Lead DevOps Jobs in England

Lead Development Operations
UK > England

The median Lead Development Operations salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 710 671 769
Rank change year-on-year -39 +98 -115
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 153 225 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.27% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.30% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 131 191 255
10th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £66,750
25th Percentile £72,125 £78,217 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £120,000
UK median annual salary £81,250 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -9.72% - +9.09%

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 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +40 60 £80,000 -20.00% 5
South East -16 38 £90,000 +16.13% 3
North of England -11 29 £68,000 -20.00% 8
Yorkshire +56 20 £68,000 -22.29% 5
Midlands -30 14 £82,500 +43.48% 7
West Midlands -8 8 £82,500 +37.50% 4
East Midlands -24 6 £80,000 +45.45% 3
North West -39 5 £110,000 +32.82% 3
South West -49 5 £76,000 -20.00% 1
North East - 4 £56,250 -
East of England - 1 £100,000 - 1
Lead DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Lead DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 153 (100.00%) DevOps
2 104 (67.97%) AWS
3 92 (60.13%) Kubernetes
4 87 (56.86%) CI/CD
5 75 (49.02%) Terraform
6 68 (44.44%) Docker
7 62 (40.52%) Containerisation
8 59 (38.56%) Azure
9 45 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 43 (28.10%) Microservices
10 43 (28.10%) Python
11 36 (23.53%) Mentoring
11 36 (23.53%) Jenkins
12 34 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
13 33 (21.57%) Java
14 32 (20.92%) Agile
15 31 (20.26%) .NET
16 28 (18.30%) Git
16 28 (18.30%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (17.65%) Social Skills
17 27 (17.65%) Linux
18 25 (16.34%) Deployment Automation
19 24 (15.69%) Amazon EKS
19 24 (15.69%) GitHub
20 23 (15.03%) PowerShell
20 23 (15.03%) Software Engineering
21 22 (14.38%) GCP
21 22 (14.38%) Public Cloud
22 21 (13.73%) Public Sector

Lead DevOps 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 6 (3.92%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 104 (67.97%) AWS
2 59 (38.56%) Azure
3 34 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (18.30%) Amazon ECS
5 24 (15.69%) Amazon EKS
5 24 (15.69%) GitHub
6 22 (14.38%) GCP
7 20 (13.07%) SaaS
8 19 (12.42%) Amazon S3
9 16 (10.46%) Serverless
10 14 (9.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (8.50%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (8.50%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (7.84%) Azure AKS
12 12 (7.84%) Datadog
13 10 (6.54%) CloudFront
14 9 (5.88%) Akamai
14 9 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
14 9 (5.88%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.92%) DNS
2 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.65%) VSAN
2 1 (0.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.46%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.23%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (3.27%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.61%) DB2
4 4 (2.61%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.61%) RDBMS
4 4 (2.61%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.96%) MySQL
5 3 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 36 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 28 (18.30%) Git
3 19 (12.42%) GitLab
4 14 (9.15%) CircleCI
5 7 (4.58%) TeamCity
6 6 (3.92%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.65%) Gatling
8 1 (0.65%) JUnit
8 1 (0.65%) LoadRunner
General
1 27 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.73%) Public Sector
3 10 (6.54%) Organisational Skills
4 9 (5.88%) Automotive
4 9 (5.88%) Finance
5 5 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.61%) Banking
7 2 (1.31%) Marketing
8 1 (0.65%) Games
8 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.65%) Law
8 1 (0.65%) Legal
8 1 (0.65%) Retail
8 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (20.26%) .NET
2 11 (7.19%) ARM Templates
3 10 (6.54%) React
3 10 (6.54%) YAML
4 7 (4.58%) REST
5 4 (2.61%) AWS CDK
5 4 (2.61%) Spring
5 4 (2.61%) Spring XD
6 3 (1.96%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.96%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (1.96%) CSS
6 3 (1.96%) HTML
6 3 (1.96%) Kafka
6 3 (1.96%) Node.js
6 3 (1.96%) RESTful
7 2 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.31%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.38%) Public Cloud
2 11 (7.19%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.54%) Private Cloud
4 9 (5.88%) Mobile App
5 8 (5.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.92%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.61%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.96%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.31%) IoT
10 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.65%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 27 (17.65%) Linux
2 12 (7.84%) Windows
3 8 (5.23%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (100.00%) DevOps
2 87 (56.86%) CI/CD
3 62 (40.52%) Containerisation
4 45 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (28.10%) Microservices
6 36 (23.53%) Mentoring
7 34 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (20.92%) Agile
9 25 (16.34%) Deployment Automation
10 23 (15.03%) Software Engineering
11 17 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (9.80%) Scrum
13 14 (9.15%) Fintech
14 13 (8.50%) Cloud Security
15 12 (7.84%) Coaching
15 12 (7.84%) Continuous Delivery
15 12 (7.84%) DevSecOps
15 12 (7.84%) Server Management
15 12 (7.84%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 43 (28.10%) Python
2 33 (21.57%) Java
3 23 (15.03%) PowerShell
4 10 (6.54%) Bash
4 10 (6.54%) C#
5 7 (4.58%) SQL
6 5 (3.27%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.61%) Go
8 3 (1.96%) Groovy
9 2 (1.31%) Scala
10 1 (0.65%) C++
10 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (12.42%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 14 (9.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 13 (8.50%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.92%) Degree
6 5 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.61%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.96%) BC Cleared
9 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.31%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.58%) QA
2 3 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.31%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.31%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (44.44%) Docker
2 12 (7.84%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.96%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 92 (60.13%) Kubernetes
2 75 (49.02%) Terraform
3 15 (9.80%) Puppet
4 12 (7.84%) Consul
5 10 (6.54%) Ansible
6 8 (5.23%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.61%) Grafana
7 4 (2.61%) Istio
8 3 (1.96%) Argo
9 2 (1.31%) Karpenter
9 2 (1.31%) Packer
10 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.65%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (5.88%) ForgeRock
1 9 (5.88%) Sitecore
2 7 (4.58%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.27%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.61%) IBM
4 4 (2.61%) Oracle
4 4 (2.61%) Sybase
5 3 (1.96%) Google
5 3 (1.96%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.31%) Databricks
6 2 (1.31%) Splunk
7 1 (0.65%) VMware