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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 26 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Serverless 34 40 56
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.01% 6.58% 6.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.11% 16.13% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 34 43
10th Percentile £406 £422 £421
25th Percentile £413 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £501 £477
Median % change year-on-year -11.47% +5.08% -0.47%
75th Percentile £511 £538 £507
90th Percentile £547 £550 £537
Scotland median daily rate £438 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -12.50% +5.26% -

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 306 248 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 45.07% 40.79% 35.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 140 180
10th Percentile £230 £412 £204
25th Percentile £375 £450 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -4.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £526
90th Percentile £638 £625 £588
Scotland median daily rate £473 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.50% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 7
10th Percentile - - £16.20
25th Percentile - - £18.92
Median hourly rate £15.81 £60.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.65% +172.73% +24.15%
75th Percentile £18.75 - £24.18
90th Percentile £26.50 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £37.55 £21.14
% change year-on-year -57.89% +77.58% +19.31%

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 6 October 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 5 (14.71%) Apache
2 4 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (5.88%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.88%) JBoss
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (97.06%) AWS
2 26 (76.47%) AWS Lambda
3 24 (70.59%) Amazon S3
4 13 (38.24%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (20.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (14.71%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (8.82%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (8.82%) OpenShift
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (2.94%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (2.94%) Amazon Macie
10 1 (2.94%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (2.94%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (2.94%) Azure Functions
10 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (2.94%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) CTI
1 1 (2.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.82%) DynamoDB
2 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.94%) Power BI
4 1 (2.94%) Power Query
4 1 (2.94%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Cypress.io
2 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.94%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) GitLab
3 1 (2.94%) MLflow
General
1 8 (23.53%) Public Sector
1 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Banking
3 1 (2.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Developer
2 8 (23.53%) Architect
3 6 (17.65%) Cloud Developer
4 5 (14.71%) AWS Developer
5 4 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Python Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) AWS Architect
6 3 (8.82%) AWS Data Architect
6 3 (8.82%) Data Architect
7 2 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Technical Architect
8 1 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (2.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Power Platform Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) AWS CDK
2 5 (14.71%) FastAPI
2 5 (14.71%) OpenCV
2 5 (14.71%) Pandas
2 5 (14.71%) PyTorch
3 4 (11.76%) Hugging Face
3 4 (11.76%) PySpark
3 4 (11.76%) REST
4 3 (8.82%) NumPy
4 3 (8.82%) RESTful
5 2 (5.88%) .NET
5 2 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.88%) JWT
5 2 (5.88%) OAuth
5 2 (5.88%) Spring
5 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.88%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (2.94%) boto
6 1 (2.94%) Flask
6 1 (2.94%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 20 (58.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.82%) IVR
3 2 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Linux
1 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) Agile
2 12 (35.29%) Microservices
3 11 (32.35%) TDD
4 10 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 10 (29.41%) Pair Programming
5 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (23.53%) Kanban
6 8 (23.53%) Scrum
7 7 (20.59%) AI
7 7 (20.59%) Analytics
7 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (20.59%) ETL
7 7 (20.59%) Event-Driven
8 6 (17.65%) Machine Learning
8 6 (17.65%) Migration
9 5 (14.71%) Data Governance
9 5 (14.71%) DevOps
9 5 (14.71%) Human-Centred Design
9 5 (14.71%) Integration Patterns
9 5 (14.71%) OCR
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) JavaScript
2 9 (26.47%) TypeScript
3 5 (14.71%) SQL
4 4 (11.76%) Java
5 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.88%) EnterpriseDB
2 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft