Low Latency Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Low Latency
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Low Latency skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.38% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £500 - £550

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 237 124 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 89.43% 91.18% 89.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 104 119
10th Percentile £325 £282 £263
25th Percentile £379 £356 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £412 £445
Median % change year-on-year +8.50% -7.42% +12.66%
75th Percentile £518 £486 £538
90th Percentile £575 £559 £620
East Midlands median daily rate £449 £431 £425
% change year-on-year +4.06% +1.47% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 23
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £13.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.50 £14.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.86% -58.57% +21.40%
75th Percentile - £15.25 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £22.05 £17.50
% change year-on-year -0.20% +25.97% +3.34%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 9 April 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
Northampton - 1 £500 -
Low Latency
East Midlands

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Rust Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asynchronous Programming
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Rust
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes