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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 656 737 716
Rank change year-on-year +81 -21 +331
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Functions 10 18 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.027% 0.030%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.060% 0.083% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 11
10th Percentile £63,000 £75,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £86,250 £78,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £112,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +28.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £68,750 £143,750 £91,875
90th Percentile £83,000 £158,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 - £90,500
% change year-on-year - - +39.23%

All Cloud 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 16,588 21,809 23,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.56% 32.39% 42.92%
Number of salaries quoted 11,016 13,067 19,253
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £79,656 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%

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 9 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Functions in the UK

Cloud Functions
Top 5 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 9 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +80 10 £67,500 -40.00% 47
London +60 9 £67,500 -56.45% 23
UK excluding London +76 1 £45,000 - 33
Work from Home +60 1 £45,000 -35.71% 15
East of England - 1 £45,000 - 10

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) GCP
2 9 (90.00%) Google Compute Engine
3 8 (80.00%) Cloud Run
3 8 (80.00%) GitHub
3 8 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (70.00%) Datadog
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (10.00%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (10.00%) Google Workspace
5 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Looker
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Electronics
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (10.00%) Marketing
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) GCP Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) GCP DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 7 (70.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) GCP Architect
4 1 (10.00%) GCP Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) IoT
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (90.00%) DevOps
3 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (70.00%) Cloud Security
4 7 (70.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (70.00%) IT Strategy
4 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
4 7 (70.00%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) High Availability
5 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 1 (10.00%) Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
6 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
6 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
6 1 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
6 1 (10.00%) Data Lineage
6 1 (10.00%) Feature Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (90.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) GDPR
2 7 (70.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (70.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
2 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (80.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) SAP