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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 47 65
Rank change year-on-year -16 +18 -22
Contract jobs citing Serverless 50 67 62
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.71% 4.22% 2.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.65% 10.81% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 55 55
10th Percentile £308 £450 £413
25th Percentile £345 £468 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -23.14% +13.51% -3.44%
75th Percentile £521 £575 £506
90th Percentile £554 £590 £520
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £522
% change year-on-year -4.29% +0.53% -5.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +181.13% - -

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 752 620 725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.74% 39.02% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 422 493
10th Percentile £313 £308 £230
25th Percentile £400 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £467 £460
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% +1.52% -3.16%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £675 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 8
10th Percentile £12.57 £21.40 £15.32
25th Percentile £13.97 £22.50 £16.23
Median hourly rate £14.44 £23.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.55% +38.24% -72.26%
75th Percentile £50.00 £24.14 £18.54
90th Percentile £64.00 £26.28 £31.27
UK median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +47.78% +28.69% -38.94%

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 May 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 May 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 +10 28 £358 -34.91% 3
Edinburgh -21 22 £516 +3.25% 7
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 11 (22.00%) Apache
2 8 (16.00%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (12.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.00%) CMS
4 1 (2.00%) JBoss
4 1 (2.00%) nginx
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (2.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 42 (84.00%) AWS
2 36 (72.00%) AWS Lambda
3 23 (46.00%) Amazon S3
3 23 (46.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 20 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (28.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (28.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 13 (26.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (24.00%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (24.00%) Azure
8 10 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (16.00%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (16.00%) Azure Functions
10 6 (12.00%) Amazon SageMaker
10 6 (12.00%) AWS CodePipeline
10 6 (12.00%) AWS KMS
10 6 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (8.00%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (8.00%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (8.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.00%) Firewall
1 5 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (26.00%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (16.00%) DynamoDB
3 6 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (10.00%) Delta Lake
5 4 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.00%) Metadata
6 2 (4.00%) Power BI
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.00%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) GitLab
2 9 (18.00%) MLflow
3 6 (12.00%) Git
3 6 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (12.00%) JIRA
3 6 (12.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (10.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.00%) Jasmine
5 2 (4.00%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (4.00%) NUnit
6 1 (2.00%) git-flow
General
1 10 (20.00%) Finance
1 10 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.00%) Banking
3 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 9 (18.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Senior
5 6 (12.00%) Data Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Architect
6 5 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Developer
6 5 (10.00%) Lead
7 4 (8.00%) AWS Architect
7 4 (8.00%) AWS Data Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Technical Leader
8 3 (6.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Database Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (4.00%) .NET Developer
9 2 (4.00%) Consultant
9 2 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.00%) FastAPI
1 10 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 9 (18.00%) .NET
2 9 (18.00%) JWT
2 9 (18.00%) OAuth
2 9 (18.00%) OpenCV
2 9 (18.00%) Pandas
2 9 (18.00%) PySpark
3 7 (14.00%) Hugging Face
3 7 (14.00%) Node.js
3 7 (14.00%) NumPy
3 7 (14.00%) REST
4 6 (12.00%) AWS CDK
4 6 (12.00%) SQLAlchemy
5 5 (10.00%) OAuth2
6 4 (8.00%) AngularJS
6 4 (8.00%) ASP.NET
6 4 (8.00%) boto
6 4 (8.00%) React
7 3 (6.00%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.00%) Algorithms
3 5 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (8.00%) Data Structures
5 3 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (4.00%) IVR
6 2 (4.00%) Low-Code
6 2 (4.00%) NHS
7 1 (2.00%) Derivative
7 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (58.00%) CI/CD
2 19 (38.00%) AI
3 18 (36.00%) Agile
3 18 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (36.00%) Migration
4 16 (32.00%) Machine Learning
5 15 (30.00%) DevOps
6 13 (26.00%) Data Engineering
7 12 (24.00%) Data Governance
7 12 (24.00%) ETL
8 11 (22.00%) Containerisation
8 11 (22.00%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (22.00%) LLM
9 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (20.00%) Microservices
9 10 (20.00%) OCR
9 10 (20.00%) Unit Testing
10 8 (16.00%) Scrum
10 8 (16.00%) TDD
10 8 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (70.00%) Python
2 10 (20.00%) SQL
3 7 (14.00%) Java
4 6 (12.00%) C#
5 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.00%) Perl
6 4 (8.00%) Ruby
6 4 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.00%) Bash
7 1 (2.00%) Go
7 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 5 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (6.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.00%) GDPR
3 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.00%) QA
4 1 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (18.00%) Grafana
3 7 (14.00%) Terraform
4 5 (10.00%) Ansible
5 4 (8.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.00%) linkerd
6 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) Databricks
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.00%) Oracle
3 3 (6.00%) Greenplum
4 2 (4.00%) Avaya
4 2 (4.00%) Cisco
4 2 (4.00%) Genesys
5 1 (2.00%) EnterpriseDB
5 1 (2.00%) Red Hat