Low Latency Contracts

Low Latency
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Low Latency skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Low Latency over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 445 279 361
Rank change year-on-year -166 +82 -74
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 145 546 633
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.94% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 1.05% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 457 472
10th Percentile £533 £494 £525
25th Percentile £600 £625 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £838
90th Percentile £1,070 £950 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £631 £535
% change year-on-year -16.83% +17.99% +22.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £83.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Low Latency is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low Latency over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Low Latency.

Hourly rate trend for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
England -136 139 £750 - 138
London -109 126 £751 +0.07% 116
Work from Home -23 65 £751 +0.07% 70
UK excluding London +19 15 £525 -16.83% 28
North of England +30 6 £575 +35.29% 1
North West +13 5 £575 +37.31% 1
South West - 5 £525 - 10
Midlands +27 2 £525 +16.67% 2
Scotland +21 2 £780 +4.00% 1
Yorkshire +17 1 - -
West Midlands +13 1 £500 +11.11% 2
East Midlands - 1 £550 -

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (4.14%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.38%) Apache
2 2 (1.38%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.69%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.69%) MetaMask
3 1 (0.69%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.69%) SAS
3 1 (0.69%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (1.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (6.21%) ION MarketView
2 4 (2.76%) RMDS
3 2 (1.38%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 11 (7.59%) AWS
2 9 (6.21%) Azure
3 5 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (3.45%) GitHub
4 4 (2.76%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (2.76%) OpenShift
4 4 (2.76%) Serverless
5 3 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.07%) Azure Functions
5 3 (2.07%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (2.07%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (2.07%) NuGet
5 3 (2.07%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.38%) GCP
6 2 (1.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.69%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.59%) Firewall
2 5 (3.45%) Network Security
3 4 (2.76%) InfiniBand
3 4 (2.76%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.07%) HTTP
4 3 (2.07%) VPN
5 2 (1.38%) DMZ
5 2 (1.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (1.38%) FIX Connectivity
5 2 (1.38%) IPsec
5 2 (1.38%) Multicast
5 2 (1.38%) NetScaler
5 2 (1.38%) SSL
5 2 (1.38%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.69%) BGP
6 1 (0.69%) OSPF
6 1 (0.69%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.69%) Unicast
6 1 (0.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (17.93%) KDB
2 7 (4.83%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.83%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.14%) Big Data
4 4 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.76%) Hadoop
4 4 (2.76%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.07%) Power BI
5 3 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (1.38%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.38%) Tableau
7 1 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.69%) HBase
7 1 (0.69%) MySQL
7 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (4.14%) Git
2 5 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.07%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.07%) JIRA
3 3 (2.07%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.69%) GitLab
4 1 (0.69%) Gradle
4 1 (0.69%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.69%) JUnit
4 1 (0.69%) Maven
4 1 (0.69%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 71 (48.97%) Finance
2 38 (26.21%) Banking
3 25 (17.24%) Front Office
4 22 (15.17%) Social Skills
5 18 (12.41%) Investment Banking
6 9 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.76%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.69%) Back Office
10 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.69%) Games
10 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (58.62%) Developer
2 50 (34.48%) Java Developer
3 33 (22.76%) Senior
4 24 (16.55%) Senior Developer
5 18 (12.41%) Senior Java Developer
6 15 (10.34%) Network Engineer
7 13 (8.97%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 13 (8.97%) Software Engineer
8 12 (8.28%) C++ Developer
9 8 (5.52%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 8 (5.52%) Senior Network Engineer
10 7 (4.83%) Java Engineer
11 6 (4.14%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 6 (4.14%) Java Software Engineer
12 5 (3.45%) Cisco Engineer
12 5 (3.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 5 (3.45%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 4 (2.76%) Data Engineer
13 4 (2.76%) Exchange Support
13 4 (2.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (24.83%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (8.28%) React
3 11 (7.59%) .NET
3 11 (7.59%) Kafka
4 7 (4.83%) Rendezvous
4 7 (4.83%) Spring
5 6 (4.14%) .NET Core
5 6 (4.14%) Middleware
6 5 (3.45%) HTML
6 5 (3.45%) HTML5
7 4 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.76%) Ultra Messaging
7 4 (2.76%) XML
8 3 (2.07%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.07%) REST
8 3 (2.07%) WPF
9 2 (1.38%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.38%) JSON
9 2 (1.38%) Node.js
9 2 (1.38%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 37 (25.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 26 (17.93%) Derivative
3 19 (13.10%) Fixed Income
4 17 (11.72%) Algorithms
5 16 (11.03%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (8.28%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (6.90%) Data Structures
8 9 (6.21%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (5.52%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (5.52%) Equity Derivative
9 8 (5.52%) Hedge funds
10 7 (4.83%) Cloud Native
10 7 (4.83%) Equities
11 4 (2.76%) Data Centre
11 4 (2.76%) Management Information System
12 2 (1.38%) Blockchain
12 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.38%) Market Risk
13 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
13 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (20.00%) Linux
2 18 (12.41%) Unix
3 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (37.24%) Electronic Trading
2 38 (26.21%) Algorithmic Trading
3 37 (25.52%) Agile
4 30 (20.69%) Multithreading
5 24 (16.55%) Analytics
5 24 (16.55%) Test Automation
6 21 (14.48%) High Availability
7 20 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
8 19 (13.10%) E-Commerce
9 18 (12.41%) Software Engineering
9 18 (12.41%) User Acceptance Testing
10 16 (11.03%) Computer Science
10 16 (11.03%) Multithreaded Programming
11 15 (10.34%) Incident Management
12 14 (9.66%) OO
13 13 (8.97%) Change Management
14 12 (8.28%) Fintech
15 11 (7.59%) Capacity Management
15 11 (7.59%) DevOps
15 11 (7.59%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 66 (45.52%) Java
2 28 (19.31%) Python
3 20 (13.79%) C++
4 13 (8.97%) C#
5 11 (7.59%) Perl
6 10 (6.90%) SQL
7 7 (4.83%) Bash
7 7 (4.83%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.76%) Scala
9 3 (2.07%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.38%) PHP
10 2 (1.38%) Solidity
10 2 (1.38%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.38%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.69%) Jython
11 1 (0.69%) Ruby
11 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (14.48%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (12.41%) Degree
3 17 (11.72%) CCNA
4 8 (5.52%) CCNP
5 6 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.14%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.14%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.76%) CCIE
7 3 (2.07%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.69%) CISM
8 1 (0.69%) CISSP
8 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.07%) QA
2 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (4.14%) Docker
2 2 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.69%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (8.97%) ITRS Geneos
2 7 (4.83%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.45%) Ansible
4 2 (1.38%) Terraform
5 1 (0.69%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.69%) Grafana
5 1 (0.69%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.69%) Oozie
Vendors
1 24 (16.55%) Cisco
2 23 (15.86%) ION Trading
3 14 (9.66%) Solace
4 10 (6.90%) TIBCO
5 9 (6.21%) F5
5 9 (6.21%) Fortinet
6 8 (5.52%) Arista
7 7 (4.83%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.76%) Bloomberg
8 4 (2.76%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.76%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.07%) Microsoft
9 3 (2.07%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.07%) Riverbed
9 3 (2.07%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.07%) Tradeweb
10 2 (1.38%) Google
10 2 (1.38%) MarketAxess
10 2 (1.38%) Radianz
10 2 (1.38%) Refinitiv