Lead DevOps Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Development Operations
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Development Operations salary in the UK excluding London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 688 655
Rank change year-on-year +128 -33 +75
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 17 83 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.043% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 14 73 86
10th Percentile £69,425 £66,500 £66,250
25th Percentile £77,813 £70,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% - +6.45%
75th Percentile £93,438 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,875 £113,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £88,750 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +7.58% -8.33% -

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 35,540 70,800 51,694
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.95% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,956 49,914 29,611
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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 +38 11 £85,000 +25.00% 25
North West +12 7 £87,500 -20.45% 10
Yorkshire +47 4 £72,750 +6.99% 12
Scotland - 3 £85,000 - 3
South West +100 1 £85,000 +11.84% 12
Midlands +75 1 £92,500 +12.12% 19
West Midlands +51 1 £92,500 +12.12% 12
South East +50 1 £85,000 -5.56% 32
Lead DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (88.24%) CI/CD
2 15 (88.24%) Kubernetes
3 14 (82.35%) Terraform
4 12 (70.59%) AWS
5 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (52.94%) Python
6 8 (47.06%) GCP
6 8 (47.06%) Azure
7 7 (41.18%) Ansible
7 7 (41.18%) Docker
7 7 (41.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (35.29%) Finance
9 5 (29.41%) Software Delivery
9 5 (29.41%) Bash
9 5 (29.41%) nginx
9 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
9 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
10 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (23.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (23.53%) GitHub
10 4 (23.53%) Couchbase
10 4 (23.53%) Apache Solr
10 4 (23.53%) IPsec
10 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
10 4 (23.53%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
10 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management

Lead DevOps 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 5 (29.41%) nginx
2 4 (23.53%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) GCP
3 4 (23.53%) GitHub
3 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) DNS
1 4 (23.53%) HTTPS
1 4 (23.53%) IPsec
1 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Couchbase
1 4 (23.53%) MySQL
1 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) CircleCI
2 3 (17.65%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (5.88%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.88%) Travis CI
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Automotive
4 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Credit Risk
3 1 (5.88%) Life Science
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (88.24%) CI/CD
3 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (41.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (29.41%) Software Delivery
6 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (23.53%) E-Commerce
6 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
6 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
7 3 (17.65%) Configuration Management
8 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
8 2 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (11.76%) Digital Engineering
8 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Management
8 2 (11.76%) Observability
8 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
9 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Bash
3 4 (23.53%) PHP
4 3 (17.65%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) Go
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) SQL
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (88.24%) Kubernetes
2 14 (82.35%) Terraform
3 7 (41.18%) Ansible
4 2 (11.76%) Grafana
4 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.88%) Argo
5 1 (5.88%) Automic
5 1 (5.88%) Consul
5 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.88%) Puppet
5 1 (5.88%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Hitachi
2 1 (5.88%) IBM
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft