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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 112 117
Rank change year-on-year -24 +5 +14
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 18 47 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.69% 1.41% 1.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.74% 4.50% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 6 20 24
10th Percentile £54,125 £44,325 £46,275
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,313 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £67,224
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +4.13% +3.42%
75th Percentile £93,125 £80,000 £80,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £117,236
UK median annual salary £68,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.52% +3.57% -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 658 1,044 913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.06% 31.40% 36.46%
Number of salaries quoted 236 489 763
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,625 £81,400 £84,056
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 19 October 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 19 October 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
Glasgow -1 13 £85,000 -5.56% 5
Edinburgh +3 4 £77,500 +7.65% 9
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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (83.33%) AWS
1 15 (83.33%) AWS Lambda
2 14 (77.78%) Amazon S3
3 8 (44.44%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (22.22%) Snowflake
6 3 (16.67%) Azure
6 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
7 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (27.78%) Apache Cassandra
2 5 (27.78%) MongoDB
3 4 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (22.22%) Electronic Patient Records
3 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (22.22%) RDBMS
3 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
4 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (11.11%) Power BI
4 2 (11.11%) Star Schema
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
1 5 (27.78%) Maven
2 4 (22.22%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) Ant
3 1 (5.56%) IntelliJ
3 1 (5.56%) Jasmine
3 1 (5.56%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (5.56%) Protractor
3 1 (5.56%) Selenium
3 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
1 10 (55.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 10 (55.56%) Law
2 8 (44.44%) Banking
3 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (22.22%) Investment Banking
6 2 (11.11%) Marketing
7 1 (5.56%) Legal
7 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Software Engineer
2 9 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 9 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) AWS Software Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (22.22%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 4 (22.22%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
3 4 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Java Software Developer
3 4 (22.22%) React Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) QA Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) Spring
2 8 (44.44%) Spring Boot
3 6 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 5 (27.78%) HTML
4 5 (27.78%) jQuery
4 5 (27.78%) React
5 4 (22.22%) Kafka
5 4 (22.22%) RESTful
6 2 (11.11%) REST
7 1 (5.56%) .NET
7 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
7 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (5.56%) Bootstrap
7 1 (5.56%) CSS
7 1 (5.56%) Entity Framework
7 1 (5.56%) HTML5
7 1 (5.56%) J2EE
7 1 (5.56%) JMS
7 1 (5.56%) Node.js
7 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Cloud Native
2 5 (27.78%) Algorithms
2 5 (27.78%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Replication
4 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (5.56%) IoT
4 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Agile
2 11 (61.11%) Software Engineering
3 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (50.00%) TDD
4 7 (38.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (38.89%) Mentoring
4 7 (38.89%) Scrum
5 6 (33.33%) AI
5 6 (33.33%) Analytics
5 6 (33.33%) Microservices
5 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (33.33%) SDLC
5 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 5 (27.78%) Community of Practice
6 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
6 5 (27.78%) Visualisation
7 4 (22.22%) Kanban
7 4 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (22.22%) Software Architecture
7 4 (22.22%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Java
2 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (27.78%) Python
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 2 (11.11%) Bicep
6 1 (5.56%) C#
6 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) NIST
1 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) VMware