Lead Cloud Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Lead Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Cloud Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 529 590
Rank change year-on-year +57 +61 +249
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 3 40 16
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.014% 0.12% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.13% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 1 24 15
10th Percentile - £67,758 £70,000
25th Percentile - £70,000 £73,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £88,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% +10.94% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £108,125 £92,500
90th Percentile - £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% -8.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 19,210 31,635 33,239
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.56% 96.17% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10,649 23,653 25,003
10th Percentile £25,267 £32,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £46,768
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -8.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Lead Cloud Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Cloud Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Lead Cloud Engineer.

Lead Cloud Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 14 July 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
1 3 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Re-Platforming
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 2 (66.67%) R
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) IPv4
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Back Office

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) IPv4
1 2 (66.67%) OSPF
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Back Office
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Re-Platforming
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Multichannel Retail
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Order Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) R
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform