Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £73,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 667 626 904
Rank change year-on-year -41 +278 -90
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 90 115 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.22% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 64 97 153
10th Percentile - £74,350 £73,750
25th Percentile £66,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £85,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £111,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £73,750 £85,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year -13.24% -12.82% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 69,088 53,050 124,485
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.38% 94.36% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 39,631 39,423 73,022
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in England

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in England

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in England

Lead DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 September 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 +7 40 £68,000 -24.44% 4
Yorkshire +29 32 £68,000 -24.44% 1
London -12 26 £85,000 - 9
South East -21 8 £80,000 -23.81% 3
Midlands -19 7 £77,500 -
North West -23 7 - - 3
South West -3 6 £76,000 -7.88% 2
East Midlands -27 6 £75,000 -3.23%
North East - 1 £100,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £77,500 -
Lead DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 England region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 90 (100.00%) DevOps
2 68 (75.56%) AWS
3 65 (72.22%) CI/CD
4 63 (70.00%) Terraform
5 52 (57.78%) Kubernetes
6 45 (50.00%) Azure
7 43 (47.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (45.56%) Docker
9 38 (42.22%) Mentoring
10 37 (41.11%) Containerisation
11 33 (36.67%) GCP
12 29 (32.22%) Public Sector
13 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
14 27 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
15 25 (27.78%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (27.78%) GitHub
16 23 (25.56%) Python
16 23 (25.56%) CircleCI
17 22 (24.44%) Stakeholder Management
17 22 (24.44%) Public Cloud
18 21 (23.33%) Organisational Skills
18 21 (23.33%) Distributed Systems
19 20 (22.22%) Jenkins
20 19 (21.11%) Coaching
21 18 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
21 18 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
22 17 (18.89%) Git
23 16 (17.78%) Cloud Security
24 15 (16.67%) Agile
24 15 (16.67%) Software Engineering

Lead DevOps Engineer 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 1 (1.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 68 (75.56%) AWS
2 45 (50.00%) Azure
3 33 (36.67%) GCP
4 25 (27.78%) GitHub
4 25 (27.78%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (7.78%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (7.78%) Amazon S3
6 7 (7.78%) Datadog
7 5 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (5.56%) PaaS
7 5 (5.56%) Route 53
8 4 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (4.44%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.44%) IBM Cloud
8 4 (4.44%) OCI
8 4 (4.44%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.44%) DB2
3 4 (4.44%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.44%) RDBMS
3 4 (4.44%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (25.56%) CircleCI
2 20 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 17 (18.89%) Git
4 10 (11.11%) GitLab
5 4 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.33%) Gradle
6 3 (3.33%) Maven
6 3 (3.33%) Spinnaker
General
1 29 (32.22%) Public Sector
2 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
3 21 (23.33%) Organisational Skills
4 11 (12.22%) Finance
5 6 (6.67%) Banking
5 6 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Law
7 2 (2.22%) Legal
8 1 (1.11%) Games
8 1 (1.11%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.67%) .NET
2 7 (7.78%) React
3 6 (6.67%) YAML
4 4 (4.44%) ASP.NET
4 4 (4.44%) Spring
4 4 (4.44%) Spring XD
5 3 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (3.33%) CSS
5 3 (3.33%) HTML
5 3 (3.33%) RESTful
6 2 (2.22%) Node.js
7 1 (1.11%) LAMP
7 1 (1.11%) Middleware
7 1 (1.11%) REST
7 1 (1.11%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.44%) Public Cloud
2 21 (23.33%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.44%) Blockchain
3 4 (4.44%) e-Learning
3 4 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.22%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.11%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.67%) Linux
2 3 (3.33%) Windows
3 2 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (100.00%) DevOps
2 65 (72.22%) CI/CD
3 43 (47.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (42.22%) Mentoring
5 37 (41.11%) Containerisation
6 27 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
7 22 (24.44%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (21.11%) Coaching
9 18 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 16 (17.78%) Cloud Security
11 15 (16.67%) Agile
11 15 (16.67%) Configuration Management
11 15 (16.67%) Software Engineering
12 13 (14.44%) Observability
13 11 (12.22%) Microservices
14 9 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
15 8 (8.89%) Cost Management
15 8 (8.89%) Culture Change
15 8 (8.89%) Immutable Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 23 (25.56%) Python
2 12 (13.33%) Bash
3 10 (11.11%) Go
4 9 (10.00%) Java
5 6 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.67%) SQL
6 4 (4.44%) C#
7 3 (3.33%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.11%) C++
9 1 (1.11%) Groovy
9 1 (1.11%) PHP
9 1 (1.11%) Scala
9 1 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (8.89%) AWS Certification
2 6 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 5 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.44%) Degree
5 3 (3.33%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 41 (45.56%) Docker
2 4 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (70.00%) Terraform
2 52 (57.78%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.89%) Puppet
4 6 (6.67%) Consul
5 5 (5.56%) Ansible
5 5 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.33%) Istio
7 2 (2.22%) Argo
8 1 (1.11%) Grafana
8 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (7.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.67%) Google
2 6 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.44%) Dynatrace
3 4 (4.44%) IBM
3 4 (4.44%) Oracle
3 4 (4.44%) Sybase
4 1 (1.11%) Splunk