Serverless Contract Job Trends in Scotland
Serverless Computing
UK > Scotland
The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland citing Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 24 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 87 | 53 | 53 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -34 | 0 | -11 |
| Contract jobs citing Serverless | 52 | 61 | 68 |
| As % of all contract jobs in Scotland | 2.17% | 3.82% | 3.70% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 6.47% | 10.46% | 11.89% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 32 | 54 | 54 |
| 10th Percentile | £400 | £400 | £415 |
| 25th Percentile | £405 | £425 | £439 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £433 | £500 | £475 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -13.50% | +5.26% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £500 | £538 | £513 |
| 90th Percentile | £557 | £568 | £536 |
| UK median daily rate | £529 | £520 | £525 |
| % change year-on-year | +1.73% | -0.95% | -2.78% |
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 citing cloud computing skills in Scotland.
| 6 months to 24 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills | 804 | 583 | 572 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland | 33.53% | 36.48% | 31.15% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 482 | 379 | 354 |
| 10th Percentile | £276 | £350 | £213 |
| 25th Percentile | £400 | £423 | £375 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £464 | £500 | £450 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -7.25% | +11.11% | -5.26% |
| 75th Percentile | £538 | £572 | £529 |
| 90th Percentile | £625 | £626 | £594 |
| UK median daily rate | £525 | £500 | £525 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.00% | -4.76% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 9 | 2 | 8 |
| 10th Percentile | - | £19.58 | £16.69 |
| 25th Percentile | - | £26.32 | £18.42 |
| Median hourly rate | £15.81 | £37.55 | £21.14 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -57.89% | +77.58% | +19.31% |
| 75th Percentile | £18.75 | £48.77 | £24.18 |
| 90th Percentile | £26.50 | £55.51 | - |
| UK median hourly rate | £30.00 | £25.15 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +19.28% | -28.14% | +9.38% |
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 Daily Rate Trend in Scotland
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 24 October 2026.
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 24 October 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 |
Job Ads Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year |
Live Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh | -16 | 32 | £438 | -12.72% | 12 |
| Glasgow | -23 | 18 | £402 | -10.67% | 12 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | - | 2 | - | - | |
| Serverless UK |
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Serverless Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 96.2% | 50 |
| 2 | AWS Lambda | 82.7% | 43 |
| 3 | Amazon S3 | 59.6% | 31 |
| 4 | AWS CloudFormation | 34.6% | 18 |
| 5 | Amazon ECS | 23.1% | 12 |
| 6 | Amazon EKS | 21.2% | 11 |
| 7 | Amazon CloudWatch | 17.3% | 9 |
| 7 | Amazon SQS | 17.3% | 9 |
| 9 | AWS Step Functions | 11.5% | 6 |
| 9 | Virtual Private Cloud | 11.5% | 6 |
| 11 | Amazon EMR | 9.6% | 5 |
| 11 | Amazon MSK | 9.6% | 5 |
| 13 | Akamai | 7.7% | 4 |
| 13 | Amazon EC2 | 7.7% | 4 |
| 13 | Amazon EventBridge | 7.7% | 4 |
| 13 | Amazon SageMaker | 7.7% | 4 |
| 13 | AWS Direct Connect | 7.7% | 4 |
| 13 | Cloudflare | 7.7% | 4 |
| 13 | Kong | 7.7% | 4 |
| 20 | Amazon Kinesis | 5.8% | 3 |