Lead Cloud Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Lead Cloud Engineer
England > North of England

The median Lead Cloud Engineer salary in the North of England is £69,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 383 405
Rank change year-on-year +61 +22 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 3 12 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.027% 0.069% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.073% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2 12 6
10th Percentile £64,875 £47,500 -
25th Percentile £66,188 £64,375 £63,933
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,750 £70,000 £65,956
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% +6.13% -17.56%
75th Percentile £74,688 £80,000 £67,978
90th Percentile £76,825 £84,500 £73,239
England median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,310 16,534 15,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 94.96% 89.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5,794 12,788 8,257
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £81,250
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in the North of England

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in the North of England

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Cloud Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Cloud Engineer in the North of England

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
Yorkshire +53 1 £64,000 -14.67%
North West +2 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £75,500 -
Lead Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 North of England region featuring Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Coaching
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Planview
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) YAML
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) .NET

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Coaching
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
2 1 (33.33%) Culture Change
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
2 1 (33.33%) FinOps
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Planview