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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 51 64
Rank change year-on-year -26 +13 -18
Contract jobs citing Serverless 41 67 61
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.19% 4.21% 2.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.50% 10.89% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 55 53
10th Percentile £306 £450 £413
25th Percentile £345 £468 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +13.51% -3.44%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £500
90th Percentile £561 £590 £517
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -0.95% +2.19% -6.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £26.50 -
% change year-on-year +179.25% - -

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 746 615 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.81% 38.61% 34.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 423 501
10th Percentile £313 £309 £213
25th Percentile £400 £408 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £460
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +2.17% -3.16%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £675 £589 £634
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 7
10th Percentile £12.74 £16.21 £15.94
25th Percentile £13.97 £17.90 £16.50
Median hourly rate £24.72 £21.22 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.49% +24.82% -71.92%
75th Percentile £55.63 £25.06 £19.57
90th Percentile £64.00 £27.05 £34.48
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.60 £21.37
% change year-on-year +29.37% +33.83% -38.94%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -22 26 £481 -3.32% 8
Glasgow 0 15 £313 -43.09% 1
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 6 (14.63%) Apache
1 6 (14.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) CMS
2 1 (2.44%) JBoss
2 1 (2.44%) nginx
2 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (2.44%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (82.93%) AWS
2 26 (63.41%) AWS Lambda
3 20 (48.78%) Amazon S3
4 13 (31.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (31.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (29.27%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (26.83%) Azure
7 8 (19.51%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (19.51%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (17.07%) AWS Step Functions
8 7 (17.07%) Azure Functions
9 6 (14.63%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (14.63%) AWS CodePipeline
10 5 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (9.76%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (9.76%) AWS KMS
11 4 (9.76%) Dagster
11 4 (9.76%) Snowflake
12 3 (7.32%) Amazon EventBridge
12 3 (7.32%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) HTTP
2 1 (2.44%) CTI
2 1 (2.44%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) PSTN
2 1 (2.44%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) Amazon Athena
1 6 (14.63%) DynamoDB
1 6 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.88%) Metadata
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.44%) Power BI
4 1 (2.44%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) MLflow
2 3 (7.32%) Cypress.io
2 3 (7.32%) GitLab
3 2 (4.88%) Git
3 2 (4.88%) Jasmine
3 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.88%) JIRA
3 2 (4.88%) Karma Test Runner
3 2 (4.88%) NUnit
3 2 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.44%) git-flow
General
1 10 (24.39%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Banking
3 2 (4.88%) Finance
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (24.39%) Developer
1 10 (24.39%) Python Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (9.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Architect
5 3 (7.32%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Database Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Lead
6 2 (4.88%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior
6 2 (4.88%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (24.39%) FastAPI
1 10 (24.39%) JWT
1 10 (24.39%) OAuth
1 10 (24.39%) PyTorch
2 9 (21.95%) .NET
2 9 (21.95%) AWS CDK
2 9 (21.95%) OpenCV
2 9 (21.95%) Pandas
3 7 (17.07%) Hugging Face
3 7 (17.07%) NumPy
3 7 (17.07%) REST
4 6 (14.63%) SQLAlchemy
5 5 (12.20%) OAuth2
6 4 (9.76%) AngularJS
6 4 (9.76%) ASP.NET
6 4 (9.76%) boto
7 3 (7.32%) .NET Framework
7 3 (7.32%) Entity Framework
7 3 (7.32%) LINQ
7 3 (7.32%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (36.59%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.76%) Algorithms
3 4 (9.76%) Data Structures
4 3 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.44%) Derivative
6 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.44%) IVR
6 1 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.44%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) CI/CD
2 19 (46.34%) Agile
3 15 (36.59%) AI
4 14 (34.15%) Machine Learning
5 13 (31.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (26.83%) LLM
6 11 (26.83%) TDD
7 10 (24.39%) DevOps
7 10 (24.39%) ETL
7 10 (24.39%) Kanban
7 10 (24.39%) Migration
7 10 (24.39%) OCR
7 10 (24.39%) Scrum
8 9 (21.95%) Microservices
9 8 (19.51%) Data Governance
9 8 (19.51%) Pair Programming
9 8 (19.51%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (17.07%) Containerisation
10 7 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (56.10%) Python
2 8 (19.51%) SQL
3 6 (14.63%) JavaScript
3 6 (14.63%) TypeScript
4 5 (12.20%) C#
5 2 (4.88%) Java
5 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.44%) Bash
6 1 (2.44%) Go
6 1 (2.44%) Perl
6 1 (2.44%) Ruby
6 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (7.32%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.44%) GDPR
4 1 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (21.95%) Grafana
2 6 (14.63%) Kubernetes
3 5 (12.20%) Ansible
3 5 (12.20%) Terraform
4 4 (9.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.44%) linkerd
5 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (7.32%) Greenplum
2 1 (2.44%) EnterpriseDB
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle
2 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.44%) Salesforce