Low Latency Contract Job Trends in Central London

Low Latency
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Low Latency skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 95 117
Rank change year-on-year +9 +22 -49
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 40 33 39
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.07% 1.41% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 1.53% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 17 20
10th Percentile £513 £609 £645
25th Percentile £569 £700 £734
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £850 £850
Median % change year-on-year -22.06% - +3.03%
75th Percentile £856 £925 £913
90th Percentile £913 £978 £1,068
London median daily rate £725 £825 £725
% change year-on-year -12.12% +13.79% -3.33%

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 1,811 2,154 2,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.88% 92.05% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,222 1,374 1,964
10th Percentile £321 £363 £359
25th Percentile £420 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.20% +3.30%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 28 18
10th Percentile £18.33 £17.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.56 £24.83 £16.71
Median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -19.07% +30.84% -36.31%
75th Percentile £50.75 £65.63 £45.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £119.65 £57.73
London median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -17.12% -2.67% +5.63%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Low Latency relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Low Latency job vacancy trend in Central London

Low Latency
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Low Latency.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Low Latency

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in Central London over the 6 months to 3 October 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 3 October 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 +13 37 £650 -23.53% 8
Low Latency
London

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (7.50%) AWS
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (2.50%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.50%) Serverless
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) Multicast
2 3 (7.50%) BGP
2 3 (7.50%) Firewall
2 3 (7.50%) HTTP
2 3 (7.50%) OSPF
3 2 (5.00%) Network Security
3 2 (5.00%) SSL
3 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.50%) Ethernet
4 1 (2.50%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (2.50%) IGMP
4 1 (2.50%) LAN
4 1 (2.50%) Unicast
4 1 (2.50%) VLAN
4 1 (2.50%) VXLAN
4 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (10.00%) KDB
3 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.00%) Kdb+
5 1 (2.50%) Big Data
5 1 (2.50%) MemSQL
5 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.50%) Git
3 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (7.50%) JUnit
3 3 (7.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (5.00%) Artifactory
4 2 (5.00%) Maven
4 2 (5.00%) QUnit
4 2 (5.00%) Robot Framework
5 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.50%) Gatling
5 1 (2.50%) GitLab
5 1 (2.50%) Gradle
5 1 (2.50%) JIRA
5 1 (2.50%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.50%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (60.00%) Finance
2 19 (47.50%) Social Skills
3 13 (32.50%) Banking
4 11 (27.50%) Front Office
5 9 (22.50%) Investment Banking
6 8 (20.00%) Financial Institution
7 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.50%) Advertising
8 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.50%) Games
8 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (50.00%) Developer
2 14 (35.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (15.00%) Senior
4 5 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Network Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) C++ Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
7 2 (5.00%) C++ Quantitative Developer
7 2 (5.00%) C++ Software Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Low Latency C++ Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Python Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Quantitative Developer
8 1 (2.50%) AWS Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (40.00%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.00%) Middleware
4 1 (2.50%) .NET
4 1 (2.50%) Fastify
4 1 (2.50%) Java Concurrency
4 1 (2.50%) Kafka
4 1 (2.50%) Node.js
4 1 (2.50%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (2.50%) React
4 1 (2.50%) REST
4 1 (2.50%) Spring
4 1 (2.50%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 15 (37.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (25.00%) Fixed Income
3 7 (17.50%) Algorithms
3 7 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (15.00%) Cloud Native
5 3 (7.50%) TWAP
5 3 (7.50%) VWAP
6 2 (5.00%) Equities
6 2 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (5.00%) Private Cloud
6 2 (5.00%) Reference Data
7 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.50%) Derivative
7 1 (2.50%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.50%) State Machine
7 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (52.50%) Linux
2 9 (22.50%) Unix
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Algorithmic Trading
2 14 (35.00%) Electronic Trading
3 11 (27.50%) DevOps
4 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (17.50%) SDLC
6 6 (15.00%) Event-Driven
6 6 (15.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (15.00%) Machine Learning
6 6 (15.00%) Multithreading
6 6 (15.00%) Observability
6 6 (15.00%) Project Management
6 6 (15.00%) Software Engineering
7 5 (12.50%) Agile
7 5 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 5 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 5 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (12.50%) Data Science
7 5 (12.50%) High Availability
7 5 (12.50%) RBAC
7 5 (12.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (47.50%) Python
2 16 (40.00%) Java
3 8 (20.00%) C++
4 6 (15.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (10.00%) SQL
6 3 (7.50%) C#
7 2 (5.00%) Perl
8 1 (2.50%) Bash
8 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.50%) CCIE
3 1 (2.50%) CCNP
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.50%) PhD
3 1 (2.50%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 9 (22.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.50%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (15.00%) Ansible
3 6 (15.00%) Kibana
3 6 (15.00%) logstash
4 3 (7.50%) Terraform
5 1 (2.50%) Icinga
5 1 (2.50%) Nagios
5 1 (2.50%) Observium
5 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.50%) Puppet
5 1 (2.50%) Rundeck
5 1 (2.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Solace
2 3 (7.50%) Arista
2 3 (7.50%) Cisco
2 3 (7.50%) F5
2 3 (7.50%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (5.00%) ION Trading
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) Sybase
4 1 (2.50%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.50%) TIBCO