Cloud Functions Contracts

Google Cloud Functions
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 588 701
Rank change year-on-year +66 +113 +128
Contract jobs citing Cloud Functions 8 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.028% 0.025%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.073% 0.086% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 12
10th Percentile £574 £431 £360
25th Percentile £591 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £688
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile - £542 £706
90th Percentile - £622 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £350
% change year-on-year - - -36.36%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,919 13,938 21,745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.55% 32.30% 36.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,578 9,910 15,710
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 342 351
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £15.92 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £46.30 £34.69 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.31% -28.15% +29.58%

Cloud Functions
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Functions in the UK

Cloud Functions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Functions in the UK

Cloud Functions
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +59 7 £600 +20.00% 17
London +48 6 £600 +26.32% 13
Work from Home +49 5 £600 +3.23% 10
UK excluding London - 1 - - 7
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -

Cloud Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) Google App Engine
2 2 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Run
3 1 (12.50%) dbt
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) BigQuery
2 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
2 3 (37.50%) Tableau
3 2 (25.00%) Looker
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) GCP Architect
3 1 (12.50%) GCP Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Integration Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) JWT
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
2 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Business Forecasting
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Data Science
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) R
4 2 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (12.50%) Go
5 1 (12.50%) Groovy
5 1 (12.50%) PHP
5 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (12.50%) CEH
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (25.00%) Ansible
4 1 (12.50%) Grafana
4 1 (12.50%) Packer
4 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Okta