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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 59 71
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 -19
Contract jobs citing Serverless 52 65 66
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.08% 3.92% 2.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.76% 9.76% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 55 61
10th Percentile £309 £409 £413
25th Percentile £324 £455 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +10.53% -0.84%
75th Percentile £474 £563 £509
90th Percentile £530 £575 £538
UK median daily rate £500 £537 £513
% change year-on-year -6.89% +4.78% -8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.50 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +190.38% - -

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 670 666 757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 40.19% 33.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 462 505
10th Percentile £306 £270 £275
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -2.63% -
75th Percentile £599 £537 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 10
10th Percentile £12.41 £22.06 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.13 £22.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £24.72 £24.18 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% +42.24% -69.78%
75th Percentile £53.50 £27.75 £17.67
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £24.85
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -24.85%

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 5 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 5 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 +29 37 £379 -31.09% 5
Edinburgh -13 15 £466 -6.19% 4
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 10 (19.23%) Apache
2 6 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (11.54%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.92%) CMS
3 1 (1.92%) JBoss
3 1 (1.92%) nginx
3 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (1.92%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (84.62%) AWS
2 36 (69.23%) AWS Lambda
3 29 (55.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 21 (40.38%) Amazon ECS
5 19 (36.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 17 (32.69%) Amazon S3
7 14 (26.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (26.92%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (26.92%) AWS Step Functions
7 14 (26.92%) Azure
8 12 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (15.38%) Amazon EventBridge
9 8 (15.38%) Azure Functions
10 7 (13.46%) Amazon MSK
11 6 (11.54%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (11.54%) AWS CodePipeline
11 6 (11.54%) AWS KMS
11 6 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (11.54%) Snowflake
12 5 (9.62%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.38%) Firewall
2 4 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.85%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (23.08%) DynamoDB
3 9 (17.31%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (9.62%) Delta Lake
7 4 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.85%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.85%) Metadata
8 2 (3.85%) Power BI
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (26.92%) GitLab
2 9 (17.31%) Git
2 9 (17.31%) Jenkins
2 9 (17.31%) JIRA
2 9 (17.31%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (15.38%) Bitbucket
3 8 (15.38%) MLflow
4 2 (3.85%) Jasmine
4 2 (3.85%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (3.85%) NUnit
5 1 (1.92%) git-flow
General
1 16 (30.77%) Finance
2 13 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 7 (13.46%) Banking
4 2 (3.85%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) Senior
3 9 (17.31%) Architect
4 7 (13.46%) Data Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Python Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (9.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Developer
6 5 (9.62%) Lead
7 4 (7.69%) AWS Architect
7 4 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Technical Leader
8 3 (5.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Database Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (26.92%) Node.js
2 9 (17.31%) PySpark
3 8 (15.38%) .NET
3 8 (15.38%) OAuth
4 7 (13.46%) JWT
5 6 (11.54%) REST
6 5 (9.62%) AWS CDK
6 5 (9.62%) FastAPI
6 5 (9.62%) OAuth2
6 5 (9.62%) PyTorch
6 5 (9.62%) React
7 4 (7.69%) AngularJS
7 4 (7.69%) ASP.NET
7 4 (7.69%) NumPy
7 4 (7.69%) OpenCV
7 4 (7.69%) Pandas
7 4 (7.69%) SQLAlchemy
8 3 (5.77%) .NET Framework
8 3 (5.77%) JSON
8 3 (5.77%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.92%) Cloud Native
2 7 (13.46%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (11.54%) IVR
3 6 (11.54%) NHS
4 5 (9.62%) Algorithms
5 4 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (5.77%) Data Structures
6 3 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.85%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.92%) Derivative
8 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.23%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (63.46%) CI/CD
2 23 (44.23%) DevOps
2 23 (44.23%) Migration
3 22 (42.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (30.77%) AI
5 13 (25.00%) Agile
5 13 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 13 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 12 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 12 (23.08%) Microservices
7 11 (21.15%) Data Governance
7 11 (21.15%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (19.23%) Infrastructure Automation
8 10 (19.23%) Unit Testing
9 9 (17.31%) Analytics
9 9 (17.31%) ETL
10 8 (15.38%) High Availability
10 8 (15.38%) Test Automation
11 7 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (13.46%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 39 (75.00%) Python
2 11 (21.15%) Java
3 9 (17.31%) SQL
4 8 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 7 (13.46%) Perl
5 7 (13.46%) Ruby
6 6 (11.54%) C#
7 4 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 4 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.92%) Bash
8 1 (1.92%) Go
8 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) AWS Certification
2 4 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) GDPR
2 6 (11.54%) PCI DSS
3 5 (9.62%) Data Quality
3 5 (9.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
5 3 (5.77%) HIPAA
5 3 (5.77%) PMO
6 1 (1.92%) QA
6 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (23.08%) Docker
2 4 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (25.00%) Terraform
2 12 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 8 (15.38%) Grafana
4 7 (13.46%) Ansible
5 4 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.92%) linkerd
6 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) Databricks
1 6 (11.54%) Oracle
2 5 (9.62%) Avaya
2 5 (9.62%) Cisco
2 5 (9.62%) Genesys
2 5 (9.62%) Greenplum
3 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 4 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.77%) Pega
5 1 (1.92%) EnterpriseDB
5 1 (1.92%) Red Hat