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 22 January 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 443 467
Rank change year-on-year +115 +24 +202
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 43 6 38
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 34 3 34
10th Percentile £63,006 £51,509 £59,000
25th Percentile £75,375 £63,600 £85,938
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% +27.97%

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 14,498 15,744 22,955
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 96.02% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 9,466 9,472 18,949
10th Percentile £30,063 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,608 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

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 22 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 22 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 (67.44%) Terraform
2 27 (62.79%) Mentoring
3 26 (60.47%) Agile
4 25 (58.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (48.84%) Kubernetes
5 21 (48.84%) Roadmaps
6 20 (46.51%) Azure
7 19 (44.19%) DevOps
8 18 (41.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (37.21%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (32.56%) Docker
11 13 (30.23%) AWS
11 13 (30.23%) Coaching
11 13 (30.23%) Containerisation
11 13 (30.23%) Git
11 13 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (27.91%) Ansible
12 12 (27.91%) Architecture Roadmap
12 12 (27.91%) Argo
12 12 (27.91%) Bash
12 12 (27.91%) DNS
12 12 (27.91%) GitLab
12 12 (27.91%) Prometheus
13 11 (25.58%) Java
13 11 (25.58%) Linux
13 11 (25.58%) Performance Optimisation
13 11 (25.58%) Python
14 10 (23.26%) Elastic Stack
14 10 (23.26%) Task Automation
14 10 (23.26%) 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 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 20 (46.51%) Azure
2 13 (30.23%) AWS
3 9 (20.93%) Pulumi
4 4 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (9.30%) GitHub
4 4 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (9.30%) IaaS
4 4 (9.30%) PaaS
5 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.98%) SaaS
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.65%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.65%) Dagster
6 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.65%) Prefect
6 2 (4.65%) Serverless
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 12 (27.91%) DNS
2 9 (20.93%) Broadband
3 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) NoSQL
1 9 (20.93%) RDBMS
1 9 (20.93%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (30.23%) Git
2 12 (27.91%) GitLab
3 9 (20.93%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) JMeter
4 1 (2.33%) Locust
4 1 (2.33%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.33%) Selenium
4 1 (2.33%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (25.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (9.30%) Finance
3 1 (2.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.26%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (20.93%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (4.65%) Kafka
3 2 (4.65%) Node.js
4 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.33%) JSON
4 1 (2.33%) Playwright
4 1 (2.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.58%) Linux
2 10 (23.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (62.79%) Mentoring
2 26 (60.47%) Agile
3 25 (58.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 21 (48.84%) Roadmaps
5 19 (44.19%) DevOps
6 18 (41.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (37.21%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (30.23%) Coaching
8 13 (30.23%) Containerisation
8 13 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (27.91%) Architecture Roadmap
10 11 (25.58%) Performance Optimisation
11 10 (23.26%) Task Automation
12 9 (20.93%) Budget Control
12 9 (20.93%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (20.93%) Cost Optimisation
12 9 (20.93%) GitOps
12 9 (20.93%) High Availability
12 9 (20.93%) Product Management
12 9 (20.93%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.91%) Bash
2 11 (25.58%) Java
2 11 (25.58%) Python
3 9 (20.93%) Go
3 9 (20.93%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.30%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.65%) Bicep
6 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.33%) NIST
2 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 14 (32.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (67.44%) Terraform
2 21 (48.84%) Kubernetes
3 12 (27.91%) Ansible
3 12 (27.91%) Argo
3 12 (27.91%) Prometheus
4 9 (20.93%) Kustomize
5 3 (6.98%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Google
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.65%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.33%) TIBCO