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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 130 145
Rank change year-on-year -3 +15 -30
Permanent jobs citing Serverless 10 17 60
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.25% 0.68% 1.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 2.83% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 26
10th Percentile £48,375 £54,125 £34,625
25th Percentile £59,063 £60,000 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +22.36% -8.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £93,125 £73,539
90th Percentile - £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £71,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% +1.43% -

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 791 600 1,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 20.16% 23.92% 34.94%
Number of salaries quoted 460 219 607
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,855 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -0.26% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,641 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -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 15 September 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 15 September 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
Glasgow -7 6 £70,000 -17.65% 27
Edinburgh +6 2 - - 30
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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
1 7 (70.00%) Azure Functions
2 6 (60.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (30.00%) AWS
4 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (30.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (20.00%) Parquet
3 1 (10.00%) Spark SQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (10.00%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) PySpark
3 2 (20.00%) Apache Avro
3 2 (20.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (10.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (10.00%) Next.js
4 1 (10.00%) Playwright
4 1 (10.00%) React
4 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (50.00%) CRM
1 5 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 5 (50.00%) Validation
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) AI
3 3 (30.00%) API Development
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Debt
3 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 2 (20.00%) Community of Practice
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) C#
3 4 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (30.00%) Python
5 2 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks