Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs in London

Lead Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in London is £77,250 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 478 534 719
Rank change year-on-year +56 +185 -172
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 31 69 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.22% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.23% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 24 61 104
10th Percentile £69,300 £78,750 £75,000
25th Percentile £72,583 £87,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,250 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £93,125 £107,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £110,855 £111,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +27 3 £75,000 -28.57%
South London - 2 £110,000 -
Lead DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 London region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (80.65%) CI/CD
3 21 (67.74%) Containerisation
4 20 (64.52%) Azure
5 19 (61.29%) Microservices
6 16 (51.61%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (51.61%) Git
6 16 (51.61%) Agile
6 16 (51.61%) Python
7 15 (48.39%) Kubernetes
8 13 (41.94%) Terraform
8 13 (41.94%) Scrum
8 13 (41.94%) PowerShell
8 13 (41.94%) AWS
8 13 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (38.71%) Jenkins
10 10 (32.26%) Mentoring
10 10 (32.26%) Docker
10 10 (32.26%) YAML
10 10 (32.26%) Software Engineering
10 10 (32.26%) .NET
10 10 (32.26%) SQL Server
11 9 (29.03%) React
12 8 (25.81%) SDLC
12 8 (25.81%) C#
12 8 (25.81%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (25.81%) ARM Templates
12 8 (25.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
13 7 (22.58%) Deployment Automation

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

Cloud Services
1 20 (64.52%) Azure
2 16 (51.61%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (41.94%) AWS
4 8 (25.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (16.13%) Azure Storage
6 4 (12.90%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (12.90%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (12.90%) Datadog
7 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
7 3 (9.68%) GCP
7 3 (9.68%) IaaS
7 3 (9.68%) PaaS
8 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (6.45%) Azure AKS
8 2 (6.45%) IBM Cloud
8 2 (6.45%) OCI
8 2 (6.45%) OpenShift
8 2 (6.45%) Pulumi
8 2 (6.45%) Route 53
8 2 (6.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (32.26%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.45%) DB2
4 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.45%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (51.61%) Git
2 12 (38.71%) Jenkins
3 5 (16.13%) GitLab
4 2 (6.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.23%) Gatling
5 1 (3.23%) JUnit
5 1 (3.23%) LoadRunner
General
1 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Banking
2 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.45%) Finance
3 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Law
4 1 (3.23%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) .NET
1 10 (32.26%) YAML
2 9 (29.03%) React
3 8 (25.81%) ARM Templates
4 5 (16.13%) REST
5 3 (9.68%) ASP.NET
5 3 (9.68%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (9.68%) CSS
5 3 (9.68%) HTML
5 3 (9.68%) RESTful
6 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (6.45%) Spring
6 2 (6.45%) Spring XD
7 1 (3.23%) AWS CDK
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.45%) Blockchain
2 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.45%) e-Learning
2 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Linux
1 5 (16.13%) Windows
1 5 (16.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (80.65%) CI/CD
3 21 (67.74%) Containerisation
4 19 (61.29%) Microservices
5 16 (51.61%) Agile
6 13 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (41.94%) Scrum
7 10 (32.26%) Mentoring
7 10 (32.26%) Software Engineering
8 8 (25.81%) SDLC
8 8 (25.81%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (22.58%) Cloud Security
9 7 (22.58%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (22.58%) Security Management
10 6 (19.35%) Coaching
10 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (19.35%) Roadmaps
11 5 (16.13%) Software Delivery
12 4 (12.90%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (51.61%) Python
2 13 (41.94%) PowerShell
3 8 (25.81%) C#
4 5 (16.13%) Java
4 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
5 4 (12.90%) Bash
6 3 (9.68%) Go
7 2 (6.45%) Groovy
7 2 (6.45%) Scala
8 1 (3.23%) C++
8 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) AWS Certification
1 6 (19.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (9.68%) Degree
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 10 (32.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (48.39%) Kubernetes
2 13 (41.94%) Terraform
3 4 (12.90%) Consul
3 4 (12.90%) Istio
3 4 (12.90%) Prometheus
3 4 (12.90%) Puppet
4 2 (6.45%) Ansible
4 2 (6.45%) Grafana
4 2 (6.45%) Karpenter
5 1 (3.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Dynatrace
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) IBM
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle
2 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
2 2 (6.45%) Sybase
3 1 (3.23%) Google