Lead DevOps Jobs in England

Lead Development Operations
UK > England

The median Lead Development Operations salary in England is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 659 683 689
Rank change year-on-year +24 +6 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 34 140 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.069% 0.16% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.17% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 27 124 200
10th Percentile £73,750 £66,500 £71,125
25th Percentile £81,250 £72,611 £76,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £81,250 £92,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -11.68% +2.22%
75th Percentile £106,250 £95,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £109,250 £115,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% -8.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 45,134 81,676 80,812
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 94.55% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,494 60,830 51,454
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,126 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead DevOps in England.

Salary trend for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead DevOps within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
London +73 16 £112,500 +40.63% 22
North of England +35 11 £85,000 +25.00% 6
North West +2 7 £87,500 -20.45%
Yorkshire +57 4 £72,750 +6.99% 6
South East +55 3 £85,000 -5.56% 9
South West +104 1 £85,000 +11.84% 3
Lead DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, 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 across the England region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (91.18%) CI/CD
3 28 (82.35%) Terraform
4 23 (67.65%) AWS
5 22 (64.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (61.76%) Kubernetes
7 16 (47.06%) Ansible
7 16 (47.06%) Python
8 14 (41.18%) Docker
8 14 (41.18%) Azure
8 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
9 13 (38.24%) GCP
10 11 (32.35%) Bash
10 11 (32.35%) Configuration Management
10 11 (32.35%) Containerisation
11 10 (29.41%) Finance
11 10 (29.41%) Mentoring
12 9 (26.47%) AWS Certification
12 9 (26.47%) Jenkins
12 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (23.53%) Analytics
14 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Management
14 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (20.59%) Agile
14 7 (20.59%) Degree
14 7 (20.59%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (20.59%) Cloud Security
15 6 (17.65%) GitOps
15 6 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (14.71%) nginx
2 3 (8.82%) Apache Solr
3 1 (2.94%) Apache
3 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.94%) CICS
3 1 (2.94%) Confluence
3 1 (2.94%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 23 (67.65%) AWS
2 14 (41.18%) Azure
3 13 (38.24%) GCP
4 7 (20.59%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (14.71%) GitHub
6 5 (14.71%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.88%) Datadog
7 2 (5.88%) IaaS
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.94%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.94%) Cloudflare
8 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.94%) Serverless
8 1 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) DNS
2 3 (8.82%) HTTPS
2 3 (8.82%) IPsec
2 3 (8.82%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.94%) Internet
3 1 (2.94%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (2.94%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) MySQL
1 4 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.82%) Couchbase
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.94%) Big Data
3 1 (2.94%) DB2
3 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.94%) Pentaho
3 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.94%) Power BI
3 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.71%) GitLab
3 4 (11.76%) CircleCI
4 3 (8.82%) Git
5 2 (5.88%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.94%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (2.94%) JIRA
6 1 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.94%) Travis CI
General
1 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 10 (29.41%) Finance
3 3 (8.82%) Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Automotive
5 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) AWS CDK
2 3 (8.82%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.94%) .NET
4 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.94%) Kafka
4 1 (2.94%) Laravel
4 1 (2.94%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (2.94%) Loki
4 1 (2.94%) MEAN Stack
4 1 (2.94%) Middleware
4 1 (2.94%) Next.js
4 1 (2.94%) Node.js
4 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.94%) REST
4 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.94%) IoT
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Life Science
4 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Debian
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.94%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (91.18%) CI/CD
3 22 (64.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (32.35%) Configuration Management
4 11 (32.35%) Containerisation
5 10 (29.41%) Mentoring
6 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (23.53%) Analytics
8 7 (20.59%) Agile
8 7 (20.59%) Cloud Security
8 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Management
9 6 (17.65%) E-Commerce
9 6 (17.65%) GitOps
9 6 (17.65%) High Availability
9 6 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (14.71%) Deployment Automation
10 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (14.71%) Technical Leadership
11 4 (11.76%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 16 (47.06%) Python
2 11 (32.35%) Bash
3 3 (8.82%) PHP
4 2 (5.88%) Go
4 2 (5.88%) Java
4 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.94%) C#
5 1 (2.94%) COBOL
5 1 (2.94%) JCL
5 1 (2.94%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.94%) R
5 1 (2.94%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) AWS Certification
2 7 (20.59%) Degree
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.94%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.94%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.94%) PMO
2 1 (2.94%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (41.18%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (82.35%) Terraform
2 21 (61.76%) Kubernetes
3 16 (47.06%) Ansible
4 5 (14.71%) Grafana
5 4 (11.76%) Prometheus
6 3 (8.82%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.94%) Argo
7 1 (2.94%) Automic
7 1 (2.94%) Bugsnag
7 1 (2.94%) Consul
7 1 (2.94%) Puppet
7 1 (2.94%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Google
2 2 (5.88%) Hitachi
2 2 (5.88%) IBM
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.94%) New Relic
3 1 (2.94%) YouTube