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 8 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
8 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 429 447
Rank change year-on-year +98 +18 +226
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 36 6 35
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.24% 0.036% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.038% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 33 3 31
10th Percentile £63,236 £51,509 £59,000
25th Percentile £76,500 £63,600 £88,125
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 14,184 15,995 20,081
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.62% 96.12% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 9,187 9,713 16,365
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,120
25th Percentile £41,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +2.01% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,813 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,375 £97,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 8 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 8 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 25 (69.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (61.11%) Terraform
3 20 (55.56%) Azure
3 20 (55.56%) Mentoring
4 19 (52.78%) Agile
5 16 (44.44%) Technical Leadership
6 15 (41.67%) Kubernetes
6 15 (41.67%) Roadmaps
7 13 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
8 12 (33.33%) Coaching
8 12 (33.33%) DevOps
8 12 (33.33%) DNS
8 12 (33.33%) Git
8 12 (33.33%) GitLab
8 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
9 7 (19.44%) Containerisation
9 7 (19.44%) Docker
10 6 (16.67%) Argo
10 6 (16.67%) AWS
10 6 (16.67%) Bash
10 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (16.67%) Prometheus
11 5 (13.89%) Ansible
11 5 (13.89%) Performance Optimisation
11 5 (13.89%) Python
12 4 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (11.11%) GitHub

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 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (11.11%) GitHub
3 4 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (11.11%) IaaS
3 4 (11.11%) PaaS
4 3 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.33%) Pulumi
4 3 (8.33%) SaaS
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.56%) Dagster
5 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.56%) Prefect
5 2 (5.56%) Serverless
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 12 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (8.33%) Broadband
3 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 3 (8.33%) RDBMS
1 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (33.33%) Git
1 12 (33.33%) GitLab
2 3 (8.33%) Jaeger
3 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) JMeter
3 1 (2.78%) Locust
3 1 (2.78%) REST Assured
3 1 (2.78%) Selenium
3 1 (2.78%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (13.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (11.11%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (5.56%) Kafka
3 2 (5.56%) Node.js
4 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.78%) Playwright
4 1 (2.78%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (69.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (55.56%) Mentoring
3 19 (52.78%) Agile
4 16 (44.44%) Technical Leadership
5 15 (41.67%) Roadmaps
6 13 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
7 12 (33.33%) Coaching
7 12 (33.33%) DevOps
7 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
8 7 (19.44%) Containerisation
9 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (13.89%) Performance Optimisation
11 4 (11.11%) Security Operations
11 4 (11.11%) Task Automation
12 3 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
12 3 (8.33%) GitOps
12 3 (8.33%) High Availability
12 3 (8.33%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) Bash
2 5 (13.89%) Python
3 4 (11.11%) Java
3 4 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.33%) Go
4 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
2 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (61.11%) Terraform
2 15 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 6 (16.67%) Argo
3 6 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 5 (13.89%) Ansible
5 3 (8.33%) Grafana
5 3 (8.33%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Google
3 2 (5.56%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
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