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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 660 777 749
Rank change year-on-year +117 -28 -25
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Functions 10 9 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.012% 0.037%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.064% 0.037% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 15
10th Percentile £50,250 £75,000 £64,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £86,250 £78,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £112,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +28.57% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £143,750 £91,875
90th Percentile - £158,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 - £90,500
% change year-on-year - - +34.57%

All Cloud 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 15,508 24,417 26,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.57% 31.48% 42.35%
Number of salaries quoted 10,437 15,778 21,824
10th Percentile £29,750 £34,500 £33,671
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,200 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Cloud Functions
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cloud Functions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Functions 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 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Functions in the UK

Cloud Functions
Top 7 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 15 September 2025. 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 +121 10 £67,500 -40.00% 13
London +83 5 £67,500 -56.45% 8
UK excluding London - 5 £55,000 - 8
Midlands - 4 £55,000 - 4
West Midlands - 4 £55,000 - 4
Work from Home +76 1 £45,000 -35.71% 9
East of England - 1 £45,000 -

Cloud Functions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) GCP
2 9 (90.00%) Google Compute Engine
3 5 (50.00%) Cloud Run
3 5 (50.00%) Datadog
3 5 (50.00%) GitHub
3 5 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (40.00%) AWS
4 4 (40.00%) Azure
4 4 (40.00%) Google App Engine
4 4 (40.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (10.00%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) BigQuery
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Spanner
2 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) GCP Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) GCP DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 4 (40.00%) Architect
3 4 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) GCP Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Express.js
1 4 (40.00%) Node.js
1 4 (40.00%) React
1 4 (40.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
1 9 (90.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 5 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (50.00%) IT Strategy
3 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
4 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Application Security
4 4 (40.00%) E-Commerce
5 1 (10.00%) Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
5 1 (10.00%) Data Management
5 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) ETL
5 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (10.00%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) Bash
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) GDPR
2 5 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Google