Low Latency Contracts in Belfast

Low Latency
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast requiring Low Latency skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Low Latency over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 3.40% - 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% - 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £410 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £540 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £500 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 135 91 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 91.84% 73.39% 81.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 56 69
10th Percentile £154 £211 £164
25th Percentile £295 £345 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +25.00% -9.35%
75th Percentile £532 £575 £515
90th Percentile £625 £663 £638
County Antrim median daily rate £410 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -18.00% +25.00% -9.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 14
10th Percentile £22.50 - £13.40
25th Percentile £23.76 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £32.13 £12.62 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +154.56% -17.25% +34.24%
75th Percentile £58.85 £14.78 £16.78
90th Percentile £78.47 £19.19 £18.12
County Antrim median hourly rate £26.59 £14.19 £15.25
% change year-on-year +87.45% -6.98% -3.11%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in Belfast

Low Latency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Daily rate trend for Low Latency in Belfast

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in Belfast over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Low Latency in Belfast

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (40.00%) Big Data
1 2 (40.00%) HBase
1 2 (40.00%) Impala
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) DB2
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (40.00%) Law
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Core Java Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Avro
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (60.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (20.00%) Derivative
3 1 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) SOA
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (40.00%) Storyboarding
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Database Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (20.00%) High-Frequency Trading
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C++
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase