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 28 October 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 516 501
Rank change year-on-year -2 -15 +265
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 33 73 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.096% 0.15% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.16% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 25 52 63
10th Percentile £58,000 £65,150 £66,699
25th Percentile £72,500 £66,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £82,818
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -15.48% +1.42%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,625 £92,500
90th Percentile £98,500 £89,875 £100,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £73,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -13.53% -8.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 30,915 45,697 30,297
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.99% 95.28% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 18,129 24,866 22,763
10th Percentile £26,875 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £37,860
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,603 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -

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 28 October 2025.

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 28 October 2025. 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 -1 14 £74,000 +8.82% 2
Yorkshire -2 11 £74,000 +8.82%
South East +42 10 £85,000 -1.45% 9
West Midlands +48 7 £92,500 +42.80% 3
Midlands +36 7 £92,500 +37.04% 3
North East +14 3 - - 2
South West +35 1 £92,500 +27.59% 2
Scotland -9 1 - -
Lead DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 October 2025, 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 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (51.52%) CI/CD
3 15 (45.45%) Azure
4 14 (42.42%) AWS
4 14 (42.42%) Kubernetes
5 13 (39.39%) Terraform
6 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (27.27%) Agile
7 9 (27.27%) Ansible
7 9 (27.27%) Docker
7 9 (27.27%) Windows
8 8 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (21.21%) Linux
9 7 (21.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (18.18%) GCP
10 6 (18.18%) GitLab
10 6 (18.18%) Grafana
10 6 (18.18%) Observability
10 6 (18.18%) Prometheus
10 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
11 5 (15.15%) Incident Response
11 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (15.15%) Microservices
11 5 (15.15%) Performance Optimisation
11 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
12 4 (12.12%) Line Management
12 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (12.12%) Project Management
13 3 (9.09%) Containerisation
13 3 (9.09%) Firewall

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 1 (3.03%) Apache Solr
1 1 (3.03%) nginx
1 1 (3.03%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) Azure
2 14 (42.42%) AWS
3 8 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (18.18%) GCP
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.03%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) Firewall
1 3 (9.09%) Network Security
2 2 (6.06%) DNS
3 1 (3.03%) HTTPS
3 1 (3.03%) IPsec
3 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Couchbase
1 1 (3.03%) MySQL
1 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) GitLab
2 2 (6.06%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) Robot Framework
2 2 (6.06%) Selenium
2 2 (6.06%) Snyk
3 1 (3.03%) CircleCI
General
1 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.03%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Law
4 1 (3.03%) Marketing
4 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Private Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) .NET
1 1 (3.03%) LAMP
1 1 (3.03%) Middleware
1 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.12%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Windows
2 7 (21.21%) Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (51.52%) CI/CD
3 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (27.27%) Agile
5 7 (21.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (18.18%) Observability
7 5 (15.15%) Incident Response
7 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (15.15%) Microservices
7 5 (15.15%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (12.12%) Line Management
8 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.12%) Project Management
9 3 (9.09%) Mentoring
9 3 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
9 3 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
9 3 (9.09%) Scrum
9 3 (9.09%) Server Management
9 3 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (9.09%) Vendor Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.09%) Python
2 2 (6.06%) Bicep
2 2 (6.06%) Java
3 1 (3.03%) Go
3 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.03%) PHP
3 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (42.42%) Kubernetes
2 13 (39.39%) Terraform
3 9 (27.27%) Ansible
4 6 (18.18%) Grafana
4 6 (18.18%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Black Duck
2 2 (6.06%) Coverity
3 1 (3.03%) VMware