Low Latency Contracts in South London

Low Latency
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London requiring Low Latency skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Low Latency over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 1.09% - 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% - 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £690
25th Percentile - - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.36%
75th Percentile - - £925
90th Percentile - - £1,030
London median daily rate £750 £751 £750
% change year-on-year -0.07% +0.07% -3.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 225 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.04% 93.36% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 152 283
10th Percentile £380 £253 £300
25th Percentile £463 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £656 £575 £666
90th Percentile £886 £638 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 13
10th Percentile - £17.00 £18.75
25th Percentile - £20.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%
75th Percentile £20.38 £77.19 £50.42
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £52.46
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Low Latency as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in South London

Low Latency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Low Latency in South London.

Daily rate trend for Low Latency in South London

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Bromley - 2 - - 1
Low Latency
London

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) MQSeries
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Swing Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) Rendezvous
1 2 (100.00%) Swing
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Fixed Income
1 2 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase
1 2 (100.00%) TIBCO