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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 46 43
Rank change year-on-year -19 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing Serverless 53 69 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.31% 3.71% 4.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.12% 11.48% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 53 106
10th Percentile £419 £415 £400
25th Percentile £463 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £477 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% +0.42% -5.47%
75th Percentile £545 £513 £533
90th Percentile £575 £537 £553
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -10.12%

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 581 601 826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.29% 32.28% 33.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 395 582
10th Percentile £352 £213 £300
25th Percentile £425 £379 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £616 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile £19.58 £16.69 £14.53
25th Percentile £26.32 £18.42 £16.58
Median hourly rate £37.55 £21.14 £23.86
Median % change year-on-year +77.58% -11.39% +34.65%
75th Percentile £48.77 £24.18 £39.06
90th Percentile £55.51 - £50.88
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.26% -11.43% +62.79%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 42 £501 +4.75% 16
Glasgow -16 11 £550 +7.95% 6
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.43%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.66%) Confluence
2 3 (5.66%) nginx
3 2 (3.77%) Apache
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 52 (98.11%) AWS
2 39 (73.58%) AWS Lambda
3 32 (60.38%) Amazon S3
4 21 (39.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (24.53%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (18.87%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (18.87%) Amazon SQS
6 10 (18.87%) GitHub
7 9 (16.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (16.98%) AWS CodePipeline
7 9 (16.98%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (13.21%) OpenShift
9 6 (11.32%) Amazon Cognito
10 4 (7.55%) Azure
10 4 (7.55%) CloudFront
10 4 (7.55%) GCP
10 4 (7.55%) Textract
11 3 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (5.66%) Firebase
11 3 (5.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) HTTP
2 1 (1.89%) DNS
2 1 (1.89%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (39.62%) Amazon Aurora
2 13 (24.53%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.43%) Relational Database
4 4 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (7.55%) DynamoDB
5 3 (5.66%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.89%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.89%) GIS
7 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.89%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 14 (26.42%) Cypress.io
2 12 (22.64%) Jenkins
3 10 (18.87%) Storybook
4 6 (11.32%) GitLab
5 5 (9.43%) JIRA
6 4 (7.55%) Liquibase
7 3 (5.66%) Bitbucket
8 2 (3.77%) MLflow
9 1 (1.89%) Appium
9 1 (1.89%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.89%) Selenium
9 1 (1.89%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (28.30%) Public Sector
2 13 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 11 (20.75%) Finance
4 4 (7.55%) Banking
5 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (30.19%) Developer
2 8 (15.09%) Python Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) Architect
3 7 (13.21%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) React Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Lead
6 4 (7.55%) Technical Leader
7 3 (5.66%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior
7 3 (5.66%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) AWS Developer
8 2 (3.77%) AWS Software Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (58.49%) AWS CDK
2 17 (32.08%) React
3 14 (26.42%) CSS
4 13 (24.53%) PyTorch
5 11 (20.75%) REST
6 10 (18.87%) Pandas
7 9 (16.98%) FastAPI
7 9 (16.98%) Jest
7 9 (16.98%) NumPy
7 9 (16.98%) RESTful
7 9 (16.98%) SQLAlchemy
7 9 (16.98%) Tailwind CSS
8 8 (15.09%) Hugging Face
8 8 (15.09%) OAuth
8 8 (15.09%) OpenCV
9 6 (11.32%) boto
9 6 (11.32%) HTML
10 5 (9.43%) JWT
11 4 (7.55%) Playwright
11 4 (7.55%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.43%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (7.55%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.55%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (7.55%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.66%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Linux
2 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (67.92%) Infrastructure as Code
2 32 (60.38%) Agile
3 31 (58.49%) CI/CD
4 21 (39.62%) DevOps
5 16 (30.19%) Containerisation
6 15 (28.30%) Artificial Intelligence
6 15 (28.30%) Machine Learning
7 14 (26.42%) Microservices
8 12 (22.64%) Kanban
8 12 (22.64%) TDD
9 11 (20.75%) OCR
9 11 (20.75%) Scrum
10 10 (18.87%) API Development
10 10 (18.87%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (18.87%) LLM
10 10 (18.87%) Software Engineering
10 10 (18.87%) User Experience
11 9 (16.98%) OOP
11 9 (16.98%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (15.09%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 31 (58.49%) Python
2 23 (43.40%) TypeScript
3 9 (16.98%) Java
4 8 (15.09%) JavaScript
5 7 (13.21%) Go
6 5 (9.43%) SQL
7 3 (5.66%) Bash
8 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.89%) C#
9 1 (1.89%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (18.87%) AWS Certification
2 5 (9.43%) Degree
3 4 (7.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (7.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.66%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.89%) OCP
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.87%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.77%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (22.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (37.74%) Grafana
2 18 (33.96%) Kubernetes
3 13 (24.53%) Terraform
4 8 (15.09%) Ansible
5 7 (13.21%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.77%) linkerd
7 1 (1.89%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.89%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (7.55%) Splunk
2 3 (5.66%) Dynatrace
2 3 (5.66%) ForgeRock
2 3 (5.66%) Google
3 1 (1.89%) Greenplum
3 1 (1.89%) IBM
3 1 (1.89%) Informatica
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle
3 1 (1.89%) Pega
3 1 (1.89%) Ping Identity
3 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.89%) StreamSets