Low Latency Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Low Latency
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Low Latency skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 336 396
Rank change year-on-year -60 +60 +11
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 13 20 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.071% 0.14% 0.041%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% 0.16% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 5
10th Percentile £363 £425 £515
25th Percentile £410 £450 £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £780
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -39.10% +4.00%
75th Percentile £519 £612 -
90th Percentile £608 - -
UK median daily rate £700 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate £20.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,744 12,894 17,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.58% 87.27% 87.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,632 7,584 11,117
10th Percentile £221 £239 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,754 742 1,246
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.58 £31.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.16% -30.00% +40.63%
75th Percentile £50.00 £64.40 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.55 £73.46 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Low Latency
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Low Latency.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Low Latency

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Low Latency in the UK excluding London

Low Latency
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Low Latency.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Low Latency

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 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
Scotland +5 4 £453 -3.72% 29
South East - 4 £525 - 180
South West -7 3 £675 +22.73% 64
North West -26 2 £313 -47.92% 68
North of England -57 2 £313 -47.92% 132
Low Latency
UK

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.69%) Apigee
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.69%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) 5G
1 2 (15.38%) DHCP
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
1 2 (15.38%) WAN
2 1 (7.69%) 3GPP
2 1 (7.69%) DWDM
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) HTTP
2 1 (7.69%) MPLS
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) NGN
2 1 (7.69%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (7.69%) SDH
2 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.69%) SSL
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) KDB
1 2 (15.38%) Kdb+
2 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.69%) Looker
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (7.69%) HP UFT
3 1 (7.69%) JUnit
3 1 (7.69%) LoadRunner
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
2 2 (15.38%) KDB Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Ab Initio Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Backend Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Ab Initio Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Transmission Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) VoIP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) REST
2 3 (23.08%) Kafka
2 3 (23.08%) SOAP
3 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) Django
3 1 (7.69%) Express.js
3 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
3 1 (7.69%) Flask
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
3 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
3 1 (7.69%) OpenID
3 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) Swagger
3 1 (7.69%) Web Services
3 1 (7.69%) XML
3 1 (7.69%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) SCADA
2 1 (7.69%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Analytics
2 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) API Development
4 2 (15.38%) Change Management
4 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Runbook
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Ultra-Low Latency
4 2 (15.38%) User Experience
5 1 (7.69%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (7.69%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (7.69%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Perl
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.69%) BC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) GDPR
2 2 (15.38%) QA
3 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.69%) NIST
3 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Amdocs OSS
1 1 (7.69%) Argo
1 1 (7.69%) Grafana
1 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) F5
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) Infoblox
3 1 (7.69%) Ab Initio
3 1 (7.69%) Brocade
3 1 (7.69%) Ciena
3 1 (7.69%) Cramer
3 1 (7.69%) Ericsson
3 1 (7.69%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft
3 1 (7.69%) Nokia
3 1 (7.69%) VMware