Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs in Leeds

Lead Development Operations Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in Leeds is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 June 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 122 150
Rank change year-on-year +46 +28 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 4 20 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.49% 0.78% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.81% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4 18 16
10th Percentile - - £78,750
25th Percentile - £66,500 £79,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £68,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.12% -24.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £62,813 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £76,875 £88,250 -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £68,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -19.12% -24.44% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 779 2,461 2,586
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 96.40% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 525 1,771 1,574
10th Percentile £27,850 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,778 £84,964 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +7.89%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in Leeds

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in Leeds

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 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 Leeds region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Server Management
2 3 (75.00%) Storage Management
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Vendor Relationship Management
2 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (75.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 3 (75.00%) Server Management
2 3 (75.00%) Storage Management
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Vendor Relationship Management
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft