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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 52 70
Rank change year-on-year -8 +18 -14
Contract jobs citing Serverless 51 70 67
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.10% 4.27% 2.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.97% 10.75% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 60 62
10th Percentile £309 £409 £413
25th Percentile £313 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £469 £561 £509
90th Percentile £510 £575 £538
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -7.06% +2.48% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +192.31% - -

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 640 651 747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.86% 39.74% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 457 497
10th Percentile £311 £267 £308
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £530 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 10
10th Percentile £12.24 £22.06 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.05 £22.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £24.18 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.75% +42.24% -69.09%
75th Percentile £57.00 £27.75 £17.67
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £24.85
UK median hourly rate £39.47 £25.98 £21.00
% change year-on-year +51.93% +23.69% -18.64%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 +24 38 £400 -27.27% 5
Edinburgh -28 13 £466 -4.26% 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 9 (17.65%) Apache
2 6 (11.76%) Apache Spark
3 5 (9.80%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.96%) CMS
4 1 (1.96%) JBoss
4 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.96%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (84.31%) AWS
2 34 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
3 28 (54.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 20 (39.22%) Amazon ECS
5 18 (35.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 15 (29.41%) Amazon S3
6 15 (29.41%) Azure
7 14 (27.45%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (27.45%) AWS Step Functions
8 13 (25.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (19.61%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (15.69%) Amazon EventBridge
10 8 (15.69%) Azure Functions
10 8 (15.69%) Snowflake
11 7 (13.73%) Amazon MSK
12 6 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (11.76%) AWS CodePipeline
12 6 (11.76%) AWS KMS
13 5 (9.80%) Amazon SageMaker
13 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.69%) Firewall
2 3 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (29.41%) Amazon Athena
2 11 (21.57%) DynamoDB
3 10 (19.61%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (15.69%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (9.80%) Delta Lake
7 4 (7.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.92%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.92%) Metadata
8 2 (3.92%) Power BI
9 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (27.45%) GitLab
2 9 (17.65%) Git
2 9 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 9 (17.65%) JIRA
2 9 (17.65%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (15.69%) Bitbucket
4 7 (13.73%) MLflow
5 2 (3.92%) Jasmine
5 2 (3.92%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (3.92%) NUnit
6 1 (1.96%) git-flow
General
1 16 (31.37%) Finance
2 12 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 7 (13.73%) Banking
4 2 (3.92%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (21.57%) Architect
1 11 (21.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (19.61%) Senior
3 9 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (13.73%) Data Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Developer
5 5 (9.80%) Lead
6 4 (7.84%) AWS Architect
6 4 (7.84%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (7.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Data Architect
6 4 (7.84%) Python Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (7.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Snowflake Architect
6 4 (7.84%) Technical Leader
7 3 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Database Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (27.45%) Node.js
2 9 (17.65%) PySpark
3 8 (15.69%) .NET
4 7 (13.73%) OAuth
5 6 (11.76%) JWT
6 5 (9.80%) OAuth2
6 5 (9.80%) React
6 5 (9.80%) REST
7 4 (7.84%) AngularJS
7 4 (7.84%) ASP.NET
7 4 (7.84%) AWS CDK
7 4 (7.84%) FastAPI
7 4 (7.84%) PyTorch
8 3 (5.88%) .NET Framework
8 3 (5.88%) Entity Framework
8 3 (5.88%) JSON
8 3 (5.88%) LINQ
8 3 (5.88%) NgRx
8 3 (5.88%) NumPy
8 3 (5.88%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 9 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (11.76%) IVR
3 6 (11.76%) NHS
4 5 (9.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (7.84%) Algorithms
5 4 (7.84%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
7 2 (3.92%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.96%) Derivative
8 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.65%) Linux
2 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 25 (49.02%) Migration
3 24 (47.06%) DevOps
4 22 (43.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (31.37%) AI
6 13 (25.49%) Data Engineering
6 13 (25.49%) Machine Learning
7 12 (23.53%) Microservices
8 11 (21.57%) Agile
8 11 (21.57%) Data Governance
8 11 (21.57%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (19.61%) High Availability
9 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (19.61%) Unit Testing
10 9 (17.65%) Analytics
10 9 (17.65%) Containerisation
10 9 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (15.69%) ETL
11 8 (15.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (74.51%) Python
2 11 (21.57%) Java
3 8 (15.69%) SQL
4 7 (13.73%) Perl
4 7 (13.73%) PowerShell
4 7 (13.73%) Ruby
5 6 (11.76%) C#
6 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.84%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (21.57%) AWS Certification
2 4 (7.84%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) GDPR
2 6 (11.76%) PCI DSS
3 5 (9.80%) Data Quality
3 5 (9.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.88%) Accessibility
4 3 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (5.88%) HIPAA
4 3 (5.88%) PMO
5 1 (1.96%) QA
5 1 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (21.57%) Docker
2 4 (7.84%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (27.45%) Terraform
2 10 (19.61%) Kubernetes
3 8 (15.69%) Ansible
4 6 (11.76%) Grafana
5 3 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) Greenplum
2 6 (11.76%) Databricks
2 6 (11.76%) Oracle
3 5 (9.80%) Avaya
3 5 (9.80%) Cisco
3 5 (9.80%) Genesys
4 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.84%) Salesforce
4 4 (7.84%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.88%) Pega
6 1 (1.96%) EnterpriseDB
6 1 (1.96%) Red Hat