Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Lead Development Operations Engineer
England > North of England

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in the North of England is £87,500 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 310 376 395
Rank change year-on-year +66 +19 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 9 15 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.082% 0.087% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.091% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 7 14 28
10th Percentile - £53,625 £66,250
25th Percentile £66,500 £66,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £68,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.68% -24.44% +16.13%
75th Percentile £91,875 £83,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,500 £87,500 £102,500
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
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,102 16,419 15,601
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.50% 94.97% 89.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,845 12,705 8,277
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,500 £81,250
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the North of England

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the North of England

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in the North of England

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +29 5 £88,750 -19.32% 2
Yorkshire +68 4 £68,000 - 1
Lead DevOps Engineer
England

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

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 North of England region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) Kubernetes
3 7 (77.78%) GCP
3 7 (77.78%) Docker
3 7 (77.78%) Azure
3 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
5 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
5 5 (55.56%) Python
6 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (44.44%) GitHub
6 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
6 4 (44.44%) CircleCI
6 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
7 3 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (33.33%) Public Cloud
7 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (33.33%) Finance
7 3 (33.33%) Bash
8 2 (22.22%) Git
8 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
8 2 (22.22%) Banking

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 7 (77.78%) GCP
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) CircleCI
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) Gradle
3 1 (11.11%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (11.11%) JUnit
3 1 (11.11%) Maven
3 1 (11.11%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (11.11%) Spinnaker
3 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
3 1 (11.11%) TestNG
3 1 (11.11%) Travis CI
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Credit Risk
2 1 (11.11%) Market Risk
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
7 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
7 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
7 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
8 1 (11.11%) Data Management
8 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
8 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
8 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
8 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
8 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Basel III
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) IFRS
1 1 (11.11%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
2 8 (88.89%) Kubernetes
3 2 (22.22%) Ansible
4 1 (11.11%) Automic
4 1 (11.11%) Consul
4 1 (11.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Hitachi