Serverless Contracts in Edinburgh

Serverless Computing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Serverless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serverless over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 31 30
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +41
Contract jobs citing Serverless 38 42 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.08% 5.15% 7.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.57% 13.82% 19.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 39 89
10th Percentile £450 £400 £423
25th Percentile £464 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £458 £480
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -4.59% -8.67%
75th Percentile £538 £482 £523
90th Percentile £600 £508 £546
Scotland median daily rate £525 £475 £479
% change year-on-year +10.53% -0.84% -8.76%

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 280 304 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.80% 37.30% 38.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 188 390
10th Percentile £250 £300 £259
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £679 £618
Scotland median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £21.62 £15.80 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -4.06% -39.93%
75th Percentile £26.28 £17.50 -
90th Percentile £28.38 £17.61 -
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.26%) GeoServer
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.63%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) AWS
2 35 (92.11%) AWS Lambda
3 33 (86.84%) Amazon S3
4 18 (47.37%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (34.21%) AWS CodePipeline
6 10 (26.32%) OpenShift
7 9 (23.68%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (18.42%) Route 53
9 6 (15.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 6 (15.79%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (15.79%) CloudFront
10 5 (13.16%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (13.16%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 5 (13.16%) AWS CodeBuild
10 5 (13.16%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (10.53%) Amazon Cognito
11 4 (10.53%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 4 (10.53%) GitHub
11 4 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (10.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Firewall
2 1 (2.63%) DNS
2 1 (2.63%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (36.84%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (31.58%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (23.68%) Oracle Database
5 8 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (13.16%) Relational Database
7 4 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (10.53%) GIS
8 3 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (7.89%) MySQL
9 2 (5.26%) InfluxDB
10 1 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (2.63%) Apache Hive
10 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
10 1 (2.63%) Hadoop
10 1 (2.63%) Metadata
10 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) Jenkins
2 7 (18.42%) Cypress.io
3 6 (15.79%) GitLab
3 6 (15.79%) Storybook
4 4 (10.53%) Git
5 3 (7.89%) Artifactory
6 2 (5.26%) Ant
6 2 (5.26%) webpack
7 1 (2.63%) Appium
7 1 (2.63%) JIRA
7 1 (2.63%) Selenium
7 1 (2.63%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (42.11%) Public Sector
2 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Finance
4 1 (2.63%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) Developer
2 7 (18.42%) Data Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Architect
3 6 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) AWS Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) React Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Software Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Software Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Architect
7 1 (2.63%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (2.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) DevOps Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (55.26%) AWS CDK
2 13 (34.21%) React
3 6 (15.79%) Jest
3 6 (15.79%) Node.js
3 6 (15.79%) PostGIS
4 5 (13.16%) CSS
4 5 (13.16%) Spring Boot
4 5 (13.16%) Tailwind CSS
5 4 (10.53%) REST
5 4 (10.53%) RESTful
6 3 (7.89%) JSON
6 3 (7.89%) JSON Schema
6 3 (7.89%) Next.js
6 3 (7.89%) OAuth
6 3 (7.89%) Spring
6 3 (7.89%) TypeORM
7 2 (5.26%) GraphQL
7 2 (5.26%) Playwright
8 1 (2.63%) OpenAPI
8 1 (2.63%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
1 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (5.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (57.89%) CI/CD
2 17 (44.74%) Agile
3 13 (34.21%) DevOps
3 13 (34.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (34.21%) Kanban
3 13 (34.21%) Scrum
3 13 (34.21%) Test Automation
4 12 (31.58%) Migration
5 10 (26.32%) Human-Centred Design
5 10 (26.32%) Inclusive Design
6 9 (23.68%) Computer Science
6 9 (23.68%) Data Migration
6 9 (23.68%) ETL
7 8 (21.05%) Data Engineering
7 8 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (21.05%) Microservices
7 8 (21.05%) TDD
7 8 (21.05%) User Experience
8 7 (18.42%) Data Transformation
9 6 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 20 (52.63%) Python
2 16 (42.11%) TypeScript
3 11 (28.95%) SQL
4 10 (26.32%) JavaScript
5 8 (21.05%) Bash
6 7 (18.42%) Java
7 4 (10.53%) Groovy
8 1 (2.63%) Go
8 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (23.68%) Degree
2 6 (15.79%) AWS Certification
3 4 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.63%) OCP
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.42%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (15.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Grafana
2 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
3 5 (13.16%) Ansible
4 3 (7.89%) Kibana
5 1 (2.63%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.63%) linkerd
5 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Oracle
2 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.63%) ForgeRock
2 1 (2.63%) IBM
2 1 (2.63%) Imperva
2 1 (2.63%) Informatica
2 1 (2.63%) StreamSets