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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 54 64
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 -16
Contract jobs citing Serverless 51 66 72
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.90% 4.04% 3.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.03% 10.22% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 55 66
10th Percentile £308 £416 £414
25th Percentile £345 £463 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -23.43% +10.53% -0.84%
75th Percentile £505 £563 £509
90th Percentile £549 £575 £538
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +183.02% - -

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 725 646 740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 41.19% 39.56% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 439 508
10th Percentile £313 £303 £261
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £468
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -0.69% -1.42%
75th Percentile £580 £538 £541
90th Percentile £675 £600 £654
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 10
10th Percentile £12.74 £22.06 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.39 £22.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £14.44 £24.18 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +42.24% -71.92%
75th Percentile £46.25 £27.75 £17.67
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £24.85
UK median hourly rate £41.64 £27.43 £21.00
% change year-on-year +51.83% +30.60% -38.95%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +19 32 £358 -34.91% 2
Edinburgh -15 19 £515 +3.00% 1
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 11 (21.57%) Apache
2 7 (13.73%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (11.76%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.96%) CMS
4 1 (1.96%) JBoss
4 1 (1.96%) nginx
4 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.96%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (84.31%) AWS
2 37 (72.55%) AWS Lambda
3 27 (52.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 20 (39.22%) Amazon ECS
4 20 (39.22%) Amazon S3
5 17 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 16 (31.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (27.45%) AWS Step Functions
8 12 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (23.53%) Azure
9 10 (19.61%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (15.69%) Amazon EventBridge
10 8 (15.69%) Azure Functions
11 6 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (11.76%) AWS CodePipeline
11 6 (11.76%) AWS KMS
11 6 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (9.80%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (7.84%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) Firewall
1 5 (9.80%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (29.41%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (23.53%) DynamoDB
3 6 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (9.80%) Delta Lake
5 4 (7.84%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (7.84%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.92%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.92%) Metadata
6 2 (3.92%) Power BI
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (23.53%) GitLab
2 9 (17.65%) MLflow
3 6 (11.76%) Git
3 6 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.76%) JIRA
3 6 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (9.80%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.92%) Jasmine
5 2 (3.92%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (3.92%) NUnit
6 1 (1.96%) git-flow
General
1 13 (25.49%) Finance
1 13 (25.49%) Public Sector
2 4 (7.84%) Banking
3 2 (3.92%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (21.57%) AWS Engineer
2 9 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (15.69%) Python Engineer
4 7 (13.73%) Architect
4 7 (13.73%) Senior
5 6 (11.76%) Data Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Developer
6 5 (9.80%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (9.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Lead
7 4 (7.84%) AWS Architect
7 4 (7.84%) AWS Data Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Technical Leader
8 3 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Database Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (3.92%) AWS Solution Architect
9 2 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.57%) Node.js
2 9 (17.65%) JWT
2 9 (17.65%) OAuth
2 9 (17.65%) PySpark
3 8 (15.69%) .NET
3 8 (15.69%) FastAPI
3 8 (15.69%) PyTorch
4 7 (13.73%) OpenCV
4 7 (13.73%) Pandas
4 7 (13.73%) REST
5 6 (11.76%) AWS CDK
5 6 (11.76%) NumPy
5 6 (11.76%) SQLAlchemy
6 5 (9.80%) Hugging Face
6 5 (9.80%) OAuth2
6 5 (9.80%) React
7 4 (7.84%) AngularJS
7 4 (7.84%) ASP.NET
7 4 (7.84%) boto
8 3 (5.88%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.76%) Algorithms
2 6 (11.76%) IVR
2 6 (11.76%) NHS
3 5 (9.80%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.84%) Data Structures
5 3 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.92%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.96%) Derivative
7 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Linux
2 1 (1.96%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (60.78%) CI/CD
2 22 (43.14%) Migration
3 21 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (35.29%) DevOps
5 17 (33.33%) AI
6 16 (31.37%) Agile
7 14 (27.45%) Machine Learning
8 13 (25.49%) Data Engineering
9 11 (21.57%) Containerisation
9 11 (21.57%) Data Governance
9 11 (21.57%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (21.57%) ETL
10 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (19.61%) Unit Testing
11 9 (17.65%) Analytics
11 9 (17.65%) LLM
11 9 (17.65%) Microservices
12 8 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (15.69%) Data Protection
12 8 (15.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (72.55%) Python
2 9 (17.65%) SQL
3 8 (15.69%) Java
4 6 (11.76%) C#
5 5 (9.80%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.84%) Perl
6 4 (7.84%) Ruby
6 4 (7.84%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.96%) Bash
7 1 (1.96%) Go
7 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (15.69%) AWS Certification
2 4 (7.84%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) GDPR
2 6 (11.76%) PCI DSS
3 5 (9.80%) Data Quality
3 5 (9.80%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (9.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.88%) Accessibility
4 3 (5.88%) HIPAA
4 3 (5.88%) PMO
5 1 (1.96%) QA
5 1 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (17.65%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (21.57%) Terraform
2 10 (19.61%) Kubernetes
3 9 (17.65%) Grafana
4 5 (9.80%) Ansible
5 4 (7.84%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.96%) linkerd
6 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Databricks
2 5 (9.80%) Avaya
2 5 (9.80%) Cisco
2 5 (9.80%) Genesys
3 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.84%) Oracle
3 4 (7.84%) Salesforce
3 4 (7.84%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.88%) Greenplum
4 3 (5.88%) Pega
5 1 (1.96%) EnterpriseDB
5 1 (1.96%) Red Hat