Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 751 760 878
Rank change year-on-year +9 +118 -158
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 88 160 270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.18% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.20% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 75 135 161
10th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £71,125 £78,750 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £90,625 £107,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £93,750 £85,000
% change year-on-year -14.67% +10.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 81,017 81,732 129,546
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,430 51,948 75,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 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
London +79 32 £85,000 -15.00% 6
South East +10 21 £80,000 +6.67% 1
North of England +12 18 £68,000 -24.44% 8
Yorkshire +74 12 £68,000 -20.00% 4
Midlands +10 7 £82,500 +5.10% 2
South West -26 6 £76,000 -20.00%
West Midlands +9 5 £82,500 +5.10% 1
North West -7 3 £110,000 +22.22% 4
North East - 3 £55,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £81,250 - 1
Lead DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 across the England region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 88 (100.00%) DevOps
2 63 (71.59%) Kubernetes
3 62 (70.45%) CI/CD
4 59 (67.05%) AWS
5 54 (61.36%) Terraform
6 51 (57.95%) Containerisation
7 48 (54.55%) Docker
8 35 (39.77%) Azure
9 33 (37.50%) Python
10 32 (36.36%) Microservices
11 31 (35.23%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (35.23%) Jenkins
12 29 (32.95%) Infrastructure as Code
13 28 (31.82%) Deployment Automation
14 22 (25.00%) .NET
15 21 (23.86%) Agile
15 21 (23.86%) PowerShell
16 20 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (21.59%) AWS Certification
17 19 (21.59%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (21.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 19 (21.59%) Mentoring
18 18 (20.45%) Social Skills
18 18 (20.45%) Public Sector
19 17 (19.32%) GitLab
19 17 (19.32%) Puppet
20 16 (18.18%) Git
20 16 (18.18%) Security Cleared
20 16 (18.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
20 16 (18.18%) E-Commerce

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 4 (4.55%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 59 (67.05%) AWS
2 35 (39.77%) Azure
3 20 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (21.59%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (18.18%) Datadog
5 16 (18.18%) GCP
6 12 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (13.64%) GitHub
7 10 (11.36%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (10.23%) SaaS
9 6 (6.82%) Amazon S3
10 5 (5.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (5.68%) Azure Storage
10 5 (5.68%) PaaS
11 4 (4.55%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (4.55%) Azure AKS
11 4 (4.55%) IBM Cloud
11 4 (4.55%) OCI
11 4 (4.55%) Route 53
11 4 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.82%) DNS
2 1 (1.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.14%) VSAN
2 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.77%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.68%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.55%) DB2
4 4 (4.55%) RDBMS
4 4 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (35.23%) Jenkins
2 17 (19.32%) GitLab
3 16 (18.18%) Git
4 9 (10.23%) CircleCI
5 5 (5.68%) TeamCity
6 4 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.14%) Gatling
8 1 (1.14%) JUnit
8 1 (1.14%) LoadRunner
General
1 18 (20.45%) Public Sector
1 18 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.82%) Finance
5 4 (4.55%) Banking
6 1 (1.14%) Automotive
6 1 (1.14%) Games
6 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.14%) Law
6 1 (1.14%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.00%) .NET
2 10 (11.36%) YAML
3 9 (10.23%) ARM Templates
4 6 (6.82%) React
5 5 (5.68%) REST
6 4 (4.55%) AWS CDK
6 4 (4.55%) Spring
6 4 (4.55%) Spring XD
7 3 (3.41%) CSS
7 3 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.41%) HTML
8 2 (2.27%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (1.14%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Public Cloud
2 8 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.55%) Blockchain
3 4 (4.55%) e-Learning
3 4 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (3.41%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.14%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.05%) Linux
2 10 (11.36%) Windows
3 6 (6.82%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.55%) VMS
5 1 (1.14%) CentOS
5 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (100.00%) DevOps
2 62 (70.45%) CI/CD
3 51 (57.95%) Containerisation
4 32 (36.36%) Microservices
5 31 (35.23%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (32.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (31.82%) Deployment Automation
8 21 (23.86%) Agile
9 19 (21.59%) Mentoring
10 16 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
10 16 (18.18%) E-Commerce
10 16 (18.18%) Server Management
10 16 (18.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 11 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (11.36%) Coaching
12 10 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (11.36%) Scrum
13 9 (10.23%) Artificial Intelligence
13 9 (10.23%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (37.50%) Python
2 21 (23.86%) PowerShell
3 14 (15.91%) Bash
4 13 (14.77%) Java
5 5 (5.68%) C#
5 5 (5.68%) Go
5 5 (5.68%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.68%) SQL
6 2 (2.27%) Groovy
6 2 (2.27%) Scala
7 1 (1.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (21.59%) AWS Certification
1 19 (21.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 16 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 10 (11.36%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.55%) Degree
5 3 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.41%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.27%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) QA
2 3 (3.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 48 (54.55%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 63 (71.59%) Kubernetes
2 54 (61.36%) Terraform
3 17 (19.32%) Puppet
4 16 (18.18%) Consul
5 7 (7.95%) Prometheus
6 6 (6.82%) Ansible
7 4 (4.55%) Istio
8 3 (3.41%) Grafana
9 1 (1.14%) Argo
9 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.14%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (7.95%) Red Hat
2 5 (5.68%) Dynatrace
3 4 (4.55%) IBM
3 4 (4.55%) Oracle
3 4 (4.55%) Sybase
4 3 (3.41%) Databricks
4 3 (3.41%) Google
5 1 (1.14%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.14%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.14%) VMware