Lead Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Swansea

Lead Cloud Engineer
West Wales > Swansea

The median Lead Cloud Engineer salary in Swansea is £74,479 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 October 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 5.56% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.88% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £64,913 - -
25th Percentile £67,427 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,479 - -
75th Percentile £78,670 - -
90th Percentile £79,468 - -
West Wales median annual salary £74,479 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Swansea

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Swansea. 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 Swansea with a recognized job title 34 117 141
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 100.00% 94.00%
Number of salaries quoted 19 88 120
10th Percentile £30,500 - £29,925
25th Percentile £36,367 £30,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,848 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.12% -11.11% -4.26%
75th Percentile £54,685 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,936 £67,875 £75,000
West Wales median annual salary £43,924 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.81% -11.11% -3.23%

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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 Swansea.

Lead Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Swansea

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for Lead Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Swansea.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Swansea

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in Swansea

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Cloud Engineer in Swansea over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Cloud Engineer in Swansea

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea

For the 6 months to 30 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 Swansea region featuring Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) PagerDuty
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) PagerDuty