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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 31 40
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing Serverless 27 41 49
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.47% 6.07% 5.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.98% 15.47% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 32 43
10th Percentile £419 £438 £400
25th Percentile £489 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £486 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +1.15% -1.84%
75th Percentile £538 £521 £538
90th Percentile £544 £543 £555
Scotland median daily rate £450 £480 £478
% change year-on-year -6.25% +0.52% -2.35%

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 246 265 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 40.73% 39.26% 40.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 147 248
10th Percentile £400 £192 £300
25th Percentile £443 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £551 £538 £545
90th Percentile £625 £600 £600
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 1
10th Percentile £17.88 £18.48 -
25th Percentile £24.90 £20.30 -
Median hourly rate £36.95 £23.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +60.66% +29.80% -
75th Percentile £48.65 £24.18 -
90th Percentile £55.46 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £36.95 £23.00 £16.57
% change year-on-year +60.66% +38.81% -6.49%

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 November 2025.

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 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (7.41%) Apache
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (3.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 26 (96.30%) AWS
2 20 (74.07%) AWS Lambda
3 19 (70.37%) Amazon S3
4 12 (44.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (29.63%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (25.93%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (22.22%) OpenShift
8 4 (14.81%) GCP
8 4 (14.81%) Textract
9 2 (7.41%) Azure
9 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (7.41%) Dagster
10 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
10 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
10 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
10 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
10 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Cypress.io
2 5 (18.52%) Jenkins
3 4 (14.81%) Liquibase
4 3 (11.11%) GitLab
5 2 (7.41%) MLflow
General
1 12 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Finance
4 3 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Developer
1 6 (22.22%) Python Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Lead
2 4 (14.81%) Technical Leader
3 3 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Automation Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Software Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) GCP Software Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (66.67%) AWS CDK
2 12 (44.44%) PyTorch
3 9 (33.33%) Pandas
3 9 (33.33%) REST
4 8 (29.63%) FastAPI
4 8 (29.63%) NumPy
4 8 (29.63%) SQLAlchemy
5 7 (25.93%) Hugging Face
5 7 (25.93%) OpenCV
5 7 (25.93%) React
6 6 (22.22%) OAuth
7 5 (18.52%) boto
7 5 (18.52%) CSS
7 5 (18.52%) HTML
8 4 (14.81%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (14.81%) JWT
8 4 (14.81%) RESTful
8 4 (14.81%) SpaCy
9 3 (11.11%) Next.js
10 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 3 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 3 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (88.89%) Agile
2 19 (70.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (48.15%) AI
3 13 (48.15%) CI/CD
3 13 (48.15%) Machine Learning
4 11 (40.74%) DevOps
5 10 (37.04%) OCR
5 10 (37.04%) TDD
6 9 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 9 (33.33%) LLM
7 8 (29.63%) Kanban
7 8 (29.63%) Software Engineering
8 7 (25.93%) API Development
8 7 (25.93%) Microservices
8 7 (25.93%) OOP
8 7 (25.93%) Scrum
9 6 (22.22%) Async-Await
9 6 (22.22%) Pair Programming
9 6 (22.22%) Service Design
9 6 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (70.37%) Python
2 13 (48.15%) TypeScript
3 5 (18.52%) Go
4 4 (14.81%) Java
4 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 4 (14.81%) SQL
5 1 (3.70%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) AWS Certification
2 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (59.26%) Grafana
2 13 (48.15%) Kubernetes
3 6 (22.22%) Terraform
4 5 (18.52%) Prometheus
5 4 (14.81%) Ansible
6 1 (3.70%) linkerd
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Splunk
2 3 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.70%) ForgeRock
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Ping Identity