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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 26 29
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -8
Contract jobs citing Serverless 42 53 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.61% 6.41% 7.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.28% 17.79% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 40 68
10th Percentile £423 £415 £400
25th Percentile £465 £430 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £479 £479
Median % change year-on-year +4.75% -0.10% -4.68%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £532
90th Percentile £550 £538 £552
Scotland median daily rate £510 £476 £475
% change year-on-year +7.14% +0.21% -5.47%

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 258 298 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 40.63% 36.03% 38.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 183 288
10th Percentile £413 £207 £260
25th Percentile £450 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -4.21% -3.06%
75th Percentile £546 £538 £532
90th Percentile £617 £600 £578
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
Median hourly rate £60.00 £22.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +172.73% +24.15% -
Scotland median hourly rate £37.55 £21.14 £23.86
% change year-on-year +77.58% -11.39% +34.65%

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

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 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in Edinburgh

Serverless
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 5 (11.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.76%) Apache
2 2 (4.76%) nginx
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (78.57%) AWS Lambda
3 28 (66.67%) Amazon S3
4 20 (47.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (26.19%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (21.43%) AWS CodePipeline
7 8 (19.05%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (19.05%) GitHub
7 8 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (16.67%) OpenShift
9 6 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
10 4 (9.52%) CloudFront
10 4 (9.52%) GCP
10 4 (9.52%) Textract
11 3 (7.14%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (7.14%) Azure
11 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (7.14%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) HTTP
2 1 (2.38%) DNS
2 1 (2.38%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (47.62%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.38%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.38%) GIS
6 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.38%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 14 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 11 (26.19%) Jenkins
3 10 (23.81%) Storybook
4 5 (11.90%) GitLab
5 4 (9.52%) Liquibase
6 2 (4.76%) MLflow
7 1 (2.38%) Appium
7 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.38%) JIRA
7 1 (2.38%) Selenium
7 1 (2.38%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (30.95%) Public Sector
1 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (9.52%) Banking
4 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (33.33%) Developer
2 6 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (14.29%) Python Engineer
2 6 (14.29%) React Developer
3 5 (11.90%) Architect
4 4 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Lead
4 4 (9.52%) Technical Leader
5 3 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Test Manager
7 1 (2.38%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (66.67%) AWS CDK
2 17 (40.48%) React
3 14 (33.33%) CSS
4 12 (28.57%) PyTorch
5 9 (21.43%) Jest
5 9 (21.43%) Pandas
5 9 (21.43%) REST
5 9 (21.43%) Tailwind CSS
6 8 (19.05%) FastAPI
6 8 (19.05%) NumPy
6 8 (19.05%) SQLAlchemy
7 7 (16.67%) Hugging Face
7 7 (16.67%) OpenCV
7 7 (16.67%) RESTful
8 6 (14.29%) OAuth
9 5 (11.90%) boto
9 5 (11.90%) HTML
10 4 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (9.52%) Next.js
10 4 (9.52%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) Public Cloud
3 3 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 3 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 3 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (69.05%) Infrastructure as Code
2 27 (64.29%) Agile
2 27 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 17 (40.48%) DevOps
4 13 (30.95%) Artificial Intelligence
4 13 (30.95%) Machine Learning
5 12 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 11 (26.19%) Microservices
6 11 (26.19%) TDD
7 10 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (23.81%) OCR
7 10 (23.81%) User Experience
8 9 (21.43%) Kanban
8 9 (21.43%) LLM
9 8 (19.05%) API Development
9 8 (19.05%) DevSecOps
9 8 (19.05%) Scrum
9 8 (19.05%) Software Engineering
10 7 (16.67%) Pair Programming
10 7 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (54.76%) TypeScript
2 22 (52.38%) Python
3 6 (14.29%) Go
3 6 (14.29%) Java
3 6 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.90%) SQL
5 3 (7.14%) Bash
6 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 4 (9.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.14%) Degree
3 3 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (2.38%) OCP
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.81%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.38%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (45.24%) Grafana
2 16 (38.10%) Kubernetes
3 8 (19.05%) Terraform
4 7 (16.67%) Ansible
5 6 (14.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.76%) linkerd
7 1 (2.38%) HAProxy
7 1 (2.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Splunk
2 3 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 3 (7.14%) ForgeRock
2 3 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (2.38%) IBM
3 1 (2.38%) Informatica
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle
3 1 (2.38%) Ping Identity
3 1 (2.38%) StreamSets