Cloud Functions Job Trends

Google Cloud Functions
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Cloud Functions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 671 632 863
Rank change year-on-year -39 +231 +82
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Functions 31 9 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.037% 0.022% 0.006%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.060% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 20 2 2
10th Percentile £62,413 - £41,625
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,500 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +18.92% -47.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £57,500 £52,188
90th Percentile £95,500 - £53,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £95,000 £55,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year +72.73% +18.92% -48.61%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

Cloud Functions falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 26,443 15,012 33,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.64% 36.59% 36.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13,976 11,072 26,647
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% -9.09%

Cloud Functions
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cloud Functions job vacancy trend in the UK

Cloud Functions
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cloud Functions.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cloud Functions

Cloud Functions
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Functions over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Functions in the UK

Cloud Functions
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Functions within the UK over the 6 months to 11 April 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -58 24 £70,000 +27.27% 1
London +5 18 £70,000 - 1
Work from Home +17 11 £55,000 -
UK excluding London -67 11 £95,000 +72.73%
Northern Ireland - 4 £95,000 -
South West - 3 £100,000 -
Wales - 2 £68,500 -
North West - 2 £90,000 -
North of England - 2 £90,000 -

Cloud Functions
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:

Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) GCP
2 17 (54.84%) Cloud Run
3 14 (45.16%) AWS
3 14 (45.16%) GitHub
4 12 (38.71%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (35.48%) Google Compute Engine
6 8 (25.81%) Serverless
7 6 (19.35%) Azure
8 5 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (16.13%) Azure Functions
9 3 (9.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (6.45%) Algolia
10 2 (6.45%) Apigee
10 2 (6.45%) Datadog
10 2 (6.45%) Firebase
10 2 (6.45%) Sentry
10 2 (6.45%) Stripe
11 1 (3.23%) Google App Engine
11 1 (3.23%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (51.61%) BigQuery
2 10 (32.26%) NoSQL
3 8 (25.81%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.23%) Looker
4 1 (3.23%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Jenkins
2 8 (25.81%) CircleCI
2 8 (25.81%) Cypress.io
3 2 (6.45%) Git
3 2 (6.45%) Storybook
General
1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 9 (29.03%) Finance
3 4 (12.90%) Electronics
3 4 (12.90%) Manufacturing
3 4 (12.90%) Marketing
3 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.90%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) GCP Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) GCP DevOps
2 9 (29.03%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Lead
5 4 (12.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Senior
6 3 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Apigee Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Backend Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Data Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (51.61%) Node.js
2 13 (41.94%) React
3 8 (25.81%) Leaflet
3 8 (25.81%) Playwright
4 7 (22.58%) AngularJS
5 5 (16.13%) Next.js
5 5 (16.13%) Vue
6 4 (12.90%) JWT
6 4 (12.90%) OAuth
7 2 (6.45%) CSS
7 2 (6.45%) CSS3
7 2 (6.45%) Express.js
7 2 (6.45%) HTML
7 2 (6.45%) HTML5
7 2 (6.45%) Jest
7 2 (6.45%) RESTful
7 2 (6.45%) RxJS
7 2 (6.45%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (96.77%) CI/CD
2 21 (67.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (61.29%) DevOps
4 17 (54.84%) Containerisation
5 15 (48.39%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (41.94%) AI
6 13 (41.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (38.71%) Agile
8 11 (35.48%) Software Engineering
9 10 (32.26%) Scrum
10 9 (29.03%) Decision-Making
11 8 (25.81%) High Availability
11 8 (25.81%) Kanban
11 8 (25.81%) OOP
11 8 (25.81%) Unit Testing
12 7 (22.58%) Customer Experience
12 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 7 (22.58%) Machine Learning
13 6 (19.35%) Mentoring
14 5 (16.13%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Python
2 15 (48.39%) JavaScript
3 10 (32.26%) Bash
4 7 (22.58%) TypeScript
5 5 (16.13%) C#
5 5 (16.13%) Java
6 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.23%) Ruby
7 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (6.45%) GDPR
1 2 (6.45%) QA
1 2 (6.45%) WCAG
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (54.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (61.29%) Terraform
2 13 (41.94%) Kubernetes
3 9 (29.03%) Prometheus
4 8 (25.81%) Podman
5 1 (3.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 26 (83.87%) Google
2 4 (12.90%) SAP
3 2 (6.45%) SendGrid