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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 35 34
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -7
Contract jobs citing Serverless 40 35 36
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.18% 5.41% 4.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.27% 13.57% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 30 28
10th Percentile £387 £425 £412
25th Percentile £409 £453 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £487 £463
Median % change year-on-year -8.88% +5.30% -3.50%
75th Percentile £504 £523 £494
90th Percentile £552 £551 £543
Scotland median daily rate £428 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -14.50% +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 326 258 317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 42.23% 39.88% 38.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 155 186
10th Percentile £325 £413 £178
25th Percentile £407 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% -2.70%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £539
90th Percentile £646 £588 £650
Scotland median daily rate £473 £478 £450
% change year-on-year -1.05% +6.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 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 - £28.38 £23.30
90th Percentile £36.66 - £24.18
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £21.22 £18.69
% change year-on-year -25.49% +13.55% -59.59%

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 7 August 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 2 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.00%) JBoss
4 1 (2.50%) nginx
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 35 (87.50%) AWS
2 27 (67.50%) AWS Lambda
3 25 (62.50%) Amazon S3
4 14 (35.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (20.00%) 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%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (7.50%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (7.50%) OpenShift
10 2 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (5.00%) Dagster
11 1 (2.50%) Azure API Management
11 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (7.50%) DynamoDB
3 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
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 2 (5.00%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) Jasmine
2 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.00%) Karma Test Runner
2 2 (5.00%) MLflow
2 2 (5.00%) NUnit
2 2 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.50%) GitLab
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%) Banking
4 1 (2.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (50.00%) Developer
2 7 (17.50%) Architect
3 6 (15.00%) Cloud Developer
4 5 (12.50%) AWS Developer
4 5 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Python Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack 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
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
7 2 (5.00%) Technical Architect
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
5 4 (10.00%) REST
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%) React
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%) IVR
3 2 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) Agile
2 15 (37.50%) Microservices
3 14 (35.00%) 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 8 (20.00%) DevOps
8 7 (17.50%) AI
8 7 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (17.50%) Migration
9 6 (15.00%) Analytics
9 6 (15.00%) Data Governance
9 6 (15.00%) Event-Driven
9 6 (15.00%) LLM
9 6 (15.00%) Machine Learning
9 6 (15.00%) OCR
10 5 (12.50%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) Python
2 11 (27.50%) SQL
3 10 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 9 (22.50%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.00%) Java
6 3 (7.50%) C#
7 1 (2.50%) Bash
7 1 (2.50%) Go
7 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) 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 5 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.00%) Grafana
3 2 (5.00%) Terraform
4 1 (2.50%) Ansible
4 1 (2.50%) linkerd
4 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (5.00%) EnterpriseDB
1 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (5.00%) Salesforce