Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs in London

Lead Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £81,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 555 720
Rank change year-on-year +95 +165 -189
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 31 81 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.25% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.26% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 26 67 94
10th Percentile £70,000 £79,500 £75,000
25th Percentile £72,611 £87,500 £83,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £99,313 £108,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £124,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £95,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,535 31,280 69,453
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.40% 95.12% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,745 23,071 34,798
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,108 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Central London +26 3 £75,000 -28.57%
South London - 3 £110,000 -
Lead DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 London region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (77.42%) CI/CD
3 22 (70.97%) Containerisation
4 19 (61.29%) Microservices
4 19 (61.29%) Azure
5 18 (58.06%) Python
6 17 (54.84%) Kubernetes
7 15 (48.39%) Terraform
7 15 (48.39%) Git
8 14 (45.16%) AWS
8 14 (45.16%) Agile
8 14 (45.16%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (45.16%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (41.94%) PowerShell
10 12 (38.71%) Docker
10 12 (38.71%) Jenkins
11 11 (35.48%) Scrum
12 10 (32.26%) YAML
13 8 (25.81%) Software Engineering
13 8 (25.81%) .NET
13 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
13 8 (25.81%) Mentoring
13 8 (25.81%) Deployment Automation
13 8 (25.81%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (25.81%) ARM Templates
13 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
14 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
14 7 (22.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (22.58%) Cloud Security
14 7 (22.58%) AWS Certification

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (61.29%) Azure
2 14 (45.16%) AWS
2 14 (45.16%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (19.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (16.13%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (16.13%) Azure Storage
5 4 (12.90%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (12.90%) Datadog
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
6 3 (9.68%) GCP
6 3 (9.68%) IaaS
6 3 (9.68%) PaaS
7 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (6.45%) Azure AKS
7 2 (6.45%) IBM Cloud
7 2 (6.45%) OCI
7 2 (6.45%) OpenShift
7 2 (6.45%) Pulumi
7 2 (6.45%) Route 53
7 2 (6.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.45%) DB2
3 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.45%) RDBMS
3 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (48.39%) Git
2 12 (38.71%) Jenkins
3 5 (16.13%) GitLab
4 2 (6.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.23%) Gatling
5 1 (3.23%) JUnit
5 1 (3.23%) LoadRunner
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Banking
2 3 (9.68%) Finance
2 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Law
4 1 (3.23%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) YAML
2 8 (25.81%) .NET
2 8 (25.81%) ARM Templates
3 7 (22.58%) React
4 5 (16.13%) REST
5 3 (9.68%) CSS
5 3 (9.68%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (9.68%) HTML
6 2 (6.45%) Spring
6 2 (6.45%) Spring XD
7 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET
7 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (3.23%) AWS CDK
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (3.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.45%) Blockchain
2 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.45%) e-Learning
2 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Linux
2 5 (16.13%) Windows
2 5 (16.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.23%) CentOS
3 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (77.42%) CI/CD
3 22 (70.97%) Containerisation
4 19 (61.29%) Microservices
5 14 (45.16%) Agile
5 14 (45.16%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (35.48%) Scrum
7 8 (25.81%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (25.81%) Mentoring
7 8 (25.81%) Software Engineering
7 8 (25.81%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (22.58%) Cloud Security
8 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (22.58%) Security Management
9 6 (19.35%) Coaching
9 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (19.35%) SDLC
10 5 (16.13%) Software Delivery
11 4 (12.90%) Continuous Delivery
11 4 (12.90%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Python
2 13 (41.94%) PowerShell
3 6 (19.35%) Bash
3 6 (19.35%) C#
3 6 (19.35%) Java
4 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
5 4 (12.90%) Go
6 2 (6.45%) Groovy
6 2 (6.45%) Scala
7 1 (3.23%) C++
7 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) AWS Certification
1 7 (22.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (9.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 12 (38.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (54.84%) Kubernetes
2 15 (48.39%) Terraform
3 5 (16.13%) Prometheus
4 4 (12.90%) Consul
4 4 (12.90%) Istio
4 4 (12.90%) Puppet
5 3 (9.68%) Grafana
5 3 (9.68%) Karpenter
6 2 (6.45%) Ansible
7 1 (3.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Dynatrace
2 2 (6.45%) IBM
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle
2 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
2 2 (6.45%) Sybase
3 1 (3.23%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft