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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 705 661 887
Rank change year-on-year -44 +226 -12
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Functions 31 7 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.033% 0.016% 0.006%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.047% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 14 3 2
10th Percentile £54,125 £46,500 £41,625
25th Percentile £63,677 £48,750 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,479 £55,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +26.33% +18.92% -47.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £57,500 £52,188
90th Percentile £95,000 - £53,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,500 £55,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year +24.55% +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 25,087 14,945 35,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.89% 33.53% 33.02%
Number of salaries quoted 16,217 10,308 27,353
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -66 25 £68,750 +25.00% 27
Work from Home +19 18 £57,500 +27.78% 34
London -16 15 £68,750 - 5
UK excluding London -44 11 £68,500 +24.55% 32
North of England - 4 £57,500 - 9
North West - 4 £57,500 - 4
South West - 4 £100,000 -
Wales - 2 £68,500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £95,000 - 1

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 31 (100.00%) GCP
2 20 (64.52%) Cloud Run
3 18 (58.06%) AWS
4 9 (29.03%) GitHub
5 8 (25.81%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (25.81%) Google Compute Engine
6 6 (19.35%) Azure
6 6 (19.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (9.68%) Serverless
8 2 (6.45%) Apigee
8 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (6.45%) Azure Functions
8 2 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (3.23%) Algolia
9 1 (3.23%) Datadog
9 1 (3.23%) Firebase
9 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
9 1 (3.23%) Sentry
9 1 (3.23%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 12 (38.71%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (45.16%) NoSQL
2 12 (38.71%) MongoDB
3 11 (35.48%) BigQuery
4 2 (6.45%) Redis
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (3.23%) Looker
5 1 (3.23%) Metadata
5 1 (3.23%) Power BI
5 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (38.71%) CircleCI
1 12 (38.71%) Cypress.io
2 8 (25.81%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.90%) Git
4 2 (6.45%) GitLab
5 1 (3.23%) JIRA
5 1 (3.23%) Storybook
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Finance
3 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) GCP Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Senior
3 5 (16.13%) Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) GCP DevOps
4 4 (12.90%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Lead
6 2 (6.45%) Apigee Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Backend Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Product Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Programmer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (54.84%) Node.js
2 16 (51.61%) React
3 13 (41.94%) Playwright
4 12 (38.71%) Leaflet
5 5 (16.13%) AngularJS
6 4 (12.90%) Next.js
6 4 (12.90%) Vue
7 3 (9.68%) JWT
7 3 (9.68%) OAuth
8 2 (6.45%) NestJS
9 1 (3.23%) Beautiful Soup
9 1 (3.23%) CSS3
9 1 (3.23%) Express.js
9 1 (3.23%) HTML5
9 1 (3.23%) Jest
9 1 (3.23%) pytest
9 1 (3.23%) RESTful
9 1 (3.23%) RxJS
9 1 (3.23%) Sass
9 1 (3.23%) Scrapy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 19 (61.29%) Containerisation
3 17 (54.84%) Full-Stack Development
4 16 (51.61%) Agile
4 16 (51.61%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (48.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (41.94%) OOP
6 13 (41.94%) Scrum
7 12 (38.71%) Kanban
7 12 (38.71%) Unit Testing
8 11 (35.48%) DevOps
9 10 (32.26%) AI
10 8 (25.81%) Software Engineering
11 7 (22.58%) Machine Learning
12 6 (19.35%) Analytics
13 5 (16.13%) Decision-Making
14 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
14 4 (12.90%) Observability
14 4 (12.90%) Platform Engineering
14 4 (12.90%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) JavaScript
2 13 (41.94%) Python
3 6 (19.35%) Bash
4 5 (16.13%) TypeScript
5 3 (9.68%) Java
5 3 (9.68%) SQL
6 2 (6.45%) C#
6 2 (6.45%) Go
7 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.45%) Degree
1 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (61.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (45.16%) Terraform
2 12 (38.71%) Podman
3 10 (32.26%) Kubernetes
4 6 (19.35%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.45%) Grafana
5 2 (6.45%) Istio
5 2 (6.45%) linkerd
5 2 (6.45%) Progress Chef
5 2 (6.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (83.87%) Google
2 1 (3.23%) SendGrid