Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London 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 709 668 762
Rank change year-on-year -41 +94 -123
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 59 68 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50 55 65
10th Percentile £66,500 £68,497 £52,434
25th Percentile £66,750 £72,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +8.47%
75th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
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 the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (77.97%) AWS
3 45 (76.27%) Kubernetes
4 40 (67.80%) CI/CD
5 37 (62.71%) Terraform
6 36 (61.02%) Docker
7 28 (47.46%) Containerisation
8 24 (40.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (35.59%) Azure
10 20 (33.90%) Deployment Automation
11 18 (30.51%) Public Sector
12 17 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (25.42%) GCP
13 15 (25.42%) Mentoring
14 14 (23.73%) Jenkins
15 13 (22.03%) .NET
15 13 (22.03%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (20.34%) Social Skills
16 12 (20.34%) Security Cleared
16 12 (20.34%) GitHub
17 11 (18.64%) Microservices
18 10 (16.95%) GitLab
18 10 (16.95%) Datadog
18 10 (16.95%) Continuous Delivery
18 10 (16.95%) Public Cloud
18 10 (16.95%) AWS Certification
18 10 (16.95%) CircleCI
18 10 (16.95%) Consul
18 10 (16.95%) Puppet
18 10 (16.95%) Python

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.78%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 46 (77.97%) AWS
2 21 (35.59%) Azure
3 15 (25.42%) GCP
4 13 (22.03%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (20.34%) GitHub
6 10 (16.95%) Datadog
6 10 (16.95%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (15.25%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (15.25%) SaaS
8 6 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (5.08%) Entra ID
9 3 (5.08%) PaaS
10 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.39%) CloudFront
10 2 (3.39%) IBM Cloud
10 2 (3.39%) OpenShift
10 2 (3.39%) Route 53
10 2 (3.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.69%) VSAN
1 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (5.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.39%) DB2
3 2 (3.39%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (23.73%) Jenkins
2 10 (16.95%) CircleCI
2 10 (16.95%) GitLab
3 5 (8.47%) TeamCity
4 4 (6.78%) Git
4 4 (6.78%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 18 (30.51%) Public Sector
2 12 (20.34%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.95%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Finance
5 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Automotive
6 1 (1.69%) Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.03%) .NET
2 3 (5.08%) AWS CDK
3 2 (3.39%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (3.39%) Spring
3 2 (3.39%) Spring XD
4 1 (1.69%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (16.95%) Public Cloud
2 7 (11.86%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.39%) Blockchain
5 2 (3.39%) e-Learning
5 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.39%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.86%) Linux
2 5 (8.47%) Windows
3 4 (6.78%) VMS
4 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (67.80%) CI/CD
3 28 (47.46%) Containerisation
4 24 (40.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (33.90%) Deployment Automation
6 17 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (25.42%) Mentoring
8 11 (18.64%) Microservices
9 10 (16.95%) Continuous Delivery
9 10 (16.95%) E-Commerce
9 10 (16.95%) Server Management
9 10 (16.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (16.95%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 8 (13.56%) Agile
10 8 (13.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence
12 6 (10.17%) Continuous Deployment
12 6 (10.17%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (10.17%) Data Engineering
13 5 (8.47%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.95%) Python
2 8 (13.56%) PowerShell
3 6 (10.17%) Bash
3 6 (10.17%) SQL
4 4 (6.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.95%) AWS Certification
2 10 (16.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.78%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.08%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.69%) Degree
6 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) QA
2 3 (5.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 36 (61.02%) Docker
2 4 (6.78%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 45 (76.27%) Kubernetes
2 37 (62.71%) Terraform
3 10 (16.95%) Consul
3 10 (16.95%) Puppet
4 2 (3.39%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.69%) Ansible
5 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.69%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (8.47%) Red Hat
2 3 (5.08%) Databricks
3 2 (3.39%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.39%) IBM
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle
3 2 (3.39%) Sybase
4 1 (1.69%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.69%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.69%) VMware