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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 692 745
Rank change year-on-year +83 +53 +221
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Functions 26 17 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.042% 0.032% 0.010%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.088% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 24 0 3
10th Percentile - - £51,000
25th Percentile £65,000 - £65,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,250 - £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.86%
75th Percentile £80,000 - £90,375
90th Percentile £95,000 - £90,600
UK excluding London median annual salary £95,000 - £66,500
% change year-on-year - - -8.28%

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 20,886 19,243 24,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.94% 36.33% 39.62%
Number of salaries quoted 11,380 11,285 20,536
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,864
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% +8.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 21 January 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 21 January 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 +65 20 £67,500 - 7
London +59 18 £67,500 - 3
UK excluding London +54 8 £95,000 - 7
Northern Ireland - 4 £95,000 -
Work from Home +54 2 £55,000 - 1
Wales - 2 £68,500 - 1
North of England +13 1 - - 2
North West - 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £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 26 (100.00%) GCP
2 17 (65.38%) GitHub
3 16 (61.54%) Google Compute Engine
4 15 (57.69%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (53.85%) Cloud Run
6 8 (30.77%) Datadog
6 8 (30.77%) Serverless
7 5 (19.23%) AWS
7 5 (19.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (19.23%) Azure
7 5 (19.23%) Azure Functions
8 2 (7.69%) Algolia
8 2 (7.69%) Firebase
8 2 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (7.69%) Sentry
8 2 (7.69%) Stripe
9 1 (3.85%) Apigee
9 1 (3.85%) Google App Engine
9 1 (3.85%) Google Data Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (76.92%) BigQuery
2 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Looker
Development Applications
1 15 (57.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) Storybook
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) 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 17 (65.38%) GCP Engineer
2 14 (53.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (53.85%) GCP DevOps
2 14 (53.85%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 10 (38.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Lead
5 3 (11.54%) Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior
6 2 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Apigee Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (3.85%) GCP Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Lead Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) Node.js
2 7 (26.92%) AngularJS
3 5 (19.23%) Next.js
3 5 (19.23%) React
3 5 (19.23%) Vue
4 3 (11.54%) JWT
4 3 (11.54%) OAuth
5 2 (7.69%) CSS
5 2 (7.69%) CSS3
5 2 (7.69%) Express.js
5 2 (7.69%) HTML
5 2 (7.69%) HTML5
5 2 (7.69%) Jest
5 2 (7.69%) RESTful
5 2 (7.69%) RxJS
5 2 (7.69%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (96.15%) CI/CD
2 24 (92.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (88.46%) DevOps
4 15 (57.69%) Software Engineering
5 12 (46.15%) AI
6 8 (30.77%) Cloud Security
6 8 (30.77%) Decision-Making
6 8 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (30.77%) IT Strategy
6 8 (30.77%) Technology Strategy
7 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
7 7 (26.92%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (26.92%) High Availability
8 6 (23.08%) Customer Experience
8 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (23.08%) Machine Learning
9 5 (19.23%) LLM
9 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
9 5 (19.23%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 5 (19.23%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (80.77%) Python
2 15 (57.69%) Bash
3 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
3 7 (26.92%) TypeScript
4 5 (19.23%) C#
4 5 (19.23%) Java
5 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) Ruby
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 8 (30.77%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (30.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 8 (30.77%) GDPR
2 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.69%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (88.46%) Terraform
2 17 (65.38%) Kubernetes
3 14 (53.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (80.77%) Google
2 4 (15.38%) SAP
3 2 (7.69%) SendGrid