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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 730 674 870
Rank change year-on-year -56 +196 -47
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Functions 32 6 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.012% 0.009%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.038% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 16 4 4
10th Percentile £58,493 £47,250 £42,375
25th Percentile £72,500 £50,625 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -8.33% -31.43%
75th Percentile £89,375 £60,313 £96,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £65,375 £139,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £87,500 £55,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year +59.09% +18.92% -

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 26,973 15,896 32,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.26% 32.36% 33.08%
Number of salaries quoted 17,609 11,064 24,581
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 17 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Functions in the UK

Cloud Functions
Top 7 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 17 July 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 -61 24 £85,000 +54.55% 19
Work from Home -1 20 £76,979 +71.06% 21
London -11 13 £82,500 +22.22% 4
UK excluding London -66 9 £87,500 +59.09% 20
North of England - 5 £85,000 - 7
North West - 5 £85,000 - 5
South West - 4 £100,000 - 2

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 32 (100.00%) GCP
2 24 (75.00%) Cloud Run
3 18 (56.25%) AWS
4 6 (18.75%) Azure
4 6 (18.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (15.63%) Google Compute Engine
6 4 (12.50%) GitHub
6 4 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (9.38%) Firebase
8 2 (6.25%) Serverless
8 2 (6.25%) Vercel
8 2 (6.25%) Vertex AI
8 2 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
9 1 (3.13%) Apigee
9 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
9 1 (3.13%) CloudFront
9 1 (3.13%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 12 (37.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (40.63%) NoSQL
2 12 (37.50%) MongoDB
3 7 (21.88%) Redis
4 5 (15.63%) BigQuery
5 2 (6.25%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.13%) Looker
6 1 (3.13%) Metadata
6 1 (3.13%) Power BI
6 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (37.50%) CircleCI
1 12 (37.50%) Cypress.io
2 4 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.38%) Git
4 2 (6.25%) GitLab
5 1 (3.13%) Crashlytics
5 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.13%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Games
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) Senior
3 7 (21.88%) Product Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Developer
4 5 (15.63%) Software Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Lead
6 3 (9.38%) Backend Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) GCP Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Programmer
8 1 (3.13%) GCP Developer
8 1 (3.13%) GCP DevOps
8 1 (3.13%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (68.75%) React
2 21 (65.63%) Node.js
3 13 (40.63%) Playwright
4 12 (37.50%) Leaflet
5 10 (31.25%) Next.js
6 8 (25.00%) AngularJS
6 8 (25.00%) Vue
7 7 (21.88%) NestJS
8 2 (6.25%) Prisma
8 2 (6.25%) React Native
9 1 (3.13%) Beautiful Soup
9 1 (3.13%) JWT
9 1 (3.13%) OAuth
9 1 (3.13%) pytest
9 1 (3.13%) Scrapy
9 1 (3.13%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Mobile App
2 6 (18.75%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (93.75%) CI/CD
2 22 (68.75%) Full-Stack Development
3 17 (53.13%) Containerisation
4 16 (50.00%) Agile
5 13 (40.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (40.63%) OOP
6 12 (37.50%) Kanban
6 12 (37.50%) Scrum
6 12 (37.50%) Unit Testing
7 10 (31.25%) Analytics
8 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (25.00%) AI
10 7 (21.88%) B2B
10 7 (21.88%) B2C
10 7 (21.88%) Data Modelling
10 7 (21.88%) Event-Driven
10 7 (21.88%) Mentoring
10 7 (21.88%) Product Strategy
10 7 (21.88%) Software Engineering
10 7 (21.88%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) JavaScript
2 11 (34.38%) TypeScript
3 10 (31.25%) Python
4 6 (18.75%) SQL
5 3 (9.38%) Bash
5 3 (9.38%) Java
6 2 (6.25%) C#
6 2 (6.25%) Go
7 1 (3.13%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (53.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Podman
2 9 (28.13%) Terraform
3 7 (21.88%) Kubernetes
4 3 (9.38%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.25%) Grafana
5 2 (6.25%) Istio
5 2 (6.25%) linkerd
5 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
5 2 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (65.63%) Google