Lead DevOps Jobs in the Midlands

Lead Development Operations
England > Midlands

The median Lead Development Operations salary in the Midlands is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 April 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
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 322 340
Rank change year-on-year +18 +18 -90
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 12 12 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.11% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10 11 18
10th Percentile £75,250 £51,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £76,250 £54,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% -3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £89,688 £73,875 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,375 £80,250 -
England median annual salary £82,500 £92,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -10.33% +8.24% +3.03%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 10,735 8,819 10,308
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 89.51% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 8,182 4,852 7,214
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,406 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,047 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.07% +0.08% +9.09%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in the Midlands

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps in the Midlands

Lead DevOps
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps in the Midlands

Lead DevOps
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead DevOps within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
West Midlands +36 8 £82,500 +19.13%
East Midlands -6 4 £81,750 +25.77% 2
Lead DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 April 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 Midlands region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 8 (66.67%) Azure
4 7 (58.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (58.33%) QA
4 7 (58.33%) Release Management
4 7 (58.33%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (58.33%) Collaborative Culture
5 6 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (50.00%) Cloud Native
5 6 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (50.00%) IIS
5 6 (50.00%) High Availability
5 6 (50.00%) TeamCity
6 5 (41.67%) SaaS
6 5 (41.67%) Windows
6 5 (41.67%) Terraform
7 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
7 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 4 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
7 4 (33.33%) VMS
7 4 (33.33%) AWS
7 4 (33.33%) Azure Certification
8 3 (25.00%) Docker
9 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 2 (16.67%) GCP

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (50.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) SaaS
4 4 (33.33%) AWS
5 2 (16.67%) GCP
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 6 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (8.33%) Terragrunt
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) VMS
3 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (58.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 7 (58.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (58.33%) Release Management
4 6 (50.00%) High Availability
4 6 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 2 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
7 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (8.33%) Fintech
7 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
7 1 (8.33%) Microservices
7 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
7 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (41.67%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk