Serverless Job Trends in Scotland

Serverless Computing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Serverless skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 117 184
Rank change year-on-year -12 +67 -78
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 16 25 87
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.49% 1.23% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 4.67% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2 19 30
10th Percentile £56,949 £48,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £62,041 £52,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,783 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +39.60% +4.76% -24.13%
75th Percentile £92,769 £75,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £98,608 £88,500 £64,125
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

All Cloud Computing Skills
Scotland

Serverless falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 866 535 2,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 26.46% 26.29% 43.83%
Number of salaries quoted 352 325 1,015
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

Serverless
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Serverless relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Serverless job vacancy trend in Scotland

Serverless
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Serverless.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Serverless

Serverless
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Serverless in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Serverless in Scotland

Serverless
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Serverless within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 May 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +5 12 - - 4
Glasgow -24 2 £95,000 +26.67% 1
Serverless
UK

Serverless
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (31.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
1 8 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (31.25%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 4 (25.00%) SaaS
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (18.75%) Azure
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
7 1 (6.25%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (31.25%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
4 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (6.25%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) Storybook
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) MLflow
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Marketing
5 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Architect
1 5 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Informatica Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) REST
2 4 (25.00%) SOAP
3 3 (18.75%) React
4 2 (12.50%) AWS CDK
4 2 (12.50%) JSON
4 2 (12.50%) JSON-LD
4 2 (12.50%) Next.js
5 1 (6.25%) .NET
5 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
5 1 (6.25%) Hugging Face
5 1 (6.25%) JWT
5 1 (6.25%) NestJS
5 1 (6.25%) Node.js
5 1 (6.25%) OAuth
5 1 (6.25%) Playwright
5 1 (6.25%) PySpark
5 1 (6.25%) PyTorch
5 1 (6.25%) RESTful
5 1 (6.25%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (6.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 9 (56.25%) AI
3 7 (43.75%) LLM
4 6 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (31.25%) Event-Driven
5 5 (31.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (31.25%) Workflow
6 4 (25.00%) API Integration
6 4 (25.00%) BDD
6 4 (25.00%) Data Governance
6 4 (25.00%) Data Integration
6 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 4 (25.00%) Data Protection
6 4 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (18.75%) DevOps
7 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (18.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (12.50%) WCAG
4 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Control-M
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Informatica
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks