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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 698 643 864
Rank change year-on-year -55 +221 +29
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Functions 32 7 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.034% 0.016% 0.006%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.049% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 17 3 2
10th Percentile £55,000 £46,500 £41,625
25th Percentile £65,000 £48,750 £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 £77,500 £57,500 £52,188
90th Percentile £95,000 - £53,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £55,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year +63.64% +18.92% -51.32%

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 27,048 14,241 34,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.14% 33.46% 34.96%
Number of salaries quoted 15,424 9,798 26,792
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,738 £77,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -53 25 £70,000 +27.27% 6
Work from Home +18 16 £56,250 +25.00% 4
London -7 16 £70,000 - 2
UK excluding London -43 11 £90,000 +63.64% 4
South West - 4 £100,000 -
North West - 3 £73,750 - 4
North of England - 3 £73,750 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £95,000 -
Wales - 2 £68,500 -

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 20 (62.50%) Cloud Run
3 17 (53.13%) AWS
4 11 (34.38%) GitHub
5 9 (28.13%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (25.00%) Google Compute Engine
7 5 (15.63%) Azure
7 5 (15.63%) Serverless
8 4 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (9.38%) Azure Functions
10 2 (6.25%) Algolia
10 2 (6.25%) Apigee
10 2 (6.25%) Firebase
10 2 (6.25%) Sentry
10 2 (6.25%) Stripe
11 1 (3.13%) Datadog
11 1 (3.13%) Google App Engine
11 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (37.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (43.75%) NoSQL
2 12 (37.50%) BigQuery
2 12 (37.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.25%) Redis
4 1 (3.13%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (37.50%) CircleCI
1 12 (37.50%) Cypress.io
2 9 (28.13%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.38%) Git
4 2 (6.25%) Storybook
5 1 (3.13%) GitLab
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Electronics
3 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.25%) Marketing
3 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) GCP Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Developer
2 6 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) GCP DevOps
2 6 (18.75%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Senior
3 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Lead
3 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Apigee Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Backend Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Product Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Programmer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (59.38%) Node.js
2 17 (53.13%) React
3 12 (37.50%) Leaflet
3 12 (37.50%) Playwright
4 7 (21.88%) AngularJS
5 5 (15.63%) Next.js
5 5 (15.63%) Vue
6 4 (12.50%) JWT
6 4 (12.50%) OAuth
7 2 (6.25%) CSS
7 2 (6.25%) CSS3
7 2 (6.25%) Express.js
7 2 (6.25%) HTML
7 2 (6.25%) HTML5
7 2 (6.25%) Jest
7 2 (6.25%) NestJS
7 2 (6.25%) RESTful
7 2 (6.25%) RxJS
7 2 (6.25%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 20 (62.50%) Containerisation
3 19 (59.38%) Full-Stack Development
4 17 (53.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (46.88%) Agile
7 14 (43.75%) Scrum
8 13 (40.63%) DevOps
9 12 (37.50%) Kanban
9 12 (37.50%) OOP
9 12 (37.50%) Unit Testing
10 10 (31.25%) AI
10 10 (31.25%) Software Engineering
11 7 (21.88%) Decision-Making
12 6 (18.75%) Analytics
12 6 (18.75%) Machine Learning
13 5 (15.63%) Customer Experience
13 5 (15.63%) High Availability
13 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 4 (12.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) JavaScript
2 13 (40.63%) Python
3 7 (21.88%) Bash
3 7 (21.88%) TypeScript
4 3 (9.38%) C#
4 3 (9.38%) Java
5 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.13%) Go
6 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.25%) QA
1 2 (6.25%) WCAG
2 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (59.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (43.75%) Terraform
2 12 (37.50%) Podman
3 10 (31.25%) Kubernetes
4 7 (21.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.13%) Grafana
5 1 (3.13%) Istio
5 1 (3.13%) linkerd
5 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (84.38%) Google
2 2 (6.25%) SAP
2 2 (6.25%) SendGrid