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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 330 404
Rank change year-on-year +34 +74 +217
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cloud Functions 10 2 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.015% 0.057%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.041% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile £445 £523 £592
25th Percentile £513 £530 £664
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £581 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% -16.96% -11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £655 £706
90th Percentile £623 £674 £778
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -22.22%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,070 4,868 8,303
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 41.41% 37.72% 39.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,810 3,407 6,134
10th Percentile £340 £338 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 44 138
10th Percentile £16.89 £14.34 £18.85
25th Percentile £24.83 £18.03 £22.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -22.22% +28.57%
75th Percentile £67.00 £56.40 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £75.00 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £27.86 £35.25
% change year-on-year +0.50% -20.96% +67.46%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Cloud Functions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Cloud Functions

Cloud Functions
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cloud Functions over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Cloud Functions daily rate histogram 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 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) GCP
2 5 (50.00%) Cloud Run
3 3 (30.00%) Serverless
4 2 (20.00%) AWS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (10.00%) Azure
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (10.00%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (10.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (20.00%) Big Data
2 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) JMeter
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Senior
3 4 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (40.00%) Lead
3 4 (40.00%) Lead Developer
3 4 (40.00%) Lead Java Developer
3 4 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 4 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (20.00%) GCP Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
5 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (10.00%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) RESTful
2 4 (40.00%) Spring
2 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (20.00%) JSON
3 2 (20.00%) JWT
3 2 (20.00%) Node.js
3 2 (20.00%) React
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Beam
4 1 (10.00%) Fluent Bit
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (10.00%) Playwright
4 1 (10.00%) PySpark
4 1 (10.00%) pytest
4 1 (10.00%) Redux
4 1 (10.00%) Regular Expression
4 1 (10.00%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (50.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Scrum
3 4 (40.00%) Secure Coding
3 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) API Design
5 2 (20.00%) API Development
5 2 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) QA
1 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Demisto
3 1 (10.00%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Intel
2 1 (10.00%) Kony
2 1 (10.00%) Okta
2 1 (10.00%) OneLogin