Serverless Contracts in Scotland

Serverless Computing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 37 56
Rank change year-on-year -16 +19 +6
Contract jobs citing Serverless 65 162 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.03% 6.06% 4.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.04% 16.48% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 138 127
10th Percentile £413 £413 £415
25th Percentile £430 £438 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.44% -8.76% +14.75%
75th Percentile £494 £508 £550
90th Percentile £509 £548 £588
UK median daily rate £517 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -6.00% -3.51% +8.57%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

Serverless falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 719 983 1,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.55% 36.79% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 729 843
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £369 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £627 £621 £661
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 17
10th Percentile £16.22 £17.72 £17.74
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +49.51% -40.66%
75th Percentile £21.64 £66.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £30.09 £76.00 £49.56
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in Scotland

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in Scotland

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in Scotland

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Edinburgh -2 43 £450 -6.05% 5
Glasgow -1 12 £502 +5.08% 4
Lanarkshire +1 2 £443 -7.81% 2
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (4.62%) GeoServer
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.54%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 62 (95.38%) AWS
2 56 (86.15%) Amazon S3
2 56 (86.15%) AWS Lambda
3 52 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 26 (40.00%) OpenShift
5 17 (26.15%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (21.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (21.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 8 (12.31%) AWS CodePipeline
8 7 (10.77%) Amazon SageMaker
9 6 (9.23%) Textract
10 5 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (6.15%) AWS CodeBuild
11 4 (6.15%) AWS CodeCommit
12 3 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (4.62%) Azure
13 2 (3.08%) CloudFront
13 2 (3.08%) PaaS
13 2 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) SSL
2 1 (1.54%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (69.23%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (46.15%) Amazon Aurora
3 18 (27.69%) MongoDB
4 15 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (21.54%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (15.38%) Oracle Database
7 8 (12.31%) Informix
8 7 (10.77%) InfluxDB
9 4 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (6.15%) GIS
10 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
11 2 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
12 1 (1.54%) Apache Hive
12 1 (1.54%) Hadoop
12 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (16.92%) GitLab
3 6 (9.23%) Artifactory
4 4 (6.15%) Git
5 2 (3.08%) webpack
6 1 (1.54%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.54%) JIRA
6 1 (1.54%) JUnit
General
1 38 (58.46%) Public Sector
2 9 (13.85%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.69%) Finance
4 4 (6.15%) Banking
5 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Legal
Job Titles
1 42 (64.62%) Developer
2 9 (13.85%) Automation Developer
3 8 (12.31%) Data Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) AWS Developer
4 7 (10.77%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Software Developer
5 6 (9.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Database Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Full Stack Developer
5 6 (9.23%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.15%) .NET Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Senior
8 3 (4.62%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 2 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (78.46%) AWS CDK
2 23 (35.38%) React
3 18 (27.69%) CSS
4 16 (24.62%) HTML
4 16 (24.62%) Node.js
5 11 (16.92%) REST
6 8 (12.31%) OAuth
6 8 (12.31%) Spring Boot
7 7 (10.77%) PostGIS
7 7 (10.77%) SpaCy
7 7 (10.77%) Spring
8 6 (9.23%) OAuth2
9 5 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (6.15%) .NET
10 4 (6.15%) .NET Core
10 4 (6.15%) PyTorch
10 4 (6.15%) Spring Security
11 3 (4.62%) RESTful
12 2 (3.08%) OpenID
12 2 (3.08%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.15%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (12.31%) Replication
3 6 (9.23%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.62%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.38%) Linux
1 10 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (10.77%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (64.62%) Agile
2 36 (55.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (41.54%) CI/CD
4 26 (40.00%) Scrum
5 24 (36.92%) Kanban
6 20 (30.77%) DevOps
7 17 (26.15%) Microservices
8 15 (23.08%) Code Quality
8 15 (23.08%) Machine Learning
9 14 (21.54%) Community of Practice
9 14 (21.54%) Test Automation
10 13 (20.00%) Human-Centred Design
10 13 (20.00%) Inclusive Design
10 13 (20.00%) User Experience
11 12 (18.46%) Code Coverage
11 12 (18.46%) Migration
11 12 (18.46%) Natural Language Processing
11 12 (18.46%) TDD
12 11 (16.92%) Mentoring
12 11 (16.92%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 45 (69.23%) TypeScript
2 34 (52.31%) Python
3 25 (38.46%) JavaScript
4 20 (30.77%) SQL
5 19 (29.23%) Java
6 17 (26.15%) Bash
7 9 (13.85%) Shell Script
8 6 (9.23%) Groovy
9 2 (3.08%) C#
9 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
1 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (30.77%) Accessibility
2 6 (9.23%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.54%) GDPR
3 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 14 (21.54%) Docker
2 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (49.23%) Grafana
2 16 (24.62%) Ansible
3 12 (18.46%) Kubernetes
4 8 (12.31%) Kibana
5 5 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (29.23%) Oracle
2 4 (6.15%) Commvault
2 4 (6.15%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.08%) Sage
4 1 (1.54%) Confluent
4 1 (1.54%) Google
4 1 (1.54%) IBM
4 1 (1.54%) Informatica
4 1 (1.54%) StreamSets