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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 101 125
Rank change year-on-year -27 +24 +15
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 16 47 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.58% 1.54% 1.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.35% 4.64% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 4 20 25
10th Percentile £58,525 £52,250 £46,700
25th Percentile £73,938 £56,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% +8.46% +13.04%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile - £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 680 1,014 933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.62% 33.17% 37.52%
Number of salaries quoted 259 503 691
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £71,391 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -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 8 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 8 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 -11 9 £95,000 +31.96% 11
Glasgow -4 6 £85,000 +3.03% 6
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 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Amazon S3
2 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (12.50%) Snowflake
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Storybook
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) Ant
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) IntelliJ
3 1 (6.25%) Jasmine
3 1 (6.25%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (6.25%) Protractor
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
3 1 (6.25%) webpack
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Marketing
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (18.75%) Law
5 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Legal
6 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 4 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Java Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (6.25%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
5 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) React Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) React
2 7 (43.75%) JSON
3 6 (37.50%) JSON-LD
3 6 (37.50%) Next.js
4 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
4 3 (18.75%) Spring
5 2 (12.50%) AWS CDK
5 2 (12.50%) HTML
5 2 (12.50%) jQuery
5 2 (12.50%) Node.js
5 2 (12.50%) REST
5 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
6 1 (6.25%) .NET
6 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
6 1 (6.25%) Blazor
6 1 (6.25%) CSS
6 1 (6.25%) J2EE
6 1 (6.25%) NestJS
6 1 (6.25%) Vue
6 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (6.25%) IoT
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Software Engineering
2 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 8 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 7 (43.75%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (43.75%) OO
5 6 (37.50%) Asset Management
5 6 (37.50%) Coaching
5 6 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (37.50%) SEO
5 6 (37.50%) Web Accessibility
6 5 (31.25%) AI
6 5 (31.25%) Analytics
7 4 (25.00%) Agile
7 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (25.00%) Microservices
8 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
8 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
8 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (18.75%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) Python
4 2 (12.50%) Bicep
4 2 (12.50%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) Accessibility
1 6 (37.50%) WCAG
2 2 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) VMware