Hybrid/Remote Lead Cloud Engineer Job Trends

Lead Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Cloud Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £82,511 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 January 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 434 493
Rank change year-on-year +98 +59 +191
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 44 6 41
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.28% 0.037% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.038% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 35 3 37
10th Percentile £63,039 £51,509 £59,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £63,600 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,511 £87,500 £92,778
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% -5.69% -2.34%
75th Percentile £86,253 £103,125 £96,539
90th Percentile - £110,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £82,511 £110,000 £92,778
% change year-on-year -24.99% +18.56% +15.97%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work 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 14,774 15,671 24,591
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 95.99% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 9,635 9,425 20,392
10th Percentile £30,199 £36,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,050 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.41%

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead Cloud Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Lead Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Lead Cloud Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Lead Cloud Engineer job vacancies

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Lead Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Lead Cloud Engineer salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 29 January 2026, 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (65.91%) Terraform
2 28 (63.64%) Mentoring
3 26 (59.09%) Agile
3 26 (59.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 21 (47.73%) Azure
4 21 (47.73%) Kubernetes
4 21 (47.73%) Roadmaps
5 19 (43.18%) DevOps
6 18 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (38.64%) Technical Leadership
8 14 (31.82%) Docker
9 13 (29.55%) AWS
9 13 (29.55%) Coaching
9 13 (29.55%) Containerisation
9 13 (29.55%) DNS
9 13 (29.55%) Git
9 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (27.27%) Ansible
10 12 (27.27%) Architecture Roadmap
10 12 (27.27%) Argo
10 12 (27.27%) Bash
10 12 (27.27%) GitLab
10 12 (27.27%) Prometheus
11 11 (25.00%) Java
11 11 (25.00%) Linux
11 11 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
11 11 (25.00%) Python
12 10 (22.73%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (22.73%) Task Automation
12 10 (22.73%) Unix

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 21 (47.73%) Azure
2 13 (29.55%) AWS
3 9 (20.45%) Pulumi
4 4 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (9.09%) GitHub
4 4 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (9.09%) IaaS
4 4 (9.09%) PaaS
5 3 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.82%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.82%) SaaS
6 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.55%) Dagster
6 2 (4.55%) Prefect
6 2 (4.55%) Serverless
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (29.55%) DNS
2 9 (20.45%) Broadband
3 1 (2.27%) DHCP
3 1 (2.27%) Firewall
3 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.45%) NoSQL
1 9 (20.45%) RDBMS
1 9 (20.45%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (29.55%) Git
2 12 (27.27%) GitLab
3 9 (20.45%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.27%) JMeter
4 1 (2.27%) Locust
4 1 (2.27%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.27%) Selenium
4 1 (2.27%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (2.27%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.73%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (20.45%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (4.55%) Kafka
3 2 (4.55%) Node.js
4 1 (2.27%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.27%) JSON
4 1 (2.27%) Playwright
4 1 (2.27%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.00%) Linux
2 10 (22.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (63.64%) Mentoring
2 26 (59.09%) Agile
2 26 (59.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (47.73%) Roadmaps
4 19 (43.18%) DevOps
5 18 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (38.64%) Technical Leadership
7 13 (29.55%) Coaching
7 13 (29.55%) Containerisation
7 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (27.27%) Architecture Roadmap
9 11 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
10 10 (22.73%) Task Automation
11 9 (20.45%) Budget Control
11 9 (20.45%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (20.45%) Cost Optimisation
11 9 (20.45%) GitOps
11 9 (20.45%) High Availability
11 9 (20.45%) Product Management
11 9 (20.45%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.27%) Bash
2 11 (25.00%) Java
2 11 (25.00%) Python
3 9 (20.45%) Go
3 9 (20.45%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.55%) Bicep
6 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (20.45%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) Degree
3 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) NIST
2 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 14 (31.82%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (65.91%) Terraform
2 21 (47.73%) Kubernetes
3 12 (27.27%) Ansible
3 12 (27.27%) Argo
3 12 (27.27%) Prometheus
4 9 (20.45%) Kustomize
5 3 (6.82%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) Google
2 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.55%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.27%) Citrix
4 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.27%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.27%) VMware