Ultra-Low Latency Contracts in Scotland

Ultra-Low Latency
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Ultra-Low Latency skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ultra-Low Latency over the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.058% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £420 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 - -
75th Percentile £460 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £750 £850 £850
% change year-on-year -11.76% - +1.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Ultra-Low Latency falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,582 1,659 2,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.87% 86.81% 91.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 882 1,028 1,630
10th Percentile £263 £209 £250
25th Percentile £370 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £653 £626
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 60 56
10th Percentile £16.56 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.38 £13.15
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.94 £18.33
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% +8.80% -47.64%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £28.34 £53.88 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +60.38%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend 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 1 August 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow - 1 £440 - 1
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 (100.00%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (100.00%) MuleSoft