Lead DevOps Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 574 711 684
Rank change year-on-year +137 -27 +81
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 11 52 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.028% 0.073% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.077% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9 44 54
10th Percentile £66,500 £66,500 £68,497
25th Percentile £77,500 £67,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,000 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.48% +8.06%
75th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,250 £115,000 £109,250
UK median annual salary £87,500 £80,000 £93,750
% change year-on-year +9.38% -14.67% +10.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,427 67,196 53,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.83% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18,481 47,540 30,291
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
North of England +46 8 £87,500 +28.68% 14
North West +1 5 £88,750 -19.32% 2
Yorkshire +56 3 £68,000 - 12
Scotland - 2 £85,000 - 1
South East +76 1 £85,000 +6.25% 2
Lead DevOps Engineer
UK

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Lead DevOps Engineer 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (90.91%) Terraform
2 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
3 9 (81.82%) AWS
3 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
4 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (63.64%) Python
5 6 (54.55%) Azure
5 6 (54.55%) GCP
5 6 (54.55%) Docker
6 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
7 4 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
7 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
7 4 (36.36%) GitHub
7 4 (36.36%) Bash
7 4 (36.36%) Finance
8 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (27.27%) Banking
8 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (27.27%) Ansible
8 3 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (27.27%) CircleCI
9 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
9 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
9 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (9.09%) Apache Solr
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) GCP
3 4 (36.36%) GitHub
3 4 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) HTTPS
1 1 (9.09%) IPsec
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Couchbase
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) CircleCI
3 2 (18.18%) Git
4 1 (9.09%) Gradle
4 1 (9.09%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (9.09%) JUnit
4 1 (9.09%) Maven
4 1 (9.09%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (9.09%) Selenium
4 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (9.09%) Spinnaker
4 1 (9.09%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
4 1 (9.09%) TestNG
4 1 (9.09%) Travis CI
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
4 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Credit Risk
3 1 (9.09%) Market Risk
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
6 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
6 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 1 (9.09%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
7 1 (9.09%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Go
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Basel III
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) IFRS
1 1 (9.09%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
1 10 (90.91%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Argo
3 1 (9.09%) Automic
3 1 (9.09%) Consul
3 1 (9.09%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Hitachi