%) TeamCity
4 6 (7.23%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (3.61%) JUnit
6 2 (2.41%) Selenium
6 2 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.41%) TestNG
7 1 (1.20%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.20%) Gatling
7 1 (1.20%) LoadRunner
General
1 16 (19.28%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.84%) Automotive
3 4 (4.82%) Finance
3 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.41%) Banking
5 1 (1.20%) Games
5 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (22.89%) .NET
2 8 (9.64%) ARM Templates
3 5 (6.02%) YAML
4 4 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.61%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.41%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (2.41%) Node.js
6 2 (2.41%) React
7 1 (1.20%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.20%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.20%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (1.20%) CSS
7 1 (1.20%) HTML
7 1 (1.20%) Kafka
7 1 (1.20%) REST
7 1 (1.20%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Cloud Native
1 10 (12.05%) Public Cloud
2 9 (10.84%) Mobile App
3 8 (9.64%) Private Cloud
4 4 (4.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.20%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.20%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.89%) Linux
2 5 (6.02%) Windows
3 4 (4.82%) VMS
4 1 (1.20%) CentOS
4 1 (1.20%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.20%) Unix
4 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (100.00%) DevOps
2 47 (56.63%) CI/CD
3 35 (42.17%) Containerisation
4 27 (32.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (27.71%) Microservices
5 23 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (18.07%) Mentoring
7 13 (15.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (14.46%) Agile
9 11 (13.25%) DevSecOps
10 10 (12.05%) Collaborative Culture
10 10 (12.05%) Deployment Automation
10 10 (12.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 9 (10.84%) Architectural Design
11 9 (10.84%) Content Management
11 9 (10.84%) Digital Content Management
11 9 (10.84%) Fintech
11 9 (10.84%) Performance Monitoring
11 9 (10.84%) User Stories
12 7 (8.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 33 (39.76%) Python
2 25 (30.12%) Java
3 15 (18.07%) PowerShell
4 12 (14.46%) Bash
5 5 (6.02%) SQL
6 4 (4.82%) Go
6 4 (4.82%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.61%) Groovy
8 2 (2.41%) C#
8 2 (2.41%) Scala
9 1 (1.20%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (13.25%) AWS Certification
1 11 (13.25%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 8 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.82%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) QA
2 3 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.41%) SLA
4 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
System Software
1 36 (43.37%) Docker
2 9 (10.84%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 50 (60.24%) Kubernetes
2 38 (45.78%) Terraform
3 9 (10.84%) Puppet
4 6 (7.23%) Ansible
4 6 (7.23%) Consul
5 5 (6.02%) Grafana
5 5 (6.02%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.82%) Karpenter
7 2 (2.41%) Istio
7 2 (2.41%) Packer
8 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (10.84%) ForgeRock
1 9 (10.84%) Sitecore
2 3 (3.61%) Databricks
2 3 (3.61%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.41%) Google
4 1 (1.20%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.20%) Splunk
4 1 (1.20%) VMware