Serverless Contracts in Scotland

Serverless Computing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Serverless skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Serverless over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 40 83
Rank change year-on-year -20 +43 -24
Contract jobs citing Serverless 69 163 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.18% 5.80% 2.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.62% 15.89% 9.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 142 79
10th Percentile £413 £413 £413
25th Percentile £436 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £479 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -8.76% +15.38%
75th Percentile £506 £519 £562
90th Percentile £532 £545 £600
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.41% -4.35% +9.52%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

Serverless is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 717 1,026 1,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.01% 36.53% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 772 789
10th Percentile £250 £250 £300
25th Percentile £371 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £647 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 20
10th Percentile £15.36 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.42 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -36.80%
75th Percentile £17.50 £66.50 £47.43
90th Percentile £28.06 £76.00 £48.83
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.72%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 -2 42 £458 -6.15% 6
Glasgow -10 16 £503 +5.89%
Lanarkshire 0 1 £425 -11.46%
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 3 (4.35%) GeoServer
2 1 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 68 (98.55%) AWS
2 61 (88.41%) AWS Lambda
3 59 (85.51%) Amazon S3
4 53 (76.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 27 (39.13%) OpenShift
6 15 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (15.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 9 (13.04%) Amazon SageMaker
10 7 (10.14%) AWS CodePipeline
11 6 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (8.70%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (5.80%) Rekognition
12 4 (5.80%) Textract
13 3 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (4.35%) AWS CodeBuild
13 3 (4.35%) AWS CodeCommit
13 3 (4.35%) CloudFront
13 3 (4.35%) npm
14 2 (2.90%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.90%) SSL
2 1 (1.45%) HTTP
2 1 (1.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (71.01%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (46.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (23.19%) MongoDB
4 14 (20.29%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (18.84%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (17.39%) Oracle Database
7 6 (8.70%) InfluxDB
7 6 (8.70%) Informix
8 4 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (5.80%) GIS
8 4 (5.80%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.45%) Apache Hive
10 1 (1.45%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 15 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 12 (17.39%) GitLab
3 7 (10.14%) Cypress.io
4 6 (8.70%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.35%) Git
5 3 (4.35%) webpack
6 1 (1.45%) JIRA
6 1 (1.45%) JUnit
General
1 36 (52.17%) Public Sector
2 11 (15.94%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.70%) Finance
4 4 (5.80%) Banking
5 2 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Automotive
6 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (59.42%) Developer
2 9 (13.04%) AWS Developer
3 8 (11.59%) Data Engineer
3 8 (11.59%) Lead
3 8 (11.59%) Technical Leader
4 7 (10.14%) Software Developer
5 6 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) Full Stack Developer
5 6 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (7.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Automation Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Database Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) .NET Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Senior
8 3 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (2.90%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (79.71%) AWS CDK
2 30 (43.48%) React
3 23 (33.33%) CSS
3 23 (33.33%) HTML
4 16 (23.19%) Node.js
5 14 (20.29%) REST
6 11 (15.94%) Spring Boot
7 10 (14.49%) OAuth
7 10 (14.49%) Spring
8 7 (10.14%) PostGIS
8 7 (10.14%) Spring Security
9 6 (8.70%) OAuth2
10 5 (7.25%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (5.80%) .NET
11 4 (5.80%) .NET Core
11 4 (5.80%) Spring MVC
11 4 (5.80%) Spring Web Flow
12 3 (4.35%) GraphQL
12 3 (4.35%) Thymeleaf
13 2 (2.90%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.54%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (11.59%) Replication
3 7 (10.14%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.49%) Linux
2 9 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (10.14%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (62.32%) Agile
2 38 (55.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (40.58%) CI/CD
4 24 (34.78%) Kanban
4 24 (34.78%) Scrum
5 22 (31.88%) Microservices
6 20 (28.99%) DevOps
7 18 (26.09%) Human-Centred Design
7 18 (26.09%) Test Automation
8 17 (24.64%) Inclusive Design
9 14 (20.29%) Code Quality
9 14 (20.29%) Roadmaps
10 13 (18.84%) Community of Practice
10 13 (18.84%) Mentoring
10 13 (18.84%) TDD
10 13 (18.84%) User Experience
11 12 (17.39%) Code Coverage
11 12 (17.39%) Machine Learning
11 12 (17.39%) Pair Programming
11 12 (17.39%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (72.46%) TypeScript
2 37 (53.62%) Python
3 31 (44.93%) JavaScript
4 22 (31.88%) Java
5 20 (28.99%) SQL
6 17 (24.64%) Bash
7 9 (13.04%) Shell Script
8 6 (8.70%) Groovy
9 1 (1.45%) C
9 1 (1.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
1 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (1.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (37.68%) Accessibility
2 7 (10.14%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (20.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (44.93%) Grafana
2 14 (20.29%) Ansible
3 11 (15.94%) Kubernetes
4 9 (13.04%) Kibana
5 7 (10.14%) Terraform
6 1 (1.45%) Knative
Vendors
1 18 (26.09%) Oracle
2 4 (5.80%) Commvault
3 3 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.90%) Sage
5 1 (1.45%) Confluent
5 1 (1.45%) Google
5 1 (1.45%) IBM
5 1 (1.45%) Informatica
5 1 (1.45%) StreamSets