Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs

Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £73,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 720 673 965
Rank change year-on-year -47 +292 -118
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 92 131 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.21% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 66 110 157
10th Percentile - £68,497 £73,750
25th Percentile £66,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £85,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.24% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,750 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% +8.47%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 78,779 63,766 151,746
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.39% 93.64% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 46,640 46,190 84,018
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £97,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.36%

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 7 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Top 14 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 7 September 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 -6 85 £73,500 -16.00% 8
UK excluding London -46 60 £70,000 -17.65% 5
North of England +3 38 £68,000 -24.44% 4
Yorkshire +41 32 £68,000 -24.44% 2
London +23 24 £85,000 - 3
Work from Home -23 24 £82,500 -2.94% 9
South East -22 8 £80,000 -25.58%
Midlands -25 8 £78,750 +1.61%
East Midlands -21 6 £75,000 -3.23%
North West -27 5 - - 2
South West -7 4 £76,000 -7.88% 1
West Midlands - 2 £80,000 -
Scotland - 2 - -
North East - 1 £100,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 7 September 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 92 (100.00%) DevOps
2 69 (75.00%) AWS
3 66 (71.74%) CI/CD
3 66 (71.74%) Terraform
4 58 (63.04%) Kubernetes
5 48 (52.17%) Azure
6 44 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 41 (44.57%) Docker
8 40 (43.48%) Containerisation
9 36 (39.13%) GCP
10 35 (38.04%) Mentoring
11 29 (31.52%) Public Sector
12 28 (30.43%) Social Skills
12 28 (30.43%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (30.43%) GitHub
13 27 (29.35%) Deployment Automation
14 23 (25.00%) CircleCI
14 23 (25.00%) Jenkins
14 23 (25.00%) Python
15 22 (23.91%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (23.91%) Public Cloud
16 21 (22.83%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (22.83%) Distributed Systems
17 19 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
18 18 (19.57%) Software Engineering
19 17 (18.48%) Git
19 17 (18.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 16 (17.39%) Coaching
20 16 (17.39%) Agile
21 14 (15.22%) .NET

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 1 (1.09%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 69 (75.00%) AWS
2 48 (52.17%) Azure
3 36 (39.13%) GCP
4 28 (30.43%) GitHub
4 28 (30.43%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (14.13%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (9.78%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (9.78%) SaaS
7 7 (7.61%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (7.61%) Amazon S3
7 7 (7.61%) Datadog
8 5 (5.43%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (5.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (5.43%) PaaS
8 5 (5.43%) Pulumi
8 5 (5.43%) Route 53
8 5 (5.43%) Serverless
9 4 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (4.35%) OCI
9 4 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.26%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.87%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.35%) DB2
3 4 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.35%) RDBMS
3 4 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.26%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.09%) MySQL
5 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (25.00%) CircleCI
1 23 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 17 (18.48%) Git
3 13 (14.13%) GitLab
4 4 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (3.26%) Gradle
5 3 (3.26%) Maven
5 3 (3.26%) Spinnaker
6 1 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.09%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (31.52%) Public Sector
2 28 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 21 (22.83%) Organisational Skills
4 13 (14.13%) Finance
5 9 (9.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.43%) Banking
6 5 (5.43%) Law
6 5 (5.43%) Legal
7 3 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Games
8 1 (1.09%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.22%) .NET
2 7 (7.61%) React
3 6 (6.52%) YAML
4 4 (4.35%) Spring
4 4 (4.35%) Spring XD
5 3 (3.26%) ASP.NET
5 3 (3.26%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (3.26%) CSS
5 3 (3.26%) HTML
5 3 (3.26%) RESTful
6 1 (1.09%) Node.js
6 1 (1.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.91%) Public Cloud
2 21 (22.83%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.52%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.35%) Blockchain
4 4 (4.35%) e-Learning
4 4 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.17%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.09%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.52%) Linux
2 3 (3.26%) Windows
3 2 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (100.00%) DevOps
2 66 (71.74%) CI/CD
3 44 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (43.48%) Containerisation
5 35 (38.04%) Mentoring
6 27 (29.35%) Deployment Automation
7 22 (23.91%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (19.57%) Software Engineering
10 17 (18.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 16 (17.39%) Agile
11 16 (17.39%) Coaching
12 14 (15.22%) Cloud Security
12 14 (15.22%) Microservices
13 13 (14.13%) Configuration Management
14 11 (11.96%) Observability
15 9 (9.78%) Continuous Delivery
15 9 (9.78%) Fintech
16 8 (8.70%) SDLC
17 6 (6.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (25.00%) Python
2 11 (11.96%) Java
3 10 (10.87%) Bash
4 8 (8.70%) Go
5 7 (7.61%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.43%) C#
6 5 (5.43%) SQL
7 3 (3.26%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.09%) C++
8 1 (1.09%) Groovy
8 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.09%) Scala
8 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (8.70%) AWS Certification
2 6 (6.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 5 (5.43%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.35%) Degree
5 3 (3.26%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.09%) QA
System Software
1 41 (44.57%) Docker
2 4 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (71.74%) Terraform
2 58 (63.04%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.70%) Ansible
3 8 (8.70%) Puppet
4 6 (6.52%) Consul
5 5 (5.43%) Argo
5 5 (5.43%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.26%) Istio
7 1 (1.09%) Grafana
7 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (9.78%) Google
2 6 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.52%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.35%) Dynatrace
3 4 (4.35%) IBM
3 4 (4.35%) Oracle
3 4 (4.35%) Sybase
4 1 (1.09%) Splunk