Low Latency Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Low Latency
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Low Latency skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 - 65
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.097% - 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £550
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £717 £750 £750
% change year-on-year -4.43% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 846 432 599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 81.66% 85.88% 78.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 290 407
10th Percentile £199 £200 £188
25th Percentile £363 £318 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £431 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.06% +1.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £550
90th Percentile £625 £589 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 22 63
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.74 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.05 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% +25.97% +3.34%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.03 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.25 £33.55 £51.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -9.33%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Low Latency
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 April 2026. 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
Northamptonshire - 1 £500 -
Low Latency
England

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Rust Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asynchronous Programming
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Rust
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes