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 £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 December 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 495 481
Rank change year-on-year +43 -14 +237
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 54 69 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.18% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.19% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 45 45 51
10th Percentile £64,850 - £65,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £66,500 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £81,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -10.49% +4.52%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £92,100 £97,084 £100,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £76,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +11.84% -10.59% -5.56%

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 38,059 35,474 27,558
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 93.44% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 23,136 17,791 20,826
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £52,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +1.94% -1.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,778
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 24 December 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 24 December 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 +13 19 £80,000 +17.65% 17
Midlands +34 15 £80,000 +18.72% 15
West Midlands +51 14 £80,000 +23.51% 11
South East +28 13 £84,250 -0.88% 24
Yorkshire -9 10 £80,000 +17.65% 6
South West +9 7 £80,000 +10.34% 8
North East +12 6 £95,000 -5.00% 2
North West +26 3 £85,000 -10.18% 9
East Midlands -5 1 - - 3
Lead DevOps
UK

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 24 December 2025, 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 54 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (46.30%) CI/CD
3 24 (44.44%) Kubernetes
4 23 (42.59%) AWS
5 21 (38.89%) Agile
6 19 (35.19%) Azure
6 19 (35.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (33.33%) Terraform
8 17 (31.48%) Docker
9 14 (25.93%) Ansible
10 10 (18.52%) GCP
10 10 (18.52%) GitLab
10 10 (18.52%) Observability
10 10 (18.52%) Performance Optimisation
10 10 (18.52%) Prometheus
10 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
11 9 (16.67%) Grafana
11 9 (16.67%) Incident Response
11 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (16.67%) Line Management
11 9 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (14.81%) Linux
13 6 (11.11%) Microservices
13 6 (11.11%) Python
13 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared
13 6 (11.11%) Windows
14 5 (9.26%) Containerisation
14 5 (9.26%) GitHub
14 5 (9.26%) JavaScript

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 2 (3.70%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 23 (42.59%) AWS
2 19 (35.19%) Azure
3 10 (18.52%) GCP
4 8 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (9.26%) GitHub
6 4 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.85%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.85%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.85%) IaaS
7 1 (1.85%) PaaS
7 1 (1.85%) Pulumi
7 1 (1.85%) SaaS
7 1 (1.85%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) Broadband
1 1 (1.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.85%) Metadata
1 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
1 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (18.52%) GitLab
2 3 (5.56%) Git
2 3 (5.56%) JIRA
3 2 (3.70%) Robot Framework
3 2 (3.70%) Selenium
3 2 (3.70%) Snyk
4 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.85%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.85%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (14.81%) Finance
2 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Banking
4 3 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (5.56%) Financial Institution
4 3 (5.56%) Investment Banking
4 3 (5.56%) Private Banking
5 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.85%) Law
6 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) Middleware
2 1 (1.85%) .NET
2 1 (1.85%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.85%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.85%) REST
2 1 (1.85%) SOAP
2 1 (1.85%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Linux
2 6 (11.11%) Windows
3 2 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (46.30%) CI/CD
3 21 (38.89%) Agile
4 19 (35.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (18.52%) Observability
5 10 (18.52%) Performance Optimisation
6 9 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (16.67%) Line Management
6 9 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (11.11%) Microservices
8 5 (9.26%) Containerisation
8 5 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (9.26%) Scrum
9 4 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (7.41%) DevSecOps
9 4 (7.41%) Mentoring
9 4 (7.41%) Roadmaps
10 3 (5.56%) Deployment Automation
10 3 (5.56%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.11%) Python
2 5 (9.26%) JavaScript
3 4 (7.41%) Go
4 2 (3.70%) Bicep
4 2 (3.70%) Java
5 1 (1.85%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.85%) Bash
5 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) NIST
1 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 17 (31.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 18 (33.33%) Terraform
3 14 (25.93%) Ansible
4 10 (18.52%) Prometheus
5 9 (16.67%) Grafana
6 2 (3.70%) Argo
7 1 (1.85%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 2 (3.70%) Black Duck
1 2 (3.70%) Coverity
2 1 (1.85%) Google
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.85%) Salesforce