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 20 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 433 446
Rank change year-on-year +85 +13 +255
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 34 9 31
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.22% 0.052% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.054% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 34 5 27
10th Percentile £63,236 £53,172 £86,500
25th Percentile £76,500 £67,758 £89,016
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 £100,000 £96,539
90th Percentile - £109,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £82,511 £106,346 £95,000
% change year-on-year -22.41% +11.94% +31.03%

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 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 14,325 16,704 18,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 96.23% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 9,291 10,369 15,399
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025, 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 (73.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (58.82%) Azure
2 20 (58.82%) Terraform
3 17 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 16 (47.06%) Agile
4 16 (47.06%) Technical Leadership
5 14 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (38.24%) GitLab
7 12 (35.29%) Architecture Roadmap
7 12 (35.29%) Coaching
7 12 (35.29%) DNS
7 12 (35.29%) Git
7 12 (35.29%) Kubernetes
7 12 (35.29%) Roadmaps
8 10 (29.41%) DevOps
8 10 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
10 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (14.71%) GitHub
11 5 (14.71%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (11.76%) AWS
12 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
12 4 (11.76%) Docker
12 4 (11.76%) IaaS
12 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
12 4 (11.76%) Observability
12 4 (11.76%) PaaS
12 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
12 4 (11.76%) Security Operations

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 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (58.82%) Azure
2 5 (14.71%) GitHub
2 5 (14.71%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (11.76%) AWS
3 4 (11.76%) IaaS
3 4 (11.76%) PaaS
4 3 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.82%) SaaS
4 3 (8.82%) Serverless
5 2 (5.88%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.88%) Dagster
5 2 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.88%) Prefect
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (35.29%) DNS
2 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (38.24%) GitLab
2 12 (35.29%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) JMeter
3 1 (2.94%) Locust
3 1 (2.94%) REST Assured
3 1 (2.94%) Selenium
3 1 (2.94%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.94%) Back Office
3 1 (2.94%) Retail
3 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Kafka
1 2 (5.88%) Node.js
2 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.94%) MACH
2 1 (2.94%) Playwright
2 1 (2.94%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (73.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 16 (47.06%) Agile
3 16 (47.06%) Technical Leadership
4 14 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (35.29%) Architecture Roadmap
5 12 (35.29%) Coaching
5 12 (35.29%) Roadmaps
6 10 (29.41%) DevOps
6 10 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
8 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
9 4 (11.76%) Observability
9 4 (11.76%) Security Operations
10 3 (8.82%) Analytics
11 2 (5.88%) Architectural Design
11 2 (5.88%) Data Engineering
11 2 (5.88%) Data Pipeline
11 2 (5.88%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.82%) Bash
3 2 (5.88%) Bicep
3 2 (5.88%) Python
4 1 (2.94%) Java
4 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
2 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (58.82%) Terraform
2 12 (35.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.82%) Argo
3 3 (8.82%) Grafana
3 3 (8.82%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) PagerDuty
3 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace