Head of Development Operations
UK

The median Head of Development Operations salary in the UK is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 891 984 1164
Rank change year-on-year +93 +180 -295
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of DevOps 17 14 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.013% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.014% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 32
10th Percentile £91,500 £79,000 £92,875
25th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £104,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £100,000 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £146,250
90th Percentile £137,000 £117,000 £177,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +5.56%

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 91,989 97,583 147,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.61% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 66,379 61,119 85,881
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Head of DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of DevOps in the UK

Head of DevOps
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Head of DevOps in the UK

Head of DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of DevOps over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Head of DevOps in the UK

Head of DevOps
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Head of DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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 +142 15 £95,000 -5.00% 1
UK excluding London +31 13 £95,000 -7.32% 1
West Midlands +43 10 £90,000 -18.18%
Midlands +25 10 £90,000 -18.18%
Work from Home +95 6 £95,000 -7.32% 1
London +152 2 £160,000 +60.00%
South East +5 2 £95,000 -13.64% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £95,000 -
North of England - 1 £95,000 -

Head of DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Head of 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 Head of DevOps in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (88.24%) Kubernetes
3 13 (76.47%) Terraform
4 10 (58.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
5 9 (52.94%) SaaS
5 9 (52.94%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (35.29%) Azure
6 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
6 6 (35.29%) GCP
7 4 (23.53%) Docker
7 4 (23.53%) Release Management
8 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
8 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (17.65%) Finance
8 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (17.65%) ARM Templates
8 3 (17.65%) Azure AKS
8 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
9 2 (11.76%) Tech for Good
9 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
9 2 (11.76%) Product Strategy
9 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
9 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
9 2 (11.76%) People Management
9 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
9 2 (11.76%) Fintech
9 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native

Head of 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) SaaS
2 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) GCP
3 3 (17.65%) Azure AKS
4 2 (11.76%) AWS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Tech for Good
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (58.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
4 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
4 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (23.53%) Release Management
6 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (11.76%) Fintech
7 2 (11.76%) High Availability
7 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.76%) People Management
7 2 (11.76%) Performance Analysis
7 2 (11.76%) Product Strategy
7 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (88.24%) Kubernetes
2 13 (76.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft