Lead Cloud Engineer Jobs in London

Lead Cloud Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Cloud Engineer salary in London is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 471 567
Rank change year-on-year +109 +96 +237
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 34 37 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.27% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.17% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 33 31 30
10th Percentile £80,000 - £75,000
25th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - +29.41% -8.11%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £87,500
90th Percentile - - £93,875
England median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,514 22,211 32,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.11% 94.13% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,380 16,662 24,070
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in London

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in London

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Cloud Engineer in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Cloud Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 London region featuring Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (79.41%) Kubernetes
2 24 (70.59%) Linux
3 22 (64.71%) C
3 22 (64.71%) C++
3 22 (64.71%) Software Engineering
3 22 (64.71%) Rust
3 22 (64.71%) Go
3 22 (64.71%) Cloud Native
3 22 (64.71%) Legacy Code
3 22 (64.71%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (23.53%) AWS
5 7 (20.59%) Python
5 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
5 7 (20.59%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (20.59%) Azure
6 5 (14.71%) Terraform
6 5 (14.71%) Firewall
6 5 (14.71%) Bash
7 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
7 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
7 4 (11.76%) Network Design
7 4 (11.76%) SCCM
7 4 (11.76%) Identity Management
7 4 (11.76%) Management Information System
7 4 (11.76%) Legal
7 4 (11.76%) SharePoint
7 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (11.76%) DHCP
7 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
7 4 (11.76%) SQL

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (11.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) AWS
2 7 (20.59%) Azure
3 4 (11.76%) Entra ID
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (11.76%) OneDrive
3 4 (11.76%) Power Automate
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) Firewall
2 4 (11.76%) DHCP
2 4 (11.76%) DNS
2 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.94%) VPN
General
1 4 (11.76%) Legal
2 2 (5.88%) Finance
2 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 22 (64.71%) Cloud Native
1 22 (64.71%) Distributed Systems
1 22 (64.71%) Legacy Code
2 4 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (70.59%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) CentOS
2 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (64.71%) Software Engineering
2 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
2 7 (20.59%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (11.76%) Identity Management
3 4 (11.76%) Mobile Device Management
3 4 (11.76%) Network Design
3 4 (11.76%) Software Distribution
3 4 (11.76%) Task Automation
4 2 (5.88%) Containerisation
4 2 (5.88%) Database Tuning
4 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (2.94%) Data Protection
5 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (2.94%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 22 (64.71%) C
1 22 (64.71%) C++
1 22 (64.71%) Go
1 22 (64.71%) Rust
2 7 (20.59%) Python
3 5 (14.71%) Bash
4 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 4 (11.76%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (79.41%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.71%) Terraform
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (11.76%) SCCM
3 4 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (5.88%) Ansible
4 2 (5.88%) Grafana
4 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.94%) Cisco