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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 62 62
Rank change year-on-year -14 0 -24
Contract jobs citing Serverless 49 55 61
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.34% 3.45% 2.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.09% 9.26% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 44 52
10th Percentile £308 £450 £413
25th Percentile £369 £469 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £525 £461
Median % change year-on-year -15.48% +13.82% -3.30%
75th Percentile £522 £575 £494
90th Percentile £558 £600 £510
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £522
% change year-on-year - +0.57% -5.09%

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 805 594 704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.48% 37.26% 33.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 399 485
10th Percentile £313 £300 £213
25th Percentile £401 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £538
90th Percentile £675 £589 £631
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 9
10th Percentile £13.65 £16.21 £16.22
25th Percentile £13.97 £17.90 £16.50
Median hourly rate £24.72 £21.22 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.49% +24.82% -71.20%
75th Percentile £59.13 £25.06 £21.64
90th Percentile £64.00 £27.05 £30.09
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -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 19 June 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 June 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 -3 37 £456 -8.20% 2
Glasgow -12 12 £313 -43.07% 4
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 8 (16.33%) Apache
1 8 (16.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.04%) CMS
2 1 (2.04%) JBoss
2 1 (2.04%) nginx
2 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (2.04%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (85.71%) AWS
2 34 (69.39%) AWS Lambda
3 27 (55.10%) Amazon S3
4 17 (34.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (30.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (22.45%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (16.33%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (16.33%) AWS Step Functions
8 7 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (14.29%) Azure
9 6 (12.24%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (12.24%) Amazon EMR
9 6 (12.24%) Azure Functions
10 4 (8.16%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (8.16%) AWS KMS
10 4 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (8.16%) Dagster
11 3 (6.12%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (6.12%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (6.12%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.24%) HTTP
2 1 (2.04%) CTI
2 1 (2.04%) DNS
2 1 (2.04%) Firewall
2 1 (2.04%) PSTN
2 1 (2.04%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.33%) Amazon Athena
1 8 (16.33%) DynamoDB
2 4 (8.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.08%) Metadata
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.04%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Cypress.io
2 4 (8.16%) MLflow
3 2 (4.08%) Jasmine
3 2 (4.08%) Karma Test Runner
3 2 (4.08%) NUnit
4 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.04%) Git
4 1 (2.04%) git-flow
4 1 (2.04%) GitLab
4 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.04%) JIRA
4 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (22.45%) Public Sector
2 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.08%) Finance
4 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (34.69%) Developer
2 10 (20.41%) Python Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Cloud Developer
5 5 (10.20%) Architect
5 5 (10.20%) Data Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) AWS Developer
6 4 (8.16%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (8.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Lead
8 2 (4.08%) .NET Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Technical Leader
9 1 (2.04%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.49%) AWS CDK
2 11 (22.45%) OAuth
3 10 (20.41%) FastAPI
3 10 (20.41%) JWT
3 10 (20.41%) PyTorch
4 9 (18.37%) OpenCV
4 9 (18.37%) Pandas
5 8 (16.33%) .NET
6 7 (14.29%) Hugging Face
6 7 (14.29%) NumPy
7 6 (12.24%) OAuth2
7 6 (12.24%) SQLAlchemy
8 5 (10.20%) REST
9 4 (8.16%) AngularJS
9 4 (8.16%) ASP.NET
9 4 (8.16%) boto
9 4 (8.16%) PySpark
9 4 (8.16%) React
10 3 (6.12%) .NET Core
10 3 (6.12%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 20 (40.82%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.20%) Algorithms
2 5 (10.20%) Data Structures
3 4 (8.16%) IVR
4 3 (6.12%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.08%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.90%) Agile
2 19 (38.78%) CI/CD
3 12 (24.49%) AI
3 12 (24.49%) ETL
3 12 (24.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (24.49%) Kanban
3 12 (24.49%) Microservices
3 12 (24.49%) Scrum
3 12 (24.49%) TDD
4 11 (22.45%) LLM
4 11 (22.45%) Machine Learning
5 10 (20.41%) OCR
5 10 (20.41%) Pair Programming
6 8 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (16.33%) DevOps
6 8 (16.33%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (14.29%) Observability
8 6 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (12.24%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.90%) Python
2 9 (18.37%) SQL
2 9 (18.37%) TypeScript
3 8 (16.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.16%) C#
5 2 (4.08%) Java
6 1 (2.04%) Bash
6 1 (2.04%) Go
6 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (8.16%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) Data Quality
1 4 (8.16%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.04%) GDPR
3 1 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (16.33%) Grafana
2 7 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.16%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.08%) Terraform
5 1 (2.04%) Ansible
5 1 (2.04%) Argo
5 1 (2.04%) linkerd
5 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (8.16%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.04%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.04%) EnterpriseDB
2 1 (2.04%) ForgeRock
2 1 (2.04%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.04%) Splunk