Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Leeds

Cloud Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Leeds is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 September 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 71 81
Rank change year-on-year +38 +10 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 103 5 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 3.36% 0.55% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.54% 0.57% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 79 5 24
10th Percentile £45,000 £55,900 £62,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +39.63%
75th Percentile £92,500 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 - £90,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £80,000 £64,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +24.03% -19.38% +34.40%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 2,911 878 1,677
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 96.17% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,260 595 1,136
10th Percentile £33,250 £30,000 £31,811
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,233 £51,254
% change year-on-year +8.63% +7.76% -6.81%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Leeds.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Leeds

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in Leeds

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 8 September 2026, Cloud 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 Leeds region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (26.21%) Platform Engineering
2 26 (25.24%) DevOps
3 23 (22.33%) AWS
4 19 (18.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (14.56%) Azure
6 13 (12.62%) OCI
6 13 (12.62%) Oracle
7 12 (11.65%) Terraform
8 11 (10.68%) CI/CD
9 10 (9.71%) GCP
10 9 (8.74%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (8.74%) Kubernetes
11 8 (7.77%) GitHub
11 8 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (6.80%) Full-Stack Development
12 7 (6.80%) Java
12 7 (6.80%) Jenkins
12 7 (6.80%) Python
12 7 (6.80%) Serverless
13 6 (5.83%) Collaborative Working
13 6 (5.83%) Google
14 5 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (4.85%) Containerisation
14 5 (4.85%) Cyber Intelligence
14 5 (4.85%) Docker
14 5 (4.85%) Infrastructure Automation
14 5 (4.85%) Microsoft
14 5 (4.85%) Security Cleared
15 4 (3.88%) Cloud Security
15 4 (3.88%) Digital Transformation Strategy

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.94%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (22.33%) AWS
2 15 (14.56%) Azure
3 13 (12.62%) OCI
4 10 (9.71%) GCP
5 8 (7.77%) GitHub
5 8 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (6.80%) Serverless
7 5 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.94%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.94%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.94%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.94%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.94%) SaaS
9 1 (0.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.97%) PaaS
9 1 (0.97%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.97%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (6.80%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.91%) Git
General
1 8 (7.77%) Finance
2 4 (3.88%) Social Skills
3 2 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.97%) Local Government
4 1 (0.97%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.65%) Terraform
2 2 (1.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.62%) Cloud Native
2 2 (1.94%) AI Agents
2 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.94%) Linux
1 2 (1.94%) Windows
1 2 (1.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (26.21%) Platform Engineering
2 26 (25.24%) DevOps
3 19 (18.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (10.68%) CI/CD
5 9 (8.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (6.80%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (5.83%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (4.85%) Containerisation
8 5 (4.85%) Cyber Intelligence
8 5 (4.85%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (3.88%) Cloud Security
9 4 (3.88%) Digital Transformation Strategy
9 4 (3.88%) Lakehouse
9 4 (3.88%) Mentoring
9 4 (3.88%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (3.88%) Software Delivery
10 2 (1.94%) AI
10 2 (1.94%) Data Protection
10 2 (1.94%) Identity Management
10 2 (1.94%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.80%) Java
1 7 (6.80%) Python
2 3 (2.91%) SQL
3 2 (1.94%) Go
3 2 (1.94%) Groovy
3 2 (1.94%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (4.85%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.91%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.94%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (4.85%) Docker
2 2 (1.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (8.74%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.88%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.94%) Ansible
3 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (12.62%) Oracle
2 6 (5.83%) Google
3 5 (4.85%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.94%) Cisco
4 2 (1.94%) VMware
5 1 (0.97%) Databricks