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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 28 24
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Serverless 36 41 55
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.22% 6.55% 6.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.69% 15.71% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 35 42
10th Percentile £407 £422 £421
25th Percentile £413 £464 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £503 £479
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +5.02% -0.21%
75th Percentile £516 £538 £510
90th Percentile £555 £550 £537
Scotland median daily rate £450 £503 £475
% change year-on-year -10.45% +5.79% -

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 308 261 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.70% 41.69% 36.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 146 186
10th Percentile £212 £413 £192
25th Percentile £375 £450 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -4.96%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £533
90th Percentile £639 £625 £591
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +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 28 September 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 6 (16.67%) Apache
2 5 (13.89%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.56%) JBoss
4 1 (2.78%) nginx
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 35 (97.22%) AWS
2 27 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
3 25 (69.44%) Amazon S3
4 14 (38.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (13.89%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (13.89%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (8.33%) OpenShift
9 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (5.56%) Azure
9 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (5.56%) Dagster
10 1 (2.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (2.78%) Amazon Macie
10 1 (2.78%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) HTTP
2 1 (2.78%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 3 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.78%) Power BI
5 1 (2.78%) Power Query
5 1 (2.78%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Cypress.io
2 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) MLflow
2 2 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.78%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) GitLab
General
1 8 (22.22%) Public Sector
1 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Banking
3 1 (2.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Architect
3 6 (16.67%) Cloud Developer
4 5 (13.89%) AWS Developer
4 5 (13.89%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Python Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) AWS Architect
5 3 (8.33%) AWS Data Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Power Platform Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) AWS CDK
2 6 (16.67%) FastAPI
2 6 (16.67%) OpenCV
2 6 (16.67%) Pandas
2 6 (16.67%) PyTorch
3 5 (13.89%) Hugging Face
3 5 (13.89%) REST
4 4 (11.11%) NumPy
4 4 (11.11%) PySpark
5 3 (8.33%) JWT
5 3 (8.33%) OAuth
5 3 (8.33%) RESTful
5 3 (8.33%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (5.56%) .NET
6 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.56%) boto
6 2 (5.56%) Spring
6 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
6 2 (5.56%) Terraform
7 1 (2.78%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 21 (58.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) IVR
3 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) Agile
2 12 (33.33%) Microservices
2 12 (33.33%) TDD
3 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
3 11 (30.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (30.56%) Pair Programming
4 9 (25.00%) Kanban
4 9 (25.00%) Scrum
5 8 (22.22%) AI
5 8 (22.22%) ETL
6 7 (19.44%) Analytics
6 7 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (19.44%) Event-Driven
6 7 (19.44%) Machine Learning
7 6 (16.67%) DevOps
7 6 (16.67%) LLM
7 6 (16.67%) Migration
7 6 (16.67%) OCR
8 5 (13.89%) API Development
8 5 (13.89%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) Python
2 9 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 6 (16.67%) SQL
4 4 (11.11%) Java
5 1 (2.78%) Bash
5 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.78%) Go
5 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) linkerd
3 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.56%) EnterpriseDB
2 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft