Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work 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 554 541 743
Rank change year-on-year -13 +202 -209
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 48 92 158
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.25% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.26% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 45 88 80
10th Percentile £64,250 £72,500 £66,125
25th Percentile £72,611 £78,217 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% -2.86%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,625
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £105,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead DevOps Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead DevOps Engineer.

Lead DevOps Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Lead DevOps Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (77.08%) CI/CD
3 31 (64.58%) Kubernetes
4 30 (62.50%) AWS
5 23 (47.92%) Terraform
6 22 (45.83%) Python
7 21 (43.75%) Containerisation
8 19 (39.58%) Docker
9 18 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (35.42%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (35.42%) Azure
11 16 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (31.25%) PowerShell
13 14 (29.17%) Microservices
14 13 (27.08%) Jenkins
15 12 (25.00%) Git
16 11 (22.92%) .NET
17 10 (20.83%) Agile
17 10 (20.83%) SaaS
17 10 (20.83%) AWS Certification
17 10 (20.83%) Mentoring
17 10 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (20.83%) Amazon ECS
18 9 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
18 9 (18.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 9 (18.75%) Bash
18 9 (18.75%) Security Cleared
19 8 (16.67%) Linux
19 8 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
19 8 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (8.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 30 (62.50%) AWS
2 17 (35.42%) Azure
3 16 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (20.83%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (20.83%) SaaS
5 6 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (12.50%) Datadog
5 6 (12.50%) Serverless
6 4 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 4 (8.33%) Azure AKS
6 4 (8.33%) GitHub
7 3 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (6.25%) GCP
8 2 (4.17%) CloudFront
8 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.08%) Akamai
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.08%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) DNS
1 1 (2.08%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.08%) VSAN
1 1 (2.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.08%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (27.08%) Jenkins
2 12 (25.00%) Git
3 6 (12.50%) GitLab
4 5 (10.42%) TeamCity
5 4 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (6.25%) JUnit
7 2 (4.17%) CircleCI
7 2 (4.17%) Selenium
7 2 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (4.17%) TestNG
8 1 (2.08%) Gatling
8 1 (2.08%) LoadRunner
General
1 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.17%) Banking
3 2 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (2.08%) Automotive
4 1 (2.08%) Games
4 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) .NET
2 6 (12.50%) ARM Templates
3 5 (10.42%) React
3 5 (10.42%) YAML
4 3 (6.25%) ASP.NET
4 3 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (6.25%) AWS CDK
4 3 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (6.25%) RESTful
5 2 (4.17%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (2.08%) CSS
6 1 (2.08%) HTML
6 1 (2.08%) Node.js
6 1 (2.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.17%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Linux
2 5 (10.42%) Windows
3 4 (8.33%) VMS
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (77.08%) CI/CD
3 21 (43.75%) Containerisation
4 18 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (35.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (29.17%) Microservices
7 10 (20.83%) Agile
7 10 (20.83%) Mentoring
8 9 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
9 8 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (14.58%) Scrum
10 7 (14.58%) SDLC
10 7 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
11 6 (12.50%) E-Commerce
11 6 (12.50%) Server Management
11 6 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 5 (10.42%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (45.83%) Python
2 15 (31.25%) PowerShell
3 9 (18.75%) Bash
4 5 (10.42%) Java
5 4 (8.33%) C#
5 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.25%) Go
6 3 (6.25%) SQL
7 2 (4.17%) Groovy
7 2 (4.17%) Scala
8 1 (2.08%) C++
8 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (20.83%) AWS Certification
2 9 (18.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 6 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) QA
2 3 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (39.58%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (64.58%) Kubernetes
2 23 (47.92%) Terraform
3 7 (14.58%) Puppet
4 6 (12.50%) Consul
5 3 (6.25%) Grafana
5 3 (6.25%) Karpenter
5 3 (6.25%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.17%) Ansible
6 2 (4.17%) Istio
7 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.08%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 3 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 2 (4.17%) Databricks
3 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.08%) ForgeRock
3 1 (2.08%) Sitecore
3 1 (2.08%) VMware