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 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 517 559
Rank change year-on-year -43 +42 -69
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 114 28 75
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.081% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.091% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 96 21 53
10th Percentile £68,125 £55,000 -
25th Percentile £79,400 £77,500 £66,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +21.43% -17.65%
75th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile - £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -5.88%

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 80,247 30,893 50,421
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 89.51% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 55,654 17,175 28,342
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 1 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 1 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 -40 49 £90,000 +12.50% 27
North West +3 34 £90,000 +2.86% 19
South West -43 34 £100,000 +8.11% 9
Midlands -37 14 £84,387 -15.61% 8
Yorkshire -33 12 £86,887 +17.41% 6
South East -54 10 - - 8
East Midlands - 8 £79,000 - 5
Scotland +18 6 £100,000 +25.00% 12
West Midlands -46 6 £90,000 -10.00% 3
North East -66 3 £90,000 - 2
Wales - 1 £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 1 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.

1 114 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (38.60%) CI/CD
3 43 (37.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (31.58%) Security Cleared
5 34 (29.82%) Terraform
6 29 (25.44%) Containerisation
7 28 (24.56%) Kubernetes
8 27 (23.68%) Python
9 24 (21.05%) Ansible
9 24 (21.05%) Docker
10 21 (18.42%) DV Cleared
11 20 (17.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 19 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (14.04%) AWS
13 16 (14.04%) Java
13 16 (14.04%) Mentoring
13 16 (14.04%) Spring
13 16 (14.04%) Spring Boot
14 15 (13.16%) Azure
15 14 (12.28%) Technical Leadership
16 13 (11.40%) GitLab
16 13 (11.40%) Test Automation
17 11 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
18 10 (8.77%) Bash
18 10 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
18 10 (8.77%) GitHub
19 9 (7.89%) Coaching
20 8 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 8 (7.02%) Linux
20 8 (7.02%) PowerShell

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:

Business Applications
1 7 (6.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.04%) AWS
2 15 (13.16%) Azure
3 11 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.77%) GitHub
5 7 (6.14%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (4.39%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.63%) IaaS
7 3 (2.63%) PaaS
8 2 (1.75%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.75%) GCP
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.88%) Datadog
9 1 (0.88%) Google Compute Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.63%) Flink
Development Applications
1 13 (11.40%) GitLab
2 5 (4.39%) Git
2 5 (4.39%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.88%) JIRA
General
1 9 (7.89%) Public Sector
2 8 (7.02%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.39%) Retail
4 3 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.75%) Banking
5 2 (1.75%) Finance
6 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.88%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (29.82%) Terraform
2 16 (14.04%) Spring
2 16 (14.04%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.63%) .NET
3 3 (2.63%) Kafka
3 3 (2.63%) Node.js
4 2 (1.75%) React
5 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.63%) Cloud Native
1 3 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
2 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.02%) Linux
2 3 (2.63%) Unix
3 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (38.60%) CI/CD
3 43 (37.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (25.44%) Containerisation
5 20 (17.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 19 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (14.04%) Mentoring
8 14 (12.28%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (11.40%) Test Automation
10 10 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (7.89%) Coaching
12 8 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 7 (6.14%) Contingency Planning
13 7 (6.14%) DevSecOps
13 7 (6.14%) GAP Analysis
13 7 (6.14%) Manual Testing
14 6 (5.26%) Agile
14 6 (5.26%) PLM
15 5 (4.39%) E-Commerce
15 5 (4.39%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.68%) Python
2 16 (14.04%) Java
3 10 (8.77%) Bash
4 8 (7.02%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.75%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 36 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.42%) DV Cleared
3 6 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 24 (21.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (24.56%) Kubernetes
2 24 (21.05%) Ansible
3 1 (0.88%) Grafana
3 1 (0.88%) Packer
3 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (4.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.51%) Intel
3 3 (2.63%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.88%) Google
4 1 (0.88%) Red Hat