Low Latency Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Low Latency
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Low Latency skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 - 144
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.20% - 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.32%
75th Percentile £538 - £425
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £525 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -48.32%
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 - - -
South East median hourly rate £20.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,788 1,859 2,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 88.38% 88.27% 91.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,089 1,510
10th Percentile £263 £296 £214
25th Percentile £400 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £695
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 58 105
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.14 £17.68
25th Percentile £17.15 £32.90 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.97% +14.25% +138.10%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.31 £64.50
90th Percentile £87.41 £71.24 £74.08
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +23.01%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Low Latency
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Low Latency.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Low Latency

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 December 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 - 3 £525 - 9
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 2
Low Latency
South East

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End 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%) Network Planning
2 1 (25.00%) OWASP
2 1 (25.00%) Process Management
2 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
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