Cloud Run Contracts

Google Cloud Run
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cloud Run skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Run 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 510 563 683
Rank change year-on-year +53 +120 +158
Contract jobs citing Cloud Run 10 19 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.044% 0.059%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.091% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 33
10th Percentile £612 - £508
25th Percentile £630 £525 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £669 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +16.30% -8.00% -15.25%
75th Percentile £717 £650 £700
90th Percentile £741 £734 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate - £575 £519
% change year-on-year - +10.90% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Cloud Run 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 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
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 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Cloud Run
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Run in the UK

Cloud Run
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Run in the UK

Cloud Run
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Run within the UK 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
England +47 6 £669 +16.30% 16
Work from Home +41 5 £600 +4.35% 9
London +29 5 £600 +4.35% 11
UK excluding London +62 1 - - 7
Scotland +13 1 - -

Cloud Run
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) GCP
2 6 (60.00%) GitHub
3 4 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (40.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (20.00%) BigCommerce
5 2 (20.00%) Datadog
6 1 (10.00%) AWS
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (10.00%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (10.00%) Serverless
6 1 (10.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) CircleCI
2 3 (30.00%) Terragrunt
3 2 (20.00%) Git
3 2 (20.00%) JMeter
4 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Retail
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) GCP Architect
1 3 (30.00%) GCP Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Middleware Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 3 (30.00%) Middleware
1 3 (30.00%) Node.js
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (20.00%) FastAPI
2 2 (20.00%) pytest
2 2 (20.00%) React
2 2 (20.00%) VML
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) JWT
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
1 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (40.00%) API Development
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Observability
2 4 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) API Integration
3 3 (30.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (30.00%) Cost Reduction
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (30.00%) Ansible
4 2 (20.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (20.00%) Puppet
4 2 (20.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Google
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Adobe
3 2 (20.00%) New Relic
3 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 2 (20.00%) Sitecore
4 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (10.00%) Okta
4 1 (10.00%) Splunk