Low Latency Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Low Latency
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Low Latency skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 2.30% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median daily rate £675 £550 -
% change year-on-year +22.73% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64 96 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 73.56% 91.43% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 54 117
10th Percentile £175 £269 £172
25th Percentile £270 £418 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £559 £675
90th Percentile £675 £688 £825
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 48
10th Percentile - - £15.62
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.41 £20.50
Median hourly rate £16.85 £15.22 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -73.07% +175.56%
75th Percentile £22.79 £15.62 £65.98
90th Percentile £25.15 £20.40 £69.62
South West median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -54.78% +8.33% -7.69%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in Dorset

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Bournemouth - 2 - -
Low Latency
South West

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) KDB
1 2 (100.00%) Kdb+
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) KDB Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality