Low Latency Contract Job Trends in South London

Low Latency
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Low Latency skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 1.16% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £825 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - -
75th Percentile £875 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £750 £825 £725
% change year-on-year -9.09% +13.79% -3.97%

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 153 169 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.44% 88.02% 83.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 113 200
10th Percentile £213 £286 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £633 £567 £600
90th Percentile £720 £763 £684
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -0.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 16
10th Percentile - - £14.44
25th Percentile - £17.25 £22.41
Median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £52.58
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -62.91% +19.20%
75th Percentile £16.38 £71.88 £55.20
90th Percentile £17.98 £73.75 £66.30
London median hourly rate £31.75 £36.00 £39.92
% change year-on-year -11.81% -9.81% +6.44%

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
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

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

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 September 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 - 1 £850 - 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) FIX Connectivity
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Gradle
1 2 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Derivative
1 1 (50.00%) Equities
1 1 (50.00%) TWAP
1 1 (50.00%) VWAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Garbage Collection
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOD
1 2 (100.00%) Quantitative Trading
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) E-business
2 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Smart Order Routing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA