Low Latency Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Low Latency
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Low Latency skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 167 162
Rank change year-on-year -63 -5 +32
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 16 6 18
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.23% 0.16% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.18% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 15
10th Percentile £693 £366 £340
25th Percentile £813 £413 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 £425 £388
Median % change year-on-year +105.88% +9.68% -20.51%
75th Percentile £938 £537 £566
90th Percentile - £539 £656
England median daily rate £725 £750 £788
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.76% +6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £83.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 - £83.00

All Process & 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 5,926 3,328 4,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.20% 89.22% 84.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,553 2,150 2,403
10th Percentile £313 £268 £298
25th Percentile £402 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £466 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.61% -5.86% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £580
90th Percentile £675 £650 £665
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.55% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 430 185 381
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.82 £11.11
25th Percentile £22.63 £17.44 £12.55
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% +13.64% -4.97%
75th Percentile £71.50 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £66.61
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in the North of England

Low Latency
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Low Latency in the North of England

Low Latency
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Low Latency.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Low Latency

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 5 July 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
North West -40 7 £875 +81.91% 4
North East - 7 £875 - 3
Yorkshire -53 2 - - 1
Low Latency
England

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (37.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) GCP
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Snowflake
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
3 2 (12.50%) Google Gemini
3 2 (12.50%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) BGP
1 1 (6.25%) DMZ
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
1 1 (6.25%) OSPF
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) BigQuery
1 3 (18.75%) Flink
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
General
1 12 (75.00%) Banking
2 8 (50.00%) Finance
3 6 (37.50%) Front Office
3 6 (37.50%) Investment Banking
4 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Senior
2 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Java Developer
2 6 (37.50%) React Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Senior Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Senior Java Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Senior React Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Senior UI Developer
2 6 (37.50%) UI Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Kafka Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Kafka
1 6 (37.50%) React
1 6 (37.50%) Redux
2 2 (12.50%) A2A Protocol
2 2 (12.50%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Equities
1 6 (37.50%) Fixed Income
1 6 (37.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 6 (37.50%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (12.50%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 6 (37.50%) Electronic Trading
3 5 (31.25%) Microservices
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) AI
4 3 (18.75%) Clean Code
4 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Data Matching
4 3 (18.75%) ETL
4 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven
4 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (18.75%) Generative AI
4 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
4 3 (18.75%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Software Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (12.50%) LLM
5 2 (12.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Java
2 6 (37.50%) C#
2 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 6 (37.50%) TypeScript
3 5 (31.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Databricks
2 2 (12.50%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) OpenAI
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) McAfee