Lead DevOps Jobs

Lead Development Operations
UK

The median Lead Development Operations salary in the UK is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 721 682 798
Rank change year-on-year -39 +116 -93
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 121 208 512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.28% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 101 175 284
10th Percentile £66,500 £70,000 £72,500
25th Percentile £70,500 £77,500 £79,687
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +2.86%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £105,625
90th Percentile £110,556 £110,000 £118,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £82,818 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +10.34%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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 -41 118 £82,500 -8.33% 6
UK excluding London -52 65 £80,000 -3.40% 4
Work from Home -18 59 £85,000 -5.56% 3
London +28 50 £85,000 -7.61% 2
North of England -10 29 £68,000 -17.89%
Yorkshire +55 24 £68,000 -22.29%
South East +5 16 £96,250 +6.94% 2
Midlands -7 15 £82,500 +37.50% 1
East Midlands - 8 £80,000 -
West Midlands +2 7 £82,500 +37.50% 1
South West -12 5 £76,000 -17.84% 1
North West -25 4 £110,000 +32.82%
North East - 1 £100,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Lead DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 121 (100.00%) DevOps
2 80 (66.12%) Kubernetes
3 76 (62.81%) AWS
4 72 (59.50%) CI/CD
5 66 (54.55%) Azure
6 60 (49.59%) Terraform
7 54 (44.63%) Containerisation
8 53 (43.80%) Docker
9 37 (30.58%) Mentoring
9 37 (30.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 32 (26.45%) Microservices
10 32 (26.45%) GitHub
11 31 (25.62%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (23.97%) GCP
12 29 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (22.31%) Social Skills
13 27 (22.31%) Git
14 26 (21.49%) Python
15 25 (20.66%) Agile
15 25 (20.66%) Jenkins
15 25 (20.66%) Public Sector
16 24 (19.83%) Software Engineering
17 23 (19.01%) .NET
17 23 (19.01%) Amazon EKS
18 21 (17.36%) Deployment Automation
19 20 (16.53%) Amazon ECS
19 20 (16.53%) GitHub Actions
19 20 (16.53%) PowerShell
20 19 (15.70%) Amazon S3
20 19 (15.70%) Java

Lead DevOps 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 6 (4.96%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 76 (62.81%) AWS
2 66 (54.55%) Azure
3 32 (26.45%) GitHub
4 31 (25.62%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (23.97%) GCP
6 23 (19.01%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (16.53%) Amazon ECS
7 20 (16.53%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (15.70%) Amazon S3
9 18 (14.88%) SaaS
10 14 (11.57%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (11.57%) Serverless
11 10 (8.26%) Azure AKS
11 10 (8.26%) CloudFront
12 9 (7.44%) Akamai
12 9 (7.44%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (7.44%) AWS Fargate
12 9 (7.44%) Azure Functions
12 9 (7.44%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.13%) DNS
2 1 (0.83%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.83%) VSAN
2 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.40%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.61%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (6.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (4.13%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.31%) DB2
4 4 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.31%) RDBMS
4 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.48%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.65%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (22.31%) Git
2 25 (20.66%) Jenkins
3 17 (14.05%) CircleCI
4 14 (11.57%) GitLab
5 7 (5.79%) TeamCity
6 6 (4.96%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (3.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.48%) Gradle
8 3 (2.48%) Maven
8 3 (2.48%) Spinnaker
General
1 27 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.66%) Public Sector
3 15 (12.40%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (8.26%) Finance
5 9 (7.44%) Automotive
6 6 (4.96%) Banking
6 6 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Legal
8 2 (1.65%) Law
8 2 (1.65%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.83%) Games
9 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.83%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (19.01%) .NET
2 12 (9.92%) YAML
3 9 (7.44%) React
4 8 (6.61%) ARM Templates
5 5 (4.13%) REST
6 4 (3.31%) Spring
6 4 (3.31%) Spring XD
7 3 (2.48%) ASP.NET
7 3 (2.48%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (2.48%) CSS
7 3 (2.48%) HTML
7 3 (2.48%) Kafka
7 3 (2.48%) RESTful
8 2 (1.65%) Node.js
9 1 (0.83%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.83%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.88%) Public Cloud
2 15 (12.40%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.26%) Cloud Native
4 9 (7.44%) Mobile App
5 6 (4.96%) Blockchain
6 4 (3.31%) e-Learning
6 4 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.65%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.65%) IoT
9 1 (0.83%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.40%) Linux
2 11 (9.09%) Windows
3 7 (5.79%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (100.00%) DevOps
2 72 (59.50%) CI/CD
3 54 (44.63%) Containerisation
4 37 (30.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (30.58%) Mentoring
5 32 (26.45%) Microservices
6 29 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (20.66%) Agile
8 24 (19.83%) Software Engineering
9 21 (17.36%) Deployment Automation
10 17 (14.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 16 (13.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (12.40%) DevSecOps
13 14 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (9.92%) Scrum
15 11 (9.09%) Cloud Security
15 11 (9.09%) Coaching
15 11 (9.09%) SDLC
15 11 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
16 10 (8.26%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 26 (21.49%) Python
2 20 (16.53%) PowerShell
3 19 (15.70%) Java
4 9 (7.44%) C#
5 6 (4.96%) Bash
6 5 (4.13%) SQL
7 3 (2.48%) Go
7 3 (2.48%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.48%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.83%) C++
8 1 (0.83%) Groovy
8 1 (0.83%) Ruby
8 1 (0.83%) Scala
8 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (10.74%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.79%) AWS Certification
2 7 (5.79%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (3.31%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.31%) Degree
5 3 (2.48%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.96%) QA
2 3 (2.48%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.65%) SLA
4 1 (0.83%) GDPR
System Software
1 53 (43.80%) Docker
2 13 (10.74%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.31%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 80 (66.12%) Kubernetes
2 60 (49.59%) Terraform
3 7 (5.79%) Puppet
4 6 (4.96%) Consul
4 6 (4.96%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.13%) Ansible
6 3 (2.48%) Istio
7 2 (1.65%) Argo
7 2 (1.65%) Grafana
8 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.83%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (7.44%) ForgeRock
1 9 (7.44%) Sitecore
2 7 (5.79%) Red Hat
3 6 (4.96%) Google
3 6 (4.96%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.31%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.31%) IBM
4 4 (3.31%) Oracle
4 4 (3.31%) Sybase
5 2 (1.65%) Splunk
6 1 (0.83%) VMware