Low Latency Contracts in Central London

Low Latency
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 79 137
Rank change year-on-year -42 +58 -56
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 16 110 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.65% 2.84% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 3.10% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 77 52
10th Percentile £523 £620 £613
25th Percentile £671 £625 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £838 £775 £750
Median % change year-on-year +8.06% +3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £980 £975 £913
90th Percentile £1,093 £1,063 £925
London median daily rate £751 £750 £775
% change year-on-year +0.07% -3.23% +14.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,227 3,551 4,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.53% 91.66% 91.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 2,404 3,185
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 29 40
10th Percentile £19.52 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.25 £20.22 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £36.50 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £56.15 £88.30 £62.83
London median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.28% +8.33% +11.73%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in Central London

Low Latency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Low Latency in Central London

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in Central London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Low Latency in Central London

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
City of London -38 15 £825 +6.45% 8
City of Westminster - 1 £1,000 -
Low Latency
London

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub
2 1 (6.25%) NuGet
2 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) KDB
2 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Banking
3 4 (25.00%) Front Office
3 4 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Data Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Market Data Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Market Data Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Quantitative Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) C++ Quantitative Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (18.75%) Rendezvous
3 2 (12.50%) Middleware
4 1 (6.25%) .NET
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.25%) React
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) Spring
4 1 (6.25%) Ultra Messaging
4 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (18.75%) Equities
2 3 (18.75%) Fixed Income
3 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Market Risk
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Derivative
4 1 (6.25%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (6.25%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Algorithmic Trading
1 5 (31.25%) Analytics
1 5 (31.25%) Electronic Trading
2 4 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 4 (25.00%) OO
2 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) High Availability
3 3 (18.75%) SDLC
3 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Backtesting
4 2 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (12.50%) Data Integration
4 2 (12.50%) Functional Programming
4 2 (12.50%) Multithreaded Programming
4 2 (12.50%) Prototyping
4 2 (12.50%) Rapid Prototyping
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Debt
4 2 (12.50%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) C++
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) Jython
5 1 (6.25%) Perl
5 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) CCNA
1 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Bloomberg
1 4 (25.00%) Solace
1 4 (25.00%) TIBCO
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco
2 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
3 2 (12.50%) Arista
3 2 (12.50%) BT
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Radianz
3 2 (12.50%) Refinitiv
3 2 (12.50%) Reuters
4 1 (6.25%) IBM
4 1 (6.25%) ION Trading
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat