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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 23 39
Rank change year-on-year -28 +16 +2
Contract jobs citing Serverless 20 50 42
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.23% 8.24% 4.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.04% 20.24% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 41 39
10th Percentile £481 £438 £396
25th Percentile £490 £458 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £460
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% +7.39% -6.27%
75th Percentile £538 £533 £495
90th Percentile £550 £544 £539
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -2.56%

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 284 247 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 45.88% 40.69% 37.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 159 220
10th Percentile £371 £197 £336
25th Percentile £446 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £455 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -4.21% -
75th Percentile £618 £525 £575
90th Percentile £654 £600 £657
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 1
10th Percentile £22.56 £21.62 -
25th Percentile £36.60 £22.50 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £24.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% +35.44% -
75th Percentile £62.00 £24.18 -
90th Percentile £63.20 £25.86 -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £24.09 £16.57
% change year-on-year +107.56% +45.38% -6.49%

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 31 January 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 5 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (15.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 19 (95.00%) AWS
2 17 (85.00%) AWS Lambda
3 15 (75.00%) Amazon S3
4 9 (45.00%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (25.00%) OpenShift
8 3 (15.00%) Dagster
8 3 (15.00%) Textract
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
9 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
9 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
9 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.00%) Power BI
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) MLflow
2 2 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) git-flow
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Liquibase
General
1 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Python Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Automation Developer
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (75.00%) AWS CDK
2 13 (65.00%) PyTorch
3 11 (55.00%) Pandas
4 10 (50.00%) FastAPI
4 10 (50.00%) NumPy
4 10 (50.00%) SQLAlchemy
5 9 (45.00%) OpenCV
6 8 (40.00%) Hugging Face
6 8 (40.00%) REST
7 6 (30.00%) boto
7 6 (30.00%) JWT
7 6 (30.00%) OAuth
8 3 (15.00%) React
8 3 (15.00%) SpaCy
9 2 (10.00%) JSON
9 2 (10.00%) Node.js
9 2 (10.00%) RESTful
10 1 (5.00%) Spring
10 1 (5.00%) Spring MVC
10 1 (5.00%) Spring Web Flow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 4 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Derivative
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Agile
2 15 (75.00%) AI
3 14 (70.00%) Machine Learning
4 13 (65.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (60.00%) TDD
6 11 (55.00%) LLM
6 11 (55.00%) OCR
7 9 (45.00%) Kanban
7 9 (45.00%) OOP
7 9 (45.00%) Scrum
8 8 (40.00%) Async-Await
8 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
8 8 (40.00%) Pair Programming
9 7 (35.00%) API Development
9 7 (35.00%) Containerisation
9 7 (35.00%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (30.00%) OO
11 5 (25.00%) API Integration
11 5 (25.00%) Computer Vision
11 5 (25.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) Go
5 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (15.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) Grafana
2 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Terraform
4 1 (5.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.00%) Splunk