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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 119 179
Rank change year-on-year -10 +60 -78
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 13 29 73
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.39% 1.16% 1.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 5.02% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6 16 30
10th Percentile £47,402 £48,500 £36,325
25th Percentile £56,416 £49,688 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -7.17% -8.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,313
90th Percentile £88,750 £98,750 £72,639
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.76% +3.57%

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 837 578 2,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.10% 23.13% 38.42%
Number of salaries quoted 431 274 913
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,725 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £78,224 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +8 5 - - 3
Glasgow +6 5 £70,000 -26.32% 3
Fife - 1 £42,500 -
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
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) Azure Functions
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (23.08%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (7.69%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) MLflow
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Architect
1 5 (38.46%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
1 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Web Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) JWT
2 1 (7.69%) Next.js
2 1 (7.69%) NumPy
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.69%) OpenCV
2 1 (7.69%) Playwright
2 1 (7.69%) PySpark
2 1 (7.69%) pytest
2 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (7.69%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) AI
2 7 (53.85%) LLM
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 4 (30.77%) API Development
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) CRM
5 3 (23.08%) Data Integration
5 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Technical Debt
5 3 (23.08%) Validation
6 2 (15.38%) Clean Code
6 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (15.38%) Observability
6 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 2 (15.38%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
3 3 (23.08%) C#
3 3 (23.08%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks