Low Latency Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Low Latency
Central London > City of Westminster

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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 1.72% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £813 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 - -
75th Percentile £938 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £708 £700 £825
% change year-on-year +1.07% -15.15% +3.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50 35 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 86.21% 87.50% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 29 33
10th Percentile £313 £402 £440
25th Percentile £500 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £700
90th Percentile £738 £675 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.11 - -
Median hourly rate £39.56 - £40.00
75th Percentile £55.56 - -
90th Percentile £57.48 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.85% -20.54%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Low Latency
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

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

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) React Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior React Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior UI Developer
1 1 (100.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Equities
1 1 (100.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript