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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 648 740 722
Rank change year-on-year +92 -18 +202
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Functions 8 15 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.016% 0.021% 0.034%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.052% 0.065% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 13
10th Percentile £59,875 £75,000 £61,600
25th Percentile £66,250 £86,250 £78,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £112,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +28.57% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £143,750 £91,250
90th Percentile - £158,000 £93,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 - £90,500
% change year-on-year - - +34.57%

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 15,506 22,927 23,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.52% 32.31% 42.63%
Number of salaries quoted 10,436 13,957 20,001
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,354
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,875 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +106 8 £67,500 -40.00% 9
London +65 7 £67,500 -56.45% 6
UK excluding London +96 1 £45,000 - 3
Work from Home +46 1 £45,000 -35.71% 3
East of England - 1 £45,000 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) GCP
2 7 (87.50%) Cloud Run
2 7 (87.50%) Datadog
2 7 (87.50%) GitHub
2 7 (87.50%) GitHub Actions
2 7 (87.50%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (12.50%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) GCP DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) GCP Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) IoT
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) Cloud Security
2 7 (87.50%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (87.50%) IT Strategy
2 7 (87.50%) Software Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
3 1 (12.50%) Data Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) Feature Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (87.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) GDPR
2 7 (87.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (87.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (87.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Google