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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 43 56
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 +11
Contract jobs citing Serverless 68 79 89
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 4.35% 4.73% 3.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.73% 12.64% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 66 82
10th Percentile £311 £411 £413
25th Percentile £358 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £497 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.98% +4.63% -0.84%
75th Percentile £523 £538 £520
90th Percentile £539 £575 £540
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -11.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +192.31% - -

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 634 625 755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.51% 37.45% 31.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 415 513
10th Percentile £312 £253 £342
25th Percentile £405 £366 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £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 7 8 6
10th Percentile £12.42 £21.84 £15.26
25th Percentile £24.10 £22.50 £15.42
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.09 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +107.56% +43.01% -6.99%
75th Percentile £62.00 £25.07 £20.66
90th Percentile £64.00 £27.94 £37.70
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +30.91% +22.22% -10.00%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 +36 45 £401 -15.68% 2
Edinburgh -12 23 £525 +6.76% 7
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 (13.24%) Apache
1 9 (13.24%) Apache Spark
2 7 (10.29%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.47%) JBoss
3 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 63 (92.65%) AWS
2 51 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
3 38 (55.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 32 (47.06%) Amazon S3
5 27 (39.71%) Amazon ECS
6 18 (26.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 18 (26.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 17 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (20.59%) AWS Step Functions
9 14 (20.59%) Azure
10 12 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (13.24%) Snowflake
12 8 (11.76%) Amazon EventBridge
12 8 (11.76%) Amazon SageMaker
13 7 (10.29%) Amazon MSK
13 7 (10.29%) OpenShift
14 6 (8.82%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (8.82%) AWS CodePipeline
14 6 (8.82%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.76%) Firewall
2 5 (7.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (27.94%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (26.47%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (16.18%) DynamoDB
5 9 (13.24%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (10.29%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (7.35%) Delta Lake
8 3 (4.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.94%) Metadata
9 2 (2.94%) Power BI
10 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (20.59%) GitLab
1 14 (20.59%) Jenkins
2 12 (17.65%) MLflow
3 11 (16.18%) Git
4 9 (13.24%) JIRA
4 9 (13.24%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (11.76%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.94%) Jasmine
6 2 (2.94%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (2.94%) NUnit
7 1 (1.47%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.47%) git-flow
7 1 (1.47%) Liquibase
General
1 18 (26.47%) Finance
2 16 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 11 (16.18%) Banking
4 4 (5.88%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (22.06%) Architect
2 12 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (16.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (13.24%) Python Engineer
4 9 (13.24%) Senior
5 8 (11.76%) Data Architect
5 8 (11.76%) Developer
6 7 (10.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) AWS Architect
6 7 (10.29%) Data Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Snowflake Architect
8 4 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Database Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.00%) Node.js
2 16 (23.53%) AWS CDK
2 16 (23.53%) PyTorch
3 12 (17.65%) OAuth
3 12 (17.65%) Pandas
4 11 (16.18%) FastAPI
4 11 (16.18%) NumPy
4 11 (16.18%) SQLAlchemy
5 10 (14.71%) JWT
5 10 (14.71%) OpenCV
5 10 (14.71%) REST
6 9 (13.24%) Hugging Face
6 9 (13.24%) PySpark
7 7 (10.29%) boto
8 6 (8.82%) OAuth2
9 5 (7.35%) .NET
10 4 (5.88%) AngularJS
10 4 (5.88%) React
10 4 (5.88%) scikit-learn
10 4 (5.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.94%) Cloud Native
2 12 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (13.24%) Algorithms
4 7 (10.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (8.82%) IVR
5 6 (8.82%) NHS
6 5 (7.35%) Data Structures
7 3 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (4.41%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.94%) Low-Code
8 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.47%) Derivative
9 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.71%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (60.29%) CI/CD
2 37 (54.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 31 (45.59%) DevOps
4 30 (44.12%) Machine Learning
5 28 (41.18%) AI
5 28 (41.18%) Migration
6 23 (33.82%) Agile
7 20 (29.41%) Containerisation
8 17 (25.00%) Microservices
9 14 (20.59%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (19.12%) Data Engineering
10 13 (19.12%) High Availability
10 13 (19.12%) Scrum
11 12 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (17.65%) Kanban
11 12 (17.65%) LLM
11 12 (17.65%) OCR
11 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (17.65%) TDD
12 11 (16.18%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 58 (85.29%) Python
2 12 (17.65%) Java
3 8 (11.76%) SQL
4 7 (10.29%) Perl
4 7 (10.29%) PowerShell
4 7 (10.29%) Ruby
4 7 (10.29%) TypeScript
5 5 (7.35%) C#
6 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.47%) Go
7 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (22.06%) AWS Certification
2 6 (8.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.47%) Degree
6 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) Accessibility
2 6 (8.82%) GDPR
2 6 (8.82%) PCI DSS
3 5 (7.35%) Data Quality
3 5 (7.35%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (7.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (4.41%) HIPAA
4 3 (4.41%) PMO
5 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 18 (26.47%) Docker
2 4 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (33.82%) Terraform
2 18 (26.47%) Kubernetes
3 15 (22.06%) Grafana
4 11 (16.18%) Ansible
5 4 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (13.24%) Greenplum
2 6 (8.82%) Databricks
2 6 (8.82%) Oracle
3 5 (7.35%) Avaya
3 5 (7.35%) Cisco
3 5 (7.35%) Genesys
3 5 (7.35%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.41%) Pega
6 1 (1.47%) EnterpriseDB
6 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.47%) Splunk