Low Latency Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Low Latency
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 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 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 652 309 733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 79.32% 92.24% 87.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 155 256
10th Percentile £200 £346 £219
25th Percentile £406 £450 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +33.33% -17.50%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £588
90th Percentile £750 £675 £700
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 76 313
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.48 £38.12
25th Percentile £18.50 £34.91 £40.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +24.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.38 £84.50 £76.65
East of England median hourly rate £27.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.00% -6.25% +81.82%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Low Latency
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Low Latency.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Low Latency

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire 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
Watford - 1 £550 -
Low Latency
East of England

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes