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 26 October 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 510 517
Rank change year-on-year -36 +7 -18
Permanent Lead DevOps jobs 132 33 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.096% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.11% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 111 25 53
10th Percentile £68,750 £58,000 £65,300
25th Percentile £79,400 £72,500 £66,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +14.29% -15.48%
75th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile - £98,500 £89,750
UK median annual salary £92,500 £82,500 £73,500
% change year-on-year +12.12% +12.24% -13.53%

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 adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
26 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title 82,073 31,013 45,901
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 92.05% 90.08% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 56,168 17,988 25,028
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,603
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,515 £52,500 £56,988
% change year-on-year +13.36% -7.88% -5.02%

Lead DevOps Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent Lead DevOps job postings 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 Lead DevOps jobs in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 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 Lead DevOps jobs within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
North of England -36 56 £90,000 +21.62% 9
South West -38 39 £100,000 +8.11% 4
North West - 38 £90,000 - 5
Yorkshire -28 14 £90,000 +21.62% 2
South East -46 14 £130,000 +52.94% 1
Midlands -59 12 £75,000 -18.92% 3
Scotland +15 8 £100,000 - 1
East Midlands - 7 £75,000 - 1
West Midlands -51 5 £75,000 -18.92% 2
North East -72 4 £91,261 - 2
Wales - 3 £74,857 - 3
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Lead DevOps Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 October 2026, Lead DevOps job ads cited 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 Lead DevOps job ads across the UK excluding London region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1DevOps100.0%132
2Security Cleared33.3%44
3CI/CD32.6%43
4Infrastructure as Code31.8%42
5Terraform25.8%34
6Kubernetes25.0%33
7Containerisation22.0%29
8Ansible20.5%27
9Python19.7%26
10Docker18.9%25
11Site Reliability Engineering18.2%24
12DV Cleared17.4%23
13Stakeholder Management16.7%22
14AWS13.6%18
14Java13.6%18
14Spring13.6%18
14Spring Boot13.6%18
18Azure12.9%17
19Mentoring10.6%14
19Technical Leadership10.6%14
21GitLab9.8%13
22Azure DevOps9.1%12
22SC Cleared9.1%12
22Test Automation9.1%12
25Continuous Improvement6.8%9
25Infrastructure Engineering6.8%9
27Coaching6.1%8
27Contingency Planning6.1%8
27GAP Analysis6.1%8
27GitHub6.1%8

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Lead DevOps Engineer89.4%118
2Principal DevOps Engineer12.9%17
3AWS DevOps Engineer6.8%9
4AWS Infrastructure Engineer4.5%6
4AWS Infrastructure Lead4.5%6
4Lead Infrastructure Engineer4.5%6
4Senior AWS DevOps Engineer4.5%6
4Senior Infrastructure Engineer4.5%6
9Azure DevOps Engineer3.8%5
10DevOps Automation Engineer2.3%3
10Team Leader2.3%3
12Technical Leader1.5%2
13Development Engineer0.8%1
13Lead Java Engineer0.8%1
13Operations Engineer0.8%1
13Technical Engineer0.8%1
21 Lead DevOps jobs in the UK excluding London