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 6 July 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 520 672
Rank change year-on-year -7 +152 -85
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 80 24 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.073% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.082% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 68 18 68
10th Percentile £69,700 £55,000 -
25th Percentile £81,000 £77,813 £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 £95,938 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 66,564 29,259 71,575
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 89.40% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 46,194 16,540 51,114
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 6 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 6 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 +1 28 £92,500 -7.50% 2
North of England -27 27 £90,000 +9.09% 4
East Midlands - 17 £85,000 -
North West -6 13 £90,000 +1.41% 4
West Midlands -15 11 £95,000 -5.00% 2
South West - 11 £100,000 - 3
Yorkshire -22 10 £90,000 +63.64%
South East -19 7 £80,000 -5.88% 4
North East -45 4 £90,000 -
Scotland +16 3 £55,000 -31.25%
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 6 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 80 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (36.25%) CI/CD
3 27 (33.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (27.50%) Terraform
5 18 (22.50%) Azure
6 16 (20.00%) Kubernetes
7 15 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (18.75%) Security Cleared
8 14 (17.50%) Containerisation
9 13 (16.25%) Docker
9 13 (16.25%) Python
10 11 (13.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (12.50%) Mentoring
11 10 (12.50%) Observability
12 9 (11.25%) Agile
13 8 (10.00%) Ansible
13 8 (10.00%) AWS
13 8 (10.00%) Coaching
13 8 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 7 (8.75%) E-Commerce
14 7 (8.75%) GitHub
15 6 (7.50%) DV Cleared
15 6 (7.50%) GitLab
15 6 (7.50%) Java
15 6 (7.50%) Spring
15 6 (7.50%) Spring Boot
16 5 (6.25%) Bash
16 5 (6.25%) DevSecOps
16 5 (6.25%) 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 (1.25%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 18 (22.50%) Azure
2 15 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (10.00%) AWS
4 7 (8.75%) GitHub
5 5 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (5.00%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.75%) GCP
7 3 (3.75%) IaaS
7 3 (3.75%) PaaS
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.25%) Datadog
9 1 (1.25%) Google Compute Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) Flink
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) GitLab
2 4 (5.00%) Git
2 4 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 7 (8.75%) Retail
2 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (5.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.75%) Finance
3 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.50%) Banking
4 2 (2.50%) Games
5 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) Spring
1 6 (7.50%) Spring Boot
2 4 (5.00%) .NET
2 4 (5.00%) Node.js
3 3 (3.75%) React
4 2 (2.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.25%) PKI
2 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) Linux
1 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (36.25%) CI/CD
3 27 (33.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (17.50%) Containerisation
5 11 (13.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 10 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 10 (12.50%) Observability
7 9 (11.25%) Agile
8 8 (10.00%) Coaching
8 8 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (8.75%) E-Commerce
10 5 (6.25%) DevSecOps
10 5 (6.25%) Incident Response
10 5 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
11 4 (5.00%) AI
11 4 (5.00%) Incident Management
11 4 (5.00%) Test Automation
12 3 (3.75%) Community of Practice
12 3 (3.75%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.25%) Python
2 6 (7.50%) Java
3 5 (6.25%) Bash
4 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.25%) Bicep
5 1 (1.25%) Go
5 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 13 (16.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (27.50%) Terraform
2 16 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.00%) Ansible
4 1 (1.25%) Packer
4 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (3.75%) Google
2 2 (2.50%) Atlassian
2 2 (2.50%) Pega
3 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.25%) Red Hat