Lead DevOps Jobs

Lead Development Operations
UK

The median Lead Development Operations salary in the UK is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 754 710 785
Rank change year-on-year -44 +75 -135
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 154 240 524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.25% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.28% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 136 205 270
10th Percentile £66,500 £70,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +3.13% +16.36%

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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
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 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 -45 147 £82,500 -10.33% 35
Work from Home 0 86 £85,000 -5.56% 23
UK excluding London -49 84 £82,500 - 23
London +51 57 £80,000 -20.00% 11
South East +2 40 £90,000 +16.13% 4
North of England +11 26 £68,000 -22.29% 8
Yorkshire +50 17 £68,000 -20.00% 6
Midlands -9 11 £82,500 +43.48% 9
West Midlands -13 7 £82,500 +37.50% 6
South West -33 6 £76,000 -20.00% 2
North West -17 5 £110,000 +22.22% 2
East Midlands -15 4 £82,500 +50.00% 3
North East - 4 £56,250 -
East of England - 1 £100,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 154 (100.00%) DevOps
2 106 (68.83%) AWS
3 94 (61.04%) Kubernetes
4 90 (58.44%) CI/CD
5 78 (50.65%) Terraform
6 69 (44.81%) Docker
7 65 (42.21%) Containerisation
8 61 (39.61%) Azure
9 50 (32.47%) Python
9 50 (32.47%) Infrastructure as Code
10 44 (28.57%) Microservices
11 39 (25.32%) Jenkins
12 36 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (22.08%) Mentoring
13 34 (22.08%) Java
14 33 (21.43%) Linux
15 32 (20.78%) Agile
15 32 (20.78%) Azure DevOps
16 31 (20.13%) .NET
17 30 (19.48%) Git
18 29 (18.83%) Deployment Automation
18 29 (18.83%) Amazon ECS
19 28 (18.18%) Social Skills
20 25 (16.23%) Amazon EKS
20 25 (16.23%) GitHub
21 23 (14.94%) PowerShell
22 22 (14.29%) Security Cleared
22 22 (14.29%) GCP
22 22 (14.29%) Public Cloud
23 21 (13.64%) AWS Certification

Lead DevOps 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 6 (3.90%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 106 (68.83%) AWS
2 61 (39.61%) Azure
3 32 (20.78%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (18.83%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (16.23%) Amazon EKS
5 25 (16.23%) GitHub
6 22 (14.29%) GCP
7 21 (13.64%) SaaS
8 17 (11.04%) Amazon S3
9 16 (10.39%) Serverless
10 15 (9.74%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (9.09%) Datadog
12 13 (8.44%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (7.79%) Azure AKS
14 10 (6.49%) CloudFront
15 9 (5.84%) Akamai
15 9 (5.84%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (5.84%) AWS Fargate
15 9 (5.84%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.90%) DNS
2 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.65%) VSAN
2 1 (0.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.25%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.60%) DB2
5 4 (2.60%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.60%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.95%) MySQL
7 2 (1.30%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 39 (25.32%) Jenkins
2 30 (19.48%) Git
3 18 (11.69%) GitLab
4 13 (8.44%) CircleCI
5 7 (4.55%) TeamCity
6 6 (3.90%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.95%) JUnit
8 2 (1.30%) Selenium
8 2 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.30%) TestNG
9 1 (0.65%) Gatling
9 1 (0.65%) LoadRunner
General
1 28 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 10 (6.49%) Organisational Skills
4 9 (5.84%) Automotive
4 9 (5.84%) Finance
5 5 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.60%) Banking
6 4 (2.60%) Legal
7 2 (1.30%) Marketing
8 1 (0.65%) Games
8 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.65%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (20.13%) .NET
2 11 (7.14%) ARM Templates
3 10 (6.49%) YAML
4 7 (4.55%) React
4 7 (4.55%) REST
5 5 (3.25%) Node.js
6 4 (2.60%) AWS CDK
6 4 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.60%) Spring
6 4 (2.60%) Spring XD
7 3 (1.95%) CSS
7 3 (1.95%) HTML
7 3 (1.95%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (1.30%) Kafka
8 2 (1.30%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (0.65%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.65%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.65%) Azure Blueprints
9 1 (0.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 11 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.49%) Private Cloud
4 9 (5.84%) Mobile App
5 8 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.25%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.60%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.95%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.65%) IoT
10 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.65%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 33 (21.43%) Linux
2 12 (7.79%) Windows
3 8 (5.19%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.60%) VMS
5 1 (0.65%) CentOS
5 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (100.00%) DevOps
2 90 (58.44%) CI/CD
3 65 (42.21%) Containerisation
4 50 (32.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (28.57%) Microservices
6 36 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (22.08%) Mentoring
8 32 (20.78%) Agile
9 29 (18.83%) Deployment Automation
10 18 (11.69%) Software Engineering
11 15 (9.74%) Coaching
11 15 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (9.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
12 14 (9.09%) E-Commerce
12 14 (9.09%) Server Management
12 14 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (9.09%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 13 (8.44%) Cloud Security
13 13 (8.44%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 50 (32.47%) Python
2 34 (22.08%) Java
3 23 (14.94%) PowerShell
4 13 (8.44%) Bash
5 8 (5.19%) C#
5 8 (5.19%) Go
5 8 (5.19%) SQL
6 7 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.95%) Groovy
7 3 (1.95%) Ruby
8 2 (1.30%) Scala
9 1 (0.65%) C++
Qualifications
1 22 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.64%) AWS Certification
3 18 (11.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 15 (9.74%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.90%) Degree
6 5 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.95%) BC Cleared
8 3 (1.95%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.55%) QA
2 3 (1.95%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.95%) GDPR
3 2 (1.30%) SLA
4 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 69 (44.81%) Docker
2 12 (7.79%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.95%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 94 (61.04%) Kubernetes
2 78 (50.65%) Terraform
3 17 (11.04%) Puppet
4 14 (9.09%) Consul
5 13 (8.44%) Ansible
6 10 (6.49%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.90%) Grafana
8 4 (2.60%) Istio
8 4 (2.60%) Karpenter
9 3 (1.95%) Argo
10 2 (1.30%) Packer
11 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.65%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (5.84%) ForgeRock
1 9 (5.84%) Sitecore
2 7 (4.55%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.25%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.60%) IBM
4 4 (2.60%) Oracle
4 4 (2.60%) Sybase
5 3 (1.95%) Databricks
6 2 (1.30%) Google
6 2 (1.30%) Splunk
7 1 (0.65%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.65%) VMware