Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs in London

Lead Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £86,250 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 396 475 553
Rank change year-on-year +79 +78 +154
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 4 32 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.031% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.14% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4 28 64
10th Percentile £73,000 £71,750 £81,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £72,611 £89,837
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £85,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £102,188 £96,438 £110,000
90th Percentile £112,875 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £87,500 £80,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -15.79% +11.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,467 22,216 33,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.11% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,483 16,715 24,685
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,112 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +25 1 £120,000 +60.00% 2
East London - 1 £92,500 -
Lead DevOps Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Debian
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Kanban
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Git
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Docker
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Next.js
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) YouTube
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) GitOps
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Pulumi
4 1 (25.00%) Cloudflare

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) Drupal
1 1 (25.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
1 1 (25.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Pentaho
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Laravel
1 1 (25.00%) Loki
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) Next.js
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Debian
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Kanban
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Information Security
4 1 (25.00%) Line Management
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) Product Management
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Separation of Concerns
4 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) New Relic
2 1 (25.00%) YouTube