Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 807 815 934
Rank change year-on-year +8 +119 -231
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 82 163 281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.17% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 78 138 163
10th Percentile £66,500 £69,549 £63,750
25th Percentile £72,611 £73,125 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £92,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% +8.82% +1.49%
75th Percentile £96,875 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £76,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year +4.23% -0.97% +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 92,477 96,786 147,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 66,588 60,676 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,075
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 23 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 23 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 +32 76 £81,250 -14.47% 19
UK excluding London -13 46 £80,000 +4.23% 10
Work from Home +37 45 £85,000 -5.56% 13
London +79 28 £85,000 -15.00% 8
South East +21 20 £80,000 +6.67% 1
North of England +22 16 £68,000 -20.00% 6
Yorkshire +75 11 £68,000 -17.58% 2
Midlands +21 6 £82,500 +26.92% 3
West Midlands +33 5 £82,500 +5.10% 1
South West -15 4 £76,000 -20.00%
North East - 3 £55,000 -
North West -6 2 £93,750 +1.35% 4
East Midlands -13 1 £82,500 +26.92% 2

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 82 (100.00%) DevOps
2 58 (70.73%) CI/CD
3 57 (69.51%) Kubernetes
4 52 (63.41%) Terraform
5 49 (59.76%) AWS
6 43 (52.44%) Docker
7 41 (50.00%) Containerisation
8 40 (48.78%) Python
9 33 (40.24%) Azure
10 31 (37.80%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (32.93%) Microservices
13 25 (30.49%) Jenkins
13 25 (30.49%) Deployment Automation
14 21 (25.61%) PowerShell
15 20 (24.39%) Linux
16 18 (21.95%) Agile
16 18 (21.95%) AWS Certification
16 18 (21.95%) GCP
16 18 (21.95%) Bash
16 18 (21.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 17 (20.73%) Amazon ECS
17 17 (20.73%) Azure DevOps
18 16 (19.51%) Social Skills
18 16 (19.51%) Puppet
18 16 (19.51%) .NET
19 15 (18.29%) Security Cleared
19 15 (18.29%) Git
19 15 (18.29%) Mentoring
20 14 (17.07%) GitLab

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 (4.88%) IIS
2 1 (1.22%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 49 (59.76%) AWS
2 33 (40.24%) Azure
3 18 (21.95%) GCP
4 17 (20.73%) Amazon ECS
4 17 (20.73%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (17.07%) Datadog
6 11 (13.41%) GitHub
7 9 (10.98%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (9.76%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (9.76%) SaaS
9 5 (6.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (4.88%) Azure AKS
10 4 (4.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (4.88%) Azure Storage
10 4 (4.88%) Serverless
11 3 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.44%) CloudFront
12 2 (2.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) DNS
2 1 (1.22%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.22%) VSAN
2 1 (1.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (30.49%) Jenkins
2 15 (18.29%) Git
3 14 (17.07%) GitLab
4 6 (7.32%) CircleCI
4 6 (7.32%) TeamCity
5 5 (6.10%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (3.66%) JUnit
7 2 (2.44%) Selenium
7 2 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.44%) TestNG
8 1 (1.22%) Gatling
8 1 (1.22%) LoadRunner
General
1 16 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.98%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.54%) Finance
4 6 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.66%) Banking
6 3 (3.66%) Legal
7 1 (1.22%) Automotive
7 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.22%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.51%) .NET
2 9 (10.98%) ARM Templates
3 8 (9.76%) YAML
4 4 (4.88%) AWS CDK
4 4 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (4.88%) React
4 4 (4.88%) REST
5 3 (3.66%) Node.js
5 3 (3.66%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (2.44%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (1.22%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (1.22%) CSS
7 1 (1.22%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.54%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.32%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (2.44%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.44%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (24.39%) Linux
2 9 (10.98%) Windows
3 5 (6.10%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.88%) VMS
5 1 (1.22%) CentOS
5 1 (1.22%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (100.00%) DevOps
2 58 (70.73%) CI/CD
3 41 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 31 (37.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (32.93%) Microservices
7 25 (30.49%) Deployment Automation
8 18 (21.95%) Agile
9 15 (18.29%) Mentoring
10 14 (17.07%) Continuous Delivery
10 14 (17.07%) E-Commerce
10 14 (17.07%) Server Management
10 14 (17.07%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 9 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (10.98%) Scrum
11 9 (10.98%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (9.76%) Collaborative Culture
12 8 (9.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 7 (8.54%) Continuous Integration
14 6 (7.32%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (48.78%) Python
2 21 (25.61%) PowerShell
3 18 (21.95%) Bash
4 9 (10.98%) Go
5 7 (8.54%) Java
5 7 (8.54%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.10%) Ruby
7 4 (4.88%) C#
7 4 (4.88%) SQL
8 2 (2.44%) Groovy
8 2 (2.44%) Scala
9 1 (1.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (21.95%) AWS Certification
1 18 (21.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 15 (18.29%) Security Cleared
3 11 (13.41%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.88%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.66%) Degree
5 3 (3.66%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.54%) QA
2 3 (3.66%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.66%) GDPR
System Software
1 43 (52.44%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (69.51%) Kubernetes
2 52 (63.41%) Terraform
3 16 (19.51%) Puppet
4 14 (17.07%) Consul
5 7 (8.54%) Ansible
6 6 (7.32%) Grafana
6 6 (7.32%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.66%) Istio
7 3 (3.66%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.22%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (6.10%) Google
2 3 (3.66%) Databricks
2 3 (3.66%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.44%) Splunk
4 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.22%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.22%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.22%) VMware