Low Latency Contract Job Trends in the North East

Low Latency
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Low Latency skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.31% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £813 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 - -
75th Percentile £938 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £725 £750 £750
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +1.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 520 242 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 80.75% 79.61% 80.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 165 112
10th Percentile £325 £218 £263
25th Percentile £400 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -4.40%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £590
90th Percentile £640 £625 £650
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 15 49
10th Percentile £17.00 - £11.44
25th Percentile £48.13 £11.60 £12.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £17.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +282.35% -12.82% -50.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £33.40 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £50.70 £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +63.48% -23.33% -

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in the North East

Low Latency
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Low Latency.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Low Latency

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Durham - 1 £875 -
Northumberland - 1 £875 -
Low Latency
England

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
1 2 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) React Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior React Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior UI Developer
1 2 (100.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Equities
1 2 (100.00%) Fixed Income
1 2 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript