Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs

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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 818 785 963
Rank change year-on-year -33 +178 -194
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 104 160 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.19% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 89 139 173
10th Percentile £66,500 £72,250 £66,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £88,750 £105,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £82,818 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +8.47%

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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

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 9 June 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 9 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
England -29 97 £80,000 -11.11% 20
UK excluding London -73 61 £80,000 -3.40% 18
Work from Home +9 48 £83,750 -6.94% 15
London +25 31 £77,500 -22.50% 2
North of England +3 24 £68,000 -24.44% 7
South East +3 22 £80,000 +6.67% 3
Yorkshire +51 17 £68,000 -22.29% 5
Midlands -23 10 £82,500 +5.10% 7
West Midlands -6 6 £82,500 +5.10% 4
South West -34 5 £76,000 -20.00% 1
North West -20 4 £110,000 +22.22% 2
East Midlands - 4 £80,000 - 3
North East - 3 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 104 (100.00%) DevOps
2 74 (71.15%) CI/CD
3 72 (69.23%) Kubernetes
4 70 (67.31%) AWS
5 62 (59.62%) Terraform
6 51 (49.04%) Docker
6 51 (49.04%) Containerisation
7 43 (41.35%) Azure
8 37 (35.58%) Python
8 37 (35.58%) Infrastructure as Code
9 32 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (28.85%) Jenkins
11 29 (27.88%) Mentoring
11 29 (27.88%) Microservices
12 28 (26.92%) Deployment Automation
12 28 (26.92%) Agile
13 24 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
14 23 (22.12%) GCP
14 23 (22.12%) Git
15 22 (21.15%) Social Skills
16 21 (20.19%) Public Sector
16 21 (20.19%) PowerShell
16 21 (20.19%) .NET
17 18 (17.31%) GitHub
17 18 (17.31%) AWS Certification
18 17 (16.35%) Amazon ECS
18 17 (16.35%) Security Cleared
18 17 (16.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 16 (15.38%) Linux
19 16 (15.38%) GitHub Actions

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 (3.85%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 70 (67.31%) AWS
2 43 (41.35%) Azure
3 24 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (22.12%) GCP
5 18 (17.31%) GitHub
6 17 (16.35%) Amazon ECS
7 16 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (14.42%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (12.50%) Datadog
10 11 (10.58%) SaaS
11 8 (7.69%) Amazon S3
12 7 (6.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (6.73%) Serverless
13 6 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (5.77%) PaaS
14 5 (4.81%) Amazon ECR
14 5 (4.81%) Azure Storage
15 4 (3.85%) Azure AKS
15 4 (3.85%) IBM Cloud
15 4 (3.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.77%) DNS
2 1 (0.96%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.96%) VSAN
2 1 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.42%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.81%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.85%) DB2
4 4 (3.85%) RDBMS
4 4 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.92%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.96%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 30 (28.85%) Jenkins
2 23 (22.12%) Git
3 15 (14.42%) GitLab
4 12 (11.54%) CircleCI
5 5 (4.81%) TeamCity
6 4 (3.85%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (2.88%) JUnit
8 2 (1.92%) Selenium
8 2 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.92%) TestNG
9 1 (0.96%) Gatling
9 1 (0.96%) LoadRunner
General
1 22 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.19%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.62%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (5.77%) Finance
5 5 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.85%) Banking
6 4 (3.85%) Legal
7 1 (0.96%) Automotive
7 1 (0.96%) Games
7 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.96%) Law
7 1 (0.96%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (20.19%) .NET
2 10 (9.62%) YAML
3 9 (8.65%) ARM Templates
3 9 (8.65%) React
4 5 (4.81%) REST
5 4 (3.85%) AWS CDK
5 4 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (3.85%) Node.js
5 4 (3.85%) Spring
5 4 (3.85%) Spring XD
6 3 (2.88%) CSS
6 3 (2.88%) HTML
6 3 (2.88%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (1.92%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.92%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.92%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (1.92%) RESTful
8 1 (0.96%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.58%) Public Cloud
2 10 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.73%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.85%) Blockchain
4 4 (3.85%) e-Learning
4 4 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (2.88%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.92%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.38%) Linux
2 10 (9.62%) Windows
3 6 (5.77%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (100.00%) DevOps
2 74 (71.15%) CI/CD
3 51 (49.04%) Containerisation
4 37 (35.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (27.88%) Mentoring
6 29 (27.88%) Microservices
7 28 (26.92%) Agile
7 28 (26.92%) Deployment Automation
8 14 (13.46%) Coaching
8 14 (13.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 14 (13.46%) Software Engineering
8 14 (13.46%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
9 13 (12.50%) E-Commerce
9 13 (12.50%) Server Management
9 13 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 12 (11.54%) Scrum
11 11 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (9.62%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 37 (35.58%) Python
2 21 (20.19%) PowerShell
3 12 (11.54%) Bash
3 12 (11.54%) Java
4 7 (6.73%) C#
4 7 (6.73%) Go
4 7 (6.73%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.77%) SQL
6 3 (2.88%) Ruby
7 2 (1.92%) Groovy
7 2 (1.92%) Scala
8 1 (0.96%) C++
8 1 (0.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (17.31%) AWS Certification
2 17 (16.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 17 (16.35%) Security Cleared
3 11 (10.58%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.85%) Degree
5 3 (2.88%) BC Cleared
5 3 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.81%) QA
2 3 (2.88%) GDPR
3 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.92%) Data Quality
System Software
1 51 (49.04%) Docker
2 4 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.88%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.96%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 72 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 62 (59.62%) Terraform
3 14 (13.46%) Puppet
4 13 (12.50%) Consul
5 9 (8.65%) Ansible
6 8 (7.69%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.85%) Grafana
7 4 (3.85%) Istio
7 4 (3.85%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.96%) Argo
8 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.96%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (6.73%) Red Hat
2 5 (4.81%) Dynatrace
3 4 (3.85%) IBM
3 4 (3.85%) Oracle
3 4 (3.85%) Sybase
4 2 (1.92%) Databricks
4 2 (1.92%) Google
4 2 (1.92%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.96%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.96%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.96%) VMware