Lead DevOps Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Lead Development Operations
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Development Operations salary for remote or hybrid work is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 512 545
Rank change year-on-year +132 +33 +107
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 17 80 128
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.24% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.25% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15 77 109
10th Percentile £81,000 £69,600 £68,298
25th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £93,750 £100,750 £107,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £115,000 £125,500
UK median annual salary £88,750 £81,250 £90,000
% change year-on-year +9.23% -9.72% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Lead DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Lead DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead DevOps trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Lead DevOps.

Lead DevOps salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead DevOps
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Lead DevOps over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Lead DevOps salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (94.12%) CI/CD
2 16 (94.12%) Terraform
3 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
4 9 (52.94%) Docker
4 9 (52.94%) Mentoring
4 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (47.06%) GCP
5 8 (47.06%) AWS
5 8 (47.06%) Ansible
5 8 (47.06%) Finance
6 7 (41.18%) Azure
6 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
6 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
7 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Management
7 6 (35.29%) Configuration Management
7 6 (35.29%) Python
7 6 (35.29%) E-Commerce
8 5 (29.41%) Linux
8 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
8 5 (29.41%) Bash
8 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (23.53%) High Availability
9 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
9 4 (23.53%) MySQL
9 4 (23.53%) DNS
9 4 (23.53%) nginx
9 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (23.53%) nginx
2 3 (17.65%) Apache Solr
3 1 (5.88%) Apache
3 1 (5.88%) Confluence
3 1 (5.88%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
1 8 (47.06%) GCP
2 7 (41.18%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Cloudflare
4 1 (5.88%) IaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) DNS
2 3 (17.65%) HTTPS
2 3 (17.65%) IPsec
2 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.88%) Internet
3 1 (5.88%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) MySQL
1 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
2 3 (17.65%) Couchbase
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.88%) Pentaho
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.88%) Gradle
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) JUnit
3 1 (5.88%) Maven
3 1 (5.88%) Selenium
3 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (5.88%) Spinnaker
3 1 (5.88%) TestNG
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Banking
4 2 (11.76%) Retail Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Laravel
2 1 (5.88%) LEMP Stack
2 1 (5.88%) Middleware
2 1 (5.88%) Next.js
2 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.88%) IoT
2 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Market Risk
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) CoreOS
2 2 (11.76%) Debian
2 2 (11.76%) Unix
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) zOS
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (94.12%) CI/CD
3 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (52.94%) Mentoring
4 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
5 6 (35.29%) Configuration Management
5 6 (35.29%) E-Commerce
5 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (23.53%) High Availability
7 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (17.65%) Agile
8 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
8 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
8 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (17.65%) Software Delivery
9 2 (11.76%) Coaching
9 2 (11.76%) Data Engineering
9 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
9 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Bash
3 3 (17.65%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) PHP
4 2 (11.76%) Go
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) SQL
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Basel III
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) IFRS
1 1 (5.88%) IFRS 9
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) PMO
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (94.12%) Terraform
2 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
3 8 (47.06%) Ansible
4 3 (17.65%) Progress Chef
4 3 (17.65%) Puppet
5 2 (11.76%) CA Endevor
6 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.88%) New Relic
3 1 (5.88%) YouTube