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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 656 645 815
Rank change year-on-year -11 +170 +156
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Functions 26 11 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.025% 0.010%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.067% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 22 0 3
10th Percentile £63,413 - £42,000
25th Percentile £65,000 - £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -42.86%
75th Percentile £95,000 - £72,875
90th Percentile - - £83,600
UK excluding London median annual salary £95,000 - £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -44.44%

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 23,841 16,317 31,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.42% 37.34% 37.75%
Number of salaries quoted 12,803 11,017 25,658
10th Percentile £29,212 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £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 £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -9 19 £70,000 - 9
London +33 16 £70,000 - 7
UK excluding London -20 9 £95,000 - 6
Work from Home +11 4 £55,000 - 5
Northern Ireland - 4 £95,000 -
North of England -37 2 £90,000 - 2
Wales - 2 £68,500 -
North West - 2 £90,000 - 2
South West - 1 £100,000 -

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 26 (100.00%) GCP
2 16 (61.54%) GitHub
3 14 (53.85%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (50.00%) Google Compute Engine
5 12 (46.15%) Cloud Run
6 8 (30.77%) Serverless
7 7 (26.92%) AWS
8 6 (23.08%) Azure
9 5 (19.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (19.23%) Azure Functions
10 4 (15.38%) Datadog
11 3 (11.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (7.69%) Algolia
12 2 (7.69%) Apigee
12 2 (7.69%) Firebase
12 2 (7.69%) Sentry
12 2 (7.69%) Stripe
13 1 (3.85%) Google App Engine
13 1 (3.85%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (69.23%) BigQuery
2 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Looker
3 1 (3.85%) Metadata
3 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) Storybook
3 1 (3.85%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
General
1 9 (34.62%) Finance
2 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Electronics
3 4 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 4 (15.38%) Marketing
3 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (57.69%) GCP Engineer
2 11 (42.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (42.31%) GCP DevOps
2 11 (42.31%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Lead
5 4 (15.38%) Senior
6 3 (11.54%) Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Apigee Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) GCP Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Lead Data Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) Node.js
2 7 (26.92%) AngularJS
3 6 (23.08%) React
4 5 (19.23%) Next.js
4 5 (19.23%) Vue
5 4 (15.38%) JWT
5 4 (15.38%) OAuth
6 2 (7.69%) CSS
6 2 (7.69%) CSS3
6 2 (7.69%) Express.js
6 2 (7.69%) HTML
6 2 (7.69%) HTML5
6 2 (7.69%) Jest
6 2 (7.69%) RESTful
6 2 (7.69%) RxJS
6 2 (7.69%) Sass
7 1 (3.85%) Leaflet
7 1 (3.85%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (96.15%) CI/CD
2 23 (88.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (80.77%) DevOps
4 13 (50.00%) AI
5 11 (42.31%) Software Engineering
6 10 (38.46%) Containerisation
7 9 (34.62%) Decision-Making
8 8 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (30.77%) High Availability
9 7 (26.92%) Customer Experience
9 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (26.92%) Machine Learning
10 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
11 5 (19.23%) Agile
11 5 (19.23%) LLM
11 5 (19.23%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 5 (19.23%) Software Delivery
11 5 (19.23%) User Experience
12 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 20 (76.92%) Python
2 12 (46.15%) Bash
3 8 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 7 (26.92%) TypeScript
5 5 (19.23%) C#
5 5 (19.23%) Java
6 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.85%) Ruby
7 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 4 (15.38%) GDPR
2 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.69%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) WCAG
3 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (46.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (80.77%) Terraform
2 15 (57.69%) Kubernetes
3 11 (42.31%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.85%) Ansible
4 1 (3.85%) Podman
Vendors
1 21 (80.77%) Google
2 4 (15.38%) SAP
3 2 (7.69%) SendGrid