Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 788 794 932
Rank change year-on-year +6 +138 -194
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 95 165 306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.095% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 82 139 168
10th Percentile £66,500 £72,000 £63,750
25th Percentile £70,500 £78,750 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £92,500 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +7.25% +1.47%
75th Percentile £92,500 £107,500 £111,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
% change year-on-year -5.88% +7.94% +8.62%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 94,483 90,798 154,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,539 57,358 84,412
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 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
England +27 88 £80,000 -15.79% 23
UK excluding London -31 52 £80,000 -5.88% 14
Work from Home +21 46 £85,000 -5.56% 15
London +74 32 £85,000 -15.00% 9
South East +2 21 £80,000 +6.67% 4
North of England +22 18 £68,000 -24.44% 7
Yorkshire +56 12 £68,000 -20.00% 4
Midlands -1 7 £82,500 +5.10% 1
South West -19 6 £76,000 -20.00% 2
West Midlands +18 5 £82,500 +5.10%
North West -14 3 £110,000 +22.22% 3
North East - 3 £55,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £81,250 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 95 (100.00%) DevOps
2 69 (72.63%) CI/CD
3 68 (71.58%) Kubernetes
4 64 (67.37%) AWS
5 58 (61.05%) Terraform
6 52 (54.74%) Containerisation
7 49 (51.58%) Docker
8 39 (41.05%) Azure
9 38 (40.00%) Python
10 33 (34.74%) Jenkins
10 33 (34.74%) Infrastructure as Code
11 32 (33.68%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (33.68%) Microservices
12 29 (30.53%) Deployment Automation
13 25 (26.32%) Agile
14 23 (24.21%) .NET
15 22 (23.16%) Mentoring
16 21 (22.11%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (22.11%) PowerShell
17 20 (21.05%) Git
17 20 (21.05%) AWS Certification
17 20 (21.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 19 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
18 19 (20.00%) Social Skills
19 18 (18.95%) Public Sector
19 18 (18.95%) GCP
19 18 (18.95%) Linux
20 17 (17.89%) Security Cleared
20 17 (17.89%) Puppet
20 17 (17.89%) GitLab

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 64 (67.37%) AWS
2 39 (41.05%) Azure
3 21 (22.11%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
5 18 (18.95%) GCP
6 16 (16.84%) Datadog
7 15 (15.79%) GitHub
8 14 (14.74%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (13.68%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (10.53%) SaaS
11 6 (6.32%) Amazon S3
11 6 (6.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (5.26%) Azure Storage
12 5 (5.26%) PaaS
12 5 (5.26%) Serverless
13 4 (4.21%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (4.21%) Azure AKS
13 4 (4.21%) IBM Cloud
13 4 (4.21%) OpenShift
13 4 (4.21%) Route 53
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 6 (6.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
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 33 (34.74%) Jenkins
2 20 (21.05%) Git
3 17 (17.89%) GitLab
4 9 (9.47%) CircleCI
5 5 (5.26%) TeamCity
6 4 (4.21%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (3.16%) JUnit
8 2 (2.11%) Selenium
8 2 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.11%) TestNG
9 1 (1.05%) Gatling
9 1 (1.05%) LoadRunner
General
1 19 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.95%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.42%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.26%) Finance
6 4 (4.21%) Banking
6 4 (4.21%) Legal
7 1 (1.05%) Automotive
7 1 (1.05%) Games
7 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (24.21%) .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%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (4.21%) Spring
6 4 (4.21%) Spring XD
7 3 (3.16%) CSS
7 3 (3.16%) HTML
7 3 (3.16%) Node.js
7 3 (3.16%) Ruby on Rails
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 9 (9.47%) Public Cloud
2 8 (8.42%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.21%) Blockchain
3 4 (4.21%) e-Learning
3 4 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (3.16%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.11%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.05%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.95%) 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 69 (72.63%) CI/CD
3 52 (54.74%) Containerisation
4 33 (34.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (33.68%) Microservices
5 32 (33.68%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (30.53%) Deployment Automation
7 25 (26.32%) Agile
8 22 (23.16%) Mentoring
9 16 (16.84%) Continuous Delivery
9 16 (16.84%) E-Commerce
9 16 (16.84%) Server Management
9 16 (16.84%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 14 (14.74%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (13.68%) Coaching
12 11 (11.58%) Scrum
12 11 (11.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 10 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (10.53%) Software Engineering
14 9 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (40.00%) Python
2 21 (22.11%) PowerShell
3 14 (14.74%) Bash
4 13 (13.68%) Java
5 8 (8.42%) Go
6 7 (7.37%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.32%) C#
8 5 (5.26%) SQL
9 3 (3.16%) Ruby
10 2 (2.11%) Groovy
10 2 (2.11%) Scala
11 1 (1.05%) C++
Qualifications
1 20 (21.05%) AWS Certification
1 20 (21.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 17 (17.89%) Security Cleared
3 11 (11.58%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.21%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.21%) Degree
5 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.16%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.11%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) QA
2 3 (3.16%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.16%) GDPR
3 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 49 (51.58%) Docker
2 2 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.05%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 68 (71.58%) Kubernetes
2 58 (61.05%) Terraform
3 17 (17.89%) Puppet
4 16 (16.84%) Consul
5 9 (9.47%) Ansible
6 8 (8.42%) Prometheus
7 4 (4.21%) Grafana
7 4 (4.21%) Istio
8 1 (1.05%) Argo
8 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
8 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 2 (2.11%) Google
6 1 (1.05%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.05%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.05%) VMware