Low Latency Contracts in Central London

Low Latency
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 91 117 76
Rank change year-on-year +26 -41 +63
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 38 16 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.90% 0.65% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 0.72% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 77
10th Percentile £515 £523 £620
25th Percentile £538 £671 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £838 £775
Median % change year-on-year -16.42% +8.06% +3.33%
75th Percentile £825 £980 £975
90th Percentile £923 £1,093 £1,063
London median daily rate £750 £751 £750
% change year-on-year -0.07% +0.07% -3.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +27 34 £700 -15.15% 25
West End of London - 2 - - 2
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 (5.26%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.79%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) AWS
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (2.63%) GCP
3 1 (2.63%) GitHub
3 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) Firewall
2 3 (7.89%) Multicast
3 1 (2.63%) BIG-IP
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.63%) DNS
3 1 (2.63%) Network Security
3 1 (2.63%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Big Data
2 3 (7.89%) KDB
2 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
2 3 (7.89%) OLAP
2 3 (7.89%) OLTP
2 3 (7.89%) SAP BW
2 3 (7.89%) SAP Data Services
2 3 (7.89%) SAP HANA
2 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.63%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (2.63%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.63%) Looker
3 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.16%) Bitbucket
2 5 (13.16%) Git
3 4 (10.53%) TeamCity
4 3 (7.89%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (7.89%) JUnit
5 1 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.63%) GitLab
5 1 (2.63%) JIRA
5 1 (2.63%) Maven
5 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.63%) Terragrunt
5 1 (2.63%) Travis CI
General
1 22 (57.89%) Finance
2 12 (31.58%) Front Office
3 10 (26.32%) Banking
3 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
4 7 (18.42%) Investment Banking
5 6 (15.79%) Financial Institution
6 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (5.26%) Advertising
8 1 (2.63%) French Language
Job Titles
1 18 (47.37%) Developer
2 8 (21.05%) Java Developer
3 7 (18.42%) Senior
4 5 (13.16%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Software Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) C# Developer
5 4 (10.53%) C++ Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Angular Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Java Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Network Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Principal Data Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) C# GUI Developer
7 2 (5.26%) C# WPF Developer
7 2 (5.26%) C++ Quantitative Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Lead
7 2 (5.26%) Low Latency C++ Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior C# Software Developer
7 2 (5.26%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.79%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (13.16%) AngularJS
2 5 (13.16%) HTML
2 5 (13.16%) HTML5
3 4 (10.53%) .NET
4 3 (7.89%) RxJS
4 3 (7.89%) Web Services
5 2 (5.26%) Middleware
5 2 (5.26%) REST
5 2 (5.26%) WPF
6 1 (2.63%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.63%) Apache Beam
6 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.63%) Fastify
6 1 (2.63%) Kafka
6 1 (2.63%) Node.js
6 1 (2.63%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (2.63%) PySpark
6 1 (2.63%) React
6 1 (2.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (21.05%) Algorithms
3 4 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (10.53%) TWAP
3 4 (10.53%) VWAP
4 3 (7.89%) Credit Risk
4 3 (7.89%) Equities
5 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.26%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.63%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (2.63%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.63%) State Machine
6 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (31.58%) Linux
2 7 (18.42%) Unix
3 2 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (23.68%) CI/CD
2 9 (23.68%) Computer Science
3 8 (21.05%) Algorithmic Trading
3 8 (21.05%) Market Making
3 8 (21.05%) Multithreading
4 7 (18.42%) Agile
4 7 (18.42%) Electronic Trading
4 7 (18.42%) Software Engineering
5 6 (15.79%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (13.16%) Code Quality
6 5 (13.16%) Containerisation
6 5 (13.16%) High Availability
6 5 (13.16%) OO
6 5 (13.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (13.16%) Unit Testing
7 4 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (10.53%) DevOps
7 4 (10.53%) Observability
7 4 (10.53%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 15 (39.47%) Java
2 13 (34.21%) Python
3 9 (23.68%) C#
4 7 (18.42%) C++
5 4 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.26%) Bash
6 2 (5.26%) SQL
7 1 (2.63%) Go
7 1 (2.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) Degree
2 6 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.89%) CCNP
3 3 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.26%) CCIE
4 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.63%) PhD
5 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Ansible
2 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.26%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.26%) Puppet
3 2 (5.26%) Terraform
4 1 (2.63%) Argo
4 1 (2.63%) Grafana
4 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Cisco
2 3 (7.89%) Arista
2 3 (7.89%) CheckPoint
2 3 (7.89%) F5
2 3 (7.89%) Fortinet
2 3 (7.89%) SAP
3 2 (5.26%) ION Trading
3 2 (5.26%) SolarWinds
3 2 (5.26%) VMware
4 1 (2.63%) Confluent
4 1 (2.63%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) Solace
4 1 (2.63%) Sybase
4 1 (2.63%) TOWER Software