Serverless Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Serverless Computing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 61 48
Rank change year-on-year -23 -13 -2
Contract jobs citing Serverless 57 57 68
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.40% 3.54% 3.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.70% 9.66% 11.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 49 52
10th Percentile £400 £410 £416
25th Percentile £408 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £503 £476
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +5.57% +0.21%
75th Percentile £516 £538 £513
90th Percentile £566 £575 £537
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -2.78%

All Cloud Computing 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 851 590 596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 35.86% 36.60% 31.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 373 382
10th Percentile £288 £354 £201
25th Percentile £400 £425 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £538
90th Percentile £644 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 8
10th Percentile £13.97 £19.58 £16.69
25th Percentile £15.35 £26.32 £18.42
Median hourly rate £15.81 £37.55 £21.14
Median % change year-on-year -57.89% +77.58% +19.31%
75th Percentile £18.75 £48.77 £24.18
90th Percentile - £55.51 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.48 £33.54
% change year-on-year +13.31% -21.06% -4.17%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Serverless job vacancy trend in Scotland

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Serverless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Serverless

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

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 26 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -11 36 £450 -10.45% 20
Glasgow -17 19 £439 -8.65% 13
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 - -
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (21.05%) Apache
2 10 (17.54%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (8.77%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.51%) Confluence
4 2 (3.51%) JBoss
5 1 (1.75%) nginx
5 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 55 (96.49%) AWS
2 47 (82.46%) AWS Lambda
3 34 (59.65%) Amazon S3
4 20 (35.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (24.56%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (22.81%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (19.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (19.30%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (12.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (10.53%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (8.77%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (8.77%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (8.77%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (7.02%) Akamai
11 4 (7.02%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (7.02%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (7.02%) AWS Direct Connect
11 4 (7.02%) Cloudflare
11 4 (7.02%) Kong
12 3 (5.26%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.53%) HTTP
2 5 (8.77%) DNS
3 4 (7.02%) Firewall
4 2 (3.51%) CTI
4 2 (3.51%) SSL
5 1 (1.75%) PSTN
5 1 (1.75%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.04%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (12.28%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (10.53%) DynamoDB
4 5 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (7.02%) Data Lake
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (5.26%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (3.51%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.75%) Flink
8 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.75%) Power BI
8 1 (1.75%) Power Query
8 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Cypress.io
2 6 (10.53%) GitLab
3 4 (7.02%) Bitbucket
3 4 (7.02%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.26%) Git
5 2 (3.51%) JIRA
5 2 (3.51%) MLflow
5 2 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.75%) git-flow
6 1 (1.75%) Maven
6 1 (1.75%) Mockito
6 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (19.30%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.54%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.77%) Finance
4 4 (7.02%) Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Legal
5 1 (1.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (38.60%) Developer
2 12 (21.05%) Architect
3 7 (12.28%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (12.28%) Data Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) AWS Developer
4 6 (10.53%) Cloud Developer
4 6 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Python Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.26%) AWS Architect
6 3 (5.26%) AWS Data Architect
6 3 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.05%) AWS CDK
2 11 (19.30%) REST
3 8 (14.04%) OAuth
4 7 (12.28%) Kafka
4 7 (12.28%) PySpark
5 6 (10.53%) FastAPI
5 6 (10.53%) JWT
5 6 (10.53%) OpenCV
5 6 (10.53%) Pandas
5 6 (10.53%) PyTorch
5 6 (10.53%) React
6 5 (8.77%) Hugging Face
6 5 (8.77%) OAuth2
6 5 (8.77%) SAML
6 5 (8.77%) Spring
6 5 (8.77%) Spring Boot
6 5 (8.77%) Terraform
7 4 (7.02%) OpenID
7 4 (7.02%) RESTful
7 4 (7.02%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (42.11%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.53%) Algorithms
2 6 (10.53%) Data Structures
3 5 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (8.77%) IVR
4 3 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.51%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.75%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Linux
2 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.75%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.11%) Agile
2 23 (40.35%) CI/CD
3 17 (29.82%) Microservices
4 15 (26.32%) AI
5 14 (24.56%) Event-Driven
5 14 (24.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (22.81%) DevOps
6 13 (22.81%) Machine Learning
6 13 (22.81%) Migration
6 13 (22.81%) TDD
7 12 (21.05%) ETL
8 11 (19.30%) Analytics
8 11 (19.30%) Pair Programming
9 10 (17.54%) Scrum
10 9 (15.79%) Kanban
11 8 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (12.28%) API Development
12 7 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (12.28%) OCR
12 7 (12.28%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.84%) Python
2 13 (22.81%) TypeScript
3 11 (19.30%) SQL
4 9 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 7 (12.28%) Java
6 2 (3.51%) Bash
6 2 (3.51%) Go
7 1 (1.75%) C#
7 1 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (8.77%) Degree
1 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) Data Quality
1 5 (8.77%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.51%) QA
4 1 (1.75%) GDPR
4 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (22.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.02%) Argo
2 4 (7.02%) Grafana
3 1 (1.75%) Ansible
3 1 (1.75%) linkerd
3 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (8.77%) Salesforce
2 4 (7.02%) Dynatrace
2 4 (7.02%) ForgeRock
2 4 (7.02%) Splunk
3 3 (5.26%) Databricks
4 2 (3.51%) EnterpriseDB
4 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.75%) webMethods