Operations Team Leader Jobs

Operations Team Lead
UK

The median Operations Team Lead salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 885 894 1242
Rank change year-on-year +9 +348 -279
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Team Leader 19 25 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.027% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.030% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 17 15 3
10th Percentile £26,500 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £28,500 £51,053 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,125 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,500 £73,250 £68,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £63,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +27.50% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 104,121 84,323 165,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.19% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 73,469 54,972 85,174
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,603 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%

Operations Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Operations Team Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Operations Team Leader in the UK

Operations Team Leader
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operations Team Leader.

Salary trend for Operations Team Leader in the UK

Operations Team Leader
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Team Leader over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Team Leader in the UK

Operations Team Leader
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Team Leader within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +23 17 £42,500 -34.62% 10
UK excluding London -49 16 £42,500 -33.33% 7
Work from Home +34 10 £65,000 +18.18%
North of England +12 6 £65,000 -7.14% 1
North West -22 6 £65,000 -7.14% 1
South East -24 4 £41,250 -17.50%
East Midlands -27 4 £26,500 -58.43%
Midlands -36 4 £26,500 -57.60% 4
East of England -9 2 - - 2
London +83 1 £85,000 +21.43% 2

Operations Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Operations Team Leader 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 Operations Team Leader in the job title.

1 12 (63.16%) Mentoring
2 7 (36.84%) Service Management
2 7 (36.84%) Service Delivery
2 7 (36.84%) Cloud Operations
2 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 6 (31.58%) Customer Service
3 6 (31.58%) Workflow
3 6 (31.58%) Data Protection
3 6 (31.58%) Azure
4 5 (26.32%) Cloud Native
4 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) Cloud Security
5 4 (21.05%) Retail
5 4 (21.05%) People Management
5 4 (21.05%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
5 4 (21.05%) Windows
6 3 (15.79%) SAP
6 3 (15.79%) ITIL
6 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
6 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
7 2 (10.53%) Firewall
7 2 (10.53%) Coaching
7 2 (10.53%) SLA
7 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
7 2 (10.53%) Information Security
7 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (5.26%) Service-Level Objective

Operations Team Leader 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) Google Workspace
3 1 (5.26%) IaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) DHCP
2 1 (5.26%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) Internet
2 1 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.26%) LAN
2 1 (5.26%) Network Security
2 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.26%) SSL
2 1 (5.26%) VPN
2 1 (5.26%) WAN
2 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Retail
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Mentoring
2 7 (36.84%) Cloud Operations
2 7 (36.84%) Service Delivery
2 7 (36.84%) Service Management
3 6 (31.58%) Customer Service
3 6 (31.58%) Data Protection
3 6 (31.58%) Workflow
4 5 (26.32%) Cloud Security
4 5 (26.32%) DevOps
5 4 (21.05%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 4 (21.05%) People Management
6 3 (15.79%) ITIL
7 2 (10.53%) Coaching
7 2 (10.53%) Information Security
7 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (5.26%) Cost Management
8 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (5.26%) Service-Level Objective
8 1 (5.26%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) CREST Certified
2 1 (5.26%) ISACA
2 1 (5.26%) MCSA
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.26%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.79%) SAP
2 1 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) IBM
2 1 (5.26%) Qualys