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 £92,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 October 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 506 530
Rank change year-on-year -39 +24 -30
Permanent Lead DevOps jobs 141 34 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.098% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.11% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 116 26 53
10th Percentile £68,875 £58,750 £65,300
25th Percentile £80,000 £73,125 £66,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £81,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% +16.07% -15.48%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,938 £85,000
90th Percentile - £98,125 £89,750
UK median annual salary £92,500 £82,500 £73,000
% change year-on-year +12.12% +13.01% -14.12%

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
30 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title 83,011 31,293 45,689
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.83% 90.04% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 56,541 18,450 24,888
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,914
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £52,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +12.38% -7.89% -5.00%

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 30 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 Lead DevOps jobs within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
North of England -18 57 £90,000 +21.62% 6
South West -34 41 £100,000 +8.11% 4
North West - 37 £90,000 - 2
Midlands -59 16 £75,000 -15.49% 4
South East -73 15 £130,000 +52.94% 3
Yorkshire -26 14 £90,000 +21.62% 2
Scotland +16 9 £100,000 - 1
West Midlands -54 9 £75,000 -15.49% 3
East Midlands - 7 £75,000 - 1
North East -70 6 £92,522 - 2
Wales - 3 £74,857 - 3
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Lead DevOps Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 October 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%141
2Security Cleared31.9%45
3CI/CD29.1%41
4Infrastructure as Code28.4%40
5Terraform23.4%33
6Kubernetes22.7%32
7Ansible19.1%27
7Containerisation19.1%27
9Python17.7%25
9Site Reliability Engineering17.7%25
11Docker17.0%24
12DV Cleared16.3%23
13Stakeholder Management15.6%22
14Java12.8%18
14Spring12.8%18
14Spring Boot12.8%18
17AWS12.1%17
18Azure10.6%15
19Technical Leadership9.9%14
20Mentoring9.2%13
20SC Cleared9.2%13
22GitLab8.5%12
23Azure DevOps7.8%11
23Test Automation7.8%11
25Continuous Improvement6.4%9
25Infrastructure Engineering6.4%9
27Contingency Planning5.7%8
27GAP Analysis5.7%8
27GitHub5.7%8
30Agile5.0%7

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 Engineer89.4%126
2Principal DevOps Engineer12.1%17
3AWS DevOps Engineer6.4%9
4Senior DevOps Engineer5.0%7
5AWS Infrastructure Engineer4.3%6
5AWS Infrastructure Lead4.3%6
5Lead Infrastructure Engineer4.3%6
5Senior AWS DevOps Engineer4.3%6
5Senior Infrastructure Engineer4.3%6
10Azure DevOps Engineer2.1%3
10DevOps Automation Engineer2.1%3
10Team Leader2.1%3
13Technical Leader1.4%2
14Development Engineer0.7%1
14Lead Java Engineer0.7%1
14Operations Engineer0.7%1
14Site Reliability Engineer0.7%1
14Technical Engineer0.7%1
21 Lead DevOps jobs in the UK excluding London