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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 52 65
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing Serverless 59 67 72
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.67% 4.05% 3.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.58% 10.55% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 57 65
10th Percentile £310 £409 £413
25th Percentile £358 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% +4.17% +0.21%
75th Percentile £475 £553 £525
90th Percentile £533 £575 £542
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -8.70%
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 616 635 740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.33% 38.42% 31.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 441 491
10th Percentile £310 £263 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.81% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £599 £534 £588
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% -51.43%
75th Percentile £57.00 £27.75 £17.67
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £24.85
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +44.38% +21.67% -14.52%

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 12 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 12 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 +30 45 £400 -20.00% 4
Edinburgh -21 14 £518 +6.26% 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 9 (15.25%) Apache
1 9 (15.25%) Apache Spark
2 5 (8.47%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.69%) CMS
3 1 (1.69%) JBoss
3 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (1.69%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (89.83%) AWS
2 42 (71.19%) AWS Lambda
3 34 (57.63%) AWS CloudFormation
4 23 (38.98%) Amazon S3
5 22 (37.29%) Amazon ECS
6 18 (30.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 17 (28.81%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (25.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (25.42%) Azure
9 14 (23.73%) AWS Step Functions
10 12 (20.34%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (16.95%) Snowflake
12 8 (13.56%) Amazon EventBridge
12 8 (13.56%) Amazon SageMaker
12 8 (13.56%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (11.86%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (10.17%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (10.17%) AWS CodePipeline
14 6 (10.17%) AWS KMS
14 6 (10.17%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.56%) Firewall
2 4 (6.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (30.51%) Amazon Athena
2 15 (25.42%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (20.34%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (18.64%) DynamoDB
5 9 (15.25%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (8.47%) Delta Lake
7 3 (5.08%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (5.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.39%) Metadata
8 2 (3.39%) Power BI
9 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (22.03%) GitLab
2 12 (20.34%) Git
2 12 (20.34%) Jenkins
3 10 (16.95%) MLflow
4 9 (15.25%) JIRA
4 9 (15.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (13.56%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.39%) Jasmine
6 2 (3.39%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (3.39%) NUnit
7 1 (1.69%) git-flow
General
1 18 (30.51%) Finance
2 11 (18.64%) Public Sector
3 10 (16.95%) Banking
4 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (25.42%) Architect
2 12 (20.34%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (18.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) Senior
5 8 (13.56%) Data Architect
5 8 (13.56%) Data Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) AWS Architect
7 6 (10.17%) Python Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) Developer
8 5 (8.47%) Snowflake Architect
9 4 (6.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) AWS Data Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (6.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (6.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) AWS Data Architect
10 3 (5.08%) AWS Solution Architect
10 3 (5.08%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (28.81%) Node.js
2 9 (15.25%) OAuth
2 9 (15.25%) PySpark
3 8 (13.56%) JWT
4 7 (11.86%) PyTorch
5 6 (10.17%) .NET
5 6 (10.17%) AWS CDK
5 6 (10.17%) FastAPI
5 6 (10.17%) NumPy
5 6 (10.17%) Pandas
5 6 (10.17%) REST
6 5 (8.47%) OAuth2
6 5 (8.47%) OpenCV
6 5 (8.47%) SQLAlchemy
7 4 (6.78%) AngularJS
7 4 (6.78%) Hugging Face
7 4 (6.78%) scikit-learn
7 4 (6.78%) TensorFlow
8 3 (5.08%) Jest
8 3 (5.08%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 17 (28.81%) Cloud Native
2 11 (18.64%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (13.56%) Algorithms
4 7 (11.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (10.17%) IVR
5 6 (10.17%) NHS
6 4 (6.78%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (5.08%) Data Structures
7 3 (5.08%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (3.39%) Low-Code
9 1 (1.69%) Derivative
9 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.25%) Linux
2 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (64.41%) CI/CD
2 29 (49.15%) Migration
3 28 (47.46%) DevOps
3 28 (47.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (35.59%) Machine Learning
5 20 (33.90%) AI
6 17 (28.81%) Containerisation
7 15 (25.42%) Microservices
8 13 (22.03%) Agile
8 13 (22.03%) Data Engineering
9 12 (20.34%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (20.34%) High Availability
9 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (18.64%) Data Governance
10 11 (18.64%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (16.95%) Analytics
11 10 (16.95%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (16.95%) Unit Testing
12 9 (15.25%) Data Protection
13 8 (13.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (81.36%) Python
2 11 (18.64%) Java
3 8 (13.56%) SQL
4 7 (11.86%) Perl
4 7 (11.86%) PowerShell
4 7 (11.86%) Ruby
5 6 (10.17%) C#
6 4 (6.78%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.08%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (23.73%) AWS Certification
2 6 (10.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (6.78%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) GDPR
2 6 (10.17%) PCI DSS
3 5 (8.47%) Accessibility
3 5 (8.47%) Data Quality
3 5 (8.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.08%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (5.08%) HIPAA
4 3 (5.08%) PMO
5 1 (1.69%) QA
5 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (22.03%) Docker
2 4 (6.78%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (37.29%) Terraform
2 11 (18.64%) Kubernetes
3 10 (16.95%) Ansible
4 8 (13.56%) Grafana
5 3 (5.08%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) Greenplum
2 6 (10.17%) Databricks
2 6 (10.17%) Oracle
3 5 (8.47%) Avaya
3 5 (8.47%) Cisco
3 5 (8.47%) Genesys
3 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.78%) Salesforce
4 4 (6.78%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.08%) Pega
6 1 (1.69%) EnterpriseDB
6 1 (1.69%) Red Hat