Head of DevOps Jobs

Head of Development Operations
UK

The median Head of Development Operations salary in the UK is £115,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 687 886 959
Rank change year-on-year +199 +73 +233
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of DevOps 3 16 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.016% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.017% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 7
10th Percentile £92,000 £91,250 £79,000
25th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £95,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £128,750 £110,625 £115,000
90th Percentile £134,000 £142,500 £117,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £95,000 £95,000 £102,500
% change year-on-year - -7.32% +7.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 49,007 93,784 92,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.63% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 27,411 67,216 58,370
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,375 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Head of DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Head of DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Head of DevOps in the UK

Head of DevOps
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Head of DevOps.

Salary trend for Head of DevOps in the UK

Head of DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of DevOps over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Head of DevOps in the UK

Head of DevOps
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Head of DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +147 2 £135,000 +42.11% 1
London +112 2 £135,000 -15.63% 1
UK excluding London +171 1 £95,000 -
Scotland - 1 £95,000 -

Head of DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Head of 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 featuring Head of DevOps in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform

Head of DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Release Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform