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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 520 615
Rank change year-on-year +29 +95 +166
Contract jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency 12 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.043% 0.033% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.038% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 5
10th Percentile - - £790
25th Percentile £725 £825 £813
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £850 £850
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% - -
75th Percentile £906 £913 £888
90th Percentile £950 £925 £918
UK median daily rate £750 £850 £850
% change year-on-year -11.76% - -

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 25,091 28,613 39,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.78% 85.87% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,021 18,619 27,907
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £422 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,418 1,653 1,389
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.35 £18.83
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +4.88% +54.72%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.50
% change year-on-year -38.57% -1.35% +56.60%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +16 11 £750 -11.76% 22
South East - 1 - - 2
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 6 (50.00%) HTTP
2 5 (41.67%) SSL
2 5 (41.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (16.67%) Multicast
4 1 (8.33%) 3GPP
4 1 (8.33%) 5G
4 1 (8.33%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Advertising
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Python Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Low Latency Java Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 3 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (16.67%) Equities
3 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (8.33%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (8.33%) Fixed Income
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 7 (58.33%) Test Automation
3 6 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (41.67%) Load Balancing
5 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 4 (33.33%) High Availability
5 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 4 (33.33%) SDLC
6 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (16.67%) Asynchronous Programming
7 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 2 (16.67%) High-Frequency Trading
7 2 (16.67%) JVM Tuning
7 2 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
8 1 (8.33%) Concurrent Programming
8 1 (8.33%) DevOps
8 1 (8.33%) Exploratory Testing
8 1 (8.33%) Multithreaded Programming
8 1 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) Perl
3 3 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Ansible
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (16.67%) Arista
3 1 (8.33%) Ericsson