Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £81,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 813 828 918
Rank change year-on-year +15 +90 -201
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 81 162 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.17% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 76 137 162
10th Percentile £66,500 £70,000 £63,750
25th Percentile £72,583 £75,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £92,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% +8.82% +1.49%
75th Percentile £95,625 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £114,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £78,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +1.91% +1.29% +14.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer.

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 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
England +28 75 £80,000 -15.79% 26
UK excluding London -10 46 £80,000 +1.91% 12
Work from Home +56 44 £85,000 -5.56% 21
London +72 27 £85,000 -15.00% 13
South East +24 20 £80,000 +6.67% 4
North of England +21 15 £68,000 -22.29% 4
Yorkshire +75 10 £68,000 -17.58% 1
Midlands +9 6 £82,500 +14.98% 3
West Midlands +21 5 £82,500 +5.10% 1
South West -22 5 £76,000 -20.00% 1
North East - 3 £55,000 -
North West +1 2 £93,750 +4.17% 3
East Midlands -16 1 £82,500 +26.92% 2

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 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 featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 81 (100.00%) DevOps
2 58 (71.60%) CI/CD
3 56 (69.14%) Kubernetes
4 51 (62.96%) Terraform
5 50 (61.73%) AWS
6 42 (51.85%) Docker
6 42 (51.85%) Containerisation
7 39 (48.15%) Python
8 31 (38.27%) Azure
9 29 (35.80%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (34.57%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (33.33%) Microservices
12 26 (32.10%) Jenkins
13 25 (30.86%) Deployment Automation
14 20 (24.69%) PowerShell
14 20 (24.69%) Linux
15 19 (23.46%) Agile
16 18 (22.22%) Bash
16 18 (22.22%) AWS Certification
16 18 (22.22%) GCP
16 18 (22.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 17 (20.99%) Amazon ECS
17 17 (20.99%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (20.99%) .NET
18 16 (19.75%) Mentoring
18 16 (19.75%) Social Skills
19 15 (18.52%) Puppet
19 15 (18.52%) Security Cleared
19 15 (18.52%) Git
20 14 (17.28%) E-Commerce

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.94%) IIS
2 1 (1.23%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 50 (61.73%) AWS
2 31 (38.27%) Azure
3 18 (22.22%) GCP
4 17 (20.99%) Amazon ECS
4 17 (20.99%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (17.28%) Datadog
6 11 (13.58%) GitHub
7 9 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (9.88%) SaaS
9 4 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.94%) Azure AKS
9 4 (4.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (4.94%) Azure Storage
9 4 (4.94%) Serverless
10 3 (3.70%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.47%) CloudFront
11 2 (2.47%) IaaS
11 2 (2.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) DNS
2 1 (1.23%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.23%) VSAN
2 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.47%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.23%) DB2
4 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.23%) MySQL
4 1 (1.23%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (32.10%) Jenkins
2 15 (18.52%) Git
3 14 (17.28%) GitLab
4 6 (7.41%) CircleCI
5 5 (6.17%) TeamCity
6 4 (4.94%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (3.70%) JUnit
8 2 (2.47%) Selenium
8 2 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.47%) TestNG
9 1 (1.23%) Gatling
9 1 (1.23%) LoadRunner
General
1 16 (19.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.35%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.64%) Finance
4 6 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.70%) Banking
5 3 (3.70%) Legal
6 1 (1.23%) Automotive
6 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.23%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.99%) .NET
2 9 (11.11%) ARM Templates
3 8 (9.88%) YAML
4 4 (4.94%) AWS CDK
4 4 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (4.94%) React
4 4 (4.94%) REST
5 3 (3.70%) Node.js
5 3 (3.70%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (2.47%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (1.23%) CSS
7 1 (1.23%) HTML
7 1 (1.23%) Spring
7 1 (1.23%) Spring XD
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.64%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.41%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (2.47%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.47%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.23%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.23%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (24.69%) Linux
2 9 (11.11%) Windows
3 5 (6.17%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.94%) VMS
5 1 (1.23%) CentOS
5 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (100.00%) DevOps
2 58 (71.60%) CI/CD
3 42 (51.85%) Containerisation
4 29 (35.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (34.57%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (33.33%) Microservices
7 25 (30.86%) Deployment Automation
8 19 (23.46%) Agile
9 16 (19.75%) Mentoring
10 14 (17.28%) Continuous Delivery
10 14 (17.28%) E-Commerce
10 14 (17.28%) Server Management
10 14 (17.28%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 10 (12.35%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (11.11%) Scrum
13 8 (9.88%) Collaborative Culture
13 8 (9.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 7 (8.64%) Coaching
14 7 (8.64%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 39 (48.15%) Python
2 20 (24.69%) PowerShell
3 18 (22.22%) Bash
4 8 (9.88%) Go
4 8 (9.88%) Java
5 7 (8.64%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.94%) C#
6 4 (4.94%) Ruby
6 4 (4.94%) SQL
7 2 (2.47%) Groovy
7 2 (2.47%) Scala
8 1 (1.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (22.22%) AWS Certification
1 18 (22.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 15 (18.52%) Security Cleared
3 11 (13.58%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.94%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.70%) Degree
5 3 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) QA
2 3 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 42 (51.85%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (69.14%) Kubernetes
2 51 (62.96%) Terraform
3 15 (18.52%) Puppet
4 14 (17.28%) Consul
5 7 (8.64%) Ansible
6 6 (7.41%) Prometheus
7 5 (6.17%) Grafana
8 3 (3.70%) Istio
9 2 (2.47%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.23%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (6.17%) Google
2 4 (4.94%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.70%) Databricks
4 2 (2.47%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.23%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.23%) IBM
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle
5 1 (1.23%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.23%) Splunk
5 1 (1.23%) Sybase
5 1 (1.23%) VMware