Lead Cloud Engineer Job Trends in the West Midlands

Lead Cloud Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Lead Cloud Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £82,511 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 December 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 219 178
Rank change year-on-year +55 -41 +129
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 1 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.026% 0.038% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.041% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78,768 £63,663 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,511 £64,775 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.38% - -
75th Percentile £86,253 £65,886 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £85,000 £102,692 £95,000
% change year-on-year -17.23% +8.10% +18.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,503 4,827 3,107
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 92.37% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,423 2,458 2,532
10th Percentile £28,942 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,009 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -1.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Lead Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 December 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
Birmingham +31 1 £82,511 +27.38% 2
Lead Cloud Engineer
England

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 December 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 West Midlands region featuring Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform