Low Latency Contracts in London

Low Latency
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 193 262 144
Rank change year-on-year +69 -118 +77
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 164 130 497
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.31% 0.73% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 0.82% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 111 418
10th Percentile £536 £550 £575
25th Percentile £610 £635 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £751 £750
Median % change year-on-year -0.07% +0.07% -3.23%
75th Percentile £863 £900 £863
90th Percentile £913 £1,031 £950
England median daily rate £750 £750 £750

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in London

Low Latency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Low Latency in London

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Low Latency in London

Low Latency
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Low Latency in London

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +26 38 £700 -16.42% 28
South London - 2 - - 2
East London +13 1 £535 -23.57% 2
Low Latency
England

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (6.71%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.83%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (1.83%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.22%) Apache
3 2 (1.22%) MQSeries
3 2 (1.22%) nginx
3 2 (1.22%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.61%) Confluence
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.22%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle TCA
Cloud Services
1 22 (13.41%) Azure
2 20 (12.20%) AWS
3 7 (4.27%) Serverless
4 5 (3.05%) Azure Functions
4 5 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (2.44%) GCP
6 3 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (1.83%) GitHub
6 3 (1.83%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.22%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.22%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.22%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.61%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (0.61%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.61%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.76%) Firewall
2 15 (9.15%) Multicast
3 13 (7.93%) BGP
3 13 (7.93%) OSPF
4 11 (6.71%) FIX Connectivity
4 11 (6.71%) HSRP
5 9 (5.49%) IGMP
5 9 (5.49%) VRRP
6 5 (3.05%) Network Security
6 5 (3.05%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (2.44%) DNS
7 4 (2.44%) VPN
8 3 (1.83%) BIG-IP
8 3 (1.83%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (1.83%) MPLS
9 2 (1.22%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (1.22%) EIGRP
9 2 (1.22%) IPsec
9 2 (1.22%) LAN
9 2 (1.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.15%) Big Data
2 10 (6.10%) KDB
3 7 (4.27%) Data Mining
4 6 (3.66%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.66%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.05%) Kdb+
6 4 (2.44%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.44%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.83%) OLAP
7 3 (1.83%) OLTP
7 3 (1.83%) SAP BW
7 3 (1.83%) SAP Data Services
7 3 (1.83%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.22%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.22%) Power BI
8 2 (1.22%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.61%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 14 (8.54%) Git
2 12 (7.32%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.32%) JIRA
3 6 (3.66%) TeamCity
4 5 (3.05%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.44%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (2.44%) JUnit
6 2 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.61%) GitLab
7 1 (0.61%) Maven
7 1 (0.61%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.61%) Travis CI
General
1 81 (49.39%) Finance
2 55 (33.54%) Social Skills
3 50 (30.49%) Banking
3 50 (30.49%) Front Office
4 32 (19.51%) Investment Banking
5 29 (17.68%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.71%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.44%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.22%) Advertising
8 2 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Automotive
9 1 (0.61%) Back Office
9 1 (0.61%) French Language
9 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 85 (51.83%) Developer
2 39 (23.78%) Java Developer
3 30 (18.29%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 26 (15.85%) Senior
5 20 (12.20%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 18 (10.98%) C# Developer
6 18 (10.98%) Senior Developer
7 16 (9.76%) Software Engineer
8 15 (9.15%) Network Engineer
9 11 (6.71%) Real Time Developer
9 11 (6.71%) Senior Java Developer
10 10 (6.10%) .NET Developer
10 10 (6.10%) C# .NET Developer
10 10 (6.10%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
11 9 (5.49%) Java Engineer
11 9 (5.49%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 9 (5.49%) Python Developer
12 8 (4.88%) C++ Developer
12 8 (4.88%) Front Office Developer
13 7 (4.27%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (18.90%) FIX Protocol
2 22 (13.41%) .NET
3 17 (10.37%) AngularJS
4 10 (6.10%) Reactive Extensions
5 7 (4.27%) .NET Core
5 7 (4.27%) Ray
6 5 (3.05%) HTML
6 5 (3.05%) HTML5
6 5 (3.05%) Middleware
6 5 (3.05%) React
6 5 (3.05%) Rendezvous
7 4 (2.44%) Blazor
7 4 (2.44%) Kafka
7 4 (2.44%) Web Services
8 3 (1.83%) Node.js
8 3 (1.83%) PySpark
8 3 (1.83%) RxJS
9 2 (1.22%) Protocol Buffers
9 2 (1.22%) REST
9 2 (1.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (26.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 27 (16.46%) Algorithms
3 26 (15.85%) Equities
4 18 (10.98%) Derivative
5 15 (9.15%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (8.54%) Hedge funds
7 12 (7.32%) Data Centre
8 11 (6.71%) Distributed Computing
8 11 (6.71%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (6.71%) Fixed Income
9 7 (4.27%) Credit Risk
9 7 (4.27%) TWAP
9 7 (4.27%) VWAP
10 6 (3.66%) Cloud Native
10 6 (3.66%) Data Structures
10 6 (3.66%) State Machine
11 5 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (3.05%) Market Risk
12 4 (2.44%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 36 (21.95%) Linux
2 17 (10.37%) Unix
3 12 (7.32%) Windows
4 6 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.44%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.61%) CentOS
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.61%) Rocky
6 1 (0.61%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (26.83%) Electronic Trading
2 37 (22.56%) Agile
3 34 (20.73%) Multithreading
4 32 (19.51%) Algorithmic Trading
5 29 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (17.07%) CI/CD
7 23 (14.02%) High Availability
8 22 (13.41%) Design Patterns
9 21 (12.80%) OO
9 21 (12.80%) Software Engineering
10 20 (12.20%) Computer Science
11 19 (11.59%) Technical Leadership
12 17 (10.37%) Smart Order Routing
13 16 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (9.76%) Market Making
14 15 (9.15%) DevOps
15 14 (8.54%) Analytics
15 14 (8.54%) Code Quality
15 14 (8.54%) SDLC
16 12 (7.32%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 84 (51.22%) Java
2 65 (39.63%) Python
3 43 (26.22%) C++
4 33 (20.12%) SQL
5 31 (18.90%) C#
6 17 (10.37%) TypeScript
7 15 (9.15%) JavaScript
8 10 (6.10%) Shell Script
9 9 (5.49%) C
10 7 (4.27%) Bash
11 4 (2.44%) Go
12 3 (1.83%) Jython
12 3 (1.83%) MATLAB
12 3 (1.83%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.83%) Rust
12 3 (1.83%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.22%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.22%) Perl
14 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (14.63%) Degree
2 13 (7.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (7.32%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (4.27%) CCNP
6 6 (3.66%) PhD
7 4 (2.44%) CCIE
8 3 (1.83%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.61%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.10%) QA
2 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.61%) GDPR
2 1 (0.61%) MiFID
2 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (7.93%) Docker
2 8 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.22%) Firmware
4 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (14.63%) Ansible
2 17 (10.37%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.49%) Terraform
4 8 (4.88%) Puppet
5 4 (2.44%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.22%) Nagios
6 2 (1.22%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (1.22%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.61%) Argo
7 1 (0.61%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.61%) Grafana
7 1 (0.61%) Netcool
7 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.61%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.61%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.61%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.61%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 19 (11.59%) Cisco
2 16 (9.76%) Oracle
3 15 (9.15%) Arista
4 14 (8.54%) Fortinet
5 11 (6.71%) VMware
6 9 (5.49%) Red Hat
6 9 (5.49%) Solace
7 8 (4.88%) TIBCO
8 7 (4.27%) ION Trading
9 6 (3.66%) CheckPoint
9 6 (3.66%) F5
9 6 (3.66%) IBM
10 5 (3.05%) Microsoft
10 5 (3.05%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.44%) Databricks
11 4 (2.44%) Sybase
12 3 (1.83%) MuleSoft
12 3 (1.83%) SAP
13 2 (1.22%) Bloomberg
13 2 (1.22%) Juniper