Low Latency Contracts in the North West

Low Latency
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 151 140
Rank change year-on-year +18 -11 -2
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 5 9 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.19% 0.29% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.32% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 6
10th Percentile £491 £384 -
25th Percentile £501 £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £419 £400
Median % change year-on-year +37.31% +4.69% -8.05%
75th Percentile £656 £481 -
90th Percentile - £501 £479
England median daily rate £750 £750 £750
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £83.00 - -
England median hourly rate £83.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,300 2,829 3,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.88% 90.47% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,462 1,993 2,598
10th Percentile £308 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 139 169
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.80 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.89% +46.94% +32.43%
75th Percentile £46.11 £49.46 £50.78
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Low Latency as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in the North West

Low Latency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Low Latency in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Low Latency in the North West

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Low Latency in the North West

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Low Latency within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester +18 4 £638 +54.55% 3
Cheshire +9 1 £513 +5.13%
Low Latency
England

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (20.00%) JMS
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (40.00%) Derivative
1 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (60.00%) Multithreading
1 3 (60.00%) OOP
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Business Development
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat