Lead DevOps Jobs in England

Lead Development Operations
UK > England

The median Lead Development Operations salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 698 701 755
Rank change year-on-year +3 +54 -124
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 139 243 411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.26% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.29% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 124 201 244
10th Percentile £66,500 £70,000 £63,750
25th Percentile £72,583 £75,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £92,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £109,250 £115,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £81,250 £90,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -9.72% +2.86% +6.06%

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 80,754 84,293 127,933
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.52% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 60,385 53,462 75,679
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 £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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 +61 58 £80,000 -20.00% 12
South East +18 40 £90,000 +16.13% 3
North of England +30 18 £68,000 -20.00% 10
Midlands +18 12 £82,500 +32.00% 3
Yorkshire +82 11 £68,000 -18.81% 3
West Midlands +27 8 £82,500 +19.13% 1
South West -38 6 £76,000 -20.00%
East Midlands -11 4 £81,250 +35.42% 2
North East - 4 £56,250 -
North West +3 3 £110,000 +22.22% 7
East of England - 1 £100,000 -
Lead DevOps
UK

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

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

1 139 (100.00%) DevOps
2 90 (64.75%) AWS
3 79 (56.83%) Kubernetes
3 79 (56.83%) CI/CD
4 70 (50.36%) Terraform
5 61 (43.88%) Docker
6 60 (43.17%) Containerisation
7 54 (38.85%) Azure
8 46 (33.09%) Python
9 43 (30.94%) Microservices
10 41 (29.50%) Infrastructure as Code
11 37 (26.62%) Jenkins
11 37 (26.62%) Java
12 35 (25.18%) Linux
13 33 (23.74%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (23.02%) Azure DevOps
15 31 (22.30%) .NET
16 28 (20.14%) Agile
17 26 (18.71%) Deployment Automation
17 26 (18.71%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (18.71%) Social Skills
18 25 (17.99%) Mentoring
18 25 (17.99%) PowerShell
19 23 (16.55%) Git
20 21 (15.11%) Public Cloud
21 20 (14.39%) AWS Certification
21 20 (14.39%) Security Cleared
22 19 (13.67%) SaaS
23 18 (12.95%) Amazon EKS
23 18 (12.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

Lead DevOps 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 6 (4.32%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 90 (64.75%) AWS
2 54 (38.85%) Azure
3 32 (23.02%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (18.71%) Amazon ECS
5 19 (13.67%) SaaS
6 18 (12.95%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (12.23%) GitHub
8 16 (11.51%) GCP
9 15 (10.79%) Datadog
10 14 (10.07%) Serverless
11 13 (9.35%) Amazon S3
11 13 (9.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (7.91%) Azure AKS
13 10 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (6.47%) Azure Functions
14 9 (6.47%) CloudFront
15 8 (5.76%) Akamai
15 8 (5.76%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (5.76%) AWS Fargate
15 8 (5.76%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.32%) DNS
2 1 (0.72%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.72%) VSAN
2 1 (0.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.35%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (3.60%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.88%) DB2
4 4 (2.88%) RDBMS
4 4 (2.88%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.16%) MySQL
6 1 (0.72%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (26.62%) Jenkins
2 23 (16.55%) Git
3 17 (12.23%) GitLab
4 9 (6.47%) CircleCI
5 7 (5.04%) TeamCity
6 6 (4.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.72%) Gatling
8 1 (0.72%) JUnit
8 1 (0.72%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.72%) Terragrunt
General
1 26 (18.71%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.23%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.35%) Finance
4 8 (5.76%) Automotive
4 8 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.04%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.88%) Banking
7 2 (1.44%) Marketing
8 1 (0.72%) Games
8 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.72%) Law
8 1 (0.72%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (22.30%) .NET
2 11 (7.91%) ARM Templates
3 10 (7.19%) YAML
4 7 (5.04%) REST
5 6 (4.32%) React
6 4 (2.88%) AWS CDK
6 4 (2.88%) Spring
6 4 (2.88%) Spring XD
7 3 (2.16%) CSS
7 3 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.16%) HTML
8 2 (1.44%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (1.44%) Node.js
9 1 (0.72%) Azure Blueprints
9 1 (0.72%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.11%) Public Cloud
2 11 (7.91%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.19%) Private Cloud
4 8 (5.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.76%) Mobile App
5 7 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.60%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.88%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (2.16%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.72%) IoT
9 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.72%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (25.18%) Linux
2 13 (9.35%) Windows
3 8 (5.76%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.88%) VMS
5 1 (0.72%) CentOS
5 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (100.00%) DevOps
2 79 (56.83%) CI/CD
3 60 (43.17%) Containerisation
4 43 (30.94%) Microservices
5 41 (29.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (23.74%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (20.14%) Agile
8 26 (18.71%) Deployment Automation
9 25 (17.99%) Mentoring
10 15 (10.79%) Continuous Delivery
10 15 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (10.79%) E-Commerce
10 15 (10.79%) Server Management
10 15 (10.79%) User Stories
10 15 (10.79%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 13 (9.35%) Cloud Security
12 12 (8.63%) Fintech
12 12 (8.63%) Scrum
12 12 (8.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 12 (8.63%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (33.09%) Python
2 37 (26.62%) Java
3 25 (17.99%) PowerShell
4 15 (10.79%) Bash
5 8 (5.76%) C#
6 7 (5.04%) SQL
7 5 (3.60%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.88%) Go
9 3 (2.16%) Groovy
10 2 (1.44%) Scala
11 1 (0.72%) C++
11 1 (0.72%) PHP
11 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (14.39%) AWS Certification
1 20 (14.39%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 15 (10.79%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.04%) Degree
5 6 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.88%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.16%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.72%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.47%) QA
2 3 (2.16%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.44%) SLA
4 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
System Software
1 61 (43.88%) Docker
2 9 (6.47%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.44%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 79 (56.83%) Kubernetes
2 70 (50.36%) Terraform
3 17 (12.23%) Puppet
4 15 (10.79%) Consul
5 10 (7.19%) Ansible
6 8 (5.76%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.88%) Grafana
7 4 (2.88%) Istio
8 3 (2.16%) Argo
9 2 (1.44%) Packer
10 1 (0.72%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.72%) Salt
Vendors
1 8 (5.76%) ForgeRock
1 8 (5.76%) Sitecore
2 7 (5.04%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.60%) Dynatrace
3 5 (3.60%) Google
4 4 (2.88%) IBM
4 4 (2.88%) Oracle
4 4 (2.88%) Sybase
5 3 (2.16%) Databricks
6 1 (0.72%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.72%) Splunk
6 1 (0.72%) VMware