Operations Team Leader Jobs in the UK excluding London

Operations Team Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median Operations Team Lead salary in the UK excluding London is £51,729 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 568 749 744
Rank change year-on-year +181 -5 +124
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Team Leader 3 16 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.022% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.023% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 3 14 14
10th Percentile - £26,500 £50,632
25th Percentile £48,894 £27,000 £52,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,729 £42,500 £58,310
Median % change year-on-year +21.72% -27.11% +16.62%
75th Percentile £66,032 £67,500 £72,313
90th Percentile £72,913 - £73,375
UK median annual salary £55,865 £60,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year -6.89% -5.88% +27.50%

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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Operations Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Operations Team Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Operations Team Leader in the UK excluding London

Operations Team Leader
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operations Team Leader in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Operations Team Leader in the UK excluding London

Operations Team Leader
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Team Leader in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Operations Team Leader in the UK excluding London

Operations Team Leader
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 Operations Team Leader within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South West - 2 £51,729 -
South East +87 1 £75,000 +81.82% 7
Operations Team Leader
UK

Operations Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Operations Team Leader 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 Operations Team Leader in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Zscaler
3 1 (33.33%) Okta
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft

Operations Team Leader 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Okta
1 1 (33.33%) Zscaler