Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Lead Development Operations Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in Birmingham is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 146 140
Rank change year-on-year +38 -6 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 1 5 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.068% 0.18% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.19% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £82,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -
West Midlands median annual salary £110,000 £82,500 £78,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% +5.10% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,391 2,567 1,870
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 94.27% 93.41%
Number of salaries quoted 799 2,093 1,432
10th Percentile £33,100 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,914 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in Birmingham

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in Birmingham

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 Birmingham region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft