Lead DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Suffolk

Lead Development Operations Engineer
East of England > Suffolk

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in Suffolk is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 March 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Suffolk 0.49% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £72,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £70,000 - £90,000

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Suffolk

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Suffolk. 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 Suffolk with a recognized job title 373 324 383
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 93.91% 96.96%
Number of salaries quoted 203 205 262
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £24,550
25th Percentile £35,125 £52,500 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £66,206 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% +55.78% -5.56%
75th Percentile £51,875 £66,268 £53,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £66,350 £63,625
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +9.09% -10.00%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Lead DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 12 March 2026. 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
Ipswich - 2 £70,000 - 2
Lead DevOps Engineer
East of England

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk

For the 6 months to 12 March 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 Suffolk region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft