Lead DevOps Jobs in West Yorkshire

Lead Development Operations
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Lead Development Operations salary in West Yorkshire is £72,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 148 213
Rank change year-on-year +41 +65 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 4 12 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.30% 0.40% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.41% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4 11 11
10th Percentile - - £78,750
25th Percentile £66,500 £66,500 £79,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,750 £68,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.99% -24.44% +16.13%
75th Percentile £80,625 £78,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £84,000 £87,500 -
Yorkshire median annual salary £72,750 £68,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.99% -20.00% +9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,225 2,898 4,725
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.67% 96.12% 93.09%
Number of salaries quoted 657 2,134 2,286
10th Percentile £28,650 £28,000 £31,535
25th Percentile £40,750 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,548 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £48,750 £54,590
% change year-on-year -2.19% -10.70% +9.18%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in West Yorkshire

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps in West Yorkshire

Lead DevOps
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps in West Yorkshire

Lead DevOps
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead DevOps within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Leeds +44 4 £72,750 +6.99% 3
Lead DevOps
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, 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 across the West Yorkshire region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Docker
3 2 (50.00%) GitLab
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (50.00%) CircleCI
3 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (25.00%) Grafana
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) IaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus