Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 820 816 948
Rank change year-on-year -4 +132 -213
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 90 165 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.091% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.17% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 79 140 167
10th Percentile £66,500 £70,000 £63,750
25th Percentile £71,125 £76,750 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £93,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% +10.29% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £107,500 £106,875
90th Percentile £115,000 £113,875 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.03% +6.45% +10.71%

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 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 6 May 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 6 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
England +27 84 £80,000 -15.79% 22
UK excluding London -27 49 £80,000 -3.03% 13
Work from Home +31 44 £85,000 -5.56% 12
London +79 32 £85,000 -15.00% 7
South East +21 21 £80,000 +6.67% 1
North of England +31 15 £68,000 -24.44% 9
Yorkshire +81 10 £68,000 -18.81% 3
Midlands +18 7 £82,500 +5.10% 3
South West -33 6 £76,000 -20.00%
West Midlands +28 5 £82,500 +5.10% 1
North East - 3 £55,000 -
North West +6 2 £110,000 +22.22% 6
East Midlands -12 2 £81,250 +25.00% 2

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

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

1 90 (100.00%) DevOps
2 65 (72.22%) CI/CD
3 63 (70.00%) Kubernetes
4 58 (64.44%) AWS
5 55 (61.11%) Terraform
6 49 (54.44%) Containerisation
7 46 (51.11%) Docker
8 39 (43.33%) Python
9 36 (40.00%) Azure
10 31 (34.44%) Jenkins
10 31 (34.44%) Microservices
10 31 (34.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 30 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
13 23 (25.56%) Agile
14 21 (23.33%) .NET
14 21 (23.33%) PowerShell
15 20 (22.22%) Mentoring
15 20 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (21.11%) AWS Certification
16 19 (21.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 19 (21.11%) Git
16 19 (21.11%) Linux
17 18 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
17 18 (20.00%) Social Skills
17 18 (20.00%) GCP
18 16 (17.78%) GitLab
18 16 (17.78%) Public Sector
18 16 (17.78%) Security Cleared
18 16 (17.78%) Bash

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 (4.44%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 58 (64.44%) AWS
2 36 (40.00%) Azure
3 20 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 18 (20.00%) GCP
5 15 (16.67%) Datadog
6 13 (14.44%) GitHub
7 12 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (12.22%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (10.00%) SaaS
10 6 (6.67%) Amazon S3
11 5 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (5.56%) Azure Storage
12 4 (4.44%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (4.44%) Azure AKS
12 4 (4.44%) IBM Cloud
12 4 (4.44%) OpenShift
12 4 (4.44%) PaaS
12 4 (4.44%) Route 53
12 4 (4.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (1.11%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.11%) VSAN
2 1 (1.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.44%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.44%) DB2
4 4 (4.44%) RDBMS
4 4 (4.44%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (34.44%) Jenkins
2 19 (21.11%) Git
3 16 (17.78%) GitLab
4 7 (7.78%) CircleCI
5 5 (5.56%) TeamCity
6 4 (4.44%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (3.33%) JUnit
8 2 (2.22%) Selenium
8 2 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.22%) TestNG
9 1 (1.11%) Gatling
9 1 (1.11%) LoadRunner
General
1 18 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.78%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (7.78%) Finance
4 7 (7.78%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Banking
5 4 (4.44%) Legal
6 1 (1.11%) Automotive
6 1 (1.11%) Games
6 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.11%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.33%) .NET
2 10 (11.11%) YAML
3 9 (10.00%) ARM Templates
4 6 (6.67%) React
5 5 (5.56%) REST
6 4 (4.44%) AWS CDK
6 4 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (4.44%) Spring
6 4 (4.44%) Spring XD
7 3 (3.33%) CSS
7 3 (3.33%) HTML
7 3 (3.33%) Node.js
7 3 (3.33%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (2.22%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.89%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.78%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.44%) Blockchain
3 4 (4.44%) e-Learning
3 4 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.22%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.11%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.11%) Linux
2 10 (11.11%) Windows
3 6 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.44%) VMS
5 1 (1.11%) CentOS
5 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (100.00%) DevOps
2 65 (72.22%) CI/CD
3 49 (54.44%) Containerisation
4 31 (34.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (34.44%) Microservices
5 30 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
7 23 (25.56%) Agile
8 20 (22.22%) Mentoring
9 15 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
9 15 (16.67%) E-Commerce
9 15 (16.67%) Server Management
9 15 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 13 (14.44%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (13.33%) Coaching
12 10 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (11.11%) Scrum
12 10 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 9 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
14 8 (8.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (43.33%) Python
2 21 (23.33%) PowerShell
3 16 (17.78%) Bash
4 12 (13.33%) Java
5 7 (7.78%) Go
5 7 (7.78%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.56%) C#
6 5 (5.56%) SQL
7 3 (3.33%) Ruby
8 2 (2.22%) Groovy
8 2 (2.22%) Scala
9 1 (1.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (21.11%) AWS Certification
1 19 (21.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 16 (17.78%) Security Cleared
3 11 (12.22%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.44%) Degree
5 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.11%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.56%) QA
2 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 46 (51.11%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 63 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 55 (61.11%) Terraform
3 15 (16.67%) Consul
3 15 (16.67%) Puppet
4 8 (8.89%) Ansible
4 8 (8.89%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.44%) Grafana
5 4 (4.44%) Istio
6 1 (1.11%) Argo
6 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.11%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (7.78%) Red Hat
2 5 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 4 (4.44%) Google
3 4 (4.44%) IBM
3 4 (4.44%) Oracle
3 4 (4.44%) Sybase
4 3 (3.33%) Databricks
5 1 (1.11%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.11%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.11%) VMware