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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 41 66
Rank change year-on-year -10 +25 +5
Contract jobs citing Serverless 60 83 83
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.94% 5.10% 3.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.85% 13.45% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 70 76
10th Percentile £358 £409 £406
25th Percentile £401 £450 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.11% -3.04%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £509
90th Percentile £540 £563 £540
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +192.31% - -

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 609 617 756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.01% 37.95% 31.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 408 511
10th Percentile £313 £254 £325
25th Percentile £410 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £525 £585
90th Percentile £675 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 5
10th Percentile £12.23 £21.84 -
25th Percentile £22.40 £22.50 £15.42
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.09 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +128.31% +35.95% -
75th Percentile £63.00 £25.07 £21.64
90th Percentile £64.00 £27.94 £40.91
UK median hourly rate £35.61 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.47% +22.22% -6.25%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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
Glasgow +25 39 £402 -6.40% 3
Edinburgh -23 21 £525 +5.63% 6
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 8 (13.33%) Apache
1 8 (13.33%) Apache Spark
2 7 (11.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.67%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.67%) JBoss
3 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (96.67%) AWS
2 46 (76.67%) AWS Lambda
3 33 (55.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 29 (48.33%) Amazon S3
5 22 (36.67%) Amazon ECS
6 18 (30.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 17 (28.33%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (18.33%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (18.33%) Azure
11 9 (15.00%) Snowflake
12 8 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (11.67%) Amazon MSK
13 7 (11.67%) Amazon SageMaker
13 7 (11.67%) OpenShift
14 6 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
15 3 (5.00%) Dagster
15 3 (5.00%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.33%) Firewall
2 5 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (21.67%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (11.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (10.00%) DynamoDB
7 5 (8.33%) Delta Lake
8 3 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
9 2 (3.33%) Power BI
10 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (23.33%) GitLab
2 13 (21.67%) Jenkins
3 12 (20.00%) MLflow
4 11 (18.33%) Git
5 9 (15.00%) JIRA
5 9 (15.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (13.33%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.33%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.67%) git-flow
8 1 (1.67%) Liquibase
General
1 19 (31.67%) Finance
2 14 (23.33%) Public Sector
3 11 (18.33%) Banking
4 4 (6.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Architect
2 9 (15.00%) Senior
3 8 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Data Architect
3 8 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Python Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) AWS Architect
5 6 (10.00%) Developer
6 5 (8.33%) Data Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Snowflake Architect
7 4 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) AWS Data Architect
8 3 (5.00%) AWS Solution Architect
8 3 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Database Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.33%) Lead
9 2 (3.33%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (30.00%) Node.js
2 16 (26.67%) AWS CDK
3 15 (25.00%) PyTorch
4 12 (20.00%) Pandas
5 11 (18.33%) FastAPI
5 11 (18.33%) NumPy
5 11 (18.33%) SQLAlchemy
6 10 (16.67%) OpenCV
6 10 (16.67%) REST
7 9 (15.00%) Hugging Face
8 7 (11.67%) boto
8 7 (11.67%) JWT
8 7 (11.67%) OAuth
8 7 (11.67%) PySpark
9 5 (8.33%) React
10 3 (5.00%) JSON
10 3 (5.00%) scikit-learn
10 3 (5.00%) SpaCy
10 3 (5.00%) TensorFlow
11 2 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.33%) Cloud Native
2 10 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (15.00%) Algorithms
4 7 (11.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (10.00%) IVR
5 6 (10.00%) NHS
6 5 (8.33%) Data Structures
7 4 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (3.33%) Low-Code
9 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
10 1 (1.67%) Derivative
10 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (61.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 34 (56.67%) CI/CD
3 29 (48.33%) AI
3 29 (48.33%) Machine Learning
4 26 (43.33%) DevOps
5 25 (41.67%) Migration
6 21 (35.00%) Agile
7 20 (33.33%) Containerisation
8 14 (23.33%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (23.33%) Microservices
9 13 (21.67%) High Availability
9 13 (21.67%) TDD
10 12 (20.00%) LLM
10 12 (20.00%) OCR
10 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (18.33%) Data Engineering
11 11 (18.33%) Scrum
12 10 (16.67%) Data Governance
12 10 (16.67%) Kanban
12 10 (16.67%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 53 (88.33%) Python
2 12 (20.00%) Java
3 8 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 7 (11.67%) Perl
4 7 (11.67%) PowerShell
4 7 (11.67%) Ruby
5 5 (8.33%) SQL
6 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.33%) C#
8 1 (1.67%) Go
8 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 6 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.67%) Degree
5 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) Accessibility
2 6 (10.00%) GDPR
2 6 (10.00%) PCI DSS
3 5 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.00%) Data Quality
4 3 (5.00%) HIPAA
4 3 (5.00%) PMO
5 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 16 (26.67%) Docker
2 4 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (40.00%) Terraform
2 18 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (20.00%) Grafana
4 11 (18.33%) Ansible
5 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) Greenplum
2 6 (10.00%) Databricks
2 6 (10.00%) Oracle
3 5 (8.33%) Avaya
3 5 (8.33%) Cisco
3 5 (8.33%) Genesys
3 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 4 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.00%) Pega
6 1 (1.67%) EnterpriseDB
6 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.67%) Splunk