Serverless Contracts in Scotland

Serverless Computing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 56 39
Rank change year-on-year -14 -17 +11
Contract jobs citing Serverless 54 65 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.10% 3.14% 5.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.65% 8.98% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 53 143
10th Percentile £450 £413 £413
25th Percentile £464 £429 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% -2.63% -7.59%
75th Percentile £575 £494 £503
90th Percentile £600 £520 £545
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £545
% change year-on-year +1.25% -4.86% -5.22%

All Cloud 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 624 724 1,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 35.80% 34.99% 36.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 485 760
10th Percentile £313 £213 £250
25th Percentile £413 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -3.06%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £628 £603
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.24% -0.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 9
10th Percentile £16.21 £14.91 £16.81
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.50 £27.50
Median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% -70.43% +41.98%
75th Percentile £25.06 £20.87 £63.00
90th Percentile £27.05 £27.14 £65.60
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.15% -36.71% +55.56%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in Scotland

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in Scotland

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 July 2025.

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 15 July 2025. 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 -4 35 £494 +9.78% 15
Glasgow -13 17 £550 +9.62% 6
Lanarkshire +3 2 £525 +18.64% 2
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (12.96%) Confluence
2 2 (3.70%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 50 (92.59%) AWS
2 40 (74.07%) AWS Lambda
3 35 (64.81%) Amazon S3
4 19 (35.19%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (25.93%) GitHub
6 10 (18.52%) Amazon Cognito
6 10 (18.52%) AWS CodePipeline
7 9 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (9.26%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (9.26%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (9.26%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (9.26%) Azure
8 5 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (9.26%) CloudFront
9 4 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (5.56%) AWS CodeBuild
10 3 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (5.56%) Firebase
10 3 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) DNS
1 1 (1.85%) FTP
1 1 (1.85%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (1.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (37.04%) Amazon Aurora
2 13 (24.07%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (12.96%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (12.96%) DynamoDB
3 7 (12.96%) Oracle Database
4 6 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 4 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (7.41%) GIS
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (5.56%) DB2
6 3 (5.56%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.70%) Parquet
8 1 (1.85%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.85%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.85%) Metadata
8 1 (1.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (25.93%) Cypress.io
2 10 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 10 (18.52%) Storybook
3 8 (14.81%) JIRA
4 7 (12.96%) Bitbucket
5 6 (11.11%) GitLab
6 4 (7.41%) Mockito
7 3 (5.56%) JUnit
8 1 (1.85%) Appium
8 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.85%) Selenium
8 1 (1.85%) Toad
8 1 (1.85%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (29.63%) Public Sector
2 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.67%) Finance
4 4 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Banking
5 3 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (33.33%) Developer
2 10 (18.52%) Architect
3 9 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (14.81%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) React Developer
6 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) AWS Developer
7 4 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Lead
7 4 (7.41%) Software Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Software Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Technical Leader
8 3 (5.56%) Cloud Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) AWS Architect
9 2 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) AWS Software Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (3.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 19 (35.19%) React
3 12 (22.22%) CSS
4 10 (18.52%) Spring Boot
5 9 (16.67%) Jest
5 9 (16.67%) Tailwind CSS
6 8 (14.81%) Spring
7 5 (9.26%) Next.js
7 5 (9.26%) RESTful
8 4 (7.41%) GraphQL
8 4 (7.41%) JSON
8 4 (7.41%) Node.js
8 4 (7.41%) PostGIS
9 3 (5.56%) AWS Amplify
9 3 (5.56%) Hibernate
9 3 (5.56%) HTML
9 3 (5.56%) Playwright
9 3 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (3.70%) Apache Camel
10 2 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.07%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (53.70%) Infrastructure as Code
2 24 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 22 (40.74%) Agile
4 21 (38.89%) DevOps
5 16 (29.63%) Microservices
6 11 (20.37%) Computer Science
6 11 (20.37%) Containerisation
6 11 (20.37%) Test Automation
7 10 (18.52%) Continuous Delivery
7 10 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (16.67%) User Experience
9 8 (14.81%) DevSecOps
9 8 (14.81%) Human-Centred Design
9 8 (14.81%) Inclusive Design
9 8 (14.81%) Kanban
9 8 (14.81%) Migration
10 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (12.96%) Operational Stability
10 7 (12.96%) Roadmaps
10 7 (12.96%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 23 (42.59%) Python
2 22 (40.74%) TypeScript
3 14 (25.93%) Java
3 14 (25.93%) JavaScript
4 11 (20.37%) SQL
5 3 (5.56%) Bash
6 2 (3.70%) Go
7 1 (1.85%) C#
7 1 (1.85%) Groovy
7 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (29.63%) AWS Certification
2 9 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 7 (12.96%) Degree
4 6 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (9.26%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) OCP
7 1 (1.85%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.85%) SLA
3 1 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (20.37%) Terraform
2 7 (12.96%) Grafana
3 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.56%) Ansible
5 2 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.85%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.85%) Kibana
6 1 (1.85%) linkerd
Vendors
1 12 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (3.70%) Dynatrace
2 2 (3.70%) ForgeRock
3 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.85%) IBM
3 1 (1.85%) Informatica
3 1 (1.85%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.85%) Okta
3 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.85%) StreamSets
3 1 (1.85%) Talend