Low Latency Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Low Latency
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Low Latency skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.090% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
England median daily rate £725 £750 £750
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,746 880 1,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.86% 90.44% 83.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 885 455 662
10th Percentile £198 £225 £200
25th Percentile £375 £395 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £589 £593 £575
90th Percentile £681 £675 £674
England median daily rate £515 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 177 611
10th Percentile £14.36 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.92 £15.56
Median hourly rate £27.00 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% -6.25% +81.82%
75th Percentile £68.44 £72.50 £63.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.40 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in the East of England

Low Latency
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 4 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
Hertfordshire - 1 £550 - 2
Norfolk - 1 - -
Low Latency
England

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon MSK
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Avro
2 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (50.00%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) IoT
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) CQRS
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Java
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Confluent