Serverless Contracts in Edinburgh

Serverless Computing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 38 28
Rank change year-on-year +6 -10 +9
Contract jobs citing Serverless 38 41 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.82% 4.70% 8.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.07% 12.46% 20.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 36 84
10th Percentile £450 £411 £423
25th Percentile £463 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year +10.44% -6.05% -7.88%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £507
90th Percentile £604 £501 £545
Scotland median daily rate £523 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +13.59% -3.16% -8.65%

All Cloud 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 270 329 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 41.35% 37.69% 40.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 201 365
10th Percentile £303 £205 £232
25th Percentile £425 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £458 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -3.68% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £525
90th Percentile £590 £656 £589
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - £14.53 -
25th Percentile £26.32 £16.15 -
Median hourly rate £27.35 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +60.88% -4.06% -22.96%
75th Percentile £28.38 £17.77 -
90th Percentile - £20.25 -
Scotland median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year +24.82% -63.24% +14.20%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.26%) GeoServer
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.63%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) AWS
2 35 (92.11%) AWS Lambda
3 31 (81.58%) Amazon S3
4 18 (47.37%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (26.32%) AWS CodePipeline
6 8 (21.05%) GitHub
6 8 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (18.42%) Amazon Cognito
8 5 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (13.16%) CloudFront
9 4 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (7.89%) AWS CodeBuild
10 3 (7.89%) Firebase
10 3 (7.89%) OpenShift
11 2 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (5.26%) Azure
11 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (5.26%) Route 53
12 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) DNS
1 1 (2.63%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 13 (34.21%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (23.68%) Oracle Database
4 6 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (13.16%) Relational Database
6 4 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (10.53%) GIS
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (2.63%) Apache Hive
9 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
9 1 (2.63%) Hadoop
9 1 (2.63%) InfluxDB
9 1 (2.63%) Metadata
9 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
9 1 (2.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (36.84%) Cypress.io
2 10 (26.32%) Storybook
3 9 (23.68%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.26%) GitLab
5 1 (2.63%) Appium
5 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.63%) JIRA
5 1 (2.63%) Selenium
5 1 (2.63%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (42.11%) Public Sector
2 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Finance
4 1 (2.63%) Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Developer
2 8 (21.05%) Architect
3 6 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) React Developer
4 4 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Lead
4 4 (10.53%) Software Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Technical Leader
5 3 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Architect
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Developer
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Software Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Test Manager
7 1 (2.63%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (57.89%) AWS CDK
2 19 (50.00%) React
3 12 (31.58%) CSS
4 9 (23.68%) Jest
4 9 (23.68%) Tailwind CSS
5 5 (13.16%) Next.js
5 5 (13.16%) Spring Boot
6 4 (10.53%) GraphQL
6 4 (10.53%) Node.js
6 4 (10.53%) PostGIS
6 4 (10.53%) RESTful
7 3 (7.89%) AWS Amplify
7 3 (7.89%) HTML
7 3 (7.89%) Playwright
7 3 (7.89%) Spring
8 1 (2.63%) JSON Schema
8 1 (2.63%) Loki
8 1 (2.63%) React Native
8 1 (2.63%) TypeORM
8 1 (2.63%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.16%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (39.47%) Agile
4 13 (34.21%) DevOps
5 10 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (26.32%) Microservices
6 9 (23.68%) Computer Science
6 9 (23.68%) User Experience
7 8 (21.05%) DevSecOps
7 8 (21.05%) ETL
7 8 (21.05%) Human-Centred Design
7 8 (21.05%) Inclusive Design
7 8 (21.05%) Migration
7 8 (21.05%) Test Automation
8 7 (18.42%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (15.79%) Architecture Roadmap
9 6 (15.79%) Data Engineering
9 6 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (15.79%) Roadmaps
9 6 (15.79%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 22 (57.89%) TypeScript
2 13 (34.21%) Python
3 12 (31.58%) JavaScript
4 8 (21.05%) Java
5 7 (18.42%) SQL
6 3 (7.89%) Bash
7 1 (2.63%) Go
7 1 (2.63%) Groovy
7 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (23.68%) Degree
2 7 (18.42%) AWS Certification
3 4 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) OCP
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.05%) Accessibility
2 5 (13.16%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Grafana
2 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.89%) Ansible
3 3 (7.89%) Terraform
4 1 (2.63%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.63%) Kibana
4 1 (2.63%) linkerd
4 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Oracle
2 2 (5.26%) Dynatrace
2 2 (5.26%) ForgeRock
3 1 (2.63%) IBM
3 1 (2.63%) Informatica
3 1 (2.63%) StreamSets