Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 759 772
Rank change year-on-year +119 +13 +114
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 15 84 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.032% 0.099% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.10% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 13 74 133
10th Percentile £66,500 £66,500 £72,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £71,750 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £107,250 £115,000 £113,250
UK median annual salary £87,500 £80,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +9.38% -13.51% +8.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 41,862 80,543 84,589
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.48% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,654 60,279 53,593
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,942 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in England

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in England

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in England

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. 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 +66 9 £87,500 +28.68% 3
North West +29 5 £88,750 -19.32% 2
London +79 4 £86,250 +1.47% 8
Yorkshire +68 4 £68,000 - 1
South East +80 1 £85,000 +6.25% 2
Midlands +61 1 £110,000 +33.33%
West Midlands +47 1 £110,000 +33.33%
Lead DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 England region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (93.33%) Terraform
3 13 (86.67%) CI/CD
4 12 (80.00%) Kubernetes
5 11 (73.33%) AWS
6 10 (66.67%) Azure
6 10 (66.67%) Docker
7 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
9 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
9 7 (46.67%) GCP
9 7 (46.67%) Python
10 5 (33.33%) GitHub
10 5 (33.33%) Bash
10 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
10 5 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (26.67%) Ansible
11 4 (26.67%) CircleCI
11 4 (26.67%) Linux
11 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
11 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (26.67%) Finance
11 4 (26.67%) Agile
11 4 (26.67%) Git
12 3 (20.00%) DNS
12 3 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
12 3 (20.00%) Go

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (13.33%) nginx
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Solr
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 10 (66.67%) Azure
3 7 (46.67%) GCP
4 5 (33.33%) GitHub
4 5 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
6 1 (6.67%) Cloudflare
6 1 (6.67%) Datadog
6 1 (6.67%) Pulumi
6 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) HTTPS
2 1 (6.67%) Internet
2 1 (6.67%) IPsec
2 1 (6.67%) SSH
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Couchbase
2 1 (6.67%) Pentaho
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (26.67%) CircleCI
2 4 (26.67%) Git
3 2 (13.33%) TeamCity
4 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (6.67%) Gradle
4 1 (6.67%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (6.67%) JIRA
4 1 (6.67%) JUnit
4 1 (6.67%) Maven
4 1 (6.67%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (6.67%) Selenium
4 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
4 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (6.67%) Spinnaker
4 1 (6.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (6.67%) TestNG
4 1 (6.67%) Travis CI
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.67%) Kafka
1 1 (6.67%) Laravel
1 1 (6.67%) Loki
1 1 (6.67%) Middleware
1 1 (6.67%) Next.js
1 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Credit Risk
2 1 (6.67%) IoT
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Market Risk
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Debian
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (86.67%) CI/CD
3 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
5 5 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (26.67%) Agile
6 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
6 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (13.33%) Analytics
8 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
8 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
8 2 (13.33%) Microservices
8 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (13.33%) SDLC
8 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (20.00%) Go
4 2 (13.33%) Java
5 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) PHP
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Basel III
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) IFRS
1 1 (6.67%) IFRS 9
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) PMO
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (93.33%) Terraform
2 12 (80.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (26.67%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) Automic
4 1 (6.67%) Consul
4 1 (6.67%) Grafana
4 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (6.67%) Rancher
4 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (6.67%) Hitachi
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) New Relic
2 1 (6.67%) YouTube