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 £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 518 647
Rank change year-on-year -23 +129 -84
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 85 25 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.074% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.082% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 73 18 61
10th Percentile £69,000 £55,000 -
25th Percentile £81,000 £77,500 £66,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -3.40%
75th Percentile £96,250 £88,750 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £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 68,551 30,401 65,937
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 89.42% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 47,522 17,433 46,246
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,948 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,145
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -4 28 £92,500 -7.50% 1
North of England -11 27 £90,000 +14.29% 12
East Midlands - 17 £85,000 -
South West - 16 £100,000 - 8
North West +4 13 £90,000 +2.86% 11
West Midlands -11 11 £95,000 -5.00% 1
Yorkshire -23 10 £90,000 +35.85% 1
South East -19 7 £80,000 -5.88% 1
North East -44 4 £90,000 -
Scotland +15 3 £55,000 -31.25% 2
East of England - 3 £70,000 -
Wales - 1 £74,000 -
Lead DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 July 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 85 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 32 (37.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (31.76%) Terraform
5 22 (25.88%) Security Cleared
6 19 (22.35%) Azure
6 19 (22.35%) Containerisation
6 19 (22.35%) Kubernetes
7 16 (18.82%) Docker
7 16 (18.82%) Python
8 15 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (16.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 13 (15.29%) Ansible
11 12 (14.12%) Mentoring
11 12 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (12.94%) DV Cleared
13 10 (11.76%) Java
13 10 (11.76%) Observability
13 10 (11.76%) Spring
13 10 (11.76%) Spring Boot
14 9 (10.59%) AWS
14 9 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
15 8 (9.41%) Agile
15 8 (9.41%) Coaching
15 8 (9.41%) GitHub
15 8 (9.41%) GitLab
16 7 (8.24%) E-Commerce
16 7 (8.24%) Technical Leadership
17 6 (7.06%) Bash
17 6 (7.06%) GitHub Actions

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 (1.18%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.35%) Azure
2 15 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (10.59%) AWS
4 8 (9.41%) GitHub
5 6 (7.06%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.71%) Azure AKS
6 4 (4.71%) GCP
7 3 (3.53%) IaaS
7 3 (3.53%) PaaS
8 2 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.18%) Datadog
9 1 (1.18%) Google Compute Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.35%) Flink
Development Applications
1 8 (9.41%) GitLab
2 5 (5.88%) Git
2 5 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.35%) JIRA
General
1 7 (8.24%) Retail
2 6 (7.06%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.53%) Finance
4 3 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.35%) Banking
5 2 (2.35%) Games
6 1 (1.18%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.76%) Spring
1 10 (11.76%) Spring Boot
2 4 (4.71%) .NET
2 4 (4.71%) Node.js
3 3 (3.53%) React
4 2 (2.35%) Kafka
5 1 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.18%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
1 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.18%) PKI
2 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.71%) Linux
2 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.18%) Unix
2 1 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 32 (37.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (22.35%) Containerisation
5 14 (16.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (14.12%) Mentoring
6 12 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (11.76%) Observability
8 9 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (9.41%) Agile
9 8 (9.41%) Coaching
10 7 (8.24%) E-Commerce
10 7 (8.24%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (5.88%) AI
11 5 (5.88%) DevSecOps
11 5 (5.88%) Incident Response
12 4 (4.71%) Incident Management
12 4 (4.71%) Test Automation
13 3 (3.53%) Disaster Recovery
13 3 (3.53%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.82%) Python
2 10 (11.76%) Java
3 6 (7.06%) Bash
4 4 (4.71%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.18%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 22 (25.88%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.94%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.35%) QA
System Software
1 16 (18.82%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (31.76%) Terraform
2 19 (22.35%) Kubernetes
3 13 (15.29%) Ansible
4 1 (1.18%) Grafana
4 1 (1.18%) Packer
4 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (3.53%) Google
2 2 (2.35%) Atlassian
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.35%) Pega
3 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.18%) Red Hat