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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 32 41
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 -13
Contract jobs citing Serverless 40 33 40
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.20% 5.17% 4.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.87% 13.04% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 28 32
10th Percentile £383 £443 £413
25th Percentile £411 £458 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £494 £454
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% +8.87% -5.32%
75th Percentile £508 £526 £494
90th Percentile £553 £562 £538
Scotland median daily rate £433 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -13.50% +5.26% -0.42%

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 337 253 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 43.82% 39.66% 39.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 159 196
10th Percentile £350 £363 £179
25th Percentile £413 £431 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -3.12%
75th Percentile £575 £536 £550
90th Percentile £650 £591 £650
Scotland median daily rate £470 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -1.05% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 12
10th Percentile - - £15.24
25th Percentile - £26.32 £16.50
Median hourly rate £15.81 £27.35 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year -42.19% +54.63% -0.18%
75th Percentile £36.66 £28.38 £23.30
90th Percentile £60.10 - £24.18
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £21.22 £18.69
% change year-on-year -25.49% +13.55% -67.50%

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 30 July 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 7 (17.50%) Apache
2 6 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (7.50%) JBoss
4 2 (5.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (2.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 35 (87.50%) AWS
2 26 (65.00%) AWS Lambda
3 24 (60.00%) Amazon S3
4 14 (35.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (17.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (15.00%) Amazon EMR
6 6 (15.00%) Azure
7 5 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (12.50%) Azure Functions
8 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (10.00%) OpenShift
9 3 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (7.50%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (5.00%) Dagster
11 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
11 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (7.50%) DynamoDB
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.50%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Cypress.io
2 3 (7.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (5.00%) Jasmine
3 2 (5.00%) Karma Test Runner
3 2 (5.00%) MLflow
3 2 (5.00%) NUnit
4 1 (2.50%) Git
4 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (27.50%) Public Sector
2 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (47.50%) Developer
2 8 (20.00%) Architect
3 6 (15.00%) Cloud Developer
4 5 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Python Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) AWS Developer
6 3 (7.50%) AWS Architect
6 3 (7.50%) AWS Data Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Data Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Technical Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Lead
7 2 (5.00%) Senior
7 2 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) AWS CDK
2 7 (17.50%) .NET
3 6 (15.00%) FastAPI
3 6 (15.00%) OpenCV
3 6 (15.00%) Pandas
3 6 (15.00%) PyTorch
4 5 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 5 (12.50%) Hugging Face
5 4 (10.00%) ASP.NET
5 4 (10.00%) NumPy
5 4 (10.00%) PySpark
6 3 (7.50%) .NET Core
6 3 (7.50%) .NET Framework
6 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (7.50%) JWT
6 3 (7.50%) LINQ
6 3 (7.50%) NgRx
6 3 (7.50%) OAuth
6 3 (7.50%) RESTful
6 3 (7.50%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 20 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.00%) IVR
3 2 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) Agile
2 14 (35.00%) Microservices
3 13 (32.50%) CI/CD
4 12 (30.00%) TDD
5 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (27.50%) Kanban
5 11 (27.50%) Pair Programming
5 11 (27.50%) Scrum
6 9 (22.50%) ETL
7 7 (17.50%) AI
7 7 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (17.50%) DevOps
7 7 (17.50%) Migration
8 6 (15.00%) Analytics
8 6 (15.00%) Data Governance
8 6 (15.00%) Event-Driven
8 6 (15.00%) LLM
8 6 (15.00%) Machine Learning
8 6 (15.00%) OCR
9 5 (12.50%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) Python
2 11 (27.50%) SQL
3 10 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.00%) Java
5 3 (7.50%) C#
6 1 (2.50%) Bash
6 1 (2.50%) Go
6 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Grafana
1 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.50%) Ansible
3 1 (2.50%) linkerd
3 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) EnterpriseDB
1 3 (7.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (5.00%) Salesforce