Low Latency Contracts in Glasgow

Low Latency
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Low Latency skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Low Latency over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 59 78
Rank change year-on-year -14 +19 -7
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 6 28 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.67% 3.07% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 3.26% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 25 3
10th Percentile £662 - £368
25th Percentile £738 - £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £780 £750 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +87.50% -
75th Percentile - - £458
90th Percentile - - £492
Scotland median daily rate £780 £750 £400
% change year-on-year +4.00% +87.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £49.54
Scotland median hourly rate - - £49.54

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 828 860 941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.00% 94.30% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 625 713
10th Percentile £285 £325 £257
25th Percentile £400 £410 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £538
90th Percentile £675 £713 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 27 12
10th Percentile £13.75 - £17.85
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £21.00
Median hourly rate £21.13 £13.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +56.50% -58.97% +31.61%
75th Percentile £44.14 £35.00 £44.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £59.47 £49.39
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £18.11 £31.50
% change year-on-year +7.68% -42.51% -27.59%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Low Latency as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in Glasgow

Low Latency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Low Latency in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Low Latency in Glasgow

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in Glasgow over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Low Latency in Glasgow

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) HTTP
1 6 (100.00%) SSL
1 6 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (83.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (83.33%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Linux Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Unix Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Python Developer
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Service Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (50.00%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) Ultra-Low Latency
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Perl
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) F5