Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Lead Development Operations Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £82,500 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 257 251 307
Rank change year-on-year -6 +56 -83
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 6 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.070% 0.035% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.038% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76,250 £76,750 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £78,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.10% -25.24% +27.27%
75th Percentile £88,750 £80,250 £112,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 8,050 5,197 7,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 89.93% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,794 3,200 4,854
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,256
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
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 the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham -15 6 £82,500 - 1
Lead DevOps Engineer
England

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) SaaS
3 4 (66.67%) High Availability
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) QA
3 4 (66.67%) Release Management
3 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (66.67%) TeamCity
3 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 4 (66.67%) IIS
3 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 4 (66.67%) VMS
3 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
3 4 (66.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (33.33%) Terraform
4 2 (33.33%) Docker
4 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (33.33%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (66.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) SaaS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Octopus Deploy
1 4 (66.67%) TeamCity
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 4 (66.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) VMS
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) High Availability
2 4 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Release Management
2 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google