Ultra-Low Latency Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ultra-Low Latency
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 - 519
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% - 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% - 0.015%
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 £850 £800 £825
% change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +13.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £49.54
UK median hourly rate - - £49.54

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,507 21,404 27,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.51% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,460 14,856 19,229
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,060 1,308 1,363
10th Percentile £12.34 £11.00 £12.03
25th Percentile £15.19 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Ultra-Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ultra-Low Latency as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ultra-Low Latency in the UK excluding London

Ultra-Low Latency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Ultra-Low Latency in the UK excluding London

Ultra-Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ultra-Low Latency in the UK excluding London

Ultra-Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Scotland - 5 £780 -
Ultra-Low Latency
UK

Ultra-Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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