Lead DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Leicester

Lead Development Operations Engineer
Leicestershire > Leicester

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in Leicester is £83,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 0.19% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,000 - -
75th Percentile £85,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median annual salary £83,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Leicester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leicester. 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 Leicester with a recognized job title 489 129 401
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.95% 94.85% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 344 105 314
10th Percentile £30,550 £25,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £39,563 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,300 £75,000
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Lead DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Leicester

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester

For the 6 months to 27 March 2026, Lead DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Leicester region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform