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 £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 November 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 443 464
Rank change year-on-year +54 +21 +269
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 14 23 32
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.088% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 14 6 28
10th Percentile £61,146 £55,603 £86,750
25th Percentile £72,188 £67,758 £89,016
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £81,470 £92,778
Median % change year-on-year +4.33% -12.19% -4.84%
75th Percentile - £97,813 £96,539
90th Percentile - £100,000 £100,750
UK median annual salary £102,500 £95,000 £92,778
% change year-on-year +7.89% +2.40% +9.15%

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 15,035 19,197 21,006
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 96.64% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,918 11,996 17,139
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,768 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% -4.00% +1.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -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 5 November 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 5 November 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 10 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (21.43%) GitHub
5 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (21.43%) IaaS
5 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
5 3 (21.43%) PaaS
5 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
5 3 (21.43%) Security Operations
5 3 (21.43%) Terraform
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) AWS
6 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) Bash
6 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) SaaS
6 2 (14.29%) Serverless
6 2 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (7.14%) Analytics

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) GitHub
2 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (21.43%) IaaS
2 3 (21.43%) PaaS
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Back Office
2 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.14%) Retail
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
1 1 (7.14%) MACH
1 1 (7.14%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
4 3 (21.43%) Security Operations
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (7.14%) Architectural Design
6 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
6 1 (7.14%) Event-Driven
6 1 (7.14%) FinOps
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Observability
6 1 (7.14%) Order Management
6 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) Bicep
3 1 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) PagerDuty