Lead DevOps Job Trends in the North East

Lead Development Operations
England > North East

The median Lead Development Operations salary in the North East is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 December 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 90 -
Rank change year-on-year +14 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 6 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.59% 0.090% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.095% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £100,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
England median annual salary £83,500 £74,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +12.84% -12.94% -8.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 916 1,049 494
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.51% 94.00% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 602 534 422
10th Percentile £25,300 £30,000 £28,025
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £61,396
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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 North East.

Lead DevOps job vacancy trend in the North East

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in the North East

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

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

Lead DevOps
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead DevOps within the North East region over the 6 months to 7 December 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
Tyne and Wear +14 6 £95,000 -5.00%
Lead DevOps
England

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 7 December 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 North East region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Terraform
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Cost Management
4 1 (16.67%) Docker
4 1 (16.67%) FinOps
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) SQL

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Management
3 1 (16.67%) FinOps
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft