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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 103 131
Rank change year-on-year -24 +28 -9
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 13 45 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.47% 1.62% 1.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 4.62% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3 19 22
10th Percentile £55,100 £52,000 £49,450
25th Percentile £65,375 £56,250 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £80,625
90th Percentile £93,500 £90,000 £117,236
UK median annual salary £71,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% +7.14% -6.67%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 701 975 1,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.44% 35.20% 40.66%
Number of salaries quoted 267 479 685
10th Percentile £26,400 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,466 £72,433
90th Percentile £88,000 £85,000 £88,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -3.85%

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -6 9 £95,000 +18.75% 3
Glasgow -6 3 £85,000 +13.33% 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 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Storybook
2 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
1 6 (46.15%) Marketing
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Informatica Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) React
2 6 (46.15%) JSON
2 6 (46.15%) JSON-LD
2 6 (46.15%) Next.js
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CDK
3 2 (15.38%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) .NET
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
4 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (7.69%) Blazor
4 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
4 1 (7.69%) NestJS
4 1 (7.69%) Node.js
4 1 (7.69%) SOAP
4 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
1 8 (61.54%) Software Engineering
2 7 (53.85%) OO
2 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
3 6 (46.15%) Asset Management
3 6 (46.15%) Coaching
3 6 (46.15%) Deployment Automation
3 6 (46.15%) Performance Optimisation
3 6 (46.15%) SEO
3 6 (46.15%) Web Accessibility
4 4 (30.77%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) AI
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 2 (15.38%) DevOps
6 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
6 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) TypeScript
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Bicep
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) Accessibility
1 6 (46.15%) WCAG
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Informatica
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) VMware