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 £92,522 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 November 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 486 526
Rank change year-on-year -50 +40 -47
Permanent Lead DevOps jobs 162 46 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 131 36 55
10th Percentile £70,000 £64,500 £65,600
25th Percentile £79,400 £75,000 £66,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,522 £83,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.47% +18.57% -15.15%
75th Percentile £100,000 £86,563 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £96,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £92,522 £85,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +8.85% +17.24% -14.71%

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
13 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title 83,994 32,797 45,172
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.56% 89.72% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 56,409 20,186 24,278
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,500 £50,055
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -7.10% -4.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -4.17%

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 13 November 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 13 November 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 -52 63 £90,000 +12.50% 24
South West -27 47 £100,000 +8.11% 8
North West -47 42 £90,000 +5.88% 16
Midlands -67 21 £75,000 -11.76% 8
Yorkshire -33 15 £92,522 +15.65% 3
West Midlands -52 15 £75,000 -11.76% 4
South East -69 15 £130,000 +54.30% 8
Scotland +4 11 £100,000 - 4
North East -66 6 £92,522 -2.61% 5
East Midlands - 6 - - 4
Wales - 5 £74,857 - 1
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Lead DevOps Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 13 November 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%162
2Security Cleared29.6%48
3CI/CD25.3%41
4Infrastructure as Code24.7%40
5Kubernetes21.6%35
6Terraform21.0%34
7Containerisation17.3%28
8Ansible16.7%27
8Site Reliability Engineering16.7%27
10Python16.0%26
11Docker14.8%24
12DV Cleared14.2%23
12Stakeholder Management14.2%23
14Java11.7%19
15Spring11.1%18
15Spring Boot11.1%18
17AWS10.5%17
18SC Cleared9.9%16
19Azure9.3%15
19Technical Leadership9.3%15
21Mentoring8.6%14
22GitLab8.0%13
23Test Automation6.8%11
24Agile6.2%10
25Azure AKS5.6%9
25Azure DevOps5.6%9
25Continuous Improvement5.6%9
25Infrastructure Engineering5.6%9
29Coaching4.9%8
29Contingency Planning4.9%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 Engineer90.1%146
2Principal DevOps Engineer10.5%17
3AWS DevOps Engineer5.6%9
3Senior DevOps Engineer5.6%9
5AWS Infrastructure Engineer3.7%6
5AWS Infrastructure Lead3.7%6
5Lead Infrastructure Engineer3.7%6
5Senior AWS DevOps Engineer3.7%6
5Senior Infrastructure Engineer3.7%6
10Team Leader3.1%5
11Azure DevOps Engineer1.9%3
11DevOps Automation Engineer1.9%3
11Site Reliability Engineer1.9%3
14Database Team Leader1.2%2
15Development Engineer0.6%1
15Lead Java Engineer0.6%1
15Operations Engineer0.6%1
15Technical Engineer0.6%1
15Technical Leader0.6%1
61 Lead DevOps jobs in the UK excluding London