Cloud Functions Contracts with Work from Home Options

Google Cloud Functions
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Cloud Functions skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Functions over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 468 603
Rank change year-on-year +123 +135 -136
Contract jobs citing Cloud Functions 3 8 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.031% 0.043%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.055% 0.079% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 9
10th Percentile £523 £618 £610
25th Percentile £530 £669 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £700 £750
Median % change year-on-year -16.96% -6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £655 £714 £825
90th Percentile £674 £786 £855
UK median daily rate £500 £688 £750
% change year-on-year -27.27% -8.33% +36.36%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Cloud Functions is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,468 10,096 18,475
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.09% 39.53% 41.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,930 7,416 13,801
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 129 172
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.33
25th Percentile £16.82 £21.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +87.83% -27.22%
75th Percentile £46.88 £70.00 £62.24
90th Percentile £66.25 £75.20 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.72%

Cloud Functions
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Functions trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Functions
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Functions.

Cloud Functions daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Run
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Google App Engine
2 1 (33.33%) Google Compute Engine
2 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Looker
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) CircleCI
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Express.js
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) Vue
1 1 (33.33%) Vuetify.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) B2B
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Data Encryption
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Network Design
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) CASB
2 1 (33.33%) HP Fortify
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google