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 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 521 641
Rank change year-on-year -11 +120 -66
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 88 26 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.077% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.086% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 75 19 58
10th Percentile £69,250 £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 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £109,750
UK median annual salary £90,000 £86,250 £82,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 68,933 30,398 63,289
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.82% 89.74% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 47,685 17,426 44,005
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,500 £36,250
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 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%

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 23 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 23 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 -6 28 £92,500 -7.50% 1
North of England -20 27 £90,000 +12.50% 15
South West - 18 £100,000 - 7
East Midlands - 17 £85,000 -
North West +9 13 £90,000 +2.86% 11
West Midlands -23 11 £95,000 -5.00% 1
Yorkshire -30 10 £90,000 +16.13% 4
South East -17 8 £80,000 -5.88% 2
North East -52 4 £90,000 -
Scotland +21 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 23 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 88 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (40.91%) CI/CD
3 34 (38.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (31.82%) Terraform
5 22 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 20 (22.73%) Containerisation
6 20 (22.73%) Kubernetes
7 19 (21.59%) Azure
8 17 (19.32%) Docker
9 16 (18.18%) Python
10 15 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (15.91%) Ansible
11 14 (15.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 12 (13.64%) Mentoring
12 12 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (12.50%) DV Cleared
14 10 (11.36%) AWS
14 10 (11.36%) Java
14 10 (11.36%) Observability
14 10 (11.36%) Spring
14 10 (11.36%) Spring Boot
15 9 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 9 (10.23%) GitHub
15 9 (10.23%) GitLab
16 8 (9.09%) Agile
16 8 (9.09%) Coaching
17 7 (7.95%) E-Commerce
17 7 (7.95%) Technical Leadership
18 6 (6.82%) Bash
18 6 (6.82%) DevSecOps

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 (1.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 19 (21.59%) Azure
2 15 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (11.36%) AWS
4 9 (10.23%) GitHub
5 6 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (5.68%) Azure AKS
7 4 (4.55%) GCP
8 3 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.41%) IaaS
8 3 (3.41%) PaaS
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.14%) Datadog
9 1 (1.14%) Google Compute Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.41%) Flink
Development Applications
1 9 (10.23%) GitLab
2 5 (5.68%) Git
2 5 (5.68%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 7 (7.95%) Retail
2 6 (6.82%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.41%) Finance
4 3 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Banking
5 2 (2.27%) Games
6 1 (1.14%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.36%) Spring
1 10 (11.36%) Spring Boot
2 4 (4.55%) .NET
2 4 (4.55%) Node.js
3 3 (3.41%) Kafka
3 3 (3.41%) React
4 1 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.14%) PKI
3 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.14%) Unix
2 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (40.91%) CI/CD
3 34 (38.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (22.73%) Containerisation
5 14 (15.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (13.64%) Mentoring
6 12 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (11.36%) Observability
8 9 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (9.09%) Agile
9 8 (9.09%) Coaching
10 7 (7.95%) E-Commerce
10 7 (7.95%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (6.82%) DevSecOps
11 6 (6.82%) Test Automation
12 5 (5.68%) AI
12 5 (5.68%) Incident Response
13 4 (4.55%) Incident Management
13 4 (4.55%) Zero Trust
14 3 (3.41%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.18%) Python
2 10 (11.36%) Java
3 6 (6.82%) Bash
4 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.14%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 22 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 17 (19.32%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (31.82%) Terraform
2 20 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 14 (15.91%) Ansible
4 1 (1.14%) Grafana
4 1 (1.14%) Packer
4 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (3.41%) Atlassian
1 3 (3.41%) Google
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.27%) Pega
3 1 (1.14%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.14%) Red Hat