Lead DevOps Job Trends in Berkshire

Lead Development Operations
South East > Berkshire

The median Lead Development Operations salary in Berkshire is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 - 136
Rank change year-on-year - - +47
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.052% - 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% - 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63,750 - £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £100,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +40.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 - £110,000
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £83,500 £85,000 £81,250
% change year-on-year -1.76% +4.62% +6.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,793 2,033 1,742
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 93.09% 93.35%
Number of salaries quoted 843 1,097 1,207
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £29,735
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.61% -6.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £48,500 £55,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year -11.82% +4.66% -4.45%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead DevOps' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Lead DevOps job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for Lead DevOps job vacancies in Berkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Lead DevOps job vacancies in Berkshire

Lead DevOps
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead DevOps within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 22 November 2025. 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
Reading - 1 £67,500 - 2
Lead DevOps
South East

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 22 November 2025, Lead DevOps job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Visualforce
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce