Lead DevOps Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Lead Development Operations
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Development Operations salary in the UK excluding London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 October 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 518 547
Rank change year-on-year -49 +29 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 118 28 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.081% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.091% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 100 20 56
10th Percentile £68,625 £55,000 £65,750
25th Percentile £79,400 £76,250 £66,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £84,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +20.36% -15.48%
75th Percentile £100,000 £89,875 £85,625
90th Percentile - £100,000 £89,375
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -11.76%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 79,938 30,816 48,457
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 89.54% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 55,216 17,381 26,639
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.22% -8.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -8.33%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Lead DevOps job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Lead DevOps job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Lead DevOps job vacancies 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 12 October 2026.

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 12 October 2026. 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 -20 50 £90,000 +21.62% 28
South West -35 38 £100,000 +8.11% 7
North West - 35 £90,000 - 18
Yorkshire -40 12 £86,887 +17.41% 5
South East -45 10 - - 4
Midlands -40 9 £79,387 -20.61% 6
Scotland +11 8 £100,000 - 6
West Midlands -40 5 £90,000 -10.00% 2
East Midlands - 4 £75,000 - 4
North East -67 3 £90,000 - 5
Wales - 3 £74,000 - 5
Lead DevOps
UK

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 October 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 118 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (37.29%) CI/CD
3 43 (36.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (35.59%) Security Cleared
5 34 (28.81%) Terraform
6 31 (26.27%) Kubernetes
7 30 (25.42%) Containerisation
8 27 (22.88%) Python
9 26 (22.03%) Ansible
10 25 (21.19%) Docker
11 23 (19.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 22 (18.64%) DV Cleared
13 21 (17.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (16.10%) AWS
15 17 (14.41%) Java
15 17 (14.41%) Spring
15 17 (14.41%) Spring Boot
16 16 (13.56%) Mentoring
17 15 (12.71%) Azure
17 15 (12.71%) Technical Leadership
18 14 (11.86%) GitLab
18 14 (11.86%) Test Automation
19 11 (9.32%) SC Cleared
20 10 (8.47%) Coaching
20 10 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
21 9 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
21 9 (7.63%) Bash
21 9 (7.63%) GitHub
21 9 (7.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 8 (6.78%) Agile

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.85%) Apache
Business Applications
1 6 (5.08%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.10%) AWS
2 15 (12.71%) Azure
3 9 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (7.63%) GitHub
4 7 (5.93%) Azure AKS
5 5 (4.24%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.69%) PaaS
8 1 (0.85%) Datadog
8 1 (0.85%) GCP
8 1 (0.85%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.39%) Flink
Development Applications
1 14 (11.86%) GitLab
2 5 (4.24%) Git
3 4 (3.39%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (9.32%) Public Sector
2 8 (6.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.54%) Retail
5 2 (1.69%) Banking
6 1 (0.85%) Finance
6 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.85%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (28.81%) Terraform
2 17 (14.41%) Spring
2 17 (14.41%) Spring Boot
3 4 (3.39%) Kafka
4 2 (1.69%) .NET
4 2 (1.69%) Node.js
5 1 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.85%) React
5 1 (0.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.39%) Cloud Native
1 4 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.93%) Linux
2 3 (2.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (37.29%) CI/CD
3 43 (36.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (25.42%) Containerisation
5 23 (19.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 21 (17.80%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (13.56%) Mentoring
8 15 (12.71%) Technical Leadership
9 14 (11.86%) Test Automation
10 10 (8.47%) Coaching
10 10 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (7.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (6.78%) Agile
12 8 (6.78%) Contingency Planning
12 8 (6.78%) GAP Analysis
13 7 (5.93%) DevSecOps
13 7 (5.93%) Manual Testing
14 6 (5.08%) PLM
14 6 (5.08%) Zero Trust
15 5 (4.24%) Conversational UI
Programming Languages
1 27 (22.88%) Python
2 17 (14.41%) Java
3 9 (7.63%) Bash
4 7 (5.93%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 42 (35.59%) Security Cleared
2 22 (18.64%) DV Cleared
3 11 (9.32%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 25 (21.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (26.27%) Kubernetes
2 26 (22.03%) Ansible
3 1 (0.85%) Grafana
3 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (4.24%) Intel
1 5 (4.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.39%) Atlassian