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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 97 137
Rank change year-on-year -31 +40 -25
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 13 44 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.48% 1.64% 1.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 4.66% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2 20 25
10th Percentile £51,675 £52,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £56,813 £54,375 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £73,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.88% +12.31% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,313 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,825 £90,000 £117,236
UK median annual salary £70,466 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.05% +11.11% -10.00%

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 703 944 1,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.82% 35.25% 41.18%
Number of salaries quoted 261 455 706
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,253 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -7 9 - - 3
Glasgow -4 3 £85,000 +13.33% 3
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 2 (15.38%) 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%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (15.38%) SaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
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 Functions
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
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
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Storybook
2 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
1 6 (46.15%) Marketing
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Legal
5 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
2 2 (15.38%) Informatica Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Principal 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 3 (23.08%) REST
4 2 (15.38%) AWS CDK
4 2 (15.38%) SOAP
5 1 (7.69%) .NET
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
5 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
5 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (7.69%) Blazor
5 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
5 1 (7.69%) NestJS
5 1 (7.69%) Node.js
5 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (7.69%) IoT
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) Software Engineering
3 7 (53.85%) OO
3 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
4 6 (46.15%) Asset Management
4 6 (46.15%) Coaching
4 6 (46.15%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (46.15%) Performance Optimisation
4 6 (46.15%) SEO
4 6 (46.15%) Web Accessibility
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven
5 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) API Integration
6 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (15.38%) DevOps
6 2 (15.38%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) TypeScript
2 3 (23.08%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Bicep
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
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 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
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%) Control-M
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Informatica
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) VMware