Low Latency Contracts in the City of London

Low Latency
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Low Latency skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Low Latency over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 76 125
Rank change year-on-year -30 +49 -47
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 17 97 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.79% 2.75% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 3.00% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 73 56
10th Percentile £523 £615 £613
25th Percentile £671 £625 £672
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £785 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £897 £963 £913
90th Percentile £1,024 £1,063 £938
Central London median daily rate £785 £750 £750
% change year-on-year +4.67% - +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Low Latency is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,952 3,230 3,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.58% 91.50% 91.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,373 2,183 2,969
10th Percentile £356 £356 £387
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £731 £688
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 24 44
10th Percentile £19.95 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.63 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £64.78
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Low Latency as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in the City of London

Low Latency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Low Latency in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Low Latency in the City of London

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 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Low Latency in the City of London

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.88%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub
2 1 (5.88%) NuGet
2 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Multicast
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) KDB
2 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
1 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (70.59%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Banking
2 6 (35.29%) Front Office
3 4 (23.53%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Java Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Data Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Java Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Market Data Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Market Data Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Pricing Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Pricing Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (17.65%) Rendezvous
3 2 (11.76%) Middleware
4 1 (5.88%) .NET
4 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.88%) React
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) Spring
4 1 (5.88%) Ultra Messaging
4 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (23.53%) Equities
3 3 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (17.65%) Fixed Income
4 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
4 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
4 2 (11.76%) Market Risk
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.88%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Unix
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Electronic Trading
2 4 (23.53%) Algorithmic Trading
2 4 (23.53%) Analytics
2 4 (23.53%) Multithreading
2 4 (23.53%) OO
2 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
3 3 (17.65%) E-Commerce
3 3 (17.65%) High Availability
3 3 (17.65%) Multithreaded Programming
3 3 (17.65%) SDLC
3 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
3 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Backtesting
4 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (11.76%) Data Integration
4 2 (11.76%) Prototyping
4 2 (11.76%) Rapid Prototyping
4 2 (11.76%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 2 (11.76%) C++
5 1 (5.88%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) Jython
5 1 (5.88%) Perl
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) CCNA
1 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Bloomberg
1 4 (23.53%) Solace
1 4 (23.53%) TIBCO
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco
2 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
3 2 (11.76%) Arista
3 2 (11.76%) BT
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Radianz
3 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.76%) Refinitiv
3 2 (11.76%) Reuters
4 1 (5.88%) IBM
4 1 (5.88%) ION Trading