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 £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 March 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 484 611
Rank change year-on-year -10 +127 +80
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 53 42 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.16% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 47 30 75
10th Percentile £63,250 £66,216 £67,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £68,500 £73,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £115,000
UK median annual salary £83,774 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -1.44% - -7.61%

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 47,997 25,462 54,981
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.85% 90.43% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 30,316 14,202 41,970
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £26,700
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £64,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 11 March 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 11 March 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 +3 20 £85,000 +31.22% 3
North of England -26 18 £85,000 +4.62% 6
West Midlands +8 15 £80,000 +23.51% 1
South East -15 8 £75,000 -11.76% 3
North West -8 7 £85,000 -8.11% 4
Yorkshire -38 7 £80,000 +17.65% 2
South West -23 6 £80,000 +10.34%
East Midlands - 5 £100,000 - 2
North East - 4 £95,000 -
Scotland -15 1 £55,000 -38.89%
Lead DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 March 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 53 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (43.40%) CI/CD
3 19 (35.85%) Agile
4 17 (32.08%) Kubernetes
5 15 (28.30%) AWS
5 15 (28.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (26.42%) Terraform
7 13 (24.53%) Azure
7 13 (24.53%) Docker
8 11 (20.75%) Ansible
9 9 (16.98%) Observability
10 8 (15.09%) GCP
10 8 (15.09%) Performance Optimisation
11 7 (13.21%) GitLab
11 7 (13.21%) Prometheus
11 7 (13.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (11.32%) Grafana
12 6 (11.32%) Incident Response
12 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (11.32%) JavaScript
12 6 (11.32%) Line Management
12 6 (11.32%) Mentoring
12 6 (11.32%) Python
13 5 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (9.43%) Go
13 5 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (9.43%) Scrum
13 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
14 4 (7.55%) Business Strategy

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 (5.66%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 15 (28.30%) AWS
2 13 (24.53%) Azure
3 8 (15.09%) GCP
4 6 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.55%) GitHub
6 3 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.89%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.89%) IaaS
7 1 (1.89%) PaaS
7 1 (1.89%) Pulumi
7 1 (1.89%) SaaS
7 1 (1.89%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Broadband
1 1 (1.89%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.89%) Metadata
1 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
1 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) GitLab
2 4 (7.55%) JIRA
3 3 (5.66%) Git
4 2 (3.77%) Robot Framework
4 2 (3.77%) Selenium
4 2 (3.77%) Snyk
5 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.89%) Jaeger
5 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (13.21%) Finance
2 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (9.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Banking
3 3 (5.66%) Corporate Banking
3 3 (5.66%) Financial Institution
3 3 (5.66%) Investment Banking
3 3 (5.66%) Private Banking
4 2 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.89%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.89%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) Middleware
2 1 (1.89%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.89%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.89%) REST
2 1 (1.89%) SOAP
2 1 (1.89%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.43%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.89%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Linux
2 2 (3.77%) Unix
3 1 (1.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (43.40%) CI/CD
3 19 (35.85%) Agile
4 15 (28.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (16.98%) Observability
6 8 (15.09%) Performance Optimisation
7 7 (13.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (11.32%) Incident Response
8 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (11.32%) Line Management
8 6 (11.32%) Mentoring
9 5 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (9.43%) Scrum
10 4 (7.55%) Business Strategy
10 4 (7.55%) DevSecOps
10 4 (7.55%) Product Backlog
10 4 (7.55%) Roadmaps
10 4 (7.55%) SIEM
11 3 (5.66%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.32%) JavaScript
1 6 (11.32%) Python
2 5 (9.43%) Go
3 2 (3.77%) Java
4 1 (1.89%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.89%) Bash
4 1 (1.89%) Bicep
4 1 (1.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (24.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (32.08%) Kubernetes
2 14 (26.42%) Terraform
3 11 (20.75%) Ansible
4 7 (13.21%) Prometheus
5 6 (11.32%) Grafana
6 2 (3.77%) Argo
7 1 (1.89%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (3.77%) Black Duck
1 2 (3.77%) Coverity
1 2 (3.77%) Google
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.89%) Pega
2 1 (1.89%) Salesforce