Low Latency Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Low Latency
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Low Latency skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 208 129 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 69.10% 93.48% 75.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 85 88
10th Percentile £285 £255 £153
25th Percentile £378 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £494
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +11.39% -1.25%
75th Percentile £581 £675 £591
90th Percentile £630 £775 £608
South West median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 11 28
10th Percentile £32.50 £14.42 £12.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £16.47 £22.63
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -44.44%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £40.00
90th Percentile - - £48.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +36.84% -22.76%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in Somerset

Low Latency
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Low Latency.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Low Latency

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) VMware