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 17 July 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 569 664 593
Rank change year-on-year +95 -71 +167
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 25 69 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.058% 0.095% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.100% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18 60 80
10th Percentile £55,000 - £67,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £66,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £81,250 £82,818
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -1.89% +3.52%
75th Percentile £88,750 £96,563 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% -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 38,442 69,317 45,163
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.83% 94.97% 89.48%
Number of salaries quoted 20,912 47,602 28,539
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,738 £36,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +3.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +43 14 £78,750 +15.81% 8
Yorkshire +27 9 £66,250 -2.57% 3
South East +46 5 £85,000 -12.82% 7
Midlands +58 4 £100,000 +21.21% 5
West Midlands +50 4 £100,000 +21.21% 5
North East +40 3 - - 1
North West +6 2 £87,500 -20.45% 4
Scotland - 2 £80,000 - 4
Lead DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 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 25 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (56.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (56.00%) AWS
3 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
4 10 (40.00%) Azure
5 9 (36.00%) Terraform
6 8 (32.00%) Windows
7 7 (28.00%) Ansible
8 6 (24.00%) Docker
8 6 (24.00%) GCP
8 6 (24.00%) Linux
8 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (24.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (20.00%) Python
9 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
9 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
9 5 (20.00%) GitLab
9 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 5 (20.00%) Microservices
9 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
10 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
10 4 (16.00%) Grafana
10 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
10 4 (16.00%) Bash
10 4 (16.00%) Agile
10 4 (16.00%) Observability
11 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
11 3 (12.00%) Containerisation
11 3 (12.00%) Incident Response
11 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering

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 1 (4.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (4.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) AWS
2 10 (40.00%) Azure
3 6 (24.00%) GCP
4 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) GitHub
5 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Firewall
1 3 (12.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.00%) IPsec
2 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (4.00%) MySQL
1 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) GitLab
1 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.00%) Law
2 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) .NET
1 1 (4.00%) LAMP
1 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Windows
2 6 (24.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (24.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (20.00%) Microservices
5 4 (16.00%) Agile
5 4 (16.00%) Observability
6 3 (12.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (12.00%) Incident Response
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (12.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (12.00%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (12.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (12.00%) Project Management
6 3 (12.00%) Server Management
6 3 (12.00%) Storage Management
6 3 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (12.00%) Vendor Relationship Management
7 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) Bash
3 2 (8.00%) Java
4 1 (4.00%) PHP
4 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.00%) SQL
4 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (56.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (36.00%) Terraform
3 7 (28.00%) Ansible
4 4 (16.00%) Grafana
4 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.00%) Argo
5 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) VMware