Cloud Functions Contract Job Trends in the North West

Google Cloud Functions
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Cloud Functions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 - 139
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Functions 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.082% - 0.074%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% - 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £441 - -
25th Percentile £455 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 - £525
75th Percentile £542 - £538
90th Percentile £562 - -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -27.27%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 840 721 995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.38% 31.04% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 451 751
10th Percentile £300 £300 £265
25th Percentile £363 £389 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £478 £495
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -3.43% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £645 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 50
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £16.20
25th Percentile £17.38 £21.05 £18.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -11.76% +60.00%
75th Percentile £67.25 £49.14 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.29 £73.63 £64.08
England median hourly rate £25.47 £33.74 £26.50
% change year-on-year -24.50% +27.30% +17.78%

Cloud Functions
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Cloud Functions job vacancy trend in the North West

Cloud Functions
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Cloud Functions
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Functions in the North West over the 6 months to 26 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Functions in the North West

Cloud Functions
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 26 November 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
Manchester - 2 £494 - 4
Cloud Functions
England

Cloud Functions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Looker
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake Schema
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google