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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 52 46
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 -4
Contract jobs citing Serverless 61 68 97
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.83% 3.70% 4.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.48% 11.85% 12.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 54 82
10th Percentile £400 £415 £391
25th Percentile £425 £439 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.47%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £528
90th Percentile £568 £536 £545
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -7.69%

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 582 574 788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.51% 31.23% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 359 540
10th Percentile £350 £213 £299
25th Percentile £423 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £564 £530 £550
90th Percentile £625 £594 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 3
10th Percentile £19.58 £16.69 £14.07
25th Percentile £26.32 £18.42 £15.44
Median hourly rate £37.55 £21.14 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +77.58% +19.31% -
75th Percentile £48.77 £24.18 £25.11
90th Percentile £55.51 - £29.54
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +42.22%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 +2 39 £501 +4.43% 7
Glasgow +6 22 £450 -4.66% 5
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 4 (6.56%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.92%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.92%) nginx
3 2 (3.28%) Apache
4 1 (1.64%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 60 (98.36%) AWS
2 45 (73.77%) AWS Lambda
3 35 (57.38%) Amazon S3
4 28 (45.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (24.59%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (21.31%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (19.67%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (16.39%) GitHub
9 9 (14.75%) Azure
9 9 (14.75%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (13.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (13.11%) AWS CodePipeline
11 7 (11.48%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (9.84%) Amazon Cognito
12 6 (9.84%) OpenShift
12 6 (9.84%) Snowflake
13 5 (8.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (6.56%) GCP
14 4 (6.56%) Textract
15 3 (4.92%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) Firewall
1 3 (4.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (37.70%) Amazon Aurora
2 19 (31.15%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (13.11%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (8.20%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (8.20%) Relational Database
5 4 (6.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (6.56%) DynamoDB
6 3 (4.92%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.64%) GIS
Development Applications
1 17 (27.87%) Jenkins
2 13 (21.31%) Cypress.io
3 10 (16.39%) Storybook
4 6 (9.84%) Git
4 6 (9.84%) GitLab
5 5 (8.20%) MLflow
6 4 (6.56%) JIRA
6 4 (6.56%) Liquibase
7 3 (4.92%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.92%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.64%) Appium
General
1 15 (24.59%) Public Sector
2 13 (21.31%) Finance
3 11 (18.03%) Social Skills
4 9 (14.75%) Banking
5 4 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (24.59%) Architect
1 15 (24.59%) Developer
2 8 (13.11%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (13.11%) Data Architect
2 8 (13.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (9.84%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (9.84%) Python Engineer
3 6 (9.84%) React Developer
3 6 (9.84%) Senior
4 5 (8.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Snowflake Architect
5 4 (6.56%) AWS Architect
5 4 (6.56%) Lead
5 4 (6.56%) Technical Leader
6 3 (4.92%) AWS Data Architect
6 3 (4.92%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (4.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (4.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (47.54%) AWS CDK
2 16 (26.23%) React
3 14 (22.95%) CSS
3 14 (22.95%) PyTorch
4 11 (18.03%) REST
5 10 (16.39%) Pandas
6 9 (14.75%) FastAPI
6 9 (14.75%) Jest
6 9 (14.75%) NumPy
6 9 (14.75%) RESTful
6 9 (14.75%) SQLAlchemy
6 9 (14.75%) Tailwind CSS
7 8 (13.11%) Hugging Face
7 8 (13.11%) OAuth
7 8 (13.11%) OpenCV
8 7 (11.48%) Node.js
9 6 (9.84%) boto
9 6 (9.84%) HTML
10 5 (8.20%) JWT
11 4 (6.56%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 18 (29.51%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.75%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (9.84%) Algorithms
3 6 (9.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (6.56%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (6.56%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.56%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.92%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (4.92%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.48%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (65.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 38 (62.30%) CI/CD
3 31 (50.82%) DevOps
4 29 (47.54%) Agile
5 23 (37.70%) Machine Learning
6 20 (32.79%) AI
6 20 (32.79%) Containerisation
6 20 (32.79%) Microservices
7 11 (18.03%) Kanban
7 11 (18.03%) OCR
7 11 (18.03%) TDD
8 10 (16.39%) API Development
8 10 (16.39%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (16.39%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (16.39%) LLM
8 10 (16.39%) Performance Optimisation
8 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (16.39%) Scrum
9 9 (14.75%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (14.75%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 41 (67.21%) Python
2 21 (34.43%) TypeScript
3 11 (18.03%) Java
4 7 (11.48%) Go
4 7 (11.48%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.56%) SQL
7 3 (4.92%) Perl
7 3 (4.92%) Ruby
8 2 (3.28%) Bash
9 1 (1.64%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (21.31%) AWS Certification
2 7 (11.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (8.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 5 (8.20%) Degree
4 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.92%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.03%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.28%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (29.51%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (34.43%) Terraform
2 20 (32.79%) Kubernetes
3 18 (29.51%) Grafana
4 12 (19.67%) Ansible
5 6 (9.84%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.28%) linkerd
7 1 (1.64%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 6 (9.84%) Greenplum
2 4 (6.56%) Splunk
3 3 (4.92%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.92%) ForgeRock
3 3 (4.92%) Google
3 3 (4.92%) Oracle
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.64%) Pega
4 1 (1.64%) Ping Identity
4 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow