Lead Development Operations
UK

The median Lead Development Operations salary in the UK is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 746 734 790
Rank change year-on-year -12 +56 -154
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 148 251 474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.25% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.27% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 132 212 266
10th Percentile £66,500 £70,000 £64,375
25th Percentile £72,583 £75,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £114,875 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - +3.23% +15.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,899 92,293 151,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.47% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,283 58,235 84,441
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps in the UK

Lead DevOps
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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 -20 142 £81,250 -11.68% 24
Work from Home +30 80 £85,000 -5.56% 17
UK excluding London -20 80 £80,000 - 13
London +59 57 £85,000 -15.00% 10
South East +8 40 £90,000 +16.13% 2
North of England +15 21 £68,000 -20.00% 8
Yorkshire +69 13 £68,000 -20.00% 2
Midlands -2 12 £82,500 +37.50% 2
West Midlands +12 8 £82,500 +19.13% 1
South West -36 6 £76,000 -20.00%
North West -10 4 £110,000 +22.22% 6
East Midlands -14 4 £81,250 +47.73% 1
North East - 4 £56,250 -
East of England - 1 £100,000 -

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 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 featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 148 (100.00%) DevOps
2 100 (67.57%) AWS
3 88 (59.46%) Kubernetes
4 87 (58.78%) CI/CD
5 77 (52.03%) Terraform
6 66 (44.59%) Docker
7 65 (43.92%) Containerisation
8 59 (39.86%) Azure
9 51 (34.46%) Python
10 47 (31.76%) Infrastructure as Code
11 45 (30.41%) Microservices
12 41 (27.70%) Jenkins
13 38 (25.68%) Java
14 36 (24.32%) Linux
14 36 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (21.62%) .NET
16 31 (20.95%) Agile
16 31 (20.95%) Azure DevOps
17 29 (19.59%) Deployment Automation
17 29 (19.59%) Mentoring
18 28 (18.92%) Amazon ECS
19 27 (18.24%) Git
19 27 (18.24%) Social Skills
20 24 (16.22%) PowerShell
21 23 (15.54%) GitHub
22 22 (14.86%) AWS Certification
22 22 (14.86%) Public Cloud
23 21 (14.19%) Amazon EKS
23 21 (14.19%) Security Cleared
24 20 (13.51%) SaaS

Lead 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.05%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 100 (67.57%) AWS
2 59 (39.86%) Azure
3 31 (20.95%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (18.92%) Amazon ECS
5 23 (15.54%) GitHub
6 21 (14.19%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (13.51%) GCP
7 20 (13.51%) SaaS
8 16 (10.81%) Datadog
9 15 (10.14%) Serverless
10 14 (9.46%) Amazon S3
10 14 (9.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (8.78%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (8.11%) Azure AKS
13 11 (7.43%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (6.76%) Azure Functions
14 10 (6.76%) CloudFront
15 9 (6.08%) Akamai
15 9 (6.08%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (6.08%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.05%) DNS
2 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.68%) VSAN
2 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.78%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (3.38%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.70%) DB2
4 4 (2.70%) RDBMS
4 4 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.03%) MySQL
6 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (27.70%) Jenkins
2 27 (18.24%) Git
3 18 (12.16%) GitLab
4 11 (7.43%) CircleCI
5 7 (4.73%) TeamCity
6 6 (4.05%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (2.03%) JUnit
8 2 (1.35%) Selenium
8 2 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.35%) TestNG
9 1 (0.68%) Gatling
9 1 (0.68%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.68%) Terragrunt
General
1 27 (18.24%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.16%) Public Sector
3 11 (7.43%) Finance
4 9 (6.08%) Automotive
5 8 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.70%) Banking
7 4 (2.70%) Legal
8 2 (1.35%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Games
9 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (21.62%) .NET
2 11 (7.43%) ARM Templates
3 10 (6.76%) YAML
4 7 (4.73%) REST
5 6 (4.05%) React
6 5 (3.38%) Node.js
7 4 (2.70%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.70%) Spring
7 4 (2.70%) Spring XD
8 3 (2.03%) CSS
8 3 (2.03%) HTML
8 3 (2.03%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (1.35%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (0.68%) Azure Blueprints
10 1 (0.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.86%) Public Cloud
2 11 (7.43%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.76%) Private Cloud
4 9 (6.08%) Mobile App
5 8 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.38%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.70%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (2.03%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.68%) IoT
10 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 36 (24.32%) Linux
2 13 (8.78%) Windows
3 8 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.70%) VMS
5 1 (0.68%) CentOS
5 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (100.00%) DevOps
2 87 (58.78%) CI/CD
3 65 (43.92%) Containerisation
4 47 (31.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (30.41%) Microservices
6 36 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (20.95%) Agile
8 29 (19.59%) Deployment Automation
8 29 (19.59%) Mentoring
9 16 (10.81%) Continuous Delivery
9 16 (10.81%) E-Commerce
9 16 (10.81%) Server Management
9 16 (10.81%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 15 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (9.46%) Coaching
11 14 (9.46%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (9.46%) User Stories
12 13 (8.78%) Cloud Security
12 13 (8.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 13 (8.78%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (34.46%) Python
2 38 (25.68%) Java
3 24 (16.22%) PowerShell
4 15 (10.14%) Bash
5 8 (5.41%) C#
5 8 (5.41%) Go
6 7 (4.73%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.05%) SQL
8 3 (2.03%) Groovy
8 3 (2.03%) Ruby
9 2 (1.35%) Scala
10 1 (0.68%) C++
10 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (14.86%) AWS Certification
2 21 (14.19%) Security Cleared
3 20 (13.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 15 (10.14%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.73%) Degree
6 6 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.70%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.03%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.35%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.41%) QA
2 3 (2.03%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.03%) GDPR
3 2 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (44.59%) Docker
2 10 (6.76%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.35%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 88 (59.46%) Kubernetes
2 77 (52.03%) Terraform
3 19 (12.84%) Puppet
4 16 (10.81%) Consul
5 14 (9.46%) Ansible
6 9 (6.08%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.38%) Grafana
8 4 (2.70%) Istio
9 3 (2.03%) Argo
10 2 (1.35%) Packer
11 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.68%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (6.08%) ForgeRock
1 9 (6.08%) Sitecore
2 7 (4.73%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.38%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.70%) Google
4 4 (2.70%) IBM
4 4 (2.70%) Oracle
4 4 (2.70%) Sybase
5 3 (2.03%) Databricks
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.68%) Splunk
6 1 (0.68%) VMware