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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 37 28
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 0
Contract jobs citing Serverless 30 41 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.67% 4.75% 7.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.95% 12.13% 19.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 34 80
10th Percentile £435 £413 £422
25th Percentile £450 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.05% -6.54%
75th Percentile £525 £494 £507
90th Percentile £578 £517 £546
Scotland median daily rate £500 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +8.11% -2.63% -7.32%

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 251 338 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.04% 39.12% 39.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 203 359
10th Percentile £261 £200 £200
25th Percentile £425 £403 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £464
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -3.02% -7.20%
75th Percentile £532 £556 £525
90th Percentile £599 £656 £575
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 1
10th Percentile - £14.91 -
25th Percentile £26.32 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £27.35 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +60.88% -4.06% -11.40%
75th Percentile £28.38 £20.34 -
90th Percentile - £23.12 -
Scotland median hourly rate £21.22 £17.69 £57.50
% change year-on-year +19.97% -69.24% +41.98%

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 20 July 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 (6.67%) GeoServer
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (83.33%) AWS Lambda
3 21 (70.00%) Amazon S3
4 18 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
6 8 (26.67%) GitHub
6 8 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (23.33%) Amazon Cognito
8 4 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (13.33%) CloudFront
9 3 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
9 3 (10.00%) Firebase
9 3 (10.00%) OpenShift
10 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (6.67%) Azure
10 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (6.67%) GCP
11 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
1 1 (3.33%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (60.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 13 (43.33%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (13.33%) GIS
3 4 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 3 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.33%) Apache Hive
6 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.33%) InfluxDB
6 1 (3.33%) Metadata
6 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (46.67%) Cypress.io
2 11 (36.67%) Jenkins
3 10 (33.33%) Storybook
4 4 (13.33%) GitLab
5 2 (6.67%) Liquibase
6 1 (3.33%) Appium
6 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.33%) JIRA
6 1 (3.33%) Selenium
6 1 (3.33%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Developer
2 6 (20.00%) React Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Architect
4 4 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Lead
4 4 (13.33%) Software Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Technical Leader
5 3 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Developer
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) GCP Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Python Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Test Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (73.33%) AWS CDK
2 19 (63.33%) React
3 12 (40.00%) CSS
4 9 (30.00%) Jest
4 9 (30.00%) Tailwind CSS
5 5 (16.67%) Next.js
5 5 (16.67%) RESTful
5 5 (16.67%) Spring Boot
6 4 (13.33%) GraphQL
6 4 (13.33%) PostGIS
7 3 (10.00%) AWS Amplify
7 3 (10.00%) HTML
7 3 (10.00%) Node.js
7 3 (10.00%) Playwright
7 3 (10.00%) REST
7 3 (10.00%) Spring
8 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (3.33%) Loki
9 1 (3.33%) React Native
9 1 (3.33%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (56.67%) Agile
4 14 (46.67%) DevOps
5 12 (40.00%) Microservices
6 10 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (30.00%) User Experience
8 8 (26.67%) DevSecOps
8 8 (26.67%) Human-Centred Design
8 8 (26.67%) Inclusive Design
8 8 (26.67%) Test Automation
9 6 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
9 6 (20.00%) Kanban
9 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
9 6 (20.00%) Secure Coding
10 5 (16.67%) OWASP
10 5 (16.67%) Pair Programming
10 5 (16.67%) Scrum
10 5 (16.67%) Software Engineering
10 5 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) TypeScript
2 12 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (33.33%) Java
4 9 (30.00%) Python
5 3 (10.00%) Bash
5 3 (10.00%) Go
6 1 (3.33%) Groovy
6 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.33%) OCP
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Grafana
2 6 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (16.67%) Ansible
3 5 (16.67%) Terraform
4 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.33%) HAProxy
5 1 (3.33%) Kibana
5 1 (3.33%) linkerd
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) Dynatrace
2 2 (6.67%) ForgeRock
2 2 (6.67%) Google
2 2 (6.67%) Splunk
3 1 (3.33%) IBM
3 1 (3.33%) Informatica
3 1 (3.33%) StreamSets