Ultra-Low Latency Contracts in Scotland

Ultra-Low Latency
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Ultra-Low Latency skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ultra-Low Latency over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 - 169
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.22% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £662 - £411
25th Percentile £738 - £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £780 - £455
75th Percentile - - £486
90th Percentile - - £504
UK median daily rate £815 £775 £800
% change year-on-year +5.16% -3.13% +10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £49.54
UK median hourly rate - - £49.54

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Ultra-Low Latency is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,018 2,681 3,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.55% 92.48% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,239 1,931 2,373
10th Percentile £249 £269 £241
25th Percentile £400 £406 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £545
90th Percentile £675 £650 £619
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 53
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -40.93% -28.57%
75th Percentile £46.24 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.28 £67.03 £55.46
UK median hourly rate £33.07 £36.00 £24.87
% change year-on-year -8.15% +44.78% -0.54%

Ultra-Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Ultra-Low Latency as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Ultra-Low Latency in Scotland

Ultra-Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ultra-Low Latency in Scotland

Ultra-Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow - 5 £780 -
Ultra-Low Latency
UK

Ultra-Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 5 (100.00%) HTTP
1 5 (100.00%) NetScaler
1 5 (100.00%) SSL
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Linux Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Unix Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (40.00%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Perl
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) F5