Serverless Contracts in Scotland

Serverless Computing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 61 45
Rank change year-on-year +9 -16 +44
Contract jobs citing Serverless 68 71 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.18% 3.20% 5.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.54% 9.62% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 65 136
10th Percentile £439 £414 £413
25th Percentile £466 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -0.84% -8.76%
75th Percentile £575 £509 £519
90th Percentile - £538 £547
UK median daily rate £530 £517 £550
% change year-on-year +2.51% -6.00% -4.35%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 645 738 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 33.29% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 504 774
10th Percentile £305 £258 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Serverless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Serverless in Scotland

Serverless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serverless in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Serverless in Scotland

Serverless
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serverless in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Serverless in Scotland

Serverless
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +1 38 £500 +9.29% 14
Glasgow +7 21 £550 +8.70% 10
Lanarkshire +6 7 £525 +23.53%
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 10 (14.71%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.47%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 65 (95.59%) AWS
2 52 (76.47%) AWS Lambda
3 47 (69.12%) Amazon S3
4 21 (30.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (22.06%) AWS CodePipeline
6 13 (19.12%) GitHub
7 12 (17.65%) OpenShift
8 11 (16.18%) Amazon Cognito
8 11 (16.18%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (14.71%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (13.24%) Route 53
11 8 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (11.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (10.29%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (10.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 7 (10.29%) AWS CodeBuild
12 7 (10.29%) AWS Fargate
12 7 (10.29%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (10.29%) PaaS
12 7 (10.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (1.47%) DNS
2 1 (1.47%) FTP
2 1 (1.47%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (19.12%) Amazon Aurora
2 13 (19.12%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (14.71%) DynamoDB
4 9 (13.24%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (13.24%) Oracle Database
5 7 (10.29%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (8.82%) Parquet
6 6 (8.82%) Relational Database
7 5 (7.35%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (7.35%) NoSQL
8 4 (5.88%) GIS
9 3 (4.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (4.41%) DB2
9 3 (4.41%) MongoDB
9 3 (4.41%) MySQL
10 2 (2.94%) Big Data
10 2 (2.94%) InfluxDB
11 1 (1.47%) Apache Hive
11 1 (1.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) GitLab
2 11 (16.18%) JIRA
3 10 (14.71%) Bitbucket
3 10 (14.71%) Jenkins
4 7 (10.29%) Cypress.io
5 6 (8.82%) Storybook
6 5 (7.35%) Git
7 4 (5.88%) Mockito
8 3 (4.41%) Artifactory
8 3 (4.41%) JUnit
9 2 (2.94%) Ant
9 2 (2.94%) webpack
10 1 (1.47%) Appium
10 1 (1.47%) Selenium
10 1 (1.47%) Toad
10 1 (1.47%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (27.94%) Public Sector
2 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.24%) Finance
4 4 (5.88%) Banking
5 3 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (33.82%) Developer
2 13 (19.12%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (14.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (13.24%) Architect
5 8 (11.76%) AWS Developer
5 8 (11.76%) Data Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Cloud Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) AWS Software Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (4.41%) React Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Senior
9 3 (4.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (48.53%) AWS CDK
2 15 (22.06%) React
3 9 (13.24%) JSON
3 9 (13.24%) Spring Boot
4 7 (10.29%) Spring
5 6 (8.82%) Jest
5 6 (8.82%) Node.js
5 6 (8.82%) PostGIS
5 6 (8.82%) REST
6 5 (7.35%) CSS
6 5 (7.35%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (5.88%) OAuth
7 4 (5.88%) RESTful
8 3 (4.41%) Hibernate
8 3 (4.41%) JSON Schema
8 3 (4.41%) Next.js
8 3 (4.41%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (4.41%) TypeORM
9 2 (2.94%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.94%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.06%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.35%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Linux
1 2 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (2.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (48.53%) CI/CD
2 31 (45.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (36.76%) DevOps
4 24 (35.29%) Agile
5 18 (26.47%) Containerisation
6 17 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 17 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 15 (22.06%) Kanban
7 15 (22.06%) Scrum
8 14 (20.59%) Migration
9 13 (19.12%) Microservices
10 12 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
11 11 (16.18%) Human-Centred Design
11 11 (16.18%) Inclusive Design
11 11 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (14.71%) Data Migration
12 10 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (14.71%) Operational Stability
13 9 (13.24%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 44 (64.71%) Python
2 22 (32.35%) SQL
3 16 (23.53%) TypeScript
4 13 (19.12%) JavaScript
5 11 (16.18%) Java
6 10 (14.71%) Bash
7 4 (5.88%) Groovy
8 1 (1.47%) Go
8 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (33.82%) AWS Certification
2 12 (17.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 9 (13.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (13.24%) Degree
4 8 (11.76%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.47%) OCP
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (8.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.47%) GDPR
3 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.47%) SLA
3 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (19.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (17.65%) Terraform
2 10 (14.71%) Grafana
2 10 (14.71%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.82%) Ansible
4 3 (4.41%) Kibana
5 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.47%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.47%) linkerd
6 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (20.59%) Oracle
2 2 (2.94%) Imperva
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.47%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.47%) ForgeRock
3 1 (1.47%) IBM
3 1 (1.47%) Informatica
3 1 (1.47%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.47%) Okta
3 1 (1.47%) StreamSets
3 1 (1.47%) Talend