Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 770 751 900
Rank change year-on-year -19 +149 -165
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 95 150 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.18% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.20% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 81 129 166
10th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £68,750
25th Percentile £68,250 £78,750 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £107,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in England

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in England

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in England

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
London +72 31 £81,250 -18.75% 5
North of England +13 23 £68,000 -24.44% 7
South East +2 23 £80,000 +6.67% 4
Yorkshire +49 16 £68,000 -20.00% 6
Midlands -8 7 £82,500 +5.10% 6
South West -28 6 £76,000 -20.00% 2
West Midlands -11 5 £82,500 +5.10% 4
North West -13 4 £110,000 +22.22% 1
North East - 3 £55,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £81,250 - 2
Lead DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 across the England region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 95 (100.00%) DevOps
2 66 (69.47%) CI/CD
2 66 (69.47%) Kubernetes
3 63 (66.32%) AWS
4 55 (57.89%) Terraform
5 51 (53.68%) Containerisation
6 50 (52.63%) Docker
7 40 (42.11%) Azure
8 33 (34.74%) Infrastructure as Code
9 32 (33.68%) Python
10 31 (32.63%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (31.58%) Microservices
12 29 (30.53%) Jenkins
13 28 (29.47%) Deployment Automation
14 24 (25.26%) Mentoring
14 24 (25.26%) Agile
15 23 (24.21%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (22.11%) Public Sector
16 21 (22.11%) .NET
16 21 (22.11%) PowerShell
17 20 (21.05%) Social Skills
18 19 (20.00%) Git
19 18 (18.95%) Amazon ECS
19 18 (18.95%) AWS Certification
19 18 (18.95%) GCP
20 17 (17.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
20 17 (17.89%) Security Cleared
21 15 (15.79%) Puppet
21 15 (15.79%) GitLab
22 14 (14.74%) Datadog

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (4.21%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 63 (66.32%) AWS
2 40 (42.11%) Azure
3 23 (24.21%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (18.95%) Amazon ECS
4 18 (18.95%) GCP
5 14 (14.74%) Datadog
5 14 (14.74%) GitHub
6 13 (13.68%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (12.63%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (10.53%) SaaS
9 7 (7.37%) Amazon S3
10 6 (6.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (6.32%) PaaS
11 5 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
11 5 (5.26%) Azure Storage
11 5 (5.26%) Serverless
12 4 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (4.21%) Azure AKS
12 4 (4.21%) IBM Cloud
12 4 (4.21%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.32%) DNS
2 1 (1.05%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.05%) VSAN
2 1 (1.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.74%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.21%) DB2
4 4 (4.21%) RDBMS
4 4 (4.21%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.05%) MySQL
5 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (30.53%) Jenkins
2 19 (20.00%) Git
3 15 (15.79%) GitLab
4 11 (11.58%) CircleCI
5 5 (5.26%) TeamCity
6 4 (4.21%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.05%) Gatling
8 1 (1.05%) JUnit
8 1 (1.05%) LoadRunner
General
1 21 (22.11%) Public Sector
2 20 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (6.32%) Finance
5 5 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.21%) Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Automotive
7 1 (1.05%) Games
7 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Law
7 1 (1.05%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.11%) .NET
2 10 (10.53%) YAML
3 9 (9.47%) ARM Templates
4 7 (7.37%) React
5 5 (5.26%) REST
6 4 (4.21%) AWS CDK
6 4 (4.21%) Spring
6 4 (4.21%) Spring XD
7 3 (3.16%) CSS
7 3 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.16%) HTML
8 2 (2.11%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (1.05%) ASP.NET
9 1 (1.05%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (1.05%) Azure Blueprints
9 1 (1.05%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.58%) Public Cloud
2 10 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (8.42%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.21%) Blockchain
4 4 (4.21%) e-Learning
4 4 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (3.16%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.11%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.05%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.74%) Linux
2 10 (10.53%) Windows
3 6 (6.32%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.21%) VMS
5 1 (1.05%) CentOS
5 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (100.00%) DevOps
2 66 (69.47%) CI/CD
3 51 (53.68%) Containerisation
4 33 (34.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (32.63%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (31.58%) Microservices
7 28 (29.47%) Deployment Automation
8 24 (25.26%) Agile
8 24 (25.26%) Mentoring
9 14 (14.74%) Continuous Delivery
9 14 (14.74%) E-Commerce
9 14 (14.74%) Server Management
9 14 (14.74%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 13 (13.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (12.63%) Software Engineering
12 11 (11.58%) Coaching
12 11 (11.58%) Scrum
12 11 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (11.58%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 32 (33.68%) Python
2 21 (22.11%) PowerShell
3 13 (13.68%) Java
4 12 (12.63%) Bash
5 7 (7.37%) SQL
6 6 (6.32%) C#
7 5 (5.26%) Go
7 5 (5.26%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.11%) Groovy
8 2 (2.11%) Scala
9 1 (1.05%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (18.95%) AWS Certification
2 17 (17.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 17 (17.89%) Security Cleared
3 10 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.21%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.21%) Degree
5 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.16%) BC Cleared
5 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.16%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) QA
2 3 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 50 (52.63%) Docker
2 4 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.16%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.05%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 66 (69.47%) Kubernetes
2 55 (57.89%) Terraform
3 15 (15.79%) Puppet
4 14 (14.74%) Consul
5 7 (7.37%) Prometheus
6 6 (6.32%) Ansible
7 4 (4.21%) Istio
8 3 (3.16%) Grafana
8 3 (3.16%) Karpenter
9 1 (1.05%) Argo
9 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.05%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (7.37%) Red Hat
2 5 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 4 (4.21%) IBM
3 4 (4.21%) Oracle
3 4 (4.21%) Sybase
4 3 (3.16%) Databricks
5 1 (1.05%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.05%) Google
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.05%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.05%) VMware