Lead Cloud Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Lead Cloud Engineer
England > North West

The median Lead Cloud Engineer salary in the North West is £70,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 - 194
Rank change year-on-year - - +122
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 4 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.082% - 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% - 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile £57,625 - -
25th Percentile £59,313 - £89,016
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,250 - £93,889
Median % change year-on-year - - +71.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £96,539
90th Percentile £82,000 - -
England median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £92,778
% change year-on-year +10.00% +7.78% +4.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 4,452 6,593 3,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 95.37% 96.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,524 3,696 3,016
10th Percentile £26,989 £31,250 £31,188
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £41,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,979 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Lead Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for Lead Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the North West

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Cloud Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Cloud Engineer in the North West

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Cumbria - 3 £65,500 - 3
Lancashire - 1 £85,000 -
Lead Cloud Engineer
England

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 31 October 2025, Lead 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 North West region featuring Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft