Cloud Functions Contracts in England

Google Cloud Functions
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Cloud Functions skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Functions over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 531 636
Rank change year-on-year +53 +105 +109
Contract jobs citing Cloud Functions 7 11 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.030% 0.034%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.077% 0.093% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 14
10th Percentile £570 £428 £380
25th Percentile £581 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £681
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -26.61% -6.03%
75th Percentile - - £706
90th Percentile - £613 £730
UK median daily rate £600 £500 £681
% change year-on-year +20.00% -26.61% -9.17%

All Cloud Skills
England

Cloud Functions falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Cloud Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cloud Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Functions in England

Cloud Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Functions in England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Functions in England

Cloud Functions
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Functions within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +35 6 £600 +26.32% 13
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
Cloud Functions
UK

Cloud Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Run
3 1 (14.29%) dbt
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Google App Engine
3 1 (14.29%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) BigQuery
2 3 (42.86%) Tableau
3 2 (28.57%) Looker
3 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) JWT
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (42.86%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Business Forecasting
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Data Science
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Statistical Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Time Series Forecasting
4 1 (14.29%) API Design
4 1 (14.29%) API Development
4 1 (14.29%) API Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) R
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (14.29%) CEH
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Okta