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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 76 64
Rank change year-on-year +1 -12 -26
Contract jobs citing Serverless 59 48 62
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.61% 2.83% 3.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.87% 7.87% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 39 51
10th Percentile £313 £445 £413
25th Percentile £400 £461 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +8.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £494
90th Percentile £558 £600 £520
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £519
% change year-on-year - +1.25% -4.86%

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 859 610 716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.01% 35.97% 35.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 409 481
10th Percentile £313 £311 £205
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £613 £630
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.60% -4.67% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 10
10th Percentile - £16.21 £14.91
25th Percentile £13.97 £17.90 £16.50
Median hourly rate £15.81 £21.22 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +24.82% -70.43%
75th Percentile £46.25 £25.06 £20.87
90th Percentile £64.00 £27.05 £27.14
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £27.63 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.86% +25.59% -37.14%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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
Edinburgh +7 44 £456 -4.95% 3
Glasgow -11 15 £344 -37.43% 3
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 (18.64%) Apache
2 9 (15.25%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (6.78%) Apache Spark
4 3 (5.08%) JBoss
5 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (1.69%) CMS
6 1 (1.69%) nginx
6 1 (1.69%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 52 (88.14%) AWS
2 42 (71.19%) AWS Lambda
3 34 (57.63%) Amazon S3
4 22 (37.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (25.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (22.03%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (15.25%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (13.56%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (13.56%) Amazon EMR
8 8 (13.56%) AWS Step Functions
9 7 (11.86%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (11.86%) Azure
10 6 (10.17%) Azure Functions
11 4 (6.78%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (6.78%) AWS KMS
11 4 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (6.78%) Dagster
11 4 (6.78%) OpenShift
12 3 (5.08%) Amazon EventBridge
12 3 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) HTTP
2 1 (1.69%) CTI
2 1 (1.69%) DNS
2 1 (1.69%) Firewall
2 1 (1.69%) PSTN
2 1 (1.69%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.95%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (13.56%) DynamoDB
3 6 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.39%) Metadata
7 1 (1.69%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.69%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.69%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Cypress.io
2 4 (6.78%) MLflow
3 3 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (3.39%) GitLab
4 2 (3.39%) Jasmine
4 2 (3.39%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (3.39%) NUnit
5 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.69%) Git
5 1 (1.69%) git-flow
5 1 (1.69%) JIRA
5 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (23.73%) Public Sector
2 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.78%) Finance
4 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.69%) Banking
4 1 (1.69%) Legal
4 1 (1.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (33.90%) Developer
2 11 (18.64%) Architect
3 10 (16.95%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (16.95%) Python Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Cloud Developer
4 6 (10.17%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) AWS Developer
6 4 (6.78%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (6.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) AWS Architect
7 3 (5.08%) AWS Data Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Lead
7 3 (5.08%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.39%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.42%) AWS CDK
2 12 (20.34%) OAuth
3 10 (16.95%) FastAPI
3 10 (16.95%) JWT
3 10 (16.95%) PyTorch
4 9 (15.25%) OpenCV
4 9 (15.25%) Pandas
5 8 (13.56%) .NET
6 7 (11.86%) Hugging Face
6 7 (11.86%) NumPy
6 7 (11.86%) OAuth2
6 7 (11.86%) PySpark
7 6 (10.17%) REST
7 6 (10.17%) SQLAlchemy
8 5 (8.47%) AngularJS
8 5 (8.47%) boto
8 5 (8.47%) React
9 4 (6.78%) ASP.NET
9 4 (6.78%) RESTful
10 3 (5.08%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 26 (44.07%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.47%) Algorithms
2 5 (8.47%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.78%) IVR
3 4 (6.78%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (6.78%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.39%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.69%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.78%) Linux
2 3 (5.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.69%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.76%) Agile
2 22 (37.29%) CI/CD
3 17 (28.81%) Microservices
4 15 (25.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (23.73%) AI
5 14 (23.73%) ETL
5 14 (23.73%) TDD
6 13 (22.03%) Kanban
6 13 (22.03%) Pair Programming
6 13 (22.03%) Scrum
7 12 (20.34%) DevOps
7 12 (20.34%) Machine Learning
7 12 (20.34%) Migration
8 11 (18.64%) LLM
9 10 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (16.95%) OCR
10 9 (15.25%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (15.25%) Event-Driven
10 9 (15.25%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (13.56%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 26 (44.07%) Python
2 12 (20.34%) SQL
2 12 (20.34%) TypeScript
3 11 (18.64%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.78%) C#
4 4 (6.78%) Java
5 1 (1.69%) Bash
5 1 (1.69%) Go
5 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (6.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (8.47%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.08%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.39%) GDPR
5 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (10.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (15.25%) Grafana
1 9 (15.25%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.78%) Prometheus
2 4 (6.78%) Terraform
3 2 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.69%) Ansible
4 1 (1.69%) Argo
4 1 (1.69%) linkerd
Vendors
1 4 (6.78%) Salesforce
2 3 (5.08%) EnterpriseDB
2 3 (5.08%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.69%) Databricks
3 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.69%) ForgeRock
3 1 (1.69%) Splunk