Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

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

 6 months to
2 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 405 544 580
Rank change year-on-year +139 +36 +137
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 8 45 91
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.053% 0.13% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.14% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6 44 85
10th Percentile £81,250 £65,975 £72,500
25th Percentile £83,438 £72,611 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £94,375 £100,859 £102,500
90th Percentile £103,125 £115,000 £114,500
UK median annual salary £87,500 £80,000 £93,750
% change year-on-year +9.38% -14.67% +10.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Lead DevOps Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead DevOps Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Lead DevOps Engineer.

Lead DevOps Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Lead DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Lead DevOps Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (75.00%) Docker
3 6 (75.00%) Azure
3 6 (75.00%) AWS
4 5 (62.50%) Python
5 4 (50.00%) Bash
5 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
5 4 (50.00%) Ansible
5 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
6 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
6 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
6 3 (37.50%) GCP
6 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (25.00%) Analytics
7 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
7 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (25.00%) Finance
7 2 (25.00%) Debian
7 2 (25.00%) Agile
7 2 (25.00%) Git
7 2 (25.00%) nginx
7 2 (25.00%) DNS
7 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
7 2 (25.00%) Java
7 2 (25.00%) MySQL

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (25.00%) nginx
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Solr
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Cloudflare
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
2 1 (12.50%) Internet
2 1 (12.50%) IPsec
2 1 (12.50%) SSH
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) Couchbase
2 1 (12.50%) Pentaho
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Gradle
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) JUnit
3 1 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (12.50%) Spinnaker
3 1 (12.50%) TestNG
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) Laravel
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) Next.js
1 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Market Risk
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Debian
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
6 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) Go
3 2 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) PHP
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Basel III
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) IFRS
1 1 (12.50%) IFRS 9
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) PMO
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (50.00%) Ansible
4 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) New Relic
2 1 (12.50%) YouTube
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