Operations Team Lead
UK

The median Operations Team Lead salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 885 945 1206
Rank change year-on-year +60 +261 -295
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Team Leader 17 27 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.027% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.029% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 17 18 6
10th Percentile £26,500 - -
25th Percentile £28,500 £52,105 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.36% +38.50% -35.48%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,313 -
90th Percentile £68,500 £73,750 £61,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -34.62% +30.00% -

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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
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%

Operations Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Operations Team Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Operations Team Leader in the UK

Operations Team Leader
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operations Team Leader.

Salary trend for Operations Team Leader in the UK

Operations Team Leader
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Team Leader over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Team Leader in the UK

Operations Team Leader
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Team Leader within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +88 15 £42,500 -37.96% 4
UK excluding London +4 14 £42,500 -34.62% 2
Work from Home +76 10 £65,000 +8.33% 1
North of England +55 6 £65,000 -7.14%
North West +15 6 £65,000 -7.14%
South East +4 4 £41,250 -17.50%
Midlands -12 4 £26,500 -51.03%
East Midlands -13 4 £26,500 -59.23%
London +93 1 £85,000 +21.43% 1

Operations Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Operations Team Leader 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 Operations Team Leader in the job title.

1 12 (70.59%) Mentoring
2 7 (41.18%) Cloud Operations
2 7 (41.18%) Service Management
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Customer Service
3 6 (35.29%) Workflow
3 6 (35.29%) Data Protection
3 6 (35.29%) Azure
4 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
4 5 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) Service Delivery
4 5 (29.41%) Cloud Security
5 4 (23.53%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 4 (23.53%) Retail
5 4 (23.53%) Windows
5 4 (23.53%) People Management
5 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
6 3 (17.65%) SAP
6 3 (17.65%) ITIL
6 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
6 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
7 2 (11.76%) SLA
7 2 (11.76%) Firewall
7 2 (11.76%) Coaching
7 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
7 2 (11.76%) Information Security
8 1 (5.88%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike

Operations Team Leader 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Google Workspace
3 1 (5.88%) IaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) DHCP
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) Internet
2 1 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.88%) LAN
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.88%) SSL
2 1 (5.88%) VPN
2 1 (5.88%) WAN
2 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Retail
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Mentoring
2 7 (41.18%) Cloud Operations
2 7 (41.18%) Service Management
3 6 (35.29%) Customer Service
3 6 (35.29%) Data Protection
3 6 (35.29%) Workflow
4 5 (29.41%) Cloud Security
4 5 (29.41%) DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) Service Delivery
5 4 (23.53%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 4 (23.53%) People Management
6 3 (17.65%) ITIL
7 2 (11.76%) Coaching
7 2 (11.76%) Information Security
7 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (5.88%) Cost Management
8 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (5.88%) Service-Level Objective
8 1 (5.88%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) CREST Certified
2 1 (5.88%) ISACA
2 1 (5.88%) MCSA
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.88%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) IBM
2 1 (5.88%) Qualys