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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 522 634
Rank change year-on-year +68 +112 +105
Contract jobs citing Cloud Functions 13 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.054% 0.030% 0.027%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.14% 0.094% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 10
10th Percentile £519 £428 £350
25th Percentile £547 £450 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £688
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 - £705
90th Percentile - £613 £726
UK median daily rate £588 £500 £688
% change year-on-year +17.50% -27.27% -9.84%

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 8,986 11,660 17,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.12% 31.97% 36.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,236 8,404 13,040
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £634 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £744 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 322 298
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -35.19% +50.70%
75th Percentile £37.50 £33.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £65.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +56.25%

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 15 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 +49 11 £588 +23.68% 19
Yorkshire - 1 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - - 6
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Composer
2 4 (30.77%) Google Compute Engine
2 4 (30.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (23.08%) dbt
4 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Run
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) Google App Engine
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (84.62%) BigQuery
2 3 (23.08%) Big Data
2 3 (23.08%) Data Lake
2 3 (23.08%) Tableau
3 2 (15.38%) Looker
3 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Bigtable
4 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.69%) Parquet
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Power BI
4 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
4 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Data Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) GCP Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Data Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) GCP Data Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Data Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Data Product Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Product Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) GCP Architect
5 1 (7.69%) GCP Data Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Platform Integration Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Product Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Avro
2 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) JWT
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Analytics
1 7 (53.85%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Data Modelling
4 4 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) API Development
5 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
5 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (23.08%) Data Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (23.08%) Data Integration
5 3 (23.08%) Data Transformation
5 3 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 7 (53.85%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) R
4 1 (7.69%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (7.69%) Groovy
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) Scala
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (7.69%) CEH
1 1 (7.69%) CISSP
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Control-M
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Okta