Cloud Functions Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Google Cloud Functions
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 299 342 467
Rank change year-on-year +43 +125 +141
Contract jobs citing Cloud Functions 5 3 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.020% 0.039%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.13% 0.054% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 10
10th Percentile - £523 £500
25th Percentile - £530 £645
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £581 £694
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -16.22% -7.50%
75th Percentile - £655 £711
90th Percentile - £674 £738
UK median daily rate £600 £500 £681
% change year-on-year +20.00% -26.61% -9.17%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Cloud Functions
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Functions trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cloud Functions
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (20.00%) dbt
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (60.00%) Tableau
3 2 (40.00%) Looker
4 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) JWT
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (60.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Business Forecasting
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Time Series Forecasting
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) R
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Okta