Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Lead Development Operations Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in Bristol is £92,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 August 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 - 146
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.080% - 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% - 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £89,750
25th Percentile £88,750 - £93,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 - £102,500
75th Percentile £96,250 - £108,125
90th Percentile - - £109,250
South West median annual salary £92,500 £76,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +21.71% -10.59% +13.33%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in Bristol with a recognized job title 1,146 2,670 1,994
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 96.99% 94.32%
Number of salaries quoted 833 1,798 1,373
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
South West median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £54,361
% change year-on-year -4.63% -8.02% +8.72%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in Bristol

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for Lead DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Bristol.

Salary distribution trend for Lead DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Bristol

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 24 August 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 Bristol region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform