Lead Cloud Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Cloud Engineer salary in England is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 644 783 758
Rank change year-on-year +139 -25 +267
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 47 60 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.096% 0.070% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.074% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 43 49 50
10th Percentile £74,200 £59,000 £65,343
25th Percentile £88,125 £75,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile - £115,000 £92,625
UK median annual salary £107,500 £89,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +20.79% +11.25% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 44,665 81,175 81,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.55% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,293 60,496 51,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,519 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in England

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Cloud Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in England

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Cloud Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Cloud Engineer in England

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Cloud Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
London +101 32 £110,000 - 7
South West +116 11 £95,000 +22.58%
North of England +42 3 £69,750 -0.36%
South East +97 1 £110,000 +86.44% 2
Yorkshire +61 1 £64,000 -14.67%
North West +3 1 - -
North East - 1 £75,500 -
Lead Cloud Engineer
UK

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Lead Cloud Engineer 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 England region featuring Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (57.45%) Kubernetes
2 25 (53.19%) Linux
3 22 (46.81%) AWS
4 21 (44.68%) Software Engineering
4 21 (44.68%) Go
4 21 (44.68%) Cloud Native
4 21 (44.68%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (42.55%) Legacy Code
5 20 (42.55%) Rust
5 20 (42.55%) C
5 20 (42.55%) C++
6 12 (25.53%) Firewall
7 11 (23.40%) Python
8 10 (21.28%) Network Design
8 10 (21.28%) Terraform
8 10 (21.28%) CI/CD
9 9 (19.15%) Azure
9 9 (19.15%) VPN
10 8 (17.02%) Finance
10 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (17.02%) Mentoring
10 8 (17.02%) Bash
10 8 (17.02%) Cloud Security
10 8 (17.02%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (14.89%) Roadmaps
11 7 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (14.89%) PowerShell
12 6 (12.77%) CISM
12 6 (12.77%) Network Security
12 6 (12.77%) CISSP

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (10.64%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (46.81%) AWS
2 9 (19.15%) Azure
3 5 (10.64%) Serverless
4 4 (8.51%) Entra ID
4 4 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.51%) OneDrive
4 4 (8.51%) Power Automate
5 3 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.13%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.13%) GitHub
7 1 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (25.53%) Firewall
2 9 (19.15%) VPN
3 6 (12.77%) Network Security
4 4 (8.51%) DHCP
4 4 (8.51%) DNS
4 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.26%) IPv4
5 2 (4.26%) OSPF
5 2 (4.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) Big Data
1 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Git
General
1 8 (17.02%) Finance
2 4 (8.51%) Legal
2 4 (8.51%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.13%) Advertising
4 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.26%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (2.13%) .NET
2 1 (2.13%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.13%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.13%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.13%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.13%) RESTful
2 1 (2.13%) SOAP
2 1 (2.13%) Swagger
2 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (44.68%) Cloud Native
1 21 (44.68%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (42.55%) Legacy Code
3 4 (8.51%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.26%) Hedge funds
4 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 25 (53.19%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) CentOS
2 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (44.68%) Software Engineering
2 10 (21.28%) CI/CD
2 10 (21.28%) Network Design
3 8 (17.02%) Cloud Security
3 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (17.02%) Mentoring
3 8 (17.02%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (14.89%) Roadmaps
5 6 (12.77%) DevOps
5 6 (12.77%) Strategic Roadmap
5 6 (12.77%) Task Automation
5 6 (12.77%) Technology Transformation
5 6 (12.77%) Threat Modelling
6 5 (10.64%) Containerisation
6 5 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (8.51%) Identity Management
7 4 (8.51%) Mobile Device Management
7 4 (8.51%) Software Distribution
8 3 (6.38%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (44.68%) Go
2 20 (42.55%) C
2 20 (42.55%) C++
2 20 (42.55%) Rust
3 11 (23.40%) Python
4 8 (17.02%) Bash
5 7 (14.89%) PowerShell
6 4 (8.51%) SQL
7 2 (4.26%) C#
7 2 (4.26%) Java
7 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.26%) R
8 1 (2.13%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) CISM
1 6 (12.77%) CISSP
2 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
2 5 (10.64%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) Accessibility
1 6 (12.77%) NCSC
1 6 (12.77%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (6.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (57.45%) Kubernetes
2 10 (21.28%) Terraform
3 5 (10.64%) Ansible
4 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (8.51%) SCCM
4 4 (8.51%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (4.26%) Grafana
5 2 (4.26%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.26%) Puppet
6 1 (2.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.13%) Cisco
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle
2 1 (2.13%) Planview