Lead CloudOps Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Lead Cloud Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Cloud Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 October 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead CloudOps Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.003% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - -
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £72,500 - -

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 30,959 46,106 30,618
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.05% 95.28% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 17,903 25,169 22,995
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £38,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,509 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.09% -5.82% -

Lead CloudOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead CloudOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Lead CloudOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Lead CloudOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Lead CloudOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Lead CloudOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Lead CloudOps 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 CloudOps Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
South East - 1 £72,500 - 1
Lead CloudOps Engineer
UK

Lead CloudOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 25 October 2025, Lead CloudOps 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead CloudOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving

Lead CloudOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft