Lead DevOps Jobs in England

Lead Development Operations
UK > England

The median Lead Development Operations salary in England is £82,500 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 718 673 755
Rank change year-on-year -45 +82 -107
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 147 230 458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.27% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.30% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 129 195 251
10th Percentile £66,500 £71,250 £66,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £92,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% +2.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £106,250
90th Percentile £108,000 £112,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
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 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 +51 57 £80,000 -20.00% 11
South East +2 40 £90,000 +16.13% 4
North of England +11 26 £68,000 -22.29% 8
Yorkshire +50 17 £68,000 -20.00% 6
Midlands -9 11 £82,500 +43.48% 9
West Midlands -13 7 £82,500 +37.50% 6
South West -33 6 £76,000 -20.00% 2
North West -17 5 £110,000 +22.22% 2
East Midlands -15 4 £82,500 +50.00% 3
North East - 4 £56,250 -
East of England - 1 £100,000 -
Lead DevOps
UK

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

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

1 147 (100.00%) DevOps
2 101 (68.71%) AWS
3 89 (60.54%) Kubernetes
4 84 (57.14%) CI/CD
5 73 (49.66%) Terraform
6 68 (46.26%) Docker
7 64 (43.54%) Containerisation
8 58 (39.46%) Azure
9 46 (31.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 44 (29.93%) Microservices
10 44 (29.93%) Python
11 37 (25.17%) Jenkins
12 35 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (23.13%) Java
14 32 (21.77%) Azure DevOps
15 31 (21.09%) Mentoring
15 31 (21.09%) .NET
16 29 (19.73%) Linux
16 29 (19.73%) Agile
16 29 (19.73%) Amazon ECS
17 28 (19.05%) Deployment Automation
18 27 (18.37%) Social Skills
18 27 (18.37%) Git
19 23 (15.65%) PowerShell
19 23 (15.65%) Amazon EKS
20 22 (14.97%) Public Cloud
20 22 (14.97%) GitHub
21 21 (14.29%) Security Cleared
21 21 (14.29%) Public Sector
22 20 (13.61%) AWS Certification

Lead DevOps 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 6 (4.08%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 101 (68.71%) AWS
2 58 (39.46%) Azure
3 32 (21.77%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (19.73%) Amazon ECS
5 23 (15.65%) Amazon EKS
6 22 (14.97%) GitHub
7 20 (13.61%) SaaS
8 19 (12.93%) GCP
9 17 (11.56%) Amazon S3
10 15 (10.20%) Serverless
11 14 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (9.52%) Datadog
12 12 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (8.16%) Azure AKS
12 12 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (6.80%) CloudFront
14 9 (6.12%) Akamai
14 9 (6.12%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (6.12%) AWS Fargate
14 9 (6.12%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.08%) DNS
2 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.68%) VSAN
2 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.40%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.72%) DB2
5 4 (2.72%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.72%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.04%) MySQL
7 2 (1.36%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 37 (25.17%) Jenkins
2 27 (18.37%) Git
3 18 (12.24%) GitLab
4 13 (8.84%) CircleCI
5 7 (4.76%) TeamCity
6 6 (4.08%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.68%) Gatling
8 1 (0.68%) JUnit
8 1 (0.68%) LoadRunner
General
1 27 (18.37%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 10 (6.80%) Organisational Skills
4 9 (6.12%) Automotive
4 9 (6.12%) Finance
5 5 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.72%) Banking
7 2 (1.36%) Marketing
8 1 (0.68%) Games
8 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.68%) Law
8 1 (0.68%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (21.09%) .NET
2 11 (7.48%) ARM Templates
3 10 (6.80%) YAML
4 7 (4.76%) React
4 7 (4.76%) REST
5 4 (2.72%) AWS CDK
5 4 (2.72%) Spring
5 4 (2.72%) Spring XD
6 3 (2.04%) CSS
6 3 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.04%) HTML
7 2 (1.36%) Kafka
7 2 (1.36%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (1.36%) Node.js
8 1 (0.68%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.68%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Blueprints
8 1 (0.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.97%) Public Cloud
2 11 (7.48%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.80%) Private Cloud
4 9 (6.12%) Mobile App
5 8 (5.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.40%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.72%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (2.04%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.68%) IoT
10 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 29 (19.73%) Linux
2 12 (8.16%) Windows
3 8 (5.44%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.72%) VMS
5 1 (0.68%) CentOS
5 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (100.00%) DevOps
2 84 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 64 (43.54%) Containerisation
4 46 (31.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (29.93%) Microservices
6 35 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (21.09%) Mentoring
8 29 (19.73%) Agile
9 28 (19.05%) Deployment Automation
10 18 (12.24%) Software Engineering
11 15 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (10.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (9.52%) Continuous Delivery
12 14 (9.52%) E-Commerce
12 14 (9.52%) Server Management
12 14 (9.52%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 13 (8.84%) Cloud Security
13 13 (8.84%) Scrum
14 12 (8.16%) Coaching
14 12 (8.16%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 44 (29.93%) Python
2 34 (23.13%) Java
3 23 (15.65%) PowerShell
4 12 (8.16%) Bash
5 8 (5.44%) C#
5 8 (5.44%) SQL
6 5 (3.40%) Go
6 5 (3.40%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.04%) Groovy
8 2 (1.36%) Scala
9 1 (0.68%) C++
Qualifications
1 21 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.61%) AWS Certification
3 17 (11.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 14 (9.52%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.08%) Degree
6 5 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.72%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.04%) BC Cleared
8 3 (2.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.76%) QA
2 3 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.36%) SLA
4 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 68 (46.26%) Docker
2 12 (8.16%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 89 (60.54%) Kubernetes
2 73 (49.66%) Terraform
3 17 (11.56%) Puppet
4 14 (9.52%) Consul
5 10 (6.80%) Ansible
6 9 (6.12%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.40%) Grafana
8 4 (2.72%) Istio
9 3 (2.04%) Argo
9 3 (2.04%) Karpenter
10 2 (1.36%) Packer
11 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.68%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (6.12%) ForgeRock
1 9 (6.12%) Sitecore
2 7 (4.76%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.40%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.72%) IBM
4 4 (2.72%) Oracle
4 4 (2.72%) Sybase
5 3 (2.04%) Databricks
6 2 (1.36%) Google
6 2 (1.36%) Splunk
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.68%) VMware