Cloud Run Contract Job Trends

Google Cloud Run
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Cloud Run skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 536 591
Rank change year-on-year -10 +55 +197
Contract jobs citing Cloud Run 38 8 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.023% 0.032%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.065% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 0 5
10th Percentile £543 - -
25th Percentile £588 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £866 - £650
90th Percentile £918 - £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - -

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 14,018 12,403 15,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.07% 36.28% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,570 8,250 11,053
10th Percentile £308 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £415 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £732 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 172 273
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.19 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.86 £27.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +11.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.18 £58.00
90th Percentile £76.84 £68.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -5.38% +26.19% +7.69%

Cloud Run
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cloud Run job vacancy trend in the UK

Cloud Run
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cloud Run.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cloud Run

Cloud Run
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Run over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Run in the UK

Cloud Run
Top 5 Contract Job 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 19 December 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 +1 37 £763 - 21
London +18 36 £775 - 9
Work from Home - 9 £778 - 4
UK excluding London - 1 £600 - 16
South West - 1 £600 - 6

Cloud Run
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) GCP
2 23 (60.53%) GitHub
3 13 (34.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 12 (31.58%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (28.95%) Google Gemini
6 8 (21.05%) Cloud Functions
7 7 (18.42%) Azure
7 7 (18.42%) Vertex AI
8 5 (13.16%) Stackdriver
9 4 (10.53%) Firebase
9 4 (10.53%) IaaS
9 4 (10.53%) Serverless
10 3 (7.89%) Figma
11 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
12 1 (2.63%) Anthropic Claude
12 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
12 1 (2.63%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Firewall
2 1 (2.63%) BGP
2 1 (2.63%) DNS
2 1 (2.63%) DNSSEC
2 1 (2.63%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.63%) IPsec
2 1 (2.63%) SSL
2 1 (2.63%) VLAN
2 1 (2.63%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.63%) Data Hub
2 1 (2.63%) Metadata
2 1 (2.63%) Pinecone
2 1 (2.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (42.11%) Git
2 11 (28.95%) Jenkins
3 5 (13.16%) GitLab
4 3 (7.89%) Cypress.io
5 2 (5.26%) Gemini Tracker
5 2 (5.26%) JIRA
5 2 (5.26%) Snyk
5 2 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (2.63%) Ant
6 1 (2.63%) git-flow
6 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (31.58%) Pharmaceutical
2 11 (28.95%) Finance
3 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
4 6 (15.79%) Banking
5 5 (13.16%) Retail
6 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Senior
2 13 (34.21%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (26.32%) GCP Engineer
4 9 (23.68%) Software Engineer
5 8 (21.05%) Lead
6 7 (18.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 7 (18.42%) Developer
7 6 (15.79%) Java Developer
7 6 (15.79%) Lead Developer
7 6 (15.79%) Lead Java Developer
7 6 (15.79%) Senior Developer
8 5 (13.16%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 5 (13.16%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (10.53%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 4 (10.53%) GCP Developer
9 4 (10.53%) Gen AI Engineer
9 4 (10.53%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 3 (7.89%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (39.47%) FastAPI
2 14 (36.84%) React
3 11 (28.95%) LangGraph
3 11 (28.95%) pytest
3 11 (28.95%) Spring
3 11 (28.95%) Spring Boot
4 9 (23.68%) LangChain
5 8 (21.05%) RESTful
6 7 (18.42%) Node.js
7 5 (13.16%) AngularJS
7 5 (13.16%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (10.53%) Playwright
9 3 (7.89%) GraphQL
9 3 (7.89%) Next.js
9 3 (7.89%) OAuth
9 3 (7.89%) pydantic
9 3 (7.89%) REST
9 3 (7.89%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (7.89%) WebSockets
10 2 (5.26%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 21 (55.26%) Cloud Native
2 10 (26.32%) Genomics
2 10 (26.32%) Life Science
3 5 (13.16%) AI Agents
4 3 (7.89%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.26%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.63%) FMCG
6 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.63%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (78.95%) DevOps
2 28 (73.68%) AI
3 25 (65.79%) Containerisation
4 23 (60.53%) Agile
4 23 (60.53%) CI/CD
5 18 (47.37%) Machine Learning
6 16 (42.11%) Software Engineering
7 15 (39.47%) Test Automation
8 13 (34.21%) Microservices
9 12 (31.58%) Generative AI
10 11 (28.95%) Natural Language Processing
11 10 (26.32%) Clean Code
11 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (26.32%) Proteomics
11 10 (26.32%) Unit Testing
12 9 (23.68%) Transcriptomics
13 8 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (21.05%) Secure Coding
14 7 (18.42%) Front End Development
14 7 (18.42%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) Python
2 8 (21.05%) TypeScript
3 7 (18.42%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.79%) Java
5 1 (2.63%) Bicep
5 1 (2.63%) Korn
5 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.63%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) GDPR
1 4 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) EU AI Act
2 1 (2.63%) MiFID
2 1 (2.63%) NIST
2 1 (2.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (73.68%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) KVM
2 1 (2.63%) Squid
Systems Management
1 20 (52.63%) Kubernetes
2 18 (47.37%) Terraform
3 5 (13.16%) Argo
3 5 (13.16%) Istio
4 1 (2.63%) Ansible
4 1 (2.63%) Grafana
4 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (89.47%) Google
2 4 (10.53%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.63%) AlgoSec
3 1 (2.63%) Juniper
3 1 (2.63%) NetApp
3 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto