Low Latency Contracts

Low Latency
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 442 279 364
Rank change year-on-year -163 +85 -72
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 150 576 633
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.97% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 1.08% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 479 473
10th Percentile £540 £500 £513
25th Percentile £600 £625 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £830
90th Percentile £1,027 £950 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £675 £535
% change year-on-year -18.52% +26.17% +22.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £83.00 - £49.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.00 - £49.54

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low Latency over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Low Latency.

Hourly rate trend for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England -153 140 £750 - 140
London -119 127 £763 +1.70% 125
Work from Home -14 65 £751 +0.07% 73
UK excluding London +32 19 £550 -18.52% 21
North of England +21 6 £575 +35.29% 2
Scotland +19 6 £780 +4.00% 2
North West +14 5 £575 +37.31% 2
South West - 5 £525 - 5
Midlands +27 2 £525 +16.67% 1
West Midlands +22 1 £500 +11.11% 1
Yorkshire +21 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £550 -

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.33%) Apache
2 2 (1.33%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.67%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.67%) MetaMask
3 1 (0.67%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.67%) SAS
3 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (5.33%) ION MarketView
2 3 (2.00%) RMDS
3 2 (1.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.00%) AWS
2 9 (6.00%) Azure
3 5 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (3.33%) GitHub
4 4 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (2.67%) OpenShift
4 4 (2.67%) Serverless
5 3 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.00%) Azure Functions
5 3 (2.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (2.00%) NuGet
5 3 (2.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.33%) GCP
6 2 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.67%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (0.67%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.67%) Firewall
2 8 (5.33%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.67%) HTTP
4 6 (4.00%) SSL
5 5 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 5 (3.33%) NetScaler
5 5 (3.33%) Network Security
6 4 (2.67%) InfiniBand
7 3 (2.00%) VPN
8 2 (1.33%) DMZ
8 2 (1.33%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (1.33%) IPsec
8 2 (1.33%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.67%) BGP
9 1 (0.67%) Multicast
9 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.67%) Unicast
9 1 (0.67%) VLAN
9 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.67%) KDB
2 8 (5.33%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.67%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.00%) Big Data
5 4 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.67%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.67%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.00%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.00%) Power BI
6 3 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.33%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.33%) Tableau
8 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.67%) HBase
8 1 (0.67%) MySQL
8 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (6.00%) Git
2 8 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.00%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.00%) JIRA
3 3 (2.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.67%) GitLab
4 1 (0.67%) Gradle
4 1 (0.67%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.67%) JUnit
4 1 (0.67%) Maven
4 1 (0.67%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 75 (50.00%) Finance
2 41 (27.33%) Banking
3 26 (17.33%) Social Skills
4 24 (16.00%) Front Office
5 21 (14.00%) Investment Banking
6 10 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.67%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.33%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.67%) Back Office
11 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.67%) Games
11 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (58.00%) Developer
2 49 (32.67%) Java Developer
3 30 (20.00%) Senior
4 21 (14.00%) Senior Developer
5 16 (10.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 14 (9.33%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 14 (9.33%) Network Engineer
7 13 (8.67%) C++ Developer
7 13 (8.67%) Software Engineer
8 9 (6.00%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 8 (5.33%) Java Engineer
9 8 (5.33%) Senior Network Engineer
10 6 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (4.00%) Python Developer
11 5 (3.33%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 5 (3.33%) Exchange Support
12 4 (2.67%) Cisco Engineer
12 4 (2.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 4 (2.67%) Data Engineer
12 4 (2.67%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (24.67%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (8.00%) React
3 11 (7.33%) .NET
3 11 (7.33%) Kafka
4 7 (4.67%) Rendezvous
4 7 (4.67%) Spring
5 6 (4.00%) .NET Core
5 6 (4.00%) Middleware
5 6 (4.00%) REST
6 5 (3.33%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.33%) HTML
6 5 (3.33%) HTML5
7 4 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.67%) Ultra Messaging
7 4 (2.67%) XML
8 3 (2.00%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.00%) Twisted
8 3 (2.00%) WPF
9 2 (1.33%) Guice
9 2 (1.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 36 (24.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 29 (19.33%) Derivative
3 20 (13.33%) Fixed Income
4 18 (12.00%) Algorithms
5 14 (9.33%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (8.67%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (7.33%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (6.67%) Data Structures
8 10 (6.67%) Equity Derivative
8 10 (6.67%) Hedge funds
9 9 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (4.67%) Cloud Native
10 7 (4.67%) Equities
11 5 (3.33%) Management Information System
12 4 (2.67%) Data Centre
13 2 (1.33%) Blockchain
13 2 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (1.33%) Market Risk
14 1 (0.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 35 (23.33%) Linux
2 23 (15.33%) Unix
3 2 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.00%) Electronic Trading
2 42 (28.00%) Algorithmic Trading
3 37 (24.67%) Agile
4 29 (19.33%) Multithreading
5 27 (18.00%) Analytics
6 24 (16.00%) High Availability
7 23 (15.33%) Test Automation
8 19 (12.67%) Software Engineering
9 18 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (11.33%) E-Commerce
10 17 (11.33%) Incident Management
10 17 (11.33%) User Acceptance Testing
11 16 (10.67%) Computer Science
12 15 (10.00%) Change Management
12 15 (10.00%) CI/CD
13 14 (9.33%) Multithreaded Programming
13 14 (9.33%) OO
14 13 (8.67%) Capacity Management
15 12 (8.00%) Fintech
15 12 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 68 (45.33%) Java
2 31 (20.67%) Python
3 20 (13.33%) C++
4 15 (10.00%) Perl
5 13 (8.67%) C#
6 11 (7.33%) Bash
6 11 (7.33%) JavaScript
6 11 (7.33%) SQL
7 3 (2.00%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.00%) Scala
8 2 (1.33%) PHP
8 2 (1.33%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.33%) Solidity
8 2 (1.33%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.33%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.67%) Jython
9 1 (0.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (12.00%) Degree
3 16 (10.67%) CCNA
4 7 (4.67%) CCNP
5 6 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.00%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.67%) CCIE
7 3 (2.00%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.67%) CISM
8 1 (0.67%) CISSP
8 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.00%) QA
2 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (4.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (9.33%) ITRS Geneos
2 7 (4.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.33%) Ansible
4 2 (1.33%) Terraform
5 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.67%) Grafana
5 1 (0.67%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.67%) Oozie
Vendors
1 23 (15.33%) Cisco
2 21 (14.00%) ION Trading
3 14 (9.33%) Solace
4 11 (7.33%) F5
5 10 (6.67%) TIBCO
6 8 (5.33%) Fortinet
7 7 (4.67%) Arista
8 6 (4.00%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.67%) Bloomberg
9 4 (2.67%) SolarWinds
10 3 (2.00%) Google
10 3 (2.00%) Microsoft
10 3 (2.00%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.00%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.00%) Tradeweb
11 2 (1.33%) BT
11 2 (1.33%) Radianz
11 2 (1.33%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.33%) Refinitiv
11 2 (1.33%) Reuters