Lead DevOps Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Development Operations
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Development Operations salary in the UK excluding London is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 684 635 715
Rank change year-on-year -49 +80 -120
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 84 101 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.18% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.20% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 74 87 93
10th Percentile £66,500 £67,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +16.36%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,750 £104,500 £96,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
South East +2 40 £90,000 +16.13% 4
North of England +11 26 £68,000 -22.29% 8
Yorkshire +50 17 £68,000 -20.00% 6
Midlands -9 11 £82,500 +43.48% 9
West Midlands -13 7 £82,500 +37.50% 6
South West -33 6 £76,000 -20.00% 2
North West -17 5 £110,000 +22.22% 2
East Midlands -15 4 £82,500 +50.00% 3
North East - 4 £56,250 -
East of England - 1 £100,000 -
Lead DevOps
UK

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 84 (100.00%) DevOps
2 67 (79.76%) AWS
3 57 (67.86%) Kubernetes
4 52 (61.90%) Terraform
5 51 (60.71%) CI/CD
6 46 (54.76%) Docker
7 34 (40.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (39.29%) Containerisation
9 28 (33.33%) Azure
10 20 (23.81%) Python
10 20 (23.81%) Deployment Automation
11 19 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (22.62%) Mentoring
11 19 (22.62%) Jenkins
12 18 (21.43%) .NET
12 18 (21.43%) Public Sector
13 17 (20.24%) Social Skills
13 17 (20.24%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (19.05%) Microservices
15 15 (17.86%) GCP
15 15 (17.86%) GitHub
16 14 (16.67%) SaaS
17 12 (14.29%) Puppet
17 12 (14.29%) AWS Certification
17 12 (14.29%) Public Cloud
17 12 (14.29%) Security Cleared
17 12 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
17 12 (14.29%) CircleCI
18 11 (13.10%) Java
18 11 (13.10%) Linux

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (7.14%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 67 (79.76%) AWS
2 28 (33.33%) Azure
3 17 (20.24%) Amazon ECS
4 15 (17.86%) GCP
4 15 (17.86%) GitHub
5 14 (16.67%) SaaS
6 12 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (11.90%) Datadog
7 10 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (8.33%) Serverless
11 6 (7.14%) Amazon S3
12 5 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (5.95%) Azure AKS
12 5 (5.95%) CloudFront
12 5 (5.95%) PaaS
13 4 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (4.76%) Azure Functions
13 4 (4.76%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.19%) VSAN
1 1 (1.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.57%) MySQL
3 2 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.38%) DB2
3 2 (2.38%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (22.62%) Jenkins
2 12 (14.29%) CircleCI
3 10 (11.90%) GitLab
4 7 (8.33%) Git
4 7 (8.33%) TeamCity
5 6 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 18 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 17 (20.24%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.90%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (5.95%) Finance
5 4 (4.76%) Automotive
6 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.38%) Marketing
7 1 (1.19%) Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.43%) .NET
2 3 (3.57%) AWS CDK
3 2 (2.38%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (2.38%) Node.js
3 2 (2.38%) Spring
3 2 (2.38%) Spring XD
4 1 (1.19%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 10 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (11.90%) Private Cloud
3 9 (10.71%) Cloud Native
4 6 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.76%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.38%) Blockchain
7 2 (2.38%) e-Learning
7 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.10%) Linux
2 5 (5.95%) Windows
3 4 (4.76%) VMS
4 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (100.00%) DevOps
2 51 (60.71%) CI/CD
3 34 (40.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (39.29%) Containerisation
5 20 (23.81%) Deployment Automation
6 19 (22.62%) Mentoring
6 19 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (19.05%) Microservices
8 10 (11.90%) Agile
8 10 (11.90%) Continuous Delivery
8 10 (11.90%) E-Commerce
8 10 (11.90%) Server Management
8 10 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 10 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (11.90%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 7 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (8.33%) Migration
9 7 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (8.33%) Process Improvement
10 6 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 20 (23.81%) Python
2 11 (13.10%) Java
3 8 (9.52%) PowerShell
4 6 (7.14%) Bash
4 6 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 12 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.57%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.19%) Degree
6 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) QA
2 3 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (54.76%) Docker
2 7 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.57%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 57 (67.86%) Kubernetes
2 52 (61.90%) Terraform
3 12 (14.29%) Puppet
4 10 (11.90%) Consul
5 4 (4.76%) Ansible
5 4 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.38%) Argo
6 2 (2.38%) Grafana
6 2 (2.38%) Packer
7 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.19%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (5.95%) Red Hat
2 4 (4.76%) ForgeRock
2 4 (4.76%) Sitecore
3 3 (3.57%) Databricks
4 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.38%) IBM
4 2 (2.38%) Oracle
4 2 (2.38%) Splunk
4 2 (2.38%) Sybase
5 1 (1.19%) VMware