Lead DevOps Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Development Operations
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Development Operations salary in the UK excluding London is £81,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 681 620 753
Rank change year-on-year -61 +133 -170
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 88 103 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.21% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 78 89 88
10th Percentile £66,500 £67,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,125 £72,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £82,818 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +3.52% +16.36%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £109,750 £108,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £81,250 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -9.72% - +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 74,602 49,722 72,061
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 88.83% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 52,192 29,369 43,047
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +5.94% +6.32%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
South East -10 39 £90,000 +16.13% 3
North of England +8 28 £68,000 -20.00% 9
Yorkshire +60 19 £68,000 -20.00% 6
Midlands -12 14 £82,500 +43.48% 7
West Midlands -3 8 £82,500 +37.50% 4
East Midlands -17 6 £80,000 +45.45% 3
South West -32 6 £76,000 -20.00% 1
North West -19 5 £110,000 +32.82% 3
North East - 4 £56,250 -
East of England - 1 £100,000 - 1
Lead DevOps
UK

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 7 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 88 (100.00%) DevOps
2 70 (79.55%) AWS
3 59 (67.05%) Kubernetes
4 55 (62.50%) Terraform
5 52 (59.09%) CI/CD
6 47 (53.41%) Docker
7 34 (38.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (36.36%) Containerisation
9 28 (31.82%) Azure
10 21 (23.86%) Python
11 20 (22.73%) Mentoring
12 19 (21.59%) Deployment Automation
12 19 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (20.45%) Public Sector
13 18 (20.45%) Social Skills
13 18 (20.45%) Jenkins
14 17 (19.32%) GCP
14 17 (19.32%) .NET
15 16 (18.18%) GitHub
15 16 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
16 15 (17.05%) Microservices
17 14 (15.91%) SaaS
18 13 (14.77%) CircleCI
19 12 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
19 12 (13.64%) Public Cloud
19 12 (13.64%) Security Cleared
20 11 (12.50%) Agile
20 11 (12.50%) Java
20 11 (12.50%) Linux
20 11 (12.50%) AWS Certification

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.82%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 70 (79.55%) AWS
2 28 (31.82%) Azure
3 17 (19.32%) GCP
4 16 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 16 (18.18%) GitHub
5 14 (15.91%) SaaS
6 12 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (10.23%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (10.23%) Datadog
9 8 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (9.09%) Serverless
10 7 (7.95%) Amazon S3
11 6 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (5.68%) Azure AKS
12 5 (5.68%) CloudFront
12 5 (5.68%) PaaS
13 4 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (4.55%) Azure Functions
13 4 (4.55%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.14%) VSAN
1 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.41%) MySQL
3 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.27%) DB2
3 2 (2.27%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 18 (20.45%) Jenkins
2 13 (14.77%) CircleCI
3 10 (11.36%) GitLab
4 7 (7.95%) Git
4 7 (7.95%) TeamCity
5 6 (6.82%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 18 (20.45%) Public Sector
1 18 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.36%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (6.82%) Finance
4 4 (4.55%) Automotive
5 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.27%) Marketing
6 1 (1.14%) Banking
6 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.32%) .NET
2 3 (3.41%) AWS CDK
2 3 (3.41%) Node.js
3 2 (2.27%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (2.27%) Spring
3 2 (2.27%) Spring XD
4 1 (1.14%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.64%) Public Cloud
2 10 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (11.36%) Private Cloud
3 9 (10.23%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.55%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.27%) Blockchain
7 2 (2.27%) e-Learning
7 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.50%) Linux
2 5 (5.68%) Windows
3 4 (4.55%) VMS
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (100.00%) DevOps
2 52 (59.09%) CI/CD
3 34 (38.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (36.36%) Containerisation
5 20 (22.73%) Mentoring
6 19 (21.59%) Deployment Automation
6 19 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (17.05%) Microservices
8 11 (12.50%) Agile
8 11 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 10 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (10.23%) Continuous Delivery
10 9 (10.23%) E-Commerce
10 9 (10.23%) Server Management
10 9 (10.23%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 8 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
12 7 (7.95%) Data Engineering
12 7 (7.95%) Migration
12 7 (7.95%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (7.95%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.86%) Python
2 11 (12.50%) Java
3 8 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.82%) Bash
4 6 (6.82%) SQL
5 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 9 (10.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 5 (5.68%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.41%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.14%) Degree
7 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) QA
2 3 (3.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (53.41%) Docker
2 7 (7.95%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.41%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 59 (67.05%) Kubernetes
2 55 (62.50%) Terraform
3 11 (12.50%) Puppet
4 9 (10.23%) Consul
5 4 (4.55%) Ansible
5 4 (4.55%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.27%) Argo
6 2 (2.27%) Grafana
6 2 (2.27%) Packer
7 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.14%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (5.68%) Red Hat
2 4 (4.55%) ForgeRock
2 4 (4.55%) Sitecore
3 3 (3.41%) Databricks
4 2 (2.27%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.27%) IBM
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle
4 2 (2.27%) Splunk
4 2 (2.27%) Sybase
5 1 (1.14%) Google
5 1 (1.14%) VMware