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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 50 68
Rank change year-on-year -24 +18 -21
Contract jobs citing Serverless 42 67 60
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.30% 4.22% 2.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.71% 10.82% 8.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 55 54
10th Percentile £306 £450 £413
25th Percentile £313 £468 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -15.76% +13.51% -3.44%
75th Percentile £524 £575 £505
90th Percentile £558 £590 £516
UK median daily rate £511 £525 £521
% change year-on-year -2.62% +0.77% -5.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +181.13% - -

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 736 619 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.35% 39.00% 33.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 423 501
10th Percentile £313 £308 £230
25th Percentile £400 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £467 £460
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% +1.52% -3.16%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £675 £598 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 8
10th Percentile £12.57 - £15.32
25th Percentile £13.97 £22.50 £16.23
Median hourly rate £14.44 £24.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.83% +41.18% -71.92%
75th Percentile £50.00 £24.18 £18.54
90th Percentile £64.00 £26.70 £31.27
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +43.64% +28.69% -38.94%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -22 22 £516 +3.25% 4
Glasgow +11 20 £317 -42.43% 2
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 (21.43%) Apache
2 8 (19.05%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (9.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.38%) CMS
4 1 (2.38%) JBoss
4 1 (2.38%) nginx
4 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (2.38%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 34 (80.95%) AWS
2 28 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
3 19 (45.24%) Amazon S3
4 16 (38.10%) Amazon ECS
4 16 (38.10%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (30.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (28.57%) Azure
7 10 (23.81%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (23.81%) AWS Step Functions
8 8 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (19.05%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (19.05%) Azure Functions
9 6 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
9 6 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (9.52%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (9.52%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (9.52%) AWS KMS
10 4 (9.52%) Dagster
10 4 (9.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) HTTP
2 3 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 6 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (7.14%) Delta Lake
6 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.76%) Metadata
6 2 (4.76%) Power BI
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.38%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) MLflow
2 6 (14.29%) GitLab
3 4 (9.52%) Git
3 4 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.52%) JIRA
3 4 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (7.14%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.76%) Jasmine
5 2 (4.76%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (4.76%) NUnit
6 1 (2.38%) git-flow
General
1 10 (23.81%) Public Sector
2 4 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Banking
3 2 (4.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Python Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Developer
3 5 (11.90%) Lead
3 5 (11.90%) Senior
4 4 (9.52%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (9.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Data Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Technical Leader
5 3 (7.14%) Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Database Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.76%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.81%) FastAPI
1 10 (23.81%) PyTorch
2 9 (21.43%) .NET
2 9 (21.43%) JWT
2 9 (21.43%) OAuth
2 9 (21.43%) OpenCV
2 9 (21.43%) Pandas
3 7 (16.67%) Hugging Face
3 7 (16.67%) NumPy
3 7 (16.67%) REST
4 6 (14.29%) AWS CDK
4 6 (14.29%) SQLAlchemy
5 5 (11.90%) OAuth2
5 5 (11.90%) PySpark
6 4 (9.52%) AngularJS
6 4 (9.52%) ASP.NET
6 4 (9.52%) boto
6 4 (9.52%) Node.js
7 3 (7.14%) .NET Framework
7 3 (7.14%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 6 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 5 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (9.52%) Data Structures
5 3 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (4.76%) Low-Code
7 1 (2.38%) Derivative
7 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.38%) IVR
7 1 (2.38%) NHS
7 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) CI/CD
2 18 (42.86%) AI
3 17 (40.48%) Agile
4 16 (38.10%) Machine Learning
5 14 (33.33%) Migration
6 13 (30.95%) DevOps
6 13 (30.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (26.19%) LLM
8 10 (23.81%) ETL
8 10 (23.81%) OCR
9 9 (21.43%) Containerisation
9 9 (21.43%) Data Engineering
9 9 (21.43%) Data Governance
10 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (19.05%) Microservices
10 8 (19.05%) TDD
10 8 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (16.67%) Kanban
11 7 (16.67%) Observability
11 7 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 28 (66.67%) Python
2 10 (23.81%) SQL
3 6 (14.29%) C#
4 4 (9.52%) Java
4 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.76%) Perl
6 2 (4.76%) Ruby
7 1 (2.38%) Bash
7 1 (2.38%) Go
7 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.14%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.76%) GDPR
4 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.38%) QA
4 1 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (21.43%) Grafana
2 8 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 6 (14.29%) Terraform
4 5 (11.90%) Ansible
5 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.38%) linkerd
6 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Databricks
1 3 (7.14%) Greenplum
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 3 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (2.38%) Avaya
2 1 (2.38%) Cisco
2 1 (2.38%) EnterpriseDB
2 1 (2.38%) Genesys
2 1 (2.38%) Red Hat