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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 43 57
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 -10
Contract jobs citing Serverless 61 76 91
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.75% 4.26% 3.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.17% 13.43% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 61 78
10th Percentile £358 £409 £388
25th Percentile £401 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £513 £538
90th Percentile £540 £544 £552
UK median daily rate £511 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.62% -1.50% -10.04%

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 600 566 793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.88% 31.69% 32.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 347 548
10th Percentile £320 £270 £313
25th Percentile £413 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.26%
75th Percentile £573 £530 £565
90th Percentile £625 £600 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 5
10th Percentile £13.58 £18.22 -
25th Percentile £14.15 £19.36 £15.42
Median hourly rate £15.09 £23.09 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -34.65% +30.30% -
75th Percentile £37.55 £24.18 -
90th Percentile £51.02 £27.39 £26.59
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.74 £32.15
% change year-on-year -25.45% +4.93% +46.14%

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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 +19 34 £402 -1.71% 16
Edinburgh -16 27 £510 +6.25% 14
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 5 (8.20%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.56%) Apache
2 4 (6.56%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.28%) nginx
4 1 (1.64%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (98.36%) AWS
2 47 (77.05%) AWS Lambda
3 36 (59.02%) AWS CloudFormation
4 31 (50.82%) Amazon S3
5 18 (29.51%) Amazon ECS
5 18 (29.51%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (24.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 13 (21.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (19.67%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (18.03%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (13.11%) Azure
11 6 (9.84%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (9.84%) Amazon MSK
11 6 (9.84%) OpenShift
11 6 (9.84%) Snowflake
12 5 (8.20%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (8.20%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (6.56%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (6.56%) GCP
13 4 (6.56%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.48%) Firewall
2 3 (4.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (29.51%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (21.31%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (16.39%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (14.75%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (13.11%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (11.48%) DynamoDB
7 4 (6.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
9 2 (3.28%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (26.23%) Jenkins
2 12 (19.67%) GitLab
3 10 (16.39%) Git
4 8 (13.11%) JIRA
5 7 (11.48%) Bitbucket
5 7 (11.48%) Cypress.io
5 7 (11.48%) MLflow
5 7 (11.48%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (6.56%) Liquibase
General
1 22 (36.07%) Finance
2 18 (29.51%) Public Sector
3 11 (18.03%) Banking
4 8 (13.11%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (24.59%) Architect
2 11 (18.03%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (18.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (14.75%) Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) Data Architect
5 7 (11.48%) AWS Architect
5 7 (11.48%) Senior
6 6 (9.84%) Python Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Snowflake Architect
8 4 (6.56%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (6.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Data Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Lead
8 4 (6.56%) Technical Leader
9 3 (4.92%) AWS Data Architect
9 3 (4.92%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (4.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (31.15%) AWS CDK
2 15 (24.59%) Node.js
3 14 (22.95%) PyTorch
4 10 (16.39%) Pandas
4 10 (16.39%) REST
5 9 (14.75%) FastAPI
5 9 (14.75%) NumPy
5 9 (14.75%) React
5 9 (14.75%) SQLAlchemy
6 8 (13.11%) Hugging Face
6 8 (13.11%) OAuth
6 8 (13.11%) OpenCV
7 6 (9.84%) boto
7 6 (9.84%) HTML
7 6 (9.84%) RESTful
8 5 (8.20%) CSS
8 5 (8.20%) JWT
9 4 (6.56%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (6.56%) PySpark
9 4 (6.56%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.23%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.75%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (9.84%) Algorithms
3 6 (9.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (8.20%) IVR
4 5 (8.20%) NHS
5 4 (6.56%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (6.56%) Data Structures
6 3 (4.92%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.92%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.03%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (63.93%) Infrastructure as Code
2 36 (59.02%) CI/CD
3 33 (54.10%) DevOps
4 29 (47.54%) Agile
5 23 (37.70%) Containerisation
5 23 (37.70%) Machine Learning
6 22 (36.07%) AI
7 20 (32.79%) Microservices
8 16 (26.23%) Migration
9 14 (22.95%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (19.67%) High Availability
11 11 (18.03%) Kanban
11 11 (18.03%) OCR
11 11 (18.03%) Scrum
11 11 (18.03%) TDD
12 10 (16.39%) LLM
12 10 (16.39%) Roadmaps
13 9 (14.75%) API Development
13 9 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (14.75%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 49 (80.33%) Python
2 16 (26.23%) Java
3 12 (19.67%) TypeScript
4 7 (11.48%) PowerShell
5 6 (9.84%) Go
5 6 (9.84%) Perl
5 6 (9.84%) Ruby
6 4 (6.56%) SQL
7 3 (4.92%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.64%) Bash
8 1 (1.64%) C#
Qualifications
1 18 (29.51%) AWS Certification
2 8 (13.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (8.20%) Degree
4 4 (6.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.92%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.39%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.20%) GDPR
2 5 (8.20%) PCI DSS
3 4 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (4.92%) HIPAA
4 3 (4.92%) PMO
5 2 (3.28%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.28%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 20 (32.79%) Docker
2 4 (6.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (40.98%) Terraform
2 23 (37.70%) Kubernetes
3 17 (27.87%) Grafana
4 11 (18.03%) Ansible
5 6 (9.84%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.64%) linkerd
Vendors
1 6 (9.84%) Greenplum
2 5 (8.20%) Oracle
2 5 (8.20%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.56%) Avaya
3 4 (6.56%) Cisco
3 4 (6.56%) Genesys
3 4 (6.56%) Pega
3 4 (6.56%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.56%) Splunk
4 3 (4.92%) Databricks
4 3 (4.92%) Google
4 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.28%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.28%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.64%) Ping Identity