Serverless Contracts in Scotland

Serverless Computing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 70 64
Rank change year-on-year +32 -6 +14
Contract jobs citing Serverless 80 74 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.92% 3.14% 3.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.18% 10.21% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 67 104
10th Percentile £409 £408 £413
25th Percentile £441 £440 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £498 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.31% +2.05% +7.14%
75th Percentile £535 £538 £538
90th Percentile £563 £569 £559
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +9.09%

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 564 725 1,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 34.67% 30.80% 35.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 491 770
10th Percentile £301 £313 £300
25th Percentile £375 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 22
10th Percentile £19.77 - £13.16
25th Percentile £21.00 - £13.79
Median hourly rate £24.00 £15.42 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +55.64% -12.98% -51.45%
75th Percentile £24.18 £16.57 £20.86
90th Percentile £27.04 £17.26 £52.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £25.19 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.17% +11.96% +7.14%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in Scotland

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in Scotland

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 January 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 2 January 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
Edinburgh +17 49 £492 +2.45% 4
Glasgow +3 18 £430 -14.10% 3
Lanarkshire - 4 £525 -
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.50%) Apache Pig
3 2 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.50%) GeoServer
3 2 (2.50%) JBoss
3 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.25%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 78 (97.50%) AWS
2 68 (85.00%) AWS Lambda
3 56 (70.00%) Amazon S3
4 42 (52.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 36 (45.00%) OpenShift
6 23 (28.75%) Amazon ECS
7 21 (26.25%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (22.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 18 (22.50%) AWS CodePipeline
9 16 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
10 15 (18.75%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 15 (18.75%) AWS Fargate
11 14 (17.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (16.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 13 (16.25%) Route 53
13 11 (13.75%) SaaS
14 10 (12.50%) PaaS
15 8 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (8.75%) AWS Step Functions
17 4 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.25%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) DNS
2 1 (1.25%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (42.50%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (22.50%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (13.75%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (11.25%) InfluxDB
6 8 (10.00%) NoSQL
7 7 (8.75%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (8.75%) Informix
7 7 (8.75%) MongoDB
8 6 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (7.50%) DynamoDB
9 5 (6.25%) Relational Database
10 4 (5.00%) Big Data
10 4 (5.00%) Parquet
11 3 (3.75%) GIS
12 2 (2.50%) Apache Hive
12 2 (2.50%) Hadoop
12 2 (2.50%) MySQL
12 2 (2.50%) Spark SQL
13 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 24 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (16.25%) Git
3 12 (15.00%) Artifactory
4 10 (12.50%) JIRA
5 9 (11.25%) GitLab
6 7 (8.75%) Cypress.io
7 4 (5.00%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.50%) Ant
8 2 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.50%) webpack
9 1 (1.25%) JUnit
9 1 (1.25%) Maven
9 1 (1.25%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (52.50%) Public Sector
2 18 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.75%) Finance
4 5 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Banking
6 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (42.50%) Developer
2 20 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (16.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (15.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 8 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) AWS Developer
7 7 (8.75%) Data Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (7.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) Database Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) Java Developer
10 4 (5.00%) Architect
10 4 (5.00%) Senior
10 4 (5.00%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.00%) Software Developer
11 3 (3.75%) Cloud Developer
11 3 (3.75%) Python Engineer
12 2 (2.50%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (63.75%) AWS CDK
2 21 (26.25%) React
3 11 (13.75%) Node.js
3 11 (13.75%) RabbitMQ
3 11 (13.75%) Spring Boot
4 10 (12.50%) Spring
5 9 (11.25%) REST
6 8 (10.00%) CSS
6 8 (10.00%) HTML
6 8 (10.00%) OAuth
6 8 (10.00%) PostGIS
7 6 (7.50%) JSON
7 6 (7.50%) OAuth2
8 5 (6.25%) Java EE
9 4 (5.00%) RESTful
10 3 (3.75%) AngularJS
10 3 (3.75%) Spring MVC
10 3 (3.75%) Spring Security
10 3 (3.75%) Spring Web Flow
10 3 (3.75%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 11 (13.75%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (11.25%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.00%) Replication
5 3 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.25%) Linux
2 13 (16.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (15.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (3.75%) Unix
4 3 (3.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (58.75%) CI/CD
2 41 (51.25%) Agile
3 38 (47.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (41.25%) DevOps
5 27 (33.75%) Kanban
6 26 (32.50%) Scrum
7 22 (27.50%) Containerisation
8 21 (26.25%) Test Automation
9 19 (23.75%) Migration
10 18 (22.50%) Human-Centred Design
10 18 (22.50%) Inclusive Design
11 17 (21.25%) Microservices
12 16 (20.00%) Code Quality
12 16 (20.00%) TDD
13 15 (18.75%) Roadmaps
14 14 (17.50%) Architecture Roadmap
14 14 (17.50%) Community of Practice
14 14 (17.50%) Software Delivery
15 13 (16.25%) Code Coverage
15 13 (16.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 50 (62.50%) Python
2 29 (36.25%) SQL
3 28 (35.00%) TypeScript
4 26 (32.50%) JavaScript
5 24 (30.00%) Bash
6 21 (26.25%) Java
7 13 (16.25%) Groovy
8 2 (2.50%) C#
8 2 (2.50%) Perl
9 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 4 (5.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 4 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (3.75%) OCP
4 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (21.25%) Accessibility
2 10 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 16 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (30.00%) Grafana
2 22 (27.50%) Ansible
2 22 (27.50%) Kubernetes
3 12 (15.00%) Kibana
4 9 (11.25%) Terraform
5 2 (2.50%) Oozie
5 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Oracle
2 8 (10.00%) Imperva
3 4 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.75%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.50%) EnterpriseDB
6 1 (1.25%) Commvault
6 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.25%) Google
6 1 (1.25%) StreamSets