Cloud Functions Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Google Cloud Functions
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Cloud Functions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 - 146
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Functions 9 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.32% - 0.035%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.99% - 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £393 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £500
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -28.57%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 908 766 1,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.73% 28.60% 36.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 481 780
10th Percentile £304 £213 £213
25th Percentile £402 £356 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £464
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.43% -6.31%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £567
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £503 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -5.19% -1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 29
10th Percentile £19.38 £14.78 £12.60
25th Percentile £21.11 £18.93 £13.25
Median hourly rate £24.30 £33.74 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.97% +87.42% +5.20%
75th Percentile £30.97 £35.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £35.49 £50.40 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%

Cloud Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Functions relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Cloud Functions job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Cloud Functions
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cloud Functions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cloud Functions

Cloud Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Functions in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Functions in the Midlands

Cloud Functions
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 October 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
West Midlands - 9 £463 - 1
Cloud Functions
England

Cloud Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Apigee
1 9 (100.00%) GCP
1 9 (100.00%) Serverless
2 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 7 (77.78%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) MySQL
1 7 (77.78%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (77.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Git
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
1 9 (100.00%) GCP Developer
2 7 (77.78%) Cloud Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) Node.js
2 2 (22.22%) Middleware
2 2 (22.22%) OAuth
2 2 (22.22%) OAuth2
2 2 (22.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Data Pipeline
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
1 7 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (66.67%) API Management
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) ETL
2 6 (66.67%) Task Automation
3 5 (55.56%) Storage Management
4 4 (44.44%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (22.22%) API Integration
6 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
7 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Programming
7 1 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Google
2 2 (22.22%) MuleSoft