Lead Development Operations
UK

The median Lead Development Operations salary in the UK is £81,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 735 726 790
Rank change year-on-year -9 +64 -134
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 149 253 500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.25% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.28% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 132 213 269
10th Percentile £66,500 £70,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £72,583 £75,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £113,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £81,250 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +1.56% +3.23% +14.81%

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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 20 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 20 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 -13 142 £80,000 -13.04% 34
Work from Home +32 82 £85,000 -5.56% 24
UK excluding London -33 79 £81,250 +1.56% 23
London +41 58 £80,000 -20.00% 12
South East +14 38 £90,000 +16.13% 6
North of England +10 22 £68,000 -20.00% 11
Yorkshire +67 14 £68,000 -20.00% 6
Midlands -2 12 £82,500 +43.48% 3
West Midlands +15 8 £82,500 +37.50% 2
South West -29 6 £76,000 -20.00% 3
East Midlands -15 4 £81,250 +47.73% 1
North West -16 4 £110,000 +22.22% 5
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 20 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.

1 149 (100.00%) DevOps
2 101 (67.79%) AWS
3 91 (61.07%) Kubernetes
4 90 (60.40%) CI/CD
5 78 (52.35%) Terraform
6 67 (44.97%) Docker
7 66 (44.30%) Containerisation
8 61 (40.94%) Azure
9 50 (33.56%) Python
10 48 (32.21%) Infrastructure as Code
11 46 (30.87%) Microservices
12 41 (27.52%) Jenkins
13 36 (24.16%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (24.16%) Java
14 34 (22.82%) Linux
15 33 (22.15%) .NET
16 32 (21.48%) Agile
16 32 (21.48%) Azure DevOps
17 30 (20.13%) Deployment Automation
18 29 (19.46%) Mentoring
18 29 (19.46%) Amazon ECS
19 28 (18.79%) Social Skills
19 28 (18.79%) Git
20 24 (16.11%) PowerShell
20 24 (16.11%) GitHub
21 23 (15.44%) Amazon EKS
22 22 (14.77%) AWS Certification
23 21 (14.09%) Public Cloud
23 21 (14.09%) Security Cleared
23 21 (14.09%) 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 (4.03%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 101 (67.79%) AWS
2 61 (40.94%) Azure
3 32 (21.48%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (19.46%) Amazon ECS
5 24 (16.11%) GitHub
6 23 (15.44%) Amazon EKS
7 21 (14.09%) SaaS
8 20 (13.42%) GCP
9 16 (10.74%) Datadog
9 16 (10.74%) Serverless
10 15 (10.07%) Amazon S3
11 14 (9.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (9.40%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (8.05%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (8.05%) Azure AKS
13 10 (6.71%) Azure Functions
13 10 (6.71%) CloudFront
14 9 (6.04%) Akamai
14 9 (6.04%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (6.04%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.03%) DNS
2 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.67%) VSAN
2 1 (0.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.40%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.36%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.68%) DB2
4 4 (2.68%) RDBMS
4 4 (2.68%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.01%) MySQL
6 2 (1.34%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (27.52%) Jenkins
2 28 (18.79%) Git
3 19 (12.75%) GitLab
4 12 (8.05%) CircleCI
5 7 (4.70%) TeamCity
6 6 (4.03%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (2.01%) JUnit
8 2 (1.34%) Selenium
8 2 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.34%) TestNG
9 1 (0.67%) Gatling
9 1 (0.67%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 28 (18.79%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.75%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.04%) Automotive
3 9 (6.04%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (5.37%) Finance
5 6 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.68%) Banking
6 4 (2.68%) Legal
7 2 (1.34%) Marketing
8 1 (0.67%) Games
8 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.67%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (22.15%) .NET
2 11 (7.38%) ARM Templates
3 10 (6.71%) YAML
4 7 (4.70%) React
4 7 (4.70%) REST
5 5 (3.36%) Node.js
6 4 (2.68%) AWS CDK
6 4 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.68%) Spring
6 4 (2.68%) Spring XD
7 3 (2.01%) CSS
7 3 (2.01%) HTML
7 3 (2.01%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (1.34%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (0.67%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.67%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.67%) Azure Blueprints
9 1 (0.67%) Kafka
9 1 (0.67%) RESTful
9 1 (0.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.09%) Public Cloud
2 11 (7.38%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.71%) Private Cloud
4 9 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.04%) Mobile App
5 8 (5.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.36%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.68%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (2.01%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.67%) IoT
10 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 34 (22.82%) Linux
2 13 (8.72%) Windows
3 8 (5.37%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.68%) VMS
5 1 (0.67%) CentOS
5 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (100.00%) DevOps
2 90 (60.40%) CI/CD
3 66 (44.30%) Containerisation
4 48 (32.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (30.87%) Microservices
6 36 (24.16%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (21.48%) Agile
8 30 (20.13%) Deployment Automation
9 29 (19.46%) Mentoring
10 16 (10.74%) Continuous Delivery
10 16 (10.74%) E-Commerce
10 16 (10.74%) Server Management
10 16 (10.74%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 15 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (10.07%) Software Engineering
12 14 (9.40%) Coaching
12 14 (9.40%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (8.72%) Cloud Security
13 13 (8.72%) Scrum
13 13 (8.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (33.56%) Python
2 36 (24.16%) Java
3 24 (16.11%) PowerShell
4 14 (9.40%) Bash
5 9 (6.04%) C#
6 8 (5.37%) Go
7 7 (4.70%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.03%) SQL
9 3 (2.01%) Groovy
9 3 (2.01%) Ruby
10 2 (1.34%) Scala
11 1 (0.67%) C++
11 1 (0.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (14.77%) AWS Certification
2 21 (14.09%) Security Cleared
3 20 (13.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 15 (10.07%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.70%) Degree
6 6 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.68%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.01%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.34%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.37%) QA
2 3 (2.01%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.01%) GDPR
3 2 (1.34%) SLA
4 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 67 (44.97%) Docker
2 10 (6.71%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.34%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 91 (61.07%) Kubernetes
2 78 (52.35%) Terraform
3 19 (12.75%) Puppet
4 16 (10.74%) Consul
5 14 (9.40%) Ansible
6 9 (6.04%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.36%) Grafana
8 4 (2.68%) Istio
8 4 (2.68%) Karpenter
9 3 (2.01%) Argo
10 2 (1.34%) Packer
11 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (6.04%) ForgeRock
1 9 (6.04%) Sitecore
2 7 (4.70%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.36%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.68%) IBM
4 4 (2.68%) Oracle
4 4 (2.68%) Sybase
5 3 (2.01%) Databricks
5 3 (2.01%) Google
6 2 (1.34%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.67%) Splunk
7 1 (0.67%) VMware