Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Leeds

Cloud Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Leeds is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 December 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 80 90
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 11 12 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.83% 1.11% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 1.16% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 10 12 9
10th Percentile £46,575 £33,138 £37,950
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +8.33% -7.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,253 - £75,458
West Yorkshire median annual salary £61,250 £65,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -5.77% +9.20% -

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 1,236 1,035 1,281
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.42% 95.39% 97.19%
Number of salaries quoted 816 595 944
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,720
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -5.78% +1.31%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,250 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,233 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.22% -5.45% -

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 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 29 December 2025, 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 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) Terraform
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Architecture Roadmap
5 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
5 2 (18.18%) Coaching
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) DNS
5 2 (18.18%) Git
5 2 (18.18%) GitHub
5 2 (18.18%) GitLab
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (9.09%) AWS
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel

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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Law
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
4 2 (18.18%) Coaching
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (9.09%) Ethical Hacking
5 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Go
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
4 1 (9.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) LogRhythm
2 1 (9.09%) New Relic
2 1 (9.09%) OpenAI
2 1 (9.09%) VMware