Low Latency Contract Job Trends in East London

Low Latency
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East 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 18 28 39
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 -
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in East London 5.22% 0.70% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.56% 0.74% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £471 £825 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £850 £825
Median % change year-on-year -28.82% +3.03% -
75th Percentile £866 £875 -
90th Percentile £925 - -
London median daily rate £725 £825 £725
% change year-on-year -12.12% +13.79% -3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 108 136 253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 93.91% 95.10% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 115 219
10th Percentile £190 £300 £213
25th Percentile £313 £413 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £585 £591 £650
90th Percentile £733 £669 £750
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £23.33 - £14.45
25th Percentile £24.70 - £14.85
Median hourly rate £33.25 £21.09 £15.52
Median % change year-on-year +57.65% +35.93% -52.41%
75th Percentile £56.88 - £16.18
90th Percentile £75.89 - £16.58
London median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -17.12% -2.67% +5.63%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in East London

Low Latency
Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Low Latency

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

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

Daily rate histogram for Low Latency in East London

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in East London

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 East London region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Tower Hamlets - 3 £450 -
Docklands, London +1 2 £900 +5.88%
Low Latency
London

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) BGP
1 2 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Junos
2 1 (16.67%) MPLS
2 1 (16.67%) Multicast
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) OSPF
2 1 (16.67%) SNMP
2 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (16.67%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MemSQL
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Front Office
1 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Network Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
1 2 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Multithreading
2 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading
3 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) FX Algorithmic Trading
3 2 (33.33%) Graceful Degradation
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) CCIE
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) JNCIE
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Arista
1 1 (16.67%) Juniper
1 1 (16.67%) Mellanox
1 1 (16.67%) NVIDIA