Low Latency Contract Job Trends in London

Low Latency
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Low Latency skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 211 210
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 -65
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 188 171 208
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.31% 1.13% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.26% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 122 167
10th Percentile £464 £553 £550
25th Percentile £560 £625 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £718 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £838 £898 £863
90th Percentile £950 £950 £980
England median daily rate £718 £788 £700
% change year-on-year -8.89% +12.50% -6.67%

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 13,151 13,572 16,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.42% 90.07% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,661 8,737 12,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £794
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 164 237
10th Percentile £18.14 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%
75th Percentile £53.13 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.90 £80.75 £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in London

Low Latency
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Low Latency in London

Low Latency
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Low Latency.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Low Latency

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 19 December 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 +8 32 £650 -24.35% 20
South London - 2 £850 - 2
West London - 1 £300 - 4
East London - 1 £450 - 2
Low Latency
England

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.19%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.66%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Eikon
1 1 (0.53%) Eze OMS
1 1 (0.53%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 18 (9.57%) AWS
2 10 (5.32%) Azure
3 5 (2.66%) GCP
4 3 (1.60%) GitHub
4 3 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (1.60%) Power Platform
4 3 (1.60%) Snowflake
5 2 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (1.06%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.06%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.53%) Akamai
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.53%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.11%) Multicast
1 19 (10.11%) TCP/IP
2 7 (3.72%) SSL
2 7 (3.72%) tcpdump
3 6 (3.19%) BGP
3 6 (3.19%) HTTP
3 6 (3.19%) OSPF
3 6 (3.19%) Wireshark
4 5 (2.66%) FIX Connectivity
5 4 (2.13%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (2.13%) VXLAN
6 3 (1.60%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.60%) Firewall
6 3 (1.60%) IGMP
7 2 (1.06%) Network Security
7 2 (1.06%) VPN
8 1 (0.53%) DHCP
8 1 (0.53%) DNS
8 1 (0.53%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.98%) KDB
2 14 (7.45%) Kdb+
3 12 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (4.79%) Big Data
5 6 (3.19%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.13%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.60%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.60%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.60%) Power BI
7 3 (1.60%) Tick Data
8 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.06%) MemSQL
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.53%) DB2
9 1 (0.53%) HDInsight
9 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.53%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 19 (10.11%) Jenkins
2 12 (6.38%) Git
3 10 (5.32%) Maven
4 8 (4.26%) Gradle
5 6 (3.19%) GCC
5 6 (3.19%) GDB
5 6 (3.19%) JIRA
5 6 (3.19%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.13%) GitLab
6 4 (2.13%) IntelliJ
6 4 (2.13%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.60%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.06%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.06%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.06%) QUnit
9 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.53%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.53%) MLflow
9 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 87 (46.28%) Finance
2 72 (38.30%) Social Skills
3 68 (36.17%) Front Office
4 44 (23.40%) Banking
5 23 (12.23%) Investment Banking
6 13 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (6.38%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.66%) International Banking
9 4 (2.13%) Law
10 2 (1.06%) Games
10 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.06%) Legal
11 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) French Language
11 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 106 (56.38%) Developer
2 58 (30.85%) Java Developer
3 28 (14.89%) Senior
4 24 (12.77%) C++ Developer
5 18 (9.57%) Linux Developer
6 17 (9.04%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 15 (7.98%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 15 (7.98%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 15 (7.98%) Senior Developer
8 14 (7.45%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 14 (7.45%) Quantitative Developer
9 12 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (6.38%) Python Developer
10 11 (5.85%) Architect
10 11 (5.85%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 11 (5.85%) Front Office Developer
10 11 (5.85%) Network Engineer
11 10 (5.32%) Applications Engineer
11 10 (5.32%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (4.79%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (27.13%) FIX Protocol
2 23 (12.23%) Kafka
3 22 (11.70%) Middleware
4 12 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (5.85%) Ultra Messaging
6 7 (3.72%) React
6 7 (3.72%) REST
6 7 (3.72%) RESTful
7 6 (3.19%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 6 (3.19%) Spring
7 6 (3.19%) STL
8 5 (2.66%) JSON
8 5 (2.66%) TIBCO EMS
8 5 (2.66%) XML
9 4 (2.13%) .NET
9 4 (2.13%) AWT
9 4 (2.13%) GWT
9 4 (2.13%) JMS
9 4 (2.13%) Rendezvous
9 4 (2.13%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 61 (32.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 32 (17.02%) Equities
3 31 (16.49%) Algorithms
4 24 (12.77%) Data Structures
4 24 (12.77%) Fixed Income
5 22 (11.70%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (10.64%) Derivative
7 17 (9.04%) Cloud Native
8 11 (5.85%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (4.26%) Replication
10 7 (3.72%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (3.72%) Product Ownership
10 7 (3.72%) TWAP
10 7 (3.72%) VWAP
11 6 (3.19%) Data Centre
11 6 (3.19%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (3.19%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (3.19%) Private Cloud
12 5 (2.66%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 89 (47.34%) Linux
2 33 (17.55%) Unix
3 9 (4.79%) Windows
4 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.53%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (31.38%) Multithreading
2 50 (26.60%) Electronic Trading
3 37 (19.68%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (18.62%) Agile
5 33 (17.55%) CI/CD
6 31 (16.49%) High Availability
7 30 (15.96%) Algorithmic Trading
7 30 (15.96%) Computer Science
8 28 (14.89%) DevOps
9 27 (14.36%) Analytics
10 25 (13.30%) Test Automation
11 23 (12.23%) Risk Management
12 22 (11.70%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (11.70%) Machine Learning
13 19 (10.11%) Observability
13 19 (10.11%) Performance Tuning
13 19 (10.11%) SDLC
14 18 (9.57%) OO
14 18 (9.57%) Software Engineering
15 17 (9.04%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 89 (47.34%) Java
2 67 (35.64%) Python
3 46 (24.47%) C++
4 29 (15.43%) SQL
5 22 (11.70%) PowerShell
6 16 (8.51%) C#
7 12 (6.38%) Bash
8 10 (5.32%) Perl
9 5 (2.66%) C
10 4 (2.13%) Go
10 4 (2.13%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.60%) Rust
11 3 (1.60%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.60%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.06%) Embedded C++
12 2 (1.06%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.06%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.53%) Jython
13 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (7.98%) Degree
2 9 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.72%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.13%) CCIE
4 4 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.13%) PhD
5 2 (1.06%) CCNP
6 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.53%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.85%) QA
2 3 (1.60%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.53%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (9.04%) Docker
2 3 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.06%) GridGain
3 2 (1.06%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.06%) KVM
3 2 (1.06%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.53%) GPFS
4 1 (0.53%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 23 (12.23%) ITRS Geneos
2 22 (11.70%) Ansible
2 22 (11.70%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.91%) Prometheus
4 12 (6.38%) Terraform
5 10 (5.32%) Grafana
5 10 (5.32%) Kibana
5 10 (5.32%) logstash
6 2 (1.06%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.53%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (17.02%) Solace
2 16 (8.51%) TIBCO
3 11 (5.85%) Bloomberg
4 10 (5.32%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.26%) F5
5 8 (4.26%) ION Trading
6 7 (3.72%) Arista
6 7 (3.72%) Tradeweb
7 5 (2.66%) Cisco
7 5 (2.66%) Databricks
7 5 (2.66%) Oracle
8 4 (2.13%) Google
9 3 (1.60%) Alibaba
9 3 (1.60%) Splunk
9 3 (1.60%) Sybase
9 3 (1.60%) VMware
10 2 (1.06%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.06%) NVIDIA
10 2 (1.06%) Refinitiv
10 2 (1.06%) Reuters