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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 70 46
Rank change year-on-year -10 -24 0
Contract jobs citing Serverless 55 49 68
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.33% 3.02% 3.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.39% 8.38% 10.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 42 53
10th Percentile £400 £419 £415
25th Percentile £413 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £505 £477
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +5.87% +1.01%
75th Percentile £518 £549 £513
90th Percentile £568 £575 £537
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.33%

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 861 585 628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.45% 36.11% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 368 411
10th Percentile £308 £341 £213
25th Percentile £403 £423 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £484 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +7.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £538
90th Percentile £642 £625 £614
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 8
10th Percentile £13.97 £19.58 £16.69
25th Percentile £14.89 £26.32 £18.42
Median hourly rate £15.81 £37.55 £21.14
Median % change year-on-year -57.89% +77.58% -11.39%
75th Percentile £17.28 £48.77 £24.18
90th Percentile £18.75 £55.51 -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.50% -14.29%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -8 37 £450 -10.00% 15
Glasgow -10 16 £483 -12.18% 14
Dumfries and Galloway - 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 (16.36%) Apache
2 8 (14.55%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.45%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.64%) Confluence
4 2 (3.64%) JBoss
5 1 (1.82%) nginx
5 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 51 (92.73%) AWS
2 42 (76.36%) AWS Lambda
3 29 (52.73%) Amazon S3
4 18 (32.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (16.36%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
9 4 (7.27%) Akamai
9 4 (7.27%) Amazon EventBridge
9 4 (7.27%) AWS Direct Connect
9 4 (7.27%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (7.27%) Azure
9 4 (7.27%) Cloudflare
9 4 (7.27%) Kong
9 4 (7.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.91%) HTTP
2 5 (9.09%) DNS
3 4 (7.27%) Firewall
4 2 (3.64%) SSL
5 1 (1.82%) CTI
5 1 (1.82%) PSTN
5 1 (1.82%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.55%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (9.09%) DynamoDB
3 4 (7.27%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.64%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (3.64%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.82%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.82%) Power BI
6 1 (1.82%) Power Query
6 1 (1.82%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.82%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Cypress.io
2 5 (9.09%) GitLab
3 4 (7.27%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.45%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.64%) Git
5 2 (3.64%) JIRA
5 2 (3.64%) MLflow
5 2 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.82%) git-flow
6 1 (1.82%) Maven
6 1 (1.82%) Mockito
6 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (21.82%) Public Sector
2 8 (14.55%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.27%) Finance
4 3 (5.45%) Banking
5 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Legal
5 1 (1.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (38.18%) Developer
2 11 (20.00%) Architect
3 6 (10.91%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (10.91%) Cloud Developer
3 6 (10.91%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (10.91%) Python Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) AWS Developer
4 5 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Lead
6 3 (5.45%) AWS Architect
6 3 (5.45%) AWS Data Architect
6 3 (5.45%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.45%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Senior
7 2 (3.64%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Integration Architect
7 2 (3.64%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.64%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.82%) AWS CDK
2 10 (18.18%) REST
3 8 (14.55%) OAuth
4 7 (12.73%) FastAPI
4 7 (12.73%) React
5 6 (10.91%) JWT
5 6 (10.91%) OpenCV
5 6 (10.91%) Pandas
5 6 (10.91%) PyTorch
6 5 (9.09%) Hugging Face
6 5 (9.09%) Kafka
6 5 (9.09%) OAuth2
6 5 (9.09%) PySpark
6 5 (9.09%) SAML
6 5 (9.09%) Terraform
7 4 (7.27%) .NET
7 4 (7.27%) NumPy
7 4 (7.27%) OpenID
7 4 (7.27%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (7.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (41.82%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.91%) Algorithms
2 6 (10.91%) Data Structures
3 5 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.27%) IVR
5 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (5.45%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.64%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.82%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.82%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (43.64%) Agile
2 21 (38.18%) CI/CD
3 16 (29.09%) Microservices
4 13 (23.64%) AI
4 13 (23.64%) Event-Driven
4 13 (23.64%) TDD
5 12 (21.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (20.00%) Pair Programming
7 10 (18.18%) DevOps
7 10 (18.18%) Machine Learning
7 10 (18.18%) Migration
8 9 (16.36%) ETL
8 9 (16.36%) Kanban
8 9 (16.36%) Scrum
9 8 (14.55%) Analytics
9 8 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (14.55%) LLM
9 8 (14.55%) Software Engineering
10 7 (12.73%) OCR
10 7 (12.73%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (36.36%) Python
2 14 (25.45%) TypeScript
3 9 (16.36%) JavaScript
3 9 (16.36%) SQL
4 6 (10.91%) Java
5 2 (3.64%) Bash
5 2 (3.64%) Go
6 1 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (9.09%) Degree
1 5 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 7 (12.73%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (21.82%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.27%) Argo
2 4 (7.27%) Grafana
3 1 (1.82%) Ansible
3 1 (1.82%) linkerd
3 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (7.27%) Dynatrace
1 4 (7.27%) ForgeRock
1 4 (7.27%) Salesforce
1 4 (7.27%) Splunk
2 2 (3.64%) EnterpriseDB
2 2 (3.64%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.82%) Databricks
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft