Low Latency Contract Job Trends in Chester

Low Latency
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Low Latency skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 18 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 3.25% 1.33% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 1.54% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £525 £537 £378
% change year-on-year -2.23% +42.06% -22.46%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 109 65 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 70.78% 86.67% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 21 15
10th Percentile £382 £325 £249
25th Percentile £413 £425 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £600 £716 £738
90th Percentile £738 £813 -
Cheshire median daily rate £469 £439 £478
% change year-on-year +6.78% -8.16% -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 12
10th Percentile - £20.85 -
25th Percentile £16.01 £36.61 £35.00
Median hourly rate £31.90 £50.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.20% +17.65% +33.32%
75th Percentile £35.98 £86.00 £44.69
90th Percentile £37.50 - £47.50
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.82 £37.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -3.19% +1.37% +19.52%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in Chester

Low Latency
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Low Latency

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Spark
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) BGP
1 1 (20.00%) DMZ
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) OSPF
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Kafka Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (60.00%) Data Matching
1 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Automated Trading
2 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) McAfee