Lead Development Operations
UK

The median Lead Development Operations salary in the UK is £81,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 769 723 798
Rank change year-on-year -46 +75 -163
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 145 250 467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.24% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.26% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 130 208 269
10th Percentile £66,500 £69,549 £63,750
25th Percentile £72,528 £72,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £81,250 £78,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.50% +1.29% +17.42%

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 93,221 94,676 150,515
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,838 59,581 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +4 139 £80,000 -13.04% 43
Work from Home +22 80 £85,000 -6.85% 26
UK excluding London -35 77 £81,250 +3.50% 20
London +63 58 £80,000 -20.00% 20
South East +27 40 £90,000 +16.13% 5
North of England +20 18 £68,000 -20.00% 10
Midlands +20 12 £82,500 +32.00% 4
Yorkshire +71 11 £68,000 -18.81% 3
West Midlands +21 8 £82,500 +19.13% 2
South West -32 6 £76,000 -20.00% 1
East Midlands -9 4 £81,250 +35.42% 2
North East - 4 £56,250 -
North West -2 3 £110,000 +22.22% 7
East of England - 1 £100,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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.

1 145 (100.00%) DevOps
2 94 (64.83%) AWS
3 85 (58.62%) CI/CD
4 83 (57.24%) Kubernetes
5 74 (51.03%) Terraform
6 62 (42.76%) Docker
7 61 (42.07%) Containerisation
8 57 (39.31%) Azure
9 52 (35.86%) Python
10 45 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
11 43 (29.66%) Microservices
12 39 (26.90%) Jenkins
13 38 (26.21%) Linux
14 37 (25.52%) Java
15 34 (23.45%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (22.07%) Azure DevOps
17 31 (21.38%) .NET
17 31 (21.38%) Agile
18 28 (19.31%) Mentoring
19 27 (18.62%) Deployment Automation
19 27 (18.62%) Social Skills
20 26 (17.93%) Amazon ECS
20 26 (17.93%) Git
21 25 (17.24%) PowerShell
22 21 (14.48%) Security Cleared
22 21 (14.48%) AWS Certification
22 21 (14.48%) Public Cloud
23 20 (13.79%) GitHub
24 19 (13.10%) GCP
24 19 (13.10%) SaaS

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 (4.14%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 94 (64.83%) AWS
2 57 (39.31%) Azure
3 32 (22.07%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (17.93%) Amazon ECS
5 20 (13.79%) GitHub
6 19 (13.10%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (13.10%) GCP
6 19 (13.10%) SaaS
7 15 (10.34%) Datadog
8 14 (9.66%) Serverless
9 13 (8.97%) Amazon S3
9 13 (8.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (7.59%) Azure AKS
10 11 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (6.21%) Azure Functions
12 9 (6.21%) CloudFront
13 8 (5.52%) Akamai
13 8 (5.52%) AWS Fargate
13 8 (5.52%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.14%) DNS
2 1 (0.69%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.69%) VSAN
2 1 (0.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.97%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.76%) DB2
4 4 (2.76%) RDBMS
4 4 (2.76%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.07%) MySQL
6 1 (0.69%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 39 (26.90%) Jenkins
2 26 (17.93%) Git
3 17 (11.72%) GitLab
4 9 (6.21%) CircleCI
5 7 (4.83%) TeamCity
6 6 (4.14%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (2.07%) JUnit
8 2 (1.38%) Selenium
8 2 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.38%) TestNG
9 1 (0.69%) Gatling
9 1 (0.69%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 27 (18.62%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.72%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.97%) Finance
4 8 (5.52%) Automotive
4 8 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.76%) Banking
6 4 (2.76%) Legal
7 2 (1.38%) Marketing
8 1 (0.69%) Games
8 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.69%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (21.38%) .NET
2 11 (7.59%) ARM Templates
3 10 (6.90%) YAML
4 7 (4.83%) REST
5 6 (4.14%) React
6 5 (3.45%) Node.js
7 4 (2.76%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.76%) Spring
7 4 (2.76%) Spring XD
8 3 (2.07%) CSS
8 3 (2.07%) HTML
8 3 (2.07%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (1.38%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (0.69%) Azure Blueprints
10 1 (0.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.48%) Public Cloud
2 11 (7.59%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.90%) Private Cloud
4 8 (5.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.52%) Mobile App
5 7 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.45%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.76%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (2.07%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) IoT
9 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.69%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 38 (26.21%) Linux
2 13 (8.97%) Windows
3 8 (5.52%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.76%) VMS
5 1 (0.69%) CentOS
5 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (100.00%) DevOps
2 85 (58.62%) CI/CD
3 61 (42.07%) Containerisation
4 45 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (29.66%) Microservices
6 34 (23.45%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (21.38%) Agile
8 28 (19.31%) Mentoring
9 27 (18.62%) Deployment Automation
10 15 (10.34%) Continuous Delivery
10 15 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (10.34%) E-Commerce
10 15 (10.34%) Server Management
10 15 (10.34%) User Stories
10 15 (10.34%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 13 (8.97%) Cloud Security
11 13 (8.97%) Coaching
11 13 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (8.28%) Fintech
12 12 (8.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (35.86%) Python
2 37 (25.52%) Java
3 25 (17.24%) PowerShell
4 16 (11.03%) Bash
5 8 (5.52%) C#
6 7 (4.83%) Go
6 7 (4.83%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.83%) SQL
7 3 (2.07%) Groovy
7 3 (2.07%) Ruby
8 2 (1.38%) Scala
9 1 (0.69%) C++
9 1 (0.69%) PHP
9 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (14.48%) AWS Certification
1 21 (14.48%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 16 (11.03%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.83%) Degree
5 6 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.76%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.07%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.69%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.21%) QA
2 3 (2.07%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.07%) GDPR
3 2 (1.38%) SLA
4 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 62 (42.76%) Docker
2 9 (6.21%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.38%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 83 (57.24%) Kubernetes
2 74 (51.03%) Terraform
3 17 (11.72%) Puppet
4 15 (10.34%) Consul
5 13 (8.97%) Ansible
6 9 (6.21%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.45%) Grafana
8 4 (2.76%) Istio
9 3 (2.07%) Argo
10 2 (1.38%) Packer
11 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.69%) Salt
Vendors
1 8 (5.52%) ForgeRock
1 8 (5.52%) Sitecore
2 7 (4.83%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.45%) Dynatrace
3 5 (3.45%) Google
4 4 (2.76%) IBM
4 4 (2.76%) Oracle
4 4 (2.76%) Sybase
5 3 (2.07%) Databricks
6 1 (0.69%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.69%) Splunk
6 1 (0.69%) VMware