Lead DevOps Jobs in London

Lead Development Operations
England > London

The median Lead Development Operations salary in London is £112,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 451 490
Rank change year-on-year +74 +39 +126
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 19 57 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.24% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.26% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 14 51 98
10th Percentile £82,625 £72,500 £83,375
25th Percentile £98,750 £76,250 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £85,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £123,750 £97,875 £110,000
90th Percentile - £107,500 £125,750
England median annual salary £91,250 £81,250 £92,000
% change year-on-year +12.31% -11.68% +2.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,514 22,211 32,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.11% 94.13% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,380 16,662 24,070
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in London

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps in London

Lead DevOps
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps in London

Lead DevOps
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead DevOps within the London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Central London +23 6 £112,500 +18.42% 7
East London - 1 £92,500 - 1
Lead DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 London region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (89.47%) CI/CD
3 14 (73.68%) Terraform
3 14 (73.68%) AWS
4 13 (68.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (63.16%) Python
5 12 (63.16%) Ansible
6 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
7 10 (52.63%) Analytics
8 9 (47.37%) Docker
8 9 (47.37%) Bash
8 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
9 8 (42.11%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (42.11%) AWS CDK
9 8 (42.11%) Degree
10 7 (36.84%) AWS Certification
10 7 (36.84%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (31.58%) Data Science
11 6 (31.58%) MLOps
11 6 (31.58%) Containerisation
11 6 (31.58%) Configuration Management
12 5 (26.32%) Agile
12 5 (26.32%) Azure
12 5 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (26.32%) GitOps
12 5 (26.32%) Technical Leadership
13 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
13 4 (21.05%) Line Management
13 4 (21.05%) Jenkins

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.26%) CICS
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) Drupal
1 1 (5.26%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (36.84%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (26.32%) Azure
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (10.53%) Datadog
6 2 (10.53%) GitHub
6 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (10.53%) Serverless
6 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (5.26%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (5.26%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 1 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.26%) IaaS
7 1 (5.26%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
1 1 (5.26%) Internet
1 1 (5.26%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.26%) Big Data
1 1 (5.26%) DB2
1 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
1 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
1 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.26%) MySQL
1 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.26%) Pentaho
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) GitLab
3 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
3 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
2 4 (21.05%) Investment Banking
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) Laravel
2 1 (5.26%) Loki
2 1 (5.26%) MEAN Stack
2 1 (5.26%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) Next.js
2 1 (5.26%) Node.js
2 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.26%) IoT
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Debian
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Windows
3 1 (5.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (89.47%) CI/CD
3 13 (68.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (52.63%) Analytics
5 6 (31.58%) Configuration Management
5 6 (31.58%) Containerisation
5 6 (31.58%) Data Science
5 6 (31.58%) MLOps
6 5 (26.32%) Agile
6 5 (26.32%) GitOps
6 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (26.32%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (21.05%) Line Management
8 3 (15.79%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (15.79%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
9 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
9 2 (10.53%) Observability
9 2 (10.53%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Python
2 9 (47.37%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) COBOL
3 1 (5.26%) Go
3 1 (5.26%) JCL
3 1 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (5.26%) R
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Degree
2 7 (36.84%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.26%) PMO
2 1 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (73.68%) Terraform
2 12 (63.16%) Ansible
3 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
4 3 (15.79%) Grafana
5 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
5 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
6 1 (5.26%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) IBM
2 1 (5.26%) New Relic
2 1 (5.26%) YouTube