Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs in the South East

Lead Development Operations Engineer
England > South East

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in the South East is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 375 477
Rank change year-on-year -3 +102 -107
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 23 15 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.12% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22 15 23
10th Percentile £68,750 - £70,000
25th Percentile - £72,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £111,563 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,250 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £93,750 £90,000
% change year-on-year -14.67% +4.17% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 16,826 12,386 19,920
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 89.99% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,952 7,966 12,353
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the South East

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the South East

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in the South East

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
East Sussex - 10 £80,000 -
Kent - 5 £70,000 - 2
Thames Valley +3 4 £97,500 -11.36% 2
Oxfordshire - 2 £93,750 - 1
Berkshire +18 1 £120,000 +9.09%
Buckinghamshire -24 1 - - 1
Hampshire -38 1 £95,000 +26.67%
Lead DevOps Engineer
England

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 2 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 South East region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (82.61%) AWS
3 17 (73.91%) Kubernetes
3 17 (73.91%) CI/CD
4 16 (69.57%) Terraform
5 14 (60.87%) Docker
6 12 (52.17%) Containerisation
7 11 (47.83%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (47.83%) Microservices
7 11 (47.83%) Jenkins
7 11 (47.83%) .NET
8 10 (43.48%) E-Commerce
8 10 (43.48%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 10 (43.48%) Puppet
8 10 (43.48%) Continuous Delivery
8 10 (43.48%) AWS Certification
8 10 (43.48%) GitLab
8 10 (43.48%) Datadog
8 10 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (43.48%) Deployment Automation
8 10 (43.48%) Consul
8 10 (43.48%) Server Management
8 10 (43.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (30.43%) Mentoring
10 5 (21.74%) Azure
10 5 (21.74%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
10 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
11 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 19 (82.61%) AWS
2 11 (47.83%) Amazon ECS
3 10 (43.48%) Datadog
4 5 (21.74%) Azure
5 4 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (13.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
7 2 (8.70%) SaaS
8 1 (4.35%) Akamai
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
8 1 (4.35%) Cloudflare
8 1 (4.35%) CloudFront
8 1 (4.35%) GCP
8 1 (4.35%) GitHub
8 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 11 (47.83%) Jenkins
2 10 (43.48%) GitLab
3 4 (17.39%) Git
4 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (13.04%) Finance
1 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (47.83%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (73.91%) CI/CD
3 12 (52.17%) Containerisation
4 11 (47.83%) Microservices
5 10 (43.48%) Continuous Delivery
5 10 (43.48%) Deployment Automation
5 10 (43.48%) E-Commerce
5 10 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (43.48%) Server Management
5 10 (43.48%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (30.43%) Mentoring
7 5 (21.74%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (17.39%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (13.04%) Biometrics
9 3 (13.04%) Data Engineering
9 3 (13.04%) Identity Management
9 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning
9 3 (13.04%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Bash
1 3 (13.04%) Python
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) Java
2 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) AWS Certification
1 10 (43.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 14 (60.87%) Docker
2 4 (17.39%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (73.91%) Kubernetes
2 16 (69.57%) Terraform
3 10 (43.48%) Consul
3 10 (43.48%) Puppet
4 1 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.35%) Salt
Vendors
1 1 (4.35%) ForgeRock
1 1 (4.35%) Sitecore