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 £68,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 393 421
Rank change year-on-year +24 +28 -65
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 15 35 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.087% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.22% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 15 24 27
10th Percentile £54,000 £66,250 £47,039
25th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £87,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.29% +12.90% +3.33%
75th Percentile £85,625 £95,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £102,500 £82,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £95,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,421 15,679 17,326
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 89.49% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,705 8,279 11,135
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,650 £65,225
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 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
Yorkshire +84 10 £68,000 -17.58% 1
North East - 3 £55,000 -
North West -4 2 £93,750 +4.17% 4
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 26 April 2024, 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 15 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 11 (73.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (73.33%) AWS
3 10 (66.67%) Docker
3 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
4 9 (60.00%) Containerisation
5 8 (53.33%) Terraform
5 8 (53.33%) Azure
6 7 (46.67%) GitHub
7 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (40.00%) Public Cloud
7 6 (40.00%) GCP
7 6 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
7 6 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
7 6 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (40.00%) CircleCI
7 6 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (33.33%) Python
9 3 (20.00%) ETL
9 3 (20.00%) SQL
9 3 (20.00%) Linux
9 3 (20.00%) Agile
9 3 (20.00%) Data Governance
9 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
9 3 (20.00%) Databricks
9 3 (20.00%) Line Management
9 3 (20.00%) Data Engineering

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
3 7 (46.67%) GitHub
4 6 (40.00%) GCP
4 6 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (13.33%) SaaS
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) CloudFront
6 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (6.67%) VSAN
1 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) CircleCI
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
1 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (13.33%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 11 (73.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (60.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (20.00%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (20.00%) ETL
5 3 (20.00%) Line Management
5 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (13.33%) Resource Management
7 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
7 1 (6.67%) Configuration Management
7 1 (6.67%) Customer Experience
7 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps
7 1 (6.67%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Go
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (53.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) VMware