Lead DevOps Job Trends in Surrey

Lead Development Operations
South East > Surrey

The median Lead Development Operations salary in Surrey is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 December 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 112 85
Rank change year-on-year +9 -27 +82
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 1 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.060% 0.080% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.088% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +17.24% -6.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £73,750
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £84,250 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -0.88% +6.25% +3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 1,459 1,138 833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.79% 90.97% 92.76%
Number of salaries quoted 930 593 572
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -7.89%
75th Percentile £64,688 £73,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £72,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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 Surrey.

Lead DevOps job vacancy trend in Surrey

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for Lead DevOps job vacancies in Surrey.

Salary distribution trend for Lead DevOps job vacancies in Surrey

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 21 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 Surrey region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Deadline-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Deadline-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes