Low Latency Jobs in Scotland

Low Latency
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Low Latency skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Low Latency over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 267 133
Rank change year-on-year +108 -134 +76
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 5 21 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.17% 0.31% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.34% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2 18 61
10th Percentile £88,500 £47,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £90,000 £51,563 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -6.40% +15.75%
75th Percentile £110,000 £70,000 £89,852
90th Percentile £111,500 £90,580 £95,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £110,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,758 6,226 4,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.64% 91.40% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 2,433 2,111
10th Percentile £30,650 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in Scotland

Low Latency
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Low Latency in Scotland.

Salary trend for Low Latency in Scotland

Low Latency
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Low Latency within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +160 4 £100,000 +53.85% 25
Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Low Latency
UK

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) CircleCI
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Servlets
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Product Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Quantitative Trading
3 2 (40.00%) RBAC
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) OO
4 1 (20.00%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (20.00%) OOD
4 1 (20.00%) OOP
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Scala
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Ping Identity
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase