Low Latency Contracts in the South West

Low Latency
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 - 173
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 5 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.16% - 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £490 - £532
25th Percentile £513 - £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £540
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £560 - -
England median daily rate £750 £750 £750
% change year-on-year +0.03% - +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,651 3,234 3,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.16% 89.63% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,692 2,378 2,346
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 332 195
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.19 £16.05 £20.16
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.10 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -9.98% +25.36% +12.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.39 £69.93
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in the South West

Low Latency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Low Latency in the South West

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Bristol - 1 £525 - 1
Low Latency
England

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (40.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (60.00%) Dashboard Development
1 3 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (60.00%) Statistics
1 3 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes