Low Latency Contract Job Trends in the North West

Low Latency
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 161 121 113
Rank change year-on-year -40 -8 +32
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 7 5 17
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.19% 0.24% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.27% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 15
10th Percentile £573 £358 £340
25th Percentile £663 £393 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 £481 £388
Median % change year-on-year +81.91% +24.13% -13.89%
75th Percentile £938 £538 £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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,006 1,862 2,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.45% 88.58% 84.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,763 1,231 1,421
10th Percentile £300 £296 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -8.72% -1.40%
75th Percentile £588 £563 £585
90th Percentile £675 £669 £675
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.55% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 114 266
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.02 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.02 £15.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £29.90 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.22% -0.33% -1.77%
75th Percentile £76.00 £60.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.00 £67.05
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 West

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in the North West

Low Latency
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Low Latency in the North West

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire -6 5 £525 -2.23% 2
Cumbria - 2 £875 - 1
Low Latency
England

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (42.86%) Apache Spark
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) BGP
1 1 (14.29%) DMZ
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) OSPF
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
General
1 6 (85.71%) Banking
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Front Office
3 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Kafka Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) React Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior React Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior UI Developer
3 2 (28.57%) UI Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Equities
2 2 (28.57%) Fixed Income
2 2 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) Clean Code
1 3 (42.86%) Data Matching
1 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven
1 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (42.86%) Regulatory Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
1 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (14.29%) AI
3 1 (14.29%) Automated Trading
3 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
3 1 (14.29%) Network Design
3 1 (14.29%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) McAfee