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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 729 670 890
Rank change year-on-year -59 +220 -35
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Functions 33 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.034% 0.010% 0.007%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.13% 0.032% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 16 3 2
10th Percentile £58,493 £46,500 £41,625
25th Percentile £70,938 £48,750 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +18.92% -47.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £57,500 £52,188
90th Percentile £98,750 - £53,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £55,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year +63.64% +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 26,375 15,565 34,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.28% 32.68% 33.11%
Number of salaries quoted 17,191 10,859 26,654
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £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% -8.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 4 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Functions in the UK

Cloud Functions
Top 8 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 4 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 -24 25 £85,000 +54.55% 11
Work from Home +14 20 £76,979 +71.06% 7
London - 13 £76,250 - 6
UK excluding London -62 11 £90,000 +63.64% 5
North of England - 6 £85,000 - 3
North West - 6 £85,000 - 3
South West - 4 £100,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £95,000 -

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 33 (100.00%) GCP
2 23 (69.70%) Cloud Run
3 18 (54.55%) AWS
4 7 (21.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (18.18%) Azure
5 6 (18.18%) GitHub
5 6 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (18.18%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (6.06%) Apigee
6 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Functions
6 2 (6.06%) Firebase
6 2 (6.06%) Serverless
6 2 (6.06%) Vercel
6 2 (6.06%) Vertex AI
6 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.03%) Datadog
7 1 (3.03%) Dataform
7 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (36.36%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (39.39%) NoSQL
2 12 (36.36%) MongoDB
3 7 (21.21%) BigQuery
4 6 (18.18%) Redis
5 2 (6.06%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.03%) Looker
6 1 (3.03%) Metadata
6 1 (3.03%) Power BI
6 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (36.36%) CircleCI
1 12 (36.36%) Cypress.io
2 6 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.09%) Git
4 2 (6.06%) GitLab
5 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.03%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Senior
3 6 (18.18%) GCP Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Product Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Lead
4 5 (15.15%) Software Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Apigee Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Backend Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) GCP Architect
6 2 (6.06%) GCP DevOps
6 2 (6.06%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (66.67%) React
2 20 (60.61%) Node.js
3 13 (39.39%) Playwright
4 12 (36.36%) Leaflet
5 10 (30.30%) Next.js
6 8 (24.24%) AngularJS
6 8 (24.24%) Vue
7 6 (18.18%) NestJS
8 2 (6.06%) JWT
8 2 (6.06%) OAuth
8 2 (6.06%) Prisma
8 2 (6.06%) React Native
9 1 (3.03%) Beautiful Soup
9 1 (3.03%) pytest
9 1 (3.03%) Scrapy
9 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Mobile App
2 6 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (93.94%) CI/CD
2 22 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 17 (51.52%) Containerisation
4 16 (48.48%) Agile
5 13 (39.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (39.39%) OOP
6 12 (36.36%) Kanban
6 12 (36.36%) Scrum
6 12 (36.36%) Unit Testing
7 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (27.27%) AI
8 9 (27.27%) Analytics
8 9 (27.27%) DevOps
8 9 (27.27%) Software Engineering
9 7 (21.21%) Mentoring
10 6 (18.18%) API Design
10 6 (18.18%) Event-Driven
10 6 (18.18%) Machine Learning
10 6 (18.18%) Product Strategy
10 6 (18.18%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) JavaScript
2 12 (36.36%) Python
3 10 (30.30%) TypeScript
4 6 (18.18%) SQL
5 4 (12.12%) Bash
5 4 (12.12%) Java
6 2 (6.06%) C#
6 2 (6.06%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.03%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (51.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (36.36%) Podman
2 11 (33.33%) Terraform
3 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
4 4 (12.12%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.06%) Grafana
5 2 (6.06%) Istio
5 2 (6.06%) linkerd
5 2 (6.06%) Progress Chef
5 2 (6.06%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (66.67%) Google