Ultra-Low Latency Contracts in England

Ultra-Low Latency
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Ultra-Low Latency skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ultra-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 482 536 641
Rank change year-on-year +54 +105 +127
Contract jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency 3 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.016% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.019% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 11
10th Percentile £622 - £675
25th Percentile £708 £825 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £850 £800
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -4.48%
75th Percentile £950 £875 £944
90th Percentile - - £950
UK median daily rate £900 £850 £800
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -3.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 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%

Ultra-Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Ultra-Low Latency in England

Ultra-Low Latency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Ultra-Low Latency in England

Ultra-Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Ultra-Low Latency in England

Ultra-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 Ultra-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 +34 2 £900 +5.88% 56
Ultra-Low Latency
UK

Ultra-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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
1 1 (33.33%) HSRP
1 1 (33.33%) IGMP
1 1 (33.33%) IPsec
1 1 (33.33%) Multicast
1 1 (33.33%) OSPF
1 1 (33.33%) Unicast
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VRRP
1 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Low Latency Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Equities
1 2 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (66.67%) Asynchronous Programming
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) JVM Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Direct Market Access
3 1 (33.33%) Logistics
3 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 1 (33.33%) Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Smart Order Routing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco