Lead Cloud Engineer Jobs

Lead Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Lead Cloud Engineer salary in the UK is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 769 755 1128
Rank change year-on-year -14 +373 -288
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 138 195 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.21% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.23% 0.082%
Number of salaries quoted 73 47 52
10th Percentile £48,829 £64,873 £64,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £81,500 £88,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% -7.65% +12.06%
75th Percentile £110,000 £87,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £93,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £72,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.92% -6.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in the UK

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Cloud Engineer.

Salary trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in the UK

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Cloud Engineer in the UK

Lead Cloud Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
UK excluding London -81 96 £75,000 +4.17% 19
England -40 75 £90,000 +10.43% 23
Scotland -33 54 £75,000 -
London +110 40 £110,000 +29.41% 5
Work from Home +60 31 £80,000 - 15
North of England +16 12 £70,000 +6.13% 4
Yorkshire +43 8 £75,000 +13.71% 4
Wales -6 7 £50,685 - 2
South East -43 7 £74,500 - 5
Midlands -10 6 £87,500 +16.67% 1
East Midlands -14 6 £87,500 +16.67% 1
East of England -19 5 £90,000 +12.50% 6
South West -23 5 £78,750 +9.38% 3
North West -1 4 £55,000 -23.61%

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 featuring Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 79 (57.25%) Finance
2 69 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 68 (49.28%) AWS
4 65 (47.10%) Agile
5 64 (46.38%) Cloud Native
6 63 (45.65%) Terraform
7 59 (42.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (40.58%) CI/CD
9 55 (39.86%) Architectural Design
9 55 (39.86%) Law
9 55 (39.86%) Java
10 52 (37.68%) Artificial Intelligence
10 52 (37.68%) Information Architecture
10 52 (37.68%) Machine Learning
10 52 (37.68%) Community of Practice
10 52 (37.68%) Operational Stability
11 46 (33.33%) Public Cloud
12 45 (32.61%) Kubernetes
13 41 (29.71%) Azure
14 38 (27.54%) Marketing
15 32 (23.19%) Grafana
16 29 (21.01%) SDLC
17 27 (19.57%) Social Skills
17 27 (19.57%) Splunk
18 25 (18.12%) Linux
18 25 (18.12%) Python
19 24 (17.39%) AWS Certification
20 23 (16.67%) Go
21 21 (15.22%) GCP
21 21 (15.22%) Datadog

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (2.90%) Apache
2 3 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.17%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) nginx
3 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 68 (49.28%) AWS
2 41 (29.71%) Azure
3 21 (15.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 21 (15.22%) Datadog
3 21 (15.22%) GCP
4 10 (7.25%) Serverless
5 8 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (5.07%) Azure AKS
6 7 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.17%) dbt
8 3 (2.17%) Google Analytics
8 3 (2.17%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.17%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.45%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.45%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.45%) PaaS
10 1 (0.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.17%) Firewall
1 3 (2.17%) IPv4
1 3 (2.17%) VPN
2 2 (1.45%) OSPF
2 2 (1.45%) VLAN
3 1 (0.72%) HTTP
3 1 (0.72%) Network Security
3 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.17%) Airbyte
3 3 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.17%) BigQuery
3 3 (2.17%) Looker
3 3 (2.17%) Power BI
3 3 (2.17%) Tableau
4 1 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.72%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.72%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (5.80%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 79 (57.25%) Finance
2 59 (42.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 55 (39.86%) Law
4 38 (27.54%) Marketing
5 27 (19.57%) Social Skills
6 9 (6.52%) Banking
6 9 (6.52%) Legal
7 8 (5.80%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.22%) OpenTelemetry
2 20 (14.49%) Kafka
3 8 (5.80%) Spring Boot
4 4 (2.90%) Node.js
4 4 (2.90%) React
4 4 (2.90%) Svelte
5 3 (2.17%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.72%) LAMP
6 1 (0.72%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 64 (46.38%) Cloud Native
2 46 (33.33%) Public Cloud
3 16 (11.59%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (11.59%) Legacy Code
4 12 (8.70%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.17%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.45%) Clustering
7 2 (1.45%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.45%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.72%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.72%) Life Science
8 1 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.12%) Linux
2 8 (5.80%) Windows
3 4 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.45%) Unix
5 1 (0.72%) CentOS
5 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 65 (47.10%) Agile
3 56 (40.58%) CI/CD
4 55 (39.86%) Architectural Design
5 52 (37.68%) Artificial Intelligence
5 52 (37.68%) Community of Practice
5 52 (37.68%) Information Architecture
5 52 (37.68%) Machine Learning
5 52 (37.68%) Operational Stability
6 29 (21.01%) SDLC
7 21 (15.22%) Continuous Delivery
7 21 (15.22%) Identity Access Management
7 21 (15.22%) Observability
7 21 (15.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 21 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (15.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 19 (13.77%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (12.32%) Architecture Roadmap
9 17 (12.32%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (12.32%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 55 (39.86%) Java
2 25 (18.12%) Python
3 23 (16.67%) Go
4 12 (8.70%) C
4 12 (8.70%) C++
4 12 (8.70%) Rust
5 8 (5.80%) Bash
5 8 (5.80%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.07%) SQL
7 6 (4.35%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.90%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.90%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 24 (17.39%) AWS Certification
2 6 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (2.90%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.90%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.72%) Degree
4 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.80%) Docker
2 2 (1.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (45.65%) Terraform
2 45 (32.61%) Kubernetes
3 32 (23.19%) Grafana
4 17 (12.32%) Ansible
5 12 (8.70%) Puppet
6 11 (7.97%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.72%) Autotask
9 1 (0.72%) Cacti
9 1 (0.72%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.72%) Icinga
9 1 (0.72%) Istio
Vendors
1 27 (19.57%) Splunk
2 21 (15.22%) Dynatrace
3 10 (7.25%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.52%) Google
5 3 (2.17%) Teradata