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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 54 66
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 -7
Contract jobs citing Serverless 69 67 81
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 4.38% 3.98% 3.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.84% 11.86% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 54 70
10th Percentile £358 £409 £389
25th Percentile £402 £438 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £479 £478
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +0.21% -2.35%
75th Percentile £525 £524 £538
90th Percentile £540 £559 £569
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £26.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +82.69% -66.45% +3.33%

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 583 565 769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.99% 33.53% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 340 527
10th Percentile £323 £261 £313
25th Percentile £413 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £535 £575
90th Percentile £628 £619 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 4
10th Percentile £20.56 £18.31 -
25th Percentile £31.60 £19.97 £15.42
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.00 £16.57
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% +38.81% -6.49%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £21.42
90th Percentile £58.00 £26.32 £28.07
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -12.33% +15.38% +18.18%

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 2 December 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 2 December 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
Glasgow +24 42 £402 -1.65% 7
Edinburgh -7 27 £513 +5.56% 8
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 8 (11.59%) Apache Spark
2 7 (10.14%) Apache
3 6 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.90%) nginx
5 1 (1.45%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (95.65%) AWS
2 51 (73.91%) AWS Lambda
3 39 (56.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 34 (49.28%) Amazon S3
5 20 (28.99%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (27.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 17 (24.64%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (20.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (17.39%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (17.39%) Azure
10 11 (15.94%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (13.04%) Snowflake
12 7 (10.14%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (10.14%) Amazon SageMaker
12 7 (10.14%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (8.70%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (8.70%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (8.70%) OpenShift
14 4 (5.80%) GCP
14 4 (5.80%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.14%) Firewall
2 3 (4.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (18.84%) Amazon Athena
2 13 (18.84%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (15.94%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (11.59%) DynamoDB
6 5 (7.25%) Delta Lake
7 4 (5.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.90%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.90%) Power BI
10 1 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (23.19%) Jenkins
2 15 (21.74%) GitLab
3 10 (14.49%) Git
3 10 (14.49%) MLflow
4 8 (11.59%) JIRA
5 7 (10.14%) Bitbucket
5 7 (10.14%) Cypress.io
5 7 (10.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (5.80%) Liquibase
General
1 22 (31.88%) Finance
2 21 (30.43%) Public Sector
3 12 (17.39%) Banking
4 8 (11.59%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (23.19%) Architect
2 10 (14.49%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (14.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (14.49%) Senior
3 9 (13.04%) Developer
4 8 (11.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 8 (11.59%) AWS Architect
4 8 (11.59%) Data Architect
5 6 (8.70%) Lead
5 6 (8.70%) Python Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) Technical Leader
6 5 (7.25%) Snowflake Architect
7 4 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Database Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (27.54%) AWS CDK
2 16 (23.19%) Node.js
3 14 (20.29%) PyTorch
4 12 (17.39%) REST
5 10 (14.49%) Pandas
6 9 (13.04%) FastAPI
6 9 (13.04%) NumPy
6 9 (13.04%) React
6 9 (13.04%) SQLAlchemy
7 8 (11.59%) Hugging Face
7 8 (11.59%) OAuth
7 8 (11.59%) OpenCV
8 7 (10.14%) PySpark
9 6 (8.70%) boto
9 6 (8.70%) HTML
9 6 (8.70%) RESTful
10 5 (7.25%) CSS
10 5 (7.25%) JWT
11 4 (5.80%) JSON
11 4 (5.80%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.54%) Cloud Native
2 12 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (11.59%) Algorithms
4 7 (10.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (8.70%) IVR
5 6 (8.70%) NHS
6 4 (5.80%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (5.80%) Data Structures
7 3 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (4.35%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.90%) Low-Code
8 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.94%) Linux
2 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (62.32%) Infrastructure as Code
2 41 (59.42%) CI/CD
3 34 (49.28%) DevOps
4 30 (43.48%) Agile
5 28 (40.58%) Machine Learning
6 27 (39.13%) AI
7 23 (33.33%) Migration
8 22 (31.88%) Containerisation
9 20 (28.99%) Microservices
10 15 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (18.84%) High Availability
12 12 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (15.94%) Kanban
13 11 (15.94%) OCR
13 11 (15.94%) Scrum
13 11 (15.94%) TDD
14 10 (14.49%) Data Engineering
14 10 (14.49%) LLM
14 10 (14.49%) Roadmaps
15 9 (13.04%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 56 (81.16%) Python
2 16 (23.19%) Java
3 14 (20.29%) TypeScript
4 7 (10.14%) PowerShell
5 6 (8.70%) Go
5 6 (8.70%) Perl
5 6 (8.70%) Ruby
5 6 (8.70%) SQL
6 5 (7.25%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.35%) C#
8 1 (1.45%) Bash
8 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (26.09%) AWS Certification
2 8 (11.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (7.25%) Degree
4 4 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.35%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.90%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.49%) Accessibility
2 6 (8.70%) GDPR
2 6 (8.70%) PCI DSS
3 5 (7.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.35%) HIPAA
4 3 (4.35%) PMO
5 2 (2.90%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 19 (27.54%) Docker
2 4 (5.80%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (40.58%) Terraform
2 22 (31.88%) Kubernetes
3 17 (24.64%) Grafana
4 13 (18.84%) Ansible
5 6 (8.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.45%) linkerd
Vendors
1 9 (13.04%) Greenplum
2 6 (8.70%) Databricks
3 5 (7.25%) Avaya
3 5 (7.25%) Cisco
3 5 (7.25%) Genesys
3 5 (7.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.25%) Oracle
3 5 (7.25%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.80%) Pega
4 4 (5.80%) Salesforce
4 4 (5.80%) Splunk
5 3 (4.35%) Google
6 1 (1.45%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.45%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.45%) Ping Identity