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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 70 70
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 -31
Contract jobs citing Serverless 53 47 48
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.32% 2.97% 2.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.35% 8.61% 7.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 40 36
10th Percentile £400 £419 £411
25th Percentile £411 £459 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £518 £556 £499
90th Percentile £568 £578 £544
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -0.94%

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 835 546 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.51% 34.45% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 339 392
10th Percentile £313 £344 £186
25th Percentile £401 £419 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £538
90th Percentile £636 £601 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 12
10th Percentile £13.86 - -
25th Percentile £13.97 - £16.50
Median hourly rate £15.81 £15.09 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year +4.77% -19.25% -57.29%
75th Percentile - - £23.30
90th Percentile £19.98 - £24.18
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +19.26% +1.79% -20.28%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -6 37 £450 -10.00% 10
Glasgow -4 16 £479 -12.91% 9
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 (15.09%) Apache
2 7 (13.21%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.66%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.77%) JBoss
5 1 (1.89%) CMS
5 1 (1.89%) nginx
5 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (1.89%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 49 (92.45%) AWS
2 40 (75.47%) AWS Lambda
3 29 (54.72%) Amazon S3
4 18 (33.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (20.75%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (18.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (18.87%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (13.21%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (11.32%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (9.43%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (7.55%) Akamai
10 4 (7.55%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (7.55%) AWS Direct Connect
10 4 (7.55%) Azure
10 4 (7.55%) Cloudflare
10 4 (7.55%) Kong
10 4 (7.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (5.66%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (5.66%) Azure Functions
11 3 (5.66%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.32%) HTTP
2 5 (9.43%) DNS
3 4 (7.55%) Firewall
4 2 (3.77%) SSL
5 1 (1.89%) CTI
5 1 (1.89%) PSTN
5 1 (1.89%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.43%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (5.66%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.89%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Cypress.io
2 5 (9.43%) GitLab
3 4 (7.55%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.66%) Git
4 3 (5.66%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.77%) MLflow
5 2 (3.77%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.89%) git-flow
6 1 (1.89%) Maven
6 1 (1.89%) Mockito
6 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (22.64%) Public Sector
2 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Finance
4 2 (3.77%) Banking
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Legal
5 1 (1.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (39.62%) Developer
2 11 (20.75%) Architect
3 6 (11.32%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (11.32%) Cloud Developer
3 6 (11.32%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (11.32%) Python Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) AWS Developer
5 4 (7.55%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Lead
6 3 (5.66%) AWS Architect
6 3 (5.66%) AWS Data Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Integration Architect
7 2 (3.77%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.77%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.64%) AWS CDK
2 8 (15.09%) OAuth
3 7 (13.21%) FastAPI
3 7 (13.21%) React
3 7 (13.21%) REST
4 6 (11.32%) JWT
4 6 (11.32%) OpenCV
4 6 (11.32%) Pandas
4 6 (11.32%) PyTorch
5 5 (9.43%) .NET
5 5 (9.43%) Hugging Face
5 5 (9.43%) Kafka
5 5 (9.43%) OAuth2
5 5 (9.43%) PySpark
5 5 (9.43%) SAML
5 5 (9.43%) Terraform
6 4 (7.55%) gRPC
6 4 (7.55%) NumPy
6 4 (7.55%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (7.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (43.40%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.32%) Algorithms
2 6 (11.32%) Data Structures
3 5 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.55%) IVR
5 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.77%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.89%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Linux
2 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.89%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (43.40%) Agile
2 20 (37.74%) CI/CD
3 16 (30.19%) Microservices
4 13 (24.53%) TDD
5 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (20.75%) AI
6 11 (20.75%) Event-Driven
6 11 (20.75%) Pair Programming
7 9 (16.98%) DevOps
7 9 (16.98%) ETL
7 9 (16.98%) Kanban
7 9 (16.98%) Migration
7 9 (16.98%) Scrum
8 8 (15.09%) Analytics
8 8 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (15.09%) LLM
8 8 (15.09%) Machine Learning
8 8 (15.09%) Software Engineering
9 7 (13.21%) Data Governance
9 7 (13.21%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.96%) Python
2 14 (26.42%) TypeScript
3 9 (16.98%) JavaScript
3 9 (16.98%) SQL
4 6 (11.32%) Java
5 2 (3.77%) Bash
5 2 (3.77%) Go
6 1 (1.89%) C#
6 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (7.55%) Degree
2 3 (5.66%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.77%) GDPR
4 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (13.21%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (22.64%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.55%) Argo
2 4 (7.55%) Grafana
3 1 (1.89%) Ansible
3 1 (1.89%) linkerd
3 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (7.55%) Dynatrace
1 4 (7.55%) ForgeRock
1 4 (7.55%) Salesforce
1 4 (7.55%) Splunk
2 2 (3.77%) EnterpriseDB
2 2 (3.77%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.89%) Databricks