Lead Cloud Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Cloud Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £95,000 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 553 667 616
Rank change year-on-year +114 -51 +186
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 22 91 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.057% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.14% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 18 33 11
10th Percentile £88,325 £47,766 -
25th Percentile - £48,829 £63,933
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £70,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -2.78% +2.41%
75th Percentile - £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £85,000 £80,250
UK median annual salary £107,500 £89,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +20.79% +11.25% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,016 67,223 53,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.80% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,742 47,591 30,483
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,906 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,225 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Lead Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South West +121 11 £95,000 +22.58%
Scotland +72 7 £95,000 +26.67%
North of England +41 3 £69,750 -0.36% 1
South East +91 1 £110,000 +86.44% 2
Yorkshire +54 1 £64,000 -14.67%
North West +10 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £75,500 -
Lead Cloud Engineer
UK

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (95.45%) AWS
2 15 (68.18%) Mentoring
3 14 (63.64%) Cloud Security
3 14 (63.64%) VPN
3 14 (63.64%) Firewall
4 13 (59.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (59.09%) Roadmaps
5 12 (54.55%) Technology Transformation
5 12 (54.55%) NCSC
5 12 (54.55%) NIST
5 12 (54.55%) Strategic Roadmap
5 12 (54.55%) Accessibility
5 12 (54.55%) Threat Modelling
5 12 (54.55%) Network Security
5 12 (54.55%) Finance
5 12 (54.55%) CISM
5 12 (54.55%) Network Design
5 12 (54.55%) CISSP
6 7 (31.82%) DevOps
7 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (22.73%) Terraform
8 5 (22.73%) Serverless
8 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
8 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
9 4 (18.18%) Python
9 4 (18.18%) Agile
10 3 (13.64%) Scrum
10 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
10 3 (13.64%) Linux
10 3 (13.64%) C#

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (95.45%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Serverless
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (9.09%) Azure
4 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (63.64%) Firewall
1 14 (63.64%) VPN
2 12 (54.55%) Network Security
3 2 (9.09%) IPv4
3 2 (9.09%) OSPF
3 2 (9.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Big Data
1 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 12 (54.55%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.55%) Advertising
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) .NET
1 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
1 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
1 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
1 1 (4.55%) OpenAPI
1 1 (4.55%) RESTful
1 1 (4.55%) SOAP
1 1 (4.55%) Swagger
1 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
1 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Mentoring
2 14 (63.64%) Cloud Security
3 13 (59.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (59.09%) Roadmaps
4 12 (54.55%) Network Design
4 12 (54.55%) Strategic Roadmap
4 12 (54.55%) Technology Transformation
4 12 (54.55%) Threat Modelling
5 7 (31.82%) DevOps
6 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (18.18%) Agile
8 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
8 3 (13.64%) Coaching
8 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
8 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
8 3 (13.64%) DevSecOps
8 3 (13.64%) Scrum
9 2 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
9 2 (9.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 2 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) Bash
2 3 (13.64%) C#
2 3 (13.64%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
2 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.09%) Go
3 2 (9.09%) R
4 1 (4.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 12 (54.55%) CISM
1 12 (54.55%) CISSP
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
4 2 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (54.55%) Accessibility
1 12 (54.55%) NCSC
1 12 (54.55%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Terraform
2 3 (13.64%) Ansible
2 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) Puppet
4 1 (4.55%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle
1 2 (9.09%) Planview