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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 34 69
Rank change year-on-year -16 +35 -3
Contract jobs citing Serverless 59 88 74
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.99% 5.51% 3.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.17% 14.81% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 74 68
10th Percentile £358 £409 £400
25th Percentile £401 £450 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +3.84% -0.94%
75th Percentile £516 £536 £532
90th Percentile £539 £563 £552
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +140.38% - -

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 580 594 713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.24% 37.17% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 395 472
10th Percentile £313 £312 £325
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £486
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.36% +2.26%
75th Percentile £591 £525 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 4
10th Percentile £11.84 £19.94 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £22.50 £15.42
Median hourly rate £31.95 £24.00 £16.57
Median % change year-on-year +33.14% +44.84% -6.49%
75th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £18.70
90th Percentile £57.00 £27.88 £20.46
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.02
% change year-on-year +9.09% +14.49% +3.76%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 +27 40 £402 -10.67% 3
Edinburgh -28 19 £525 +6.76% 10
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 (13.56%) Apache Spark
2 6 (10.17%) Apache
3 5 (8.47%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.39%) nginx
5 1 (1.69%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (96.61%) AWS
2 44 (74.58%) AWS Lambda
3 35 (59.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 27 (45.76%) Amazon S3
5 19 (32.20%) Amazon ECS
5 19 (32.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 16 (27.12%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (20.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (20.34%) Azure
8 11 (18.64%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (16.95%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (15.25%) Snowflake
11 8 (13.56%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (11.86%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (11.86%) Amazon MSK
12 7 (11.86%) Amazon SageMaker
12 7 (11.86%) OpenShift
13 6 (10.17%) Amazon Kinesis
14 3 (5.08%) AWS CloudTrail
14 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.56%) Firewall
2 2 (3.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (32.20%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (22.03%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (20.34%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (16.95%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (15.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (11.86%) DynamoDB
7 5 (8.47%) Delta Lake
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
9 2 (3.39%) Power BI
10 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (23.73%) GitLab
1 14 (23.73%) Jenkins
2 11 (18.64%) Git
3 10 (16.95%) MLflow
4 9 (15.25%) JIRA
5 8 (13.56%) Bitbucket
5 8 (13.56%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (5.08%) Cypress.io
7 2 (3.39%) Liquibase
General
1 19 (32.20%) Finance
2 15 (25.42%) Public Sector
3 11 (18.64%) Banking
4 5 (8.47%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (23.73%) Architect
2 10 (16.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (15.25%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (15.25%) Senior
4 8 (13.56%) Data Architect
4 8 (13.56%) Developer
5 7 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 7 (11.86%) AWS Architect
6 5 (8.47%) Data Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Python Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Snowflake Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (6.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) AWS Data Architect
8 3 (5.08%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (5.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) AWS Solution Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Database Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (28.81%) Node.js
2 14 (23.73%) AWS CDK
3 12 (20.34%) PyTorch
4 10 (16.95%) REST
5 9 (15.25%) Pandas
6 8 (13.56%) FastAPI
6 8 (13.56%) NumPy
6 8 (13.56%) SQLAlchemy
7 7 (11.86%) Hugging Face
7 7 (11.86%) OAuth
7 7 (11.86%) OpenCV
7 7 (11.86%) PySpark
8 5 (8.47%) boto
8 5 (8.47%) React
9 4 (6.78%) JWT
10 3 (5.08%) JSON
10 3 (5.08%) OAuth2
10 3 (5.08%) scikit-learn
10 3 (5.08%) SpaCy
10 3 (5.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (27.12%) Cloud Native
2 10 (16.95%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (11.86%) Algorithms
3 7 (11.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (10.17%) IVR
4 6 (10.17%) NHS
5 4 (6.78%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (5.08%) Data Structures
6 3 (5.08%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.39%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.69%) Derivative
8 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.95%) Linux
2 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (64.41%) CI/CD
2 37 (62.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (50.85%) DevOps
4 26 (44.07%) AI
4 26 (44.07%) Machine Learning
5 24 (40.68%) Migration
6 20 (33.90%) Containerisation
7 19 (32.20%) Agile
8 16 (27.12%) Microservices
9 14 (23.73%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (23.73%) High Availability
10 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (20.34%) TDD
11 11 (18.64%) Data Engineering
12 10 (16.95%) Data Governance
13 9 (15.25%) Analytics
13 9 (15.25%) Data Protection
13 9 (15.25%) Data Security
13 9 (15.25%) OCR
13 9 (15.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 53 (89.83%) Python
2 13 (22.03%) Java
3 8 (13.56%) PowerShell
3 8 (13.56%) TypeScript
4 7 (11.86%) Perl
4 7 (11.86%) Ruby
4 7 (11.86%) SQL
5 3 (5.08%) Go
6 2 (3.39%) C#
6 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.69%) Bash
7 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (27.12%) AWS Certification
2 6 (10.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (6.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.39%) Degree
4 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.39%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) Accessibility
1 6 (10.17%) GDPR
1 6 (10.17%) PCI DSS
2 5 (8.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.08%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (5.08%) HIPAA
3 3 (5.08%) PMO
4 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 20 (33.90%) Docker
2 4 (6.78%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (42.37%) Terraform
2 18 (30.51%) Kubernetes
3 12 (20.34%) Ansible
3 12 (20.34%) Grafana
4 3 (5.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.69%) linkerd
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) Greenplum
2 6 (10.17%) Databricks
2 6 (10.17%) Oracle
3 5 (8.47%) Avaya
3 5 (8.47%) Cisco
3 5 (8.47%) Genesys
3 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.78%) Pega
4 4 (6.78%) Salesforce
4 4 (6.78%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.39%) Splunk
6 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.69%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.69%) Google
6 1 (1.69%) Ping Identity