Lead DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Sheffield

Lead Development Operations Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in Sheffield is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 June 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 0.50% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £81,520 - -
25th Percentile £84,700 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median annual salary £90,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 773 277 1,129
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.91% 96.52% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 633 191 902
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
South Yorkshire median annual salary £49,884 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.02% - +5.56%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Lead DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Sheffield

Salary distribution trend for Lead DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield.

Salary distribution trend for Lead DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 Sheffield region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Community of Practice
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Community of Practice
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python