Serverless Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Serverless Computing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Serverless skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 22 38
Rank change year-on-year -19 +16 +5
Contract jobs citing Serverless 23 49 42
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.90% 7.92% 4.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.98% 19.68% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 40 39
10th Percentile £419 £436 £410
25th Percentile £470 £454 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £492 £480
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% +2.45% -1.69%
75th Percentile £538 £527 £538
90th Percentile £540 £550 £559
Scotland median daily rate £450 £491 £498
% change year-on-year -8.35% -1.31% +2.05%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 256 249 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 43.46% 40.23% 38.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 151 224
10th Percentile £371 £192 £300
25th Percentile £441 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £592 £525 £550
90th Percentile £625 £600 £634
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 1
10th Percentile £17.88 £20.30 -
25th Percentile £24.90 £21.75 -
Median hourly rate £36.95 £24.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +53.97% +35.44% -
75th Percentile £48.65 £24.18 -
90th Percentile £55.46 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £31.95 £24.00 £15.42
% change year-on-year +33.14% +55.64% -12.98%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Serverless job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Serverless
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Serverless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Serverless

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in Edinburgh

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.70%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (4.35%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (95.65%) AWS
2 16 (69.57%) AWS Lambda
3 15 (65.22%) Amazon S3
4 9 (39.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (34.78%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (30.43%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (26.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (26.09%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (26.09%) OpenShift
8 4 (17.39%) GCP
8 4 (17.39%) Textract
9 2 (8.70%) Azure
9 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (8.70%) Dagster
10 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
10 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
10 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
10 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (26.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 4 (17.39%) GitLab
2 4 (17.39%) Liquibase
3 3 (13.04%) Cypress.io
4 2 (8.70%) MLflow
General
1 8 (34.78%) Public Sector
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 3 (13.04%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Developer
1 6 (26.09%) Python Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) GCP Software Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Power Platform Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (60.87%) AWS CDK
2 12 (52.17%) PyTorch
3 10 (43.48%) REST
4 9 (39.13%) Pandas
5 8 (34.78%) FastAPI
5 8 (34.78%) NumPy
5 8 (34.78%) SQLAlchemy
6 7 (30.43%) Hugging Face
6 7 (30.43%) OpenCV
7 6 (26.09%) OAuth
8 5 (21.74%) boto
9 4 (17.39%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (17.39%) JWT
9 4 (17.39%) RESTful
9 4 (17.39%) SpaCy
10 3 (13.04%) React
11 2 (8.70%) OAuth2
11 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
11 2 (8.70%) Spring MVC
11 2 (8.70%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Algorithms
2 3 (13.04%) Data Structures
2 3 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (13.04%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Derivative
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
4 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) Agile
2 17 (73.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (60.87%) AI
4 13 (56.52%) CI/CD
4 13 (56.52%) Machine Learning
5 11 (47.83%) TDD
6 10 (43.48%) DevOps
6 10 (43.48%) OCR
7 9 (39.13%) Containerisation
7 9 (39.13%) LLM
8 8 (34.78%) Kanban
8 8 (34.78%) Scrum
9 7 (30.43%) API Development
9 7 (30.43%) OOP
10 6 (26.09%) Async-Await
10 6 (26.09%) Microservices
10 6 (26.09%) Pair Programming
10 6 (26.09%) Software Engineering
11 5 (21.74%) User Experience
12 4 (17.39%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 20 (86.96%) Python
2 9 (39.13%) TypeScript
3 5 (21.74%) Go
3 5 (21.74%) SQL
4 4 (17.39%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) Bash
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
2 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Master's Degree
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (65.22%) Grafana
2 12 (52.17%) Kubernetes
3 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
3 5 (21.74%) Terraform
4 4 (17.39%) Ansible
5 1 (4.35%) linkerd
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Splunk
2 3 (13.04%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.35%) ForgeRock
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Ping Identity