Ultra-Low Latency Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Ultra-Low Latency
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Ultra-Low Latency skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.090% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £725 £900 £850
% change year-on-year -19.44% +5.88% +1.49%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Ultra-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 862 607 679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.24% 88.87% 77.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 406 442
10th Percentile £213 £221 £207
25th Percentile £400 £327 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £410 £445
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -7.87% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £567
90th Percentile £650 £588 £625
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 50 61
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.81 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.17 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.87 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +11.00% -37.01%
75th Percentile £25.50 £25.14 £26.15
90th Percentile £33.75 £26.34 £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%

Ultra-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 Ultra-Low Latency within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Nottinghamshire - 1 - -
Ultra-Low Latency
England

Ultra-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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python