Lead DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Lead Development Operations Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 148 164
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 +120
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 10 15 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.30% 0.45% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.47% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 9 14 11
10th Percentile £75,300 - £81,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £66,500 £81,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -24.44% +33.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £69,500 £92,500
90th Percentile - £69,850 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -17.65% -6.85%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 3,076 3,175 2,927
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 96.30% 96.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,857 1,312 2,325
10th Percentile £27,450 £29,368 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £51,498
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.91% -1.91%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,125 £84,034
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Lead DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Lead DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Lead DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Lead DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in Yorkshire

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
West Yorkshire -17 10 £80,000 +17.65% 7
Lead DevOps Engineer
England

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 30 December 2025, Lead DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
2 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 9 (90.00%) Ansible
2 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 9 (90.00%) GCP
2 9 (90.00%) GitLab
2 9 (90.00%) Grafana
2 9 (90.00%) Incident Response
2 9 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (90.00%) Line Management
2 9 (90.00%) Observability
2 9 (90.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 9 (90.00%) Prometheus
2 9 (90.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Bicep
3 1 (10.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management

Lead DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 9 (90.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) CircleCI
General
1 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 9 (90.00%) Incident Response
2 9 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) Line Management
2 9 (90.00%) Observability
2 9 (90.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 9 (90.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bicep
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
2 9 (90.00%) Ansible
2 9 (90.00%) Grafana
2 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (90.00%) Prometheus