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 £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 May 2025.

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

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 678 662
Rank change year-on-year +119 -16 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 21 80 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 17 71 87
10th Percentile £72,350 £66,500 £66,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £70,875 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £115,000 £108,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 35,260 67,223 53,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 94.80% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,851 47,591 30,483
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,716 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,000 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +51 13 £87,500 +28.68% 8
North West +18 9 £90,000 -18.18% 2
Yorkshire +52 4 £68,000 - 6
South East +62 3 £85,000 -5.56% 6
Scotland - 3 £85,000 -
South West +106 1 £85,000 +11.84% 3
Midlands +58 1 £110,000 +33.33% 2
West Midlands +49 1 £110,000 +33.33% 2
Lead DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2025, 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 21 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (90.48%) CI/CD
3 18 (85.71%) Kubernetes
4 17 (80.95%) Terraform
5 13 (61.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (61.90%) AWS
6 12 (57.14%) Python
7 11 (52.38%) Azure
7 11 (52.38%) Docker
8 10 (47.62%) Containerisation
9 9 (42.86%) GCP
10 8 (38.10%) Ansible
10 8 (38.10%) Finance
11 7 (33.33%) Bash
12 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
12 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
12 6 (28.57%) GitHub
12 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (23.81%) Linux
13 5 (23.81%) Banking
13 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
14 4 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
14 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
14 4 (19.05%) DNS
14 4 (19.05%) Java
14 4 (19.05%) nginx
14 4 (19.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 4 (19.05%) CircleCI

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 4 (19.05%) nginx
2 3 (14.29%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) AWS
2 11 (52.38%) Azure
3 9 (42.86%) GCP
4 6 (28.57%) GitHub
5 4 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.76%) IaaS
7 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) DNS
2 3 (14.29%) HTTPS
2 3 (14.29%) IPsec
2 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.76%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Couchbase
1 3 (14.29%) MySQL
1 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) CircleCI
3 2 (9.52%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) GitLab
4 1 (4.76%) Gradle
4 1 (4.76%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (4.76%) JUnit
4 1 (4.76%) Maven
4 1 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (4.76%) Selenium
4 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.76%) Spinnaker
4 1 (4.76%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
4 1 (4.76%) TestNG
4 1 (4.76%) Travis CI
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Banking
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Retail Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Automotive
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.76%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Credit Risk
3 1 (4.76%) Life Science
3 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.76%) Market Risk
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Windows
3 2 (9.52%) CoreOS
3 2 (9.52%) Unix
3 2 (9.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (90.48%) CI/CD
3 13 (61.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (47.62%) Containerisation
5 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
7 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Management
7 4 (19.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (19.05%) Software Delivery
7 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (14.29%) Cloud Security
8 3 (14.29%) E-Commerce
8 3 (14.29%) High Availability
9 2 (9.52%) Agile
9 2 (9.52%) Analytics
9 2 (9.52%) Coaching
9 2 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) Python
2 7 (33.33%) Bash
3 4 (19.05%) Java
4 3 (14.29%) PHP
4 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 2 (9.52%) Go
5 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) AWS Certification
2 3 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Basel III
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
1 1 (4.76%) IFRS
1 1 (4.76%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 17 (80.95%) Terraform
3 8 (38.10%) Ansible
4 3 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 3 (14.29%) Puppet
5 2 (9.52%) Argo
5 2 (9.52%) CA Endevor
6 1 (4.76%) Automic
6 1 (4.76%) Consul
6 1 (4.76%) Grafana
6 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.76%) Rancher
6 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Hitachi
3 1 (4.76%) IBM