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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 24 43
Rank change year-on-year -13 +19 -5
Contract jobs citing Serverless 25 48 42
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.30% 7.72% 4.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.16% 19.05% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 39 39
10th Percentile £419 £435 £410
25th Percentile £469 £453 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £491 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% +2.29% -1.54%
75th Percentile £538 £529 £538
90th Percentile £540 £551 £559
Scotland median daily rate £450 £486 £498
% change year-on-year -7.31% -2.41% +2.05%

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 246 252 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 42.27% 40.51% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 149 224
10th Percentile £371 £192 £300
25th Percentile £438 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £525 £550
90th Percentile £625 £600 £625
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 1
10th Percentile £17.88 £19.71 -
25th Percentile £24.90 £20.82 -
Median hourly rate £36.95 £23.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +57.24% +32.62% -
75th Percentile £48.65 £24.18 -
90th Percentile £55.46 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £31.95 £23.50 £15.42
% change year-on-year +35.97% +52.40% -12.98%

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 25 December 2025.

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 4 (16.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.00%) Apache
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (4.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 24 (96.00%) AWS
2 18 (72.00%) AWS Lambda
3 17 (68.00%) Amazon S3
4 10 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (32.00%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (28.00%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (24.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (24.00%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (24.00%) OpenShift
8 4 (16.00%) GCP
8 4 (16.00%) Textract
9 2 (8.00%) Azure
9 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (8.00%) Dagster
10 1 (4.00%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
10 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
10 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
10 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
10 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (32.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.00%) GitLab
2 4 (16.00%) Liquibase
3 2 (8.00%) MLflow
General
1 10 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Developer
1 6 (24.00%) Python Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Lead
3 2 (8.00%) Senior
3 2 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Technical Leader
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) GCP Software Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (64.00%) AWS CDK
2 12 (48.00%) PyTorch
3 10 (40.00%) REST
4 9 (36.00%) Pandas
5 8 (32.00%) FastAPI
5 8 (32.00%) NumPy
5 8 (32.00%) SQLAlchemy
6 7 (28.00%) Hugging Face
6 7 (28.00%) OpenCV
7 6 (24.00%) OAuth
8 5 (20.00%) boto
8 5 (20.00%) React
9 4 (16.00%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (16.00%) JWT
9 4 (16.00%) RESTful
9 4 (16.00%) SpaCy
10 3 (12.00%) CSS
10 3 (12.00%) HTML
11 2 (8.00%) .NET
11 2 (8.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (12.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Derivative
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (88.00%) Agile
2 18 (72.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (56.00%) AI
4 13 (52.00%) CI/CD
4 13 (52.00%) Machine Learning
5 11 (44.00%) DevOps
5 11 (44.00%) TDD
6 10 (40.00%) OCR
7 9 (36.00%) Containerisation
7 9 (36.00%) LLM
8 8 (32.00%) Kanban
8 8 (32.00%) Scrum
9 7 (28.00%) API Development
9 7 (28.00%) OOP
9 7 (28.00%) Software Engineering
10 6 (24.00%) Async-Await
10 6 (24.00%) Microservices
10 6 (24.00%) Pair Programming
11 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 20 (80.00%) Python
2 11 (44.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (20.00%) Go
3 5 (20.00%) SQL
4 4 (16.00%) Java
5 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.00%) Bash
6 1 (4.00%) C#
6 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (64.00%) Grafana
2 12 (48.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 5 (20.00%) Terraform
4 4 (16.00%) Ansible
5 1 (4.00%) linkerd
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Splunk
2 3 (12.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.00%) ForgeRock
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Ping Identity