Low Latency Contract Job Trends in the South East

Low Latency
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Low Latency skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 - 210
Rank change year-on-year - - +58
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.11% - 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £257
25th Percentile £513 - £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.25%
75th Percentile £538 - £503
90th Percentile - - £549
England median daily rate £700 £800 £725
% change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.00 - -
Median hourly rate £20.00 - -
75th Percentile £21.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £20.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,180 3,629 4,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 88.95% 82.99% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,988 2,180 3,341
10th Percentile £213 £254 £248
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 203 259
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.00 £23.79
Median hourly rate £22.19 £58.38 £54.37
Median % change year-on-year -61.99% +7.37% +74.54%
75th Percentile £48.75 £70.41 £66.34
90th Percentile £69.11 £78.37 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in the South East

Low Latency
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Low Latency.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Low Latency

Low Latency
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Low Latency.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Low Latency

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Thames Valley - 4 £525 - 6
Berkshire - 3 £525 - 6
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Low Latency
England

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) 5G
2 1 (25.00%) 3GPP
2 1 (25.00%) DWDM
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) NGN
2 1 (25.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (25.00%) SDH
2 1 (25.00%) VoIP
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Backend Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Transmission Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VoIP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) Express.js
2 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (25.00%) Flask
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (25.00%) OpenID
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) API Design
2 1 (25.00%) API Development
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Process Management
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Spectrum Management
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Amdocs OSS
1 1 (25.00%) Argo
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Ciena
1 1 (25.00%) Cramer
1 1 (25.00%) Ericsson
1 1 (25.00%) Nokia