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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 52 72
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 -15
Contract jobs citing Serverless 58 68 65
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.57% 4.07% 2.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.22% 10.40% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 58 60
10th Percentile £310 £409 £411
25th Percentile £357 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.80% +5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £473 £558 £509
90th Percentile £523 £575 £538
UK median daily rate £500 £542 £525
% change year-on-year -7.75% +3.24% -8.70%
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 629 654 747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.68% 39.19% 32.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 455 494
10th Percentile £310 £255 £300
25th Percentile £400 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £599 £530 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £684
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 10
10th Percentile £12.24 £22.06 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.05 £22.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £24.18 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.75% +42.24% -62.22%
75th Percentile £57.00 £27.75 £17.67
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £24.85
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +42.31% +21.67% -16.88%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +35 45 £400 -23.81% 5
Edinburgh -18 13 £466 -2.86% 8
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 9 (15.52%) Apache
1 9 (15.52%) Apache Spark
2 5 (8.62%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.72%) CMS
3 1 (1.72%) JBoss
3 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (1.72%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (86.21%) AWS
2 40 (68.97%) AWS Lambda
3 34 (58.62%) AWS CloudFormation
4 21 (36.21%) Amazon S3
5 20 (34.48%) Amazon ECS
6 18 (31.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 17 (29.31%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (27.59%) Azure
9 14 (24.14%) AWS Step Functions
10 13 (22.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (17.24%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (15.52%) Snowflake
13 8 (13.79%) Amazon EventBridge
13 8 (13.79%) Amazon SageMaker
13 8 (13.79%) Azure Functions
14 7 (12.07%) Amazon MSK
15 6 (10.34%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (10.34%) AWS CodePipeline
15 6 (10.34%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.79%) Firewall
2 3 (5.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (31.03%) Amazon Athena
2 14 (24.14%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (18.97%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (18.97%) DynamoDB
4 9 (15.52%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (8.62%) Delta Lake
6 4 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.45%) Metadata
8 2 (3.45%) Power BI
9 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (24.14%) GitLab
2 12 (20.69%) Git
2 12 (20.69%) Jenkins
3 10 (17.24%) MLflow
4 9 (15.52%) JIRA
4 9 (15.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (13.79%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.45%) Jasmine
6 2 (3.45%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (3.45%) NUnit
7 1 (1.72%) git-flow
General
1 18 (31.03%) Finance
2 13 (22.41%) Public Sector
3 10 (17.24%) Banking
4 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Architect
2 12 (20.69%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (18.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (17.24%) Senior
5 8 (13.79%) Data Architect
6 7 (12.07%) AWS Architect
6 7 (12.07%) Data Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Developer
7 5 (8.62%) Lead
7 5 (8.62%) Snowflake Architect
8 4 (6.90%) AWS Data Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Python Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (6.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Technical Leader
9 3 (5.17%) AWS Solution Architect
9 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (29.31%) Node.js
2 9 (15.52%) PySpark
3 8 (13.79%) .NET
4 7 (12.07%) OAuth
5 6 (10.34%) JWT
6 5 (8.62%) OAuth2
6 5 (8.62%) PyTorch
6 5 (8.62%) React
6 5 (8.62%) REST
7 4 (6.90%) AngularJS
7 4 (6.90%) ASP.NET
7 4 (6.90%) AWS CDK
7 4 (6.90%) FastAPI
7 4 (6.90%) scikit-learn
7 4 (6.90%) TensorFlow
8 3 (5.17%) .NET Framework
8 3 (5.17%) Entity Framework
8 3 (5.17%) LINQ
8 3 (5.17%) NumPy
8 3 (5.17%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (27.59%) Cloud Native
2 10 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (12.07%) Algorithms
4 6 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (10.34%) IVR
4 6 (10.34%) NHS
5 4 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (5.17%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
7 2 (3.45%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.72%) Derivative
8 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.52%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (65.52%) CI/CD
2 28 (48.28%) DevOps
2 28 (48.28%) Migration
3 26 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (29.31%) AI
4 17 (29.31%) Machine Learning
5 15 (25.86%) Containerisation
5 15 (25.86%) Microservices
6 13 (22.41%) Data Engineering
7 11 (18.97%) Agile
7 11 (18.97%) Data Governance
7 11 (18.97%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (18.97%) High Availability
7 11 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (17.24%) Analytics
8 10 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure Automation
8 10 (17.24%) Unit Testing
9 9 (15.52%) Data Protection
9 9 (15.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 45 (77.59%) Python
2 11 (18.97%) Java
3 8 (13.79%) SQL
4 7 (12.07%) Perl
4 7 (12.07%) PowerShell
4 7 (12.07%) Ruby
5 6 (10.34%) C#
6 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.90%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (24.14%) AWS Certification
2 6 (10.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) GDPR
2 6 (10.34%) PCI DSS
3 5 (8.62%) Accessibility
3 5 (8.62%) Data Quality
3 5 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.17%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (5.17%) HIPAA
4 3 (5.17%) PMO
5 1 (1.72%) QA
5 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (24.14%) Docker
2 4 (6.90%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (36.21%) Terraform
2 10 (17.24%) Kubernetes
3 9 (15.52%) Ansible
4 6 (10.34%) Grafana
5 3 (5.17%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Greenplum
2 6 (10.34%) Databricks
2 6 (10.34%) Oracle
3 5 (8.62%) Avaya
3 5 (8.62%) Cisco
3 5 (8.62%) Genesys
3 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.90%) Salesforce
4 4 (6.90%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.17%) Pega
6 1 (1.72%) EnterpriseDB
6 1 (1.72%) Red Hat