Lead DevOps Job Trends in Telford

Lead Development Operations
Shropshire > Telford

The median Lead Development Operations salary in Telford is £44,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Telford 0.28% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 - -
75th Percentile £46,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median annual salary £44,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Telford. 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 Telford with a recognized job title 327 78 101
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 97.50% 83.47%
Number of salaries quoted 208 72 79
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £30,800
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,875 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £39,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +38.36% -33.75%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,875 £62,150
Shropshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +26.67% -33.33%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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 Telford.

Lead DevOps job vacancy trend in Telford

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford

For the 6 months to 27 July 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 Telford region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus