Low Latency Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Low Latency
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 280 260
Rank change year-on-year +55 -20 +186
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 79 65 228
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.80% 0.42% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.48% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 51 194
10th Percentile £500 £600 £482
25th Percentile £600 £610 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £751 £750
Median % change year-on-year -0.07% +0.07% +7.14%
75th Percentile £850 £900 £872
90th Percentile £903 £1,250 £975
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £750
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £83.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £83.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Low Latency
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Low Latency as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Low Latency trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Low Latency
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Low Latency.

Low Latency daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Low Latency over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Low Latency daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (7.59%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.80%) Apache
2 3 (3.80%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.27%) Confluence
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.27%) nginx
4 1 (1.27%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.19%) AWS
2 6 (7.59%) Azure
3 5 (6.33%) Amazon S3
3 5 (6.33%) Serverless
4 4 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.80%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.53%) GCP
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.27%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (1.27%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.27%) GitHub
7 1 (1.27%) IaaS
7 1 (1.27%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.27%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.27%) SaaS
7 1 (1.27%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.27%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.19%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (5.06%) Firewall
3 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.53%) VLAN
4 1 (1.27%) BGP
4 1 (1.27%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.27%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.27%) DHCP
4 1 (1.27%) DNS
4 1 (1.27%) HSRP
4 1 (1.27%) Internet
4 1 (1.27%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.27%) MQTT
4 1 (1.27%) Multicast
4 1 (1.27%) NAS
4 1 (1.27%) Network Security
4 1 (1.27%) OSPF
4 1 (1.27%) SAN
4 1 (1.27%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.86%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (7.59%) Big Data
3 5 (6.33%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (5.06%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (5.06%) Data Mining
5 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.80%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.53%) Apache Hive
6 2 (2.53%) HBase
6 2 (2.53%) Impala
6 2 (2.53%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.27%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.27%) DB2
7 1 (1.27%) KDB
7 1 (1.27%) Kdb+
7 1 (1.27%) Pinecone
7 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.27%) Redis
7 1 (1.27%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (1.27%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (13.92%) JIRA
2 7 (8.86%) Git
3 3 (3.80%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.27%) GitLab
4 1 (1.27%) JUnit
4 1 (1.27%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.27%) Travis CI
General
1 25 (31.65%) Finance
2 24 (30.38%) Banking
3 23 (29.11%) Front Office
3 23 (29.11%) Social Skills
4 18 (22.78%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (20.25%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.06%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.06%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.53%) Law
8 1 (1.27%) Advertising
8 1 (1.27%) Games
Job Titles
1 45 (56.96%) Developer
2 28 (35.44%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 22 (27.85%) Java Developer
4 18 (22.78%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 16 (20.25%) Senior
6 15 (18.99%) C# Developer
7 12 (15.19%) Senior Developer
8 10 (12.66%) .NET Developer
8 10 (12.66%) C# .NET Developer
8 10 (12.66%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
8 10 (12.66%) Real Time Developer
9 7 (8.86%) C++ Software Engineer
9 7 (8.86%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (8.86%) Software Engineer
10 5 (6.33%) Front Office Developer
10 5 (6.33%) Network Engineer
10 5 (6.33%) Senior Flex Developer
11 4 (5.06%) C++ Developer
11 4 (5.06%) Python Developer
11 4 (5.06%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (24.05%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (15.19%) .NET
2 12 (15.19%) AngularJS
3 10 (12.66%) Reactive Extensions
4 5 (6.33%) Pandas
5 4 (5.06%) Kafka
5 4 (5.06%) PySpark
5 4 (5.06%) Ray
5 4 (5.06%) React
6 2 (2.53%) Apache Avro
6 2 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.53%) JSON
6 2 (2.53%) Node.js
6 2 (2.53%) Rendezvous
7 1 (1.27%) HTML
7 1 (1.27%) JMS
7 1 (1.27%) LDAP
7 1 (1.27%) Motif
7 1 (1.27%) Spring
7 1 (1.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.19%) Derivative
1 12 (15.19%) Equities
2 11 (13.92%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (13.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (8.86%) Algorithms
3 7 (8.86%) Data Structures
4 6 (7.59%) Distributed Computing
4 6 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (7.59%) Hedge funds
5 5 (6.33%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (6.33%) State Machine
6 4 (5.06%) Tandem
7 3 (3.80%) Credit Risk
7 3 (3.80%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.80%) Market Risk
7 3 (3.80%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.53%) Clustering
8 2 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.53%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.72%) Linux
2 7 (8.86%) Unix
3 3 (3.80%) Windows
4 2 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (1.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (39.24%) Electronic Trading
2 21 (26.58%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (22.78%) Agile
3 18 (22.78%) Algorithmic Trading
3 18 (22.78%) OO
4 17 (21.52%) Smart Order Routing
5 15 (18.99%) High Availability
5 15 (18.99%) Multithreading
6 14 (17.72%) Technical Leadership
7 12 (15.19%) Design Patterns
7 12 (15.19%) DevOps
8 11 (13.92%) CI/CD
8 11 (13.92%) Computer Science
8 11 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (13.92%) Software Engineering
9 10 (12.66%) Economics
10 9 (11.39%) Mentoring
11 7 (8.86%) Concurrent Programming
11 7 (8.86%) Roadmaps
11 7 (8.86%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 45 (56.96%) Java
2 32 (40.51%) Python
3 19 (24.05%) C++
3 19 (24.05%) SQL
4 18 (22.78%) C#
5 13 (16.46%) TypeScript
6 12 (15.19%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.33%) C
8 4 (5.06%) Bash
8 4 (5.06%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.80%) Jython
10 1 (1.27%) Go
10 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.27%) Ruby
10 1 (1.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (13.92%) Degree
2 9 (11.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.59%) Master's Degree
4 5 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.33%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.80%) CCNP
5 3 (3.80%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.80%) RHCSA
6 2 (2.53%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.33%) QA
2 1 (1.27%) GDPR
2 1 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (7.59%) Docker
2 4 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.53%) HDFS
4 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.27%) Firmware
4 1 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (11.39%) Ansible
2 7 (8.86%) Terraform
3 6 (7.59%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.53%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.53%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.53%) Puppet
5 1 (1.27%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (1.27%) Grafana
5 1 (1.27%) Nagios
5 1 (1.27%) Netcool
5 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.27%) Tivoli
5 1 (1.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 13 (16.46%) Oracle
2 7 (8.86%) VMware
3 6 (7.59%) Cisco
4 5 (6.33%) ION Trading
4 5 (6.33%) Solace
5 4 (5.06%) Databricks
5 4 (5.06%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.80%) F5
6 3 (3.80%) Fortinet
6 3 (3.80%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.53%) Arista
7 2 (2.53%) CheckPoint
7 2 (2.53%) Sybase
7 2 (2.53%) TIBCO
8 1 (1.27%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.27%) EMC
8 1 (1.27%) IBM
8 1 (1.27%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.27%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.27%) Refinitiv