Cloud Functions Contracts

Google Cloud Functions
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cloud Functions skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Functions over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 701 829
Rank change year-on-year +113 +128 -166
Contract jobs citing Cloud Functions 12 15 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.025% 0.038%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.086% 0.069% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 23
10th Percentile £431 £360 £525
25th Percentile £463 £488 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £688 £750
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -8.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £542 £706 £825
90th Percentile £622 £734 £845
UK excluding London median daily rate - £350 £550
% change year-on-year - -36.36% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Cloud Functions is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,936 21,745 34,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.81% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,908 15,710 24,937
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 351 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.25 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.72%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Functions.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Functions in the UK

Cloud Functions
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Functions over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Functions in the UK

Cloud Functions
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Functions within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +116 11 £500 -27.27% 8
London +115 9 £475 -30.28% 5
Work from Home +123 3 £581 -16.96% 4

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 7 (58.33%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) GCP
2 10 (83.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 8 (66.67%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Run
4 1 (8.33%) dbt
4 1 (8.33%) Google App Engine
4 1 (8.33%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) BigQuery
2 7 (58.33%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (58.33%) RDBMS
2 7 (58.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) Looker
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Architect
2 6 (50.00%) GCP Architect
2 6 (50.00%) Java Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Java Technical Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Architect
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) GCP Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) OAuth
1 7 (58.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) EDI
2 1 (8.33%) Express.js
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) PySpark
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) Vue
2 1 (8.33%) Vuetify.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Data Modelling
1 7 (58.33%) Microservices
1 7 (58.33%) Workflow
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 2 (16.67%) DataOps
4 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) B2B
5 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
5 1 (8.33%) ETL
5 1 (8.33%) Migration
5 1 (8.33%) MVC
5 1 (8.33%) Network Design
5 1 (8.33%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Go
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Kubernetes
1 10 (83.33%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) CASB
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Google
2 7 (58.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Dataiku
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk