Low Latency Contracts in the North of England

Low Latency
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 164 179 209
Rank change year-on-year +15 +30 -16
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 2 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.061% 0.13% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.15% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £343 £491 £389
25th Percentile £354 £501 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year -32.61% +35.29% +6.25%
75th Percentile £419 £656 £501
90th Percentile £430 - £551
England median daily rate £750 £750 £750
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £83.00 -
England median hourly rate - £83.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 the North of England

Job postings citing Low Latency as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in the North of England

Low Latency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Low Latency in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Low Latency in the North of England

Low Latency
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Low Latency in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Low Latency in the North of England

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +13 1 £350 -39.13% 44
Yorkshire +8 1 £425 - 24
Low Latency
England

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Confluent
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle