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 £83,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 April 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 469 662
Rank change year-on-year -25 +193 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 70 31 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 63 21 70
10th Percentile £67,500 £66,500 £66,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% +3.03% +6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £99,000 £98,474 £115,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -2.86% +6.06% -8.33%

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 59,451 23,663 63,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 88.46% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 37,824 14,715 46,813
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £76,990
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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
Midlands -5 31 £85,000 -22.73% 5
North of England -56 20 £85,000 -2.86% 8
West Midlands -8 17 £85,000 -22.73% 2
East Midlands - 14 £100,000 - 3
North West -26 9 £85,000 -5.56% 2
South West -44 7 £80,000 +15.94%
Yorkshire -50 7 £80,000 +17.65% 3
South East -38 6 £77,500 -6.06% 3
North East - 4 £95,000 - 3
East of England - 3 £70,000 -
Scotland -22 2 £55,000 -35.29%
Wales - 1 £74,000 - 1
Lead DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 70 (100.00%) DevOps
2 30 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 25 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (30.00%) Azure
4 21 (30.00%) Terraform
5 20 (28.57%) Kubernetes
6 19 (27.14%) Agile
7 17 (24.29%) AWS
8 15 (21.43%) Docker
8 15 (21.43%) Observability
9 13 (18.57%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (14.29%) GCP
10 10 (14.29%) Incident Response
10 10 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 9 (12.86%) Ansible
11 9 (12.86%) Mentoring
11 9 (12.86%) Performance Optimisation
12 8 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (11.43%) GitLab
12 8 (11.43%) Python
13 7 (10.00%) Containerisation
13 7 (10.00%) GitHub
13 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 7 (10.00%) Line Management
13 7 (10.00%) Prometheus
14 6 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (8.57%) Grafana
15 5 (7.14%) Coaching
15 5 (7.14%) JavaScript
15 5 (7.14%) JIRA

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 3 (4.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 21 (30.00%) Azure
2 17 (24.29%) AWS
3 13 (18.57%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (14.29%) GCP
5 7 (10.00%) GitHub
6 6 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.29%) IaaS
8 2 (2.86%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.86%) PaaS
9 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.43%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.43%) Google Compute Engine
9 1 (1.43%) Pulumi
9 1 (1.43%) SaaS
9 1 (1.43%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (1.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.43%) Metadata
1 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
1 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (11.43%) GitLab
2 5 (7.14%) JIRA
3 3 (4.29%) Git
3 3 (4.29%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.43%) Jaeger
General
1 7 (10.00%) Finance
2 5 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (5.71%) Retail
4 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.86%) Banking
5 2 (2.86%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (2.86%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.86%) Games
5 2 (2.86%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.86%) Private Banking
5 2 (2.86%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.43%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.43%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.29%) .NET
1 3 (4.29%) Node.js
2 2 (2.86%) React
3 1 (1.43%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.43%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.43%) Middleware
3 1 (1.43%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.43%) REST
3 1 (1.43%) SOAP
3 1 (1.43%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.43%) PKI
3 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Linux
2 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.43%) Unix
2 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (100.00%) DevOps
2 30 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 25 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (27.14%) Agile
5 15 (21.43%) Observability
6 10 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 10 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (12.86%) Mentoring
7 9 (12.86%) Performance Optimisation
8 8 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (10.00%) Containerisation
9 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (10.00%) Line Management
10 5 (7.14%) Coaching
10 5 (7.14%) Roadmaps
11 4 (5.71%) Business Strategy
11 4 (5.71%) DevSecOps
11 4 (5.71%) E-Commerce
11 4 (5.71%) Incident Management
12 3 (4.29%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.43%) Python
2 5 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 4 (5.71%) Bash
3 4 (5.71%) Go
4 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.43%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.43%) Bicep
5 1 (1.43%) Java
5 1 (1.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.43%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (30.00%) Terraform
2 20 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 9 (12.86%) Ansible
4 7 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 6 (8.57%) Grafana
6 2 (2.86%) Argo
7 1 (1.43%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.43%) Packer
7 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (5.71%) Google
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.86%) Pega
3 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.43%) Salesforce