Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 708 694 758
Rank change year-on-year -14 +64 -130
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 48 65 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.068% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 43 53 65
10th Percentile £66,500 £66,699 £52,434
25th Percentile £69,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +6.45% +10.71%
75th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £109,500 £109,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £93,750 £85,000
% change year-on-year -14.67% +10.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,682 54,970 67,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.26% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,230 31,194 42,991
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,777 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.04% - +9.09%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +15 21 £80,000 +6.67% 4
North of England +17 15 £68,000 -24.44% 7
Yorkshire +73 10 £68,000 -18.81% 1
Midlands +10 7 £82,500 +5.10% 3
West Midlands +27 5 £82,500 +5.10% 1
South West -20 5 £76,000 -20.00% 1
North East - 3 £55,000 -
North West -3 2 £110,000 +22.22% 6
East Midlands -11 2 £81,250 +25.00% 2
Lead DevOps Engineer
UK

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 39 (81.25%) AWS
4 35 (72.92%) CI/CD
5 32 (66.67%) Terraform
6 31 (64.58%) Docker
7 26 (54.17%) Containerisation
8 19 (39.58%) Deployment Automation
8 19 (39.58%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (31.25%) Jenkins
10 15 (31.25%) Azure
10 15 (31.25%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (29.17%) .NET
12 13 (27.08%) Microservices
13 12 (25.00%) AWS Certification
13 12 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
13 12 (25.00%) Consul
13 12 (25.00%) GitLab
13 12 (25.00%) Datadog
13 12 (25.00%) E-Commerce
13 12 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 12 (25.00%) Puppet
13 12 (25.00%) Public Sector
13 12 (25.00%) Server Management
13 12 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (20.83%) Security Cleared
14 10 (20.83%) Python
15 9 (18.75%) GCP
15 9 (18.75%) GitHub

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (8.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 39 (81.25%) AWS
2 15 (31.25%) Amazon ECS
2 15 (31.25%) Azure
3 12 (25.00%) Datadog
4 9 (18.75%) GCP
4 9 (18.75%) GitHub
5 8 (16.67%) SaaS
6 7 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (14.58%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (10.42%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.17%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.17%) CloudFront
8 2 (4.17%) Serverless
9 1 (2.08%) Akamai
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.08%) PaaS
9 1 (2.08%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.08%) VSAN
1 1 (2.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.08%) DB2
3 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.08%) MySQL
3 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 12 (25.00%) GitLab
3 7 (14.58%) CircleCI
4 5 (10.42%) TeamCity
5 4 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (4.17%) Git
General
1 12 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Automotive
4 1 (2.08%) Banking
4 1 (2.08%) Finance
4 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.17%) .NET
2 3 (6.25%) AWS CDK
3 2 (4.17%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (2.08%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.08%) Spring
4 1 (2.08%) Spring XD
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Cloud Native
1 7 (14.58%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (14.58%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.17%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.08%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.58%) Linux
2 5 (10.42%) Windows
3 4 (8.33%) VMS
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (72.92%) CI/CD
3 26 (54.17%) Containerisation
4 19 (39.58%) Deployment Automation
4 19 (39.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (27.08%) Microservices
7 12 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 12 (25.00%) E-Commerce
7 12 (25.00%) Server Management
7 12 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
10 5 (10.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 4 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
11 4 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (8.33%) Data Engineering
11 4 (8.33%) High Availability
11 4 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.83%) Python
2 8 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 6 (12.50%) Bash
4 4 (8.33%) SQL
5 3 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 12 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 10 (20.83%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.08%) BC Cleared
5 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.08%) Degree
5 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) QA
2 3 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 31 (64.58%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 40 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 32 (66.67%) Terraform
3 12 (25.00%) Consul
3 12 (25.00%) Puppet
4 1 (2.08%) Ansible
4 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.08%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 3 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.08%) ForgeRock
3 1 (2.08%) IBM
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle
3 1 (2.08%) Sitecore
3 1 (2.08%) Sybase
3 1 (2.08%) VMware