Low Latency Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Low Latency
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 83 96 119
Rank change year-on-year +13 +23 -54
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 37 31 37
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.13% 1.46% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 1.59% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 19
10th Percentile £495 £605 £640
25th Percentile £550 £700 £731
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £850 £850
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% - +3.03%
75th Percentile £788 £916 £900
90th Percentile £904 £963 £983
Central London median daily rate £663 £850 £850
% change year-on-year -22.06% - +3.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,642 1,946 2,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.37% 91.92% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,103 1,211 1,824
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £466 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £594
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.20% +3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 17
10th Percentile £17.02 £15.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.54 £21.25 £16.61
Median hourly rate £27.83 £38.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.73% +40.00% -35.67%
75th Percentile £47.00 £102.25 £46.75
90th Percentile £66.25 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -19.07% +30.84% -36.31%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in the City of London

Low Latency
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Low Latency.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Low Latency

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Low Latency in the City of London

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (8.11%) AWS
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (2.70%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.70%) Serverless
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) HTTP
1 3 (8.11%) Multicast
2 2 (5.41%) BGP
2 2 (5.41%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) Network Security
2 2 (5.41%) OSPF
2 2 (5.41%) SSL
2 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.70%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.70%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.70%) IGMP
3 1 (2.70%) LAN
3 1 (2.70%) Unicast
3 1 (2.70%) VLAN
3 1 (2.70%) VXLAN
3 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (10.81%) KDB
3 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.41%) Kdb+
5 1 (2.70%) Big Data
5 1 (2.70%) MemSQL
5 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (32.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.51%) Git
3 3 (8.11%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (8.11%) JUnit
3 3 (8.11%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (5.41%) Artifactory
4 2 (5.41%) Maven
4 2 (5.41%) QUnit
4 2 (5.41%) Robot Framework
5 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.70%) Gatling
5 1 (2.70%) GitLab
5 1 (2.70%) Gradle
5 1 (2.70%) JIRA
5 1 (2.70%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (64.86%) Finance
2 19 (51.35%) Social Skills
3 13 (35.14%) Banking
4 11 (29.73%) Front Office
5 9 (24.32%) Investment Banking
6 8 (21.62%) Financial Institution
7 7 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.70%) Advertising
8 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.70%) Games
8 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Developer
2 14 (37.84%) Java Developer
3 6 (16.22%) Senior
4 5 (13.51%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Network Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
7 2 (5.41%) C++ Software Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Python Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Applications Specialist
8 1 (2.70%) Architect
8 1 (2.70%) C++ Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Front Office Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (37.84%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (16.22%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.41%) Middleware
4 1 (2.70%) .NET
4 1 (2.70%) Fastify
4 1 (2.70%) Java Concurrency
4 1 (2.70%) Kafka
4 1 (2.70%) Node.js
4 1 (2.70%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (2.70%) React
4 1 (2.70%) REST
4 1 (2.70%) Spring
4 1 (2.70%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 15 (40.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (27.03%) Fixed Income
3 7 (18.92%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (16.22%) Cloud Native
5 5 (13.51%) Algorithms
6 2 (5.41%) Equities
6 2 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
6 2 (5.41%) Private Cloud
6 2 (5.41%) Reference Data
7 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.70%) Derivative
7 1 (2.70%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.70%) State Machine
7 1 (2.70%) TWAP
7 1 (2.70%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 20 (54.05%) Linux
2 9 (24.32%) Unix
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) Electronic Trading
2 13 (35.14%) Algorithmic Trading
3 11 (29.73%) DevOps
4 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (18.92%) SDLC
6 6 (16.22%) Event-Driven
6 6 (16.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (16.22%) Machine Learning
6 6 (16.22%) Multithreading
6 6 (16.22%) Observability
6 6 (16.22%) Project Management
6 6 (16.22%) Software Engineering
7 5 (13.51%) Agile
7 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
7 5 (13.51%) Computer Science
7 5 (13.51%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (13.51%) High Availability
7 5 (13.51%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (13.51%) RBAC
7 5 (13.51%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (45.95%) Python
2 16 (43.24%) Java
3 6 (16.22%) C++
3 6 (16.22%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.81%) SQL
5 3 (8.11%) C#
6 2 (5.41%) Perl
7 1 (2.70%) Bash
7 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Degree
2 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.70%) CCIE
3 1 (2.70%) CCNP
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.70%) PhD
3 1 (2.70%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) QA
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Kubernetes
2 7 (18.92%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (16.22%) Ansible
3 6 (16.22%) Kibana
3 6 (16.22%) logstash
4 3 (8.11%) Terraform
5 1 (2.70%) Icinga
5 1 (2.70%) Nagios
5 1 (2.70%) Observium
5 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.70%) Puppet
5 1 (2.70%) Rundeck
5 1 (2.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Solace
2 3 (8.11%) F5
3 2 (5.41%) Arista
3 2 (5.41%) Cisco
3 2 (5.41%) ION Trading
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle
3 2 (5.41%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.41%) Sybase
4 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.70%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.70%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.70%) TIBCO