Lead DevOps Jobs 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 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 642 590 770
Rank change year-on-year -52 +180 -138
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 65 88 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.100% 0.18% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.20% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 57 75 80
10th Percentile - £68,497 £64,375
25th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £73,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,818 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +10.34%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £94,125
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +2.86%

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 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Lead DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead DevOps 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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -10 29 £68,000 -17.89%
Yorkshire +55 24 £68,000 -22.29%
South East +5 16 £96,250 +6.94% 2
Midlands -7 15 £82,500 +37.50% 1
East Midlands - 8 £80,000 -
West Midlands +2 7 £82,500 +37.50% 1
South West -12 5 £76,000 -17.84% 1
North West -25 4 £110,000 +32.82%
North East - 1 £100,000 -
Lead DevOps
UK

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Lead DevOps job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 65 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (75.38%) Kubernetes
3 47 (72.31%) AWS
4 39 (60.00%) Terraform
5 38 (58.46%) Docker
5 38 (58.46%) CI/CD
6 33 (50.77%) Azure
7 27 (41.54%) Containerisation
8 26 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (35.38%) GCP
10 22 (33.85%) Public Sector
11 21 (32.31%) GitHub
12 20 (30.77%) Mentoring
13 17 (26.15%) Deployment Automation
13 17 (26.15%) Social Skills
14 16 (24.62%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (24.62%) CircleCI
15 15 (23.08%) Public Cloud
15 15 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
15 15 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
17 13 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 12 (18.46%) Azure DevOps
19 9 (13.85%) SaaS
19 9 (13.85%) Security Cleared
20 8 (12.31%) PowerShell
20 8 (12.31%) Git
20 8 (12.31%) Software Engineering
20 8 (12.31%) Agile

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (9.23%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 47 (72.31%) AWS
2 33 (50.77%) Azure
3 23 (35.38%) GCP
4 21 (32.31%) GitHub
5 16 (24.62%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (18.46%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (13.85%) SaaS
8 8 (12.31%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (10.77%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (10.77%) Amazon S3
10 6 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (9.23%) Serverless
11 5 (7.69%) CloudFront
12 4 (6.15%) Akamai
12 4 (6.15%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (6.15%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (6.15%) Azure Functions
12 4 (6.15%) Cloudflare
12 4 (6.15%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.54%) VSAN
1 1 (1.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.23%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.62%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.08%) DB2
4 2 (3.08%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (24.62%) CircleCI
2 8 (12.31%) Git
3 7 (10.77%) TeamCity
4 6 (9.23%) Jenkins
4 6 (9.23%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (4.62%) GitLab
General
1 22 (33.85%) Public Sector
2 17 (26.15%) Social Skills
3 15 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (7.69%) Finance
5 4 (6.15%) Automotive
6 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.54%) Banking
7 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.54%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.31%) .NET
2 2 (3.08%) Spring
2 2 (3.08%) Spring XD
3 1 (1.54%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.54%) Node.js
3 1 (1.54%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
1 15 (23.08%) Public Cloud
2 6 (9.23%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.15%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (4.62%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.08%) Blockchain
5 2 (3.08%) e-Learning
5 2 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Windows
2 4 (6.15%) Linux
2 4 (6.15%) VMS
3 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (58.46%) CI/CD
3 27 (41.54%) Containerisation
4 26 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (30.77%) Mentoring
6 17 (26.15%) Deployment Automation
7 15 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (12.31%) Agile
10 8 (12.31%) Software Engineering
11 7 (10.77%) Performance Tuning
12 6 (9.23%) Artificial Intelligence
12 6 (9.23%) Collaborative Culture
12 6 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (9.23%) High Availability
12 6 (9.23%) Microservices
12 6 (9.23%) Release Management
13 5 (7.69%) Coaching
13 5 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.31%) PowerShell
1 8 (12.31%) Python
2 6 (9.23%) Java
3 5 (7.69%) Bash
4 4 (6.15%) SQL
5 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.15%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.62%) BC Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (58.46%) Docker
2 8 (12.31%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (6.15%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 49 (75.38%) Kubernetes
2 39 (60.00%) Terraform
3 4 (6.15%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.08%) Consul
4 2 (3.08%) Grafana
4 2 (3.08%) Puppet
5 1 (1.54%) Ansible
5 1 (1.54%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.54%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 4 (6.15%) ForgeRock
2 4 (6.15%) Sitecore
3 2 (3.08%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.08%) IBM
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle
3 2 (3.08%) Splunk
3 2 (3.08%) Sybase
4 1 (1.54%) Google
4 1 (1.54%) VMware