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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 70 64
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 -28
Contract jobs citing Serverless 57 50 55
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.57% 2.99% 2.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.93% 8.47% 8.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 42 44
10th Percentile £306 £428 £415
25th Percentile £371 £461 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% +6.67% -1.73%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £494
90th Percentile £558 £598 £538
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -3.67%

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 822 590 683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.04% 35.31% 35.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 393 450
10th Percentile £313 £313 £200
25th Percentile £400 £419 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £600 £613
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 14
10th Percentile - £16.21 £15.52
25th Percentile £13.97 £17.90 £16.50
Median hourly rate £15.81 £21.22 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +13.55% -67.50%
75th Percentile £20.61 £25.06 £23.89
90th Percentile £55.25 £27.05 £24.18
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.15
% change year-on-year +29.09% +18.79% -33.86%

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 31 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 31 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 -1 40 £450 -7.60% 4
Glasgow +1 17 £313 -43.05% 6
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 9 (15.79%) Apache
2 7 (12.28%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (7.02%) Apache Spark
4 3 (5.26%) JBoss
5 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (1.75%) CMS
6 1 (1.75%) nginx
6 1 (1.75%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 50 (87.72%) AWS
2 40 (70.18%) AWS Lambda
3 31 (54.39%) Amazon S3
4 22 (38.60%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (17.54%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (14.04%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (14.04%) Amazon EMR
7 8 (14.04%) AWS Step Functions
8 7 (12.28%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (12.28%) Azure
9 6 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (10.53%) Azure Functions
10 4 (7.02%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (7.02%) AWS KMS
10 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (7.02%) OpenShift
11 3 (5.26%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (5.26%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 3 (5.26%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.77%) HTTP
2 3 (5.26%) DNS
2 3 (5.26%) Firewall
3 1 (1.75%) CTI
3 1 (1.75%) PSTN
3 1 (1.75%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.54%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (14.04%) DynamoDB
3 7 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.02%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.51%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.51%) Metadata
7 1 (1.75%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.75%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Cypress.io
2 3 (5.26%) Bitbucket
2 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (3.51%) GitLab
3 2 (3.51%) Jasmine
3 2 (3.51%) Karma Test Runner
3 2 (3.51%) MLflow
3 2 (3.51%) NUnit
4 1 (1.75%) Git
4 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (22.81%) Public Sector
2 9 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.02%) Finance
4 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.75%) Banking
4 1 (1.75%) Legal
4 1 (1.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (36.84%) Developer
2 11 (19.30%) Architect
3 10 (17.54%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Python Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Cloud Developer
5 6 (10.53%) Data Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) AWS Data Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) AWS Developer
7 4 (7.02%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (7.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) AWS Architect
8 3 (5.26%) AWS Data Architect
8 3 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Data Architect
8 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Lead
8 3 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.05%) AWS CDK
1 12 (21.05%) OAuth
2 9 (15.79%) OAuth2
3 8 (14.04%) .NET
4 7 (12.28%) FastAPI
4 7 (12.28%) JWT
4 7 (12.28%) PySpark
4 7 (12.28%) PyTorch
5 6 (10.53%) OpenCV
5 6 (10.53%) Pandas
5 6 (10.53%) React
6 5 (8.77%) AngularJS
6 5 (8.77%) Hugging Face
7 4 (7.02%) ASP.NET
7 4 (7.02%) Kafka
7 4 (7.02%) NumPy
7 4 (7.02%) REST
7 4 (7.02%) SAML
8 3 (5.26%) Entity Framework
8 3 (5.26%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 26 (45.61%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (8.77%) Algorithms
3 5 (8.77%) Data Structures
4 4 (7.02%) IVR
5 3 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.51%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.75%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Linux
2 3 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.75%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 23 (40.35%) Agile
3 17 (29.82%) Microservices
4 13 (22.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (21.05%) DevOps
5 12 (21.05%) ETL
5 12 (21.05%) Migration
5 12 (21.05%) TDD
6 11 (19.30%) AI
6 11 (19.30%) Kanban
6 11 (19.30%) Pair Programming
6 11 (19.30%) Scrum
7 10 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (17.54%) Observability
8 9 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (15.79%) Event-Driven
8 9 (15.79%) Machine Learning
9 8 (14.04%) Analytics
9 8 (14.04%) LLM
10 7 (12.28%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 23 (40.35%) Python
2 13 (22.81%) TypeScript
3 12 (21.05%) SQL
4 10 (17.54%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.02%) C#
5 4 (7.02%) Java
6 2 (3.51%) Go
7 1 (1.75%) Bash
7 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (7.02%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) Data Quality
1 5 (8.77%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.51%) GDPR
3 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.28%) Grafana
3 4 (7.02%) Prometheus
3 4 (7.02%) Terraform
4 3 (5.26%) Argo
5 2 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.75%) Ansible
6 1 (1.75%) linkerd
Vendors
1 4 (7.02%) Salesforce
2 3 (5.26%) Dynatrace
2 3 (5.26%) EnterpriseDB
2 3 (5.26%) ForgeRock
2 3 (5.26%) Red Hat
2 3 (5.26%) Splunk
3 1 (1.75%) Databricks