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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 48 56
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Serverless 51 75 90
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.18% 4.14% 3.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.76% 13.07% 11.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 60 77
10th Percentile £380 £409 £388
25th Percentile £419 £438 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £472 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -0.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £536 £513 £538
90th Percentile £548 £538 £561
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -1.90% -1.50% -11.17%

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 582 574 802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.24% 31.70% 33.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 358 548
10th Percentile £335 £267 £309
25th Percentile £420 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -1.45%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £561
90th Percentile £628 £594 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 4
10th Percentile £13.58 £17.19 £14.53
25th Percentile £14.15 £18.50 £16.58
Median hourly rate £15.09 £22.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -31.41% +24.15% -
75th Percentile £37.55 £24.18 £21.42
90th Percentile £51.02 - £28.07
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +16.67% +35.87%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 -13 28 £506 +5.47% 15
Glasgow +5 23 £450 +10.02% 22
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 (7.84%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.88%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.92%) Apache
3 2 (3.92%) nginx
4 1 (1.96%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (98.04%) AWS
2 37 (72.55%) AWS Lambda
3 30 (58.82%) Amazon S3
4 25 (49.02%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (27.45%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (25.49%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (23.53%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (15.69%) Azure
10 7 (13.73%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (11.76%) OpenShift
11 6 (11.76%) Snowflake
12 5 (9.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (7.84%) GCP
13 4 (7.84%) Textract
14 3 (5.88%) Amazon MSK
14 3 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
14 3 (5.88%) AWS CloudTrail
15 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
15 2 (3.92%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) Firewall
1 3 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (37.25%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (27.45%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (15.69%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (9.80%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (9.80%) DynamoDB
5 4 (7.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (5.88%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.96%) GIS
7 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (25.49%) Jenkins
2 7 (13.73%) Cypress.io
3 6 (11.76%) Git
3 6 (11.76%) GitLab
4 5 (9.80%) MLflow
5 4 (7.84%) JIRA
5 4 (7.84%) Liquibase
6 3 (5.88%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (31.37%) Public Sector
2 12 (23.53%) Finance
3 9 (17.65%) Banking
4 8 (15.69%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (21.57%) Architect
2 9 (17.65%) Developer
3 8 (15.69%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (15.69%) Data Architect
4 7 (13.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Python Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Senior
6 5 (9.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) AWS Architect
6 5 (9.80%) Snowflake Architect
7 4 (7.84%) Lead
7 4 (7.84%) Technical Leader
8 3 (5.88%) AWS Data Architect
8 3 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) AWS Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (43.14%) AWS CDK
2 14 (27.45%) PyTorch
3 10 (19.61%) Pandas
3 10 (19.61%) REST
4 9 (17.65%) FastAPI
4 9 (17.65%) NumPy
4 9 (17.65%) SQLAlchemy
5 8 (15.69%) Hugging Face
5 8 (15.69%) Node.js
5 8 (15.69%) OAuth
5 8 (15.69%) OpenCV
5 8 (15.69%) React
6 6 (11.76%) boto
6 6 (11.76%) HTML
6 6 (11.76%) RESTful
7 5 (9.80%) CSS
7 5 (9.80%) JWT
8 4 (7.84%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (7.84%) SpaCy
9 3 (5.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (27.45%) Cloud Native
2 9 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (11.76%) Algorithms
3 6 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (9.80%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (7.84%) Data Structures
5 4 (7.84%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (5.88%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.96%) IVR
8 1 (1.96%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Linux
2 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (64.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 29 (56.86%) Agile
3 28 (54.90%) CI/CD
4 27 (52.94%) DevOps
5 23 (45.10%) Machine Learning
6 20 (39.22%) AI
7 19 (37.25%) Containerisation
8 16 (31.37%) Microservices
9 11 (21.57%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (21.57%) Kanban
9 11 (21.57%) OCR
9 11 (21.57%) TDD
10 10 (19.61%) LLM
10 10 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (19.61%) Scrum
11 9 (17.65%) API Development
11 9 (17.65%) High Availability
11 9 (17.65%) Migration
11 9 (17.65%) OOP
11 9 (17.65%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (80.39%) Python
2 12 (23.53%) Java
2 12 (23.53%) TypeScript
3 6 (11.76%) Go
4 5 (9.80%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
5 4 (7.84%) SQL
6 3 (5.88%) Perl
6 3 (5.88%) Ruby
7 1 (1.96%) Bash
7 1 (1.96%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) AWS Certification
2 7 (13.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (9.80%) Degree
4 4 (7.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.88%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.92%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
3 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (41.18%) Terraform
2 19 (37.25%) Kubernetes
3 18 (35.29%) Grafana
4 11 (21.57%) Ansible
5 6 (11.76%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.96%) linkerd
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Greenplum
2 4 (7.84%) Splunk
3 3 (5.88%) Google
4 2 (3.92%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.92%) ForgeRock
4 2 (3.92%) Oracle
4 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.96%) Pega
5 1 (1.96%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.96%) Salesforce