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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 35 42
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Serverless 15 34 40
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.39% 5.58% 4.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.32% 13.33% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 28 37
10th Percentile £358 £446 £408
25th Percentile £442 £459 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £487 £470
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% +3.73% -2.09%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £506
90th Percentile £540 £555 £539
Scotland median daily rate £402 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -19.60% +4.17% +0.21%

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 282 255 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.90% 41.87% 39.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 169 206
10th Percentile £350 £194 £319
25th Percentile £413 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £470 £480
Median % change year-on-year +9.04% -2.08% +1.05%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £669
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile £23.36 £21.84 £15.80
25th Percentile £38.60 £22.50 £16.50
Median hourly rate £64.00 £24.09 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +165.67% +41.71% -4.06%
75th Percentile - £25.23 £17.50
90th Percentile - £28.38 £17.61
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £24.18 £17.00
% change year-on-year +44.75% +42.24% -51.43%

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 11 March 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 3 (20.00%) Apache
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.67%) JBoss
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 9 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (53.33%) Amazon S3
4 5 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (26.67%) Azure
5 4 (26.67%) Azure Functions
6 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (13.33%) Dagster
7 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
8 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (6.67%) GitHub
8 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
8 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Jasmine
1 2 (13.33%) Karma Test Runner
1 2 (13.33%) MLflow
1 2 (13.33%) NUnit
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) git-flow
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (6.67%) C# Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) AWS CDK
1 7 (46.67%) NumPy
1 7 (46.67%) Pandas
2 6 (40.00%) FastAPI
2 6 (40.00%) PyTorch
2 6 (40.00%) SQLAlchemy
3 5 (33.33%) Hugging Face
3 5 (33.33%) JWT
3 5 (33.33%) OpenCV
3 5 (33.33%) REST
4 4 (26.67%) .NET
4 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
4 4 (26.67%) boto
4 4 (26.67%) OAuth
5 3 (20.00%) .NET Core
5 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
5 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 3 (20.00%) Entity Framework
5 3 (20.00%) LINQ
5 3 (20.00%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Derivative
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Low-Code
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) AI
3 7 (46.67%) Kanban
3 7 (46.67%) LLM
3 7 (46.67%) Machine Learning
3 7 (46.67%) Scrum
4 6 (40.00%) Async-Await
4 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (40.00%) OCR
4 6 (40.00%) OOP
4 6 (40.00%) User Experience
5 5 (33.33%) API Development
5 5 (33.33%) OO
5 5 (33.33%) Pair Programming
5 5 (33.33%) TDD
6 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
6 4 (26.67%) DevOps
6 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (20.00%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) C#
4 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Grafana
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) EnterpriseDB
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat