Ultra-Low Latency Contracts in the South East

Ultra-Low Latency
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Ultra-Low Latency skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ultra-Low Latency over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.030% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £900 £850 £838
% change year-on-year +5.88% +1.49% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Ultra-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 2,973 4,709 5,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.64% 82.73% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,851 2,740 3,569
10th Percentile £250 £255 £252
25th Percentile £398 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £623
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 448 236
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.32 £21.89
Median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% - +122.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £67.86 £64.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

Ultra-Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Ultra-Low Latency as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Ultra-Low Latency in the South East

Ultra-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 Ultra-Low Latency within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Berkshire - 1 - - 3
Thames Valley - 1 - - 5
Ultra-Low Latency
England

Ultra-Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ericsson