Low Latency Contracts in England

Low Latency
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Low Latency skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Low Latency over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 399 250
Rank change year-on-year +79 -149 +75
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 168 143 532
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.69% 0.38% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.44% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 122 444
10th Percentile £525 £528 £525
25th Percentile £604 £600 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £750
75th Percentile £850 £875 £863
90th Percentile £913 £1,025 £950
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £750
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £83.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £83.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Low Latency as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in England

Low Latency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Low Latency in England.

Daily rate trend for Low Latency in England

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Low Latency in England

Low Latency
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Low Latency in England.

Hourly rate trend for Low Latency in England

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +69 164 £750 -0.07% 386
North of England +15 2 £388 -32.61% 25
Midlands +21 1 £600 +14.29% 10
West Midlands +14 1 £600 +20.00% 9
North West +13 1 £350 -39.13% 22
Yorkshire +8 1 £425 - 3
Low Latency
UK

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (6.55%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.79%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (1.79%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.19%) Apache
3 2 (1.19%) Confluence
3 2 (1.19%) MQSeries
3 2 (1.19%) nginx
3 2 (1.19%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.19%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle TCA
Cloud Services
1 22 (13.10%) Azure
2 20 (11.90%) AWS
3 7 (4.17%) Serverless
4 5 (2.98%) Azure Functions
4 5 (2.98%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (2.38%) GCP
6 3 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (1.79%) GitHub
6 3 (1.79%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.19%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.19%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.19%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.60%) IaaS
8 1 (0.60%) PaaS
8 1 (0.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.12%) Firewall
2 16 (9.52%) Multicast
3 14 (8.33%) BGP
3 14 (8.33%) OSPF
4 12 (7.14%) HSRP
5 11 (6.55%) FIX Connectivity
6 10 (5.95%) IGMP
6 10 (5.95%) VRRP
7 6 (3.57%) Network Security
8 5 (2.98%) Software-Defined Networking
8 5 (2.98%) VPN
9 4 (2.38%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (2.38%) DNS
10 3 (1.79%) BIG-IP
10 3 (1.79%) EIGRP
10 3 (1.79%) IPsec
10 3 (1.79%) MPLS
10 3 (1.79%) VXLAN
10 3 (1.79%) WAN
11 2 (1.19%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.93%) Big Data
2 10 (5.95%) KDB
3 7 (4.17%) Data Mining
3 7 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.98%) Kdb+
5 5 (2.98%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.38%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.79%) OLAP
7 3 (1.79%) OLTP
7 3 (1.79%) SAP BW
7 3 (1.79%) SAP Data Services
7 3 (1.79%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.19%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.19%) Power BI
8 2 (1.19%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (8.93%) Git
2 13 (7.74%) JIRA
3 12 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.57%) Bitbucket
4 6 (3.57%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.38%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (2.38%) JUnit
6 2 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.60%) GitLab
7 1 (0.60%) Maven
7 1 (0.60%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.60%) Travis CI
General
1 82 (48.81%) Finance
2 57 (33.93%) Social Skills
3 52 (30.95%) Banking
4 50 (29.76%) Front Office
5 32 (19.05%) Investment Banking
6 30 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (6.55%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.38%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.19%) Advertising
9 2 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Automotive
10 1 (0.60%) Back Office
10 1 (0.60%) French Language
10 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.60%) Marketing
10 1 (0.60%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 87 (51.79%) Developer
2 39 (23.21%) Java Developer
3 30 (17.86%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 27 (16.07%) Senior
5 20 (11.90%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 18 (10.71%) C# Developer
6 18 (10.71%) Senior Developer
7 16 (9.52%) Network Engineer
7 16 (9.52%) Software Engineer
8 11 (6.55%) Real Time Developer
8 11 (6.55%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (5.95%) .NET Developer
9 10 (5.95%) C# .NET Developer
9 10 (5.95%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
10 9 (5.36%) Java Engineer
10 9 (5.36%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 9 (5.36%) Python Developer
11 8 (4.76%) C++ Developer
11 8 (4.76%) Front Office Developer
12 7 (4.17%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (19.05%) FIX Protocol
2 22 (13.10%) .NET
3 18 (10.71%) AngularJS
4 10 (5.95%) Reactive Extensions
5 7 (4.17%) .NET Core
5 7 (4.17%) Ray
6 6 (3.57%) HTML
6 6 (3.57%) HTML5
6 6 (3.57%) React
7 5 (2.98%) Kafka
7 5 (2.98%) Middleware
7 5 (2.98%) Rendezvous
8 4 (2.38%) Blazor
8 4 (2.38%) Node.js
8 4 (2.38%) Web Services
9 3 (1.79%) PySpark
9 3 (1.79%) REST
9 3 (1.79%) RxJS
10 2 (1.19%) Protocol Buffers
10 2 (1.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (25.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 27 (16.07%) Algorithms
3 26 (15.48%) Equities
4 18 (10.71%) Derivative
5 15 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (8.33%) Hedge funds
7 13 (7.74%) Data Centre
8 11 (6.55%) Distributed Computing
8 11 (6.55%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (6.55%) Fixed Income
9 7 (4.17%) Credit Risk
9 7 (4.17%) TWAP
9 7 (4.17%) VWAP
10 6 (3.57%) Cloud Native
10 6 (3.57%) Data Structures
10 6 (3.57%) State Machine
11 5 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (2.98%) Market Risk
12 4 (2.38%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 36 (21.43%) Linux
2 17 (10.12%) Unix
3 12 (7.14%) Windows
4 6 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.38%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.60%) CentOS
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.60%) Rocky
6 1 (0.60%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (26.19%) Electronic Trading
2 38 (22.62%) Agile
3 34 (20.24%) Multithreading
4 33 (19.64%) Algorithmic Trading
5 31 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (17.26%) CI/CD
7 24 (14.29%) High Availability
8 22 (13.10%) Design Patterns
8 22 (13.10%) Software Engineering
9 21 (12.50%) Computer Science
9 21 (12.50%) OO
10 19 (11.31%) Technical Leadership
11 18 (10.71%) Smart Order Routing
12 17 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (9.52%) DevOps
13 16 (9.52%) Market Making
14 15 (8.93%) Code Quality
14 15 (8.93%) SDLC
15 14 (8.33%) Analytics
16 13 (7.74%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 85 (50.60%) Java
2 67 (39.88%) Python
3 43 (25.60%) C++
4 34 (20.24%) SQL
5 31 (18.45%) C#
6 17 (10.12%) TypeScript
7 16 (9.52%) JavaScript
8 10 (5.95%) Shell Script
9 9 (5.36%) C
10 7 (4.17%) Bash
11 4 (2.38%) Go
12 3 (1.79%) Jython
12 3 (1.79%) MATLAB
12 3 (1.79%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.79%) Rust
12 3 (1.79%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.19%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.19%) Perl
14 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (14.88%) Degree
2 14 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (7.74%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (4.17%) CCNP
6 6 (3.57%) PhD
7 4 (2.38%) CCIE
8 3 (1.79%) RHCSA
9 2 (1.19%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.60%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.95%) QA
2 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.60%) GDPR
2 1 (0.60%) MiFID
2 1 (0.60%) NCSC
2 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (8.33%) Docker
2 8 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.19%) Firmware
4 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (14.29%) Ansible
2 18 (10.71%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.36%) Terraform
4 8 (4.76%) Puppet
5 4 (2.38%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.19%) Nagios
6 2 (1.19%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.19%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (1.19%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.60%) Argo
7 1 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.60%) Grafana
7 1 (0.60%) Netcool
7 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.60%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.60%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.60%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 20 (11.90%) Cisco
2 17 (10.12%) Oracle
3 15 (8.93%) Arista
4 14 (8.33%) Fortinet
5 11 (6.55%) VMware
6 9 (5.36%) Red Hat
6 9 (5.36%) Solace
7 8 (4.76%) TIBCO
8 7 (4.17%) ION Trading
9 6 (3.57%) CheckPoint
9 6 (3.57%) F5
9 6 (3.57%) IBM
10 5 (2.98%) Microsoft
10 5 (2.98%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.38%) Databricks
11 4 (2.38%) Sybase
12 3 (1.79%) MuleSoft
12 3 (1.79%) SAP
13 2 (1.19%) Bloomberg
13 2 (1.19%) Juniper