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 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 29 30
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Serverless 36 40 43
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.64% 6.35% 4.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.40% 15.33% 13.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 31 38
10th Percentile £368 £450 £412
25th Percentile £422 £463 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -6.05%
75th Percentile £524 £538 £492
90th Percentile £556 £600 £498
Scotland median daily rate £444 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -15.48% +13.51% -3.44%

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 346 261 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.59% 41.43% 35.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 173 198
10th Percentile £350 £302 £213
25th Percentile £413 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.66% -3.53%
75th Percentile £598 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £597 £663
Scotland median daily rate £478 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.58% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £54.80 - £15.80
25th Percentile £58.25 £26.32 £16.50
Median hourly rate £64.00 £27.35 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +134.00% +60.88% -4.06%
75th Percentile - £28.38 £17.50
90th Percentile - - £20.84
Scotland median hourly rate £24.72 £21.22 £17.00
% change year-on-year +16.49% +24.82% -71.92%

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 8 June 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 8 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (19.44%) Apache
3 1 (2.78%) JBoss
3 1 (2.78%) nginx
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 31 (86.11%) AWS
2 24 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
3 21 (58.33%) Amazon S3
4 10 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (16.67%) Azure
8 5 (13.89%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (13.89%) Azure Functions
9 4 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (11.11%) Dagster
10 3 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (2.78%) Azure Storage
12 1 (2.78%) GitHub
12 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
12 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.78%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 4 (11.11%) MLflow
3 2 (5.56%) Jasmine
3 2 (5.56%) Karma Test Runner
3 2 (5.56%) NUnit
4 1 (2.78%) Git
4 1 (2.78%) git-flow
4 1 (2.78%) JIRA
4 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Finance
3 1 (2.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Python Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Cloud Developer
4 5 (13.89%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Architect
6 3 (8.33%) AWS Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Lead
7 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.78%) C# Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Data Architect
8 1 (2.78%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) AWS CDK
2 9 (25.00%) FastAPI
2 9 (25.00%) OpenCV
2 9 (25.00%) Pandas
2 9 (25.00%) PyTorch
3 7 (19.44%) .NET
3 7 (19.44%) Hugging Face
3 7 (19.44%) NumPy
4 6 (16.67%) JWT
4 6 (16.67%) SQLAlchemy
5 4 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 4 (11.11%) ASP.NET
5 4 (11.11%) boto
5 4 (11.11%) OAuth
5 4 (11.11%) REST
6 3 (8.33%) .NET Framework
6 3 (8.33%) Entity Framework
6 3 (8.33%) LINQ
6 3 (8.33%) NgRx
6 3 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (38.89%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 4 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 3 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.56%) IVR
4 2 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) Agile
2 12 (33.33%) Kanban
2 12 (33.33%) Scrum
2 12 (33.33%) TDD
3 10 (27.78%) AI
3 10 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 10 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (27.78%) Microservices
3 10 (27.78%) Pair Programming
4 9 (25.00%) ETL
4 9 (25.00%) LLM
4 9 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 9 (25.00%) OCR
5 7 (19.44%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (16.67%) Async-Await
6 6 (16.67%) OO
6 6 (16.67%) OOP
7 5 (13.89%) API Development
7 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (13.89%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) Python
2 9 (25.00%) SQL
3 8 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 8 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.33%) C#
5 2 (5.56%) Java
6 1 (2.78%) Bash
6 1 (2.78%) Go
6 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.89%) Grafana
3 2 (5.56%) Terraform
4 1 (2.78%) Ansible
4 1 (2.78%) linkerd
4 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.78%) EnterpriseDB
2 1 (2.78%) Red Hat