Low Latency Contracts in Cheshire

Low Latency
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 46 56
Rank change year-on-year -21 +10 -
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 4 11 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.68% 2.03% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 2.34% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 1
10th Percentile £375 £322 -
25th Percentile £436 £367 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £378 £488
Median % change year-on-year +42.06% -22.46% -
75th Percentile £539 £393 £506
90th Percentile £539 £412 -
North West median daily rate £481 £388 £450
% change year-on-year +24.13% -13.89% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 539 471 452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 91.98% 86.90% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 323 283
10th Percentile £313 £311 £288
25th Percentile £358 £392 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £488 £518
Median % change year-on-year -9.74% -5.89% +15.11%
75th Percentile £537 £576 £588
90th Percentile £644 £638 £660
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 29 32
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.40 £17.18
25th Percentile £13.68 £17.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £33.95 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +14.60% +40.22%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £85.93 £44.50 £39.58
North West median hourly rate £29.27 £27.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year +8.41% -7.85% +19.20%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in Cheshire

Low Latency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Low Latency in Cheshire

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in Cheshire over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Low Latency in Cheshire

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Knutsford -21 3 £537 +40.58%
Chester - 1 - - 1
Low Latency
North West

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS3
1 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Biometrics
2 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle