Lead DevOps Job Trends in the East Midlands

Lead Development Operations
England > East Midlands

As of 9 January 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Lead Development Operations salary in the East Midlands.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 129 108
Rank change year-on-year -5 -21 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 1 1 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.040% 0.045% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.047% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £66,250
25th Percentile - - £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -9.68% +19.23%
75th Percentile - - £84,000
90th Percentile - - £86,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% -5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,329 2,135 1,737
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 95.83% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,561 949 1,398
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,059
% change year-on-year -8.33% +1.59% -3.97%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Lead DevOps job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Lead DevOps job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Lead DevOps job vacancies in the East Midlands

Lead DevOps
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead DevOps within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. 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
Derbyshire - 1 - -
Lead DevOps
England

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 9 January 2026, 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 East Midlands region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
1 1 (100.00%) Budget Control
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Jaeger
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jaeger
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Budget Control
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google