Hybrid/Remote Low Latency Contract Job Trends

Low Latency
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Low Latency skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 251 336
Rank change year-on-year -22 +85 -87
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 45 61 42
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.45% 0.57% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.63% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 33 31
10th Percentile £420 £567 £600
25th Percentile £519 £608 £656
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £650 £838
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -22.39% +4.69%
75th Percentile £819 £888 £884
90th Percentile £925 £913 £1,113
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 & 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 9,051 9,656 14,369
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.28% 89.49% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,937 6,059 9,750
10th Percentile £330 £325 £349
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 181 380
10th Percentile £15.57 £18.50 £16.08
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.89% -30.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £31.69 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.64% -21.75% +15.71%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Low Latency and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Low Latency job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Low Latency
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Low Latency.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Low Latency

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Low Latency over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Low Latency daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 6 (13.33%) AWS
1 6 (13.33%) Azure
2 3 (6.67%) GCP
2 3 (6.67%) GitHub
2 3 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (4.44%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (4.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (4.44%) OpenShift
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.22%) Apigee
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) TCP/IP
2 6 (13.33%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (8.89%) Multicast
4 3 (6.67%) WAN
5 2 (4.44%) HTTP
5 2 (4.44%) SD-WAN
5 2 (4.44%) SSL
5 2 (4.44%) tcpdump
5 2 (4.44%) VPN
6 1 (2.22%) 5G
6 1 (2.22%) DHCP
6 1 (2.22%) DNS
6 1 (2.22%) DWDM
6 1 (2.22%) Firewall
6 1 (2.22%) MPLS
6 1 (2.22%) MQTT
6 1 (2.22%) Network Security
6 1 (2.22%) NGN
6 1 (2.22%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (2.22%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.44%) Hazelcast
2 2 (4.44%) KDB
2 2 (4.44%) Kdb+
2 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.44%) Redis
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.22%) DB2
3 1 (2.22%) HDInsight
3 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.22%) Power BI
3 1 (2.22%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.67%) Git
2 3 (6.67%) Gradle
3 2 (4.44%) Gatling
3 2 (4.44%) GCC
3 2 (4.44%) GDB
3 2 (4.44%) Maven
4 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.22%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.22%) GitLab
4 1 (2.22%) HP UFT
4 1 (2.22%) IntelliJ
4 1 (2.22%) JUnit
4 1 (2.22%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.22%) QUnit
General
1 22 (48.89%) Finance
2 14 (31.11%) Banking
2 14 (31.11%) Front Office
3 10 (22.22%) Investment Banking
4 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.44%) International Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Law
7 1 (2.22%) Military
7 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (60.00%) Developer
2 18 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (17.78%) Linux Developer
4 7 (15.56%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
4 7 (15.56%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
5 6 (13.33%) C++ Developer
5 6 (13.33%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 6 (13.33%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 6 (13.33%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Core Java Developer
6 4 (8.89%) FPGA Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Java Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Low Latency C++ Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Market Data Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Senior
7 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.11%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (11.11%) JSON
2 5 (11.11%) Kafka
3 4 (8.89%) REST
4 3 (6.67%) Middleware
4 3 (6.67%) Spring
4 3 (6.67%) Ultra Messaging
4 3 (6.67%) XML
5 2 (4.44%) Apache Avro
5 2 (4.44%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (4.44%) Micronaut
5 2 (4.44%) OAuth
5 2 (4.44%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.44%) OpenID
5 2 (4.44%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (4.44%) RESTful
5 2 (4.44%) SOAP
5 2 (4.44%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.44%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 11 (24.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (20.00%) Derivative
2 9 (20.00%) Equities
3 7 (15.56%) TWAP
3 7 (15.56%) VWAP
4 5 (11.11%) Data Structures
5 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
5 4 (8.89%) FPGA
5 4 (8.89%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (8.89%) Management Information System
6 3 (6.67%) Algorithms
6 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (6.67%) Fixed Income
7 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
7 2 (4.44%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (4.44%) IoT
7 2 (4.44%) Private Cloud
7 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
7 2 (4.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (51.11%) Linux
2 6 (13.33%) Unix
3 4 (8.89%) Windows
4 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) Multithreading
2 17 (37.78%) Electronic Trading
3 13 (28.89%) Algorithmic Trading
4 10 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 10 (22.22%) Garbage Collection
4 10 (22.22%) OO
4 10 (22.22%) Risk Management
5 9 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 9 (20.00%) TDD
6 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (15.56%) High Availability
7 7 (15.56%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (15.56%) Quantitative Trading
7 7 (15.56%) Smart Order Routing
7 7 (15.56%) UML
8 6 (13.33%) Observability
9 5 (11.11%) DevOps
9 5 (11.11%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) Java
2 13 (28.89%) SQL
3 11 (24.44%) Python
4 8 (17.78%) C++
5 4 (8.89%) C
5 4 (8.89%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.44%) Bash
6 2 (4.44%) Go
6 2 (4.44%) Perl
7 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.22%) Scala
7 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.22%) BC Cleared
1 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.22%) MCP
1 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) ISO 20022
1 2 (4.44%) ISO 8583
1 2 (4.44%) PSD2
1 2 (4.44%) QA
1 2 (4.44%) SEPA
2 1 (2.22%) GDPR
2 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) Ansible
2 5 (11.11%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (11.11%) Terraform
3 4 (8.89%) Grafana
3 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.89%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.44%) Argo
4 2 (4.44%) Kibana
4 2 (4.44%) logstash
5 1 (2.22%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (2.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Solace
2 3 (6.67%) F5
2 3 (6.67%) TIBCO
3 2 (4.44%) Bloomberg
3 2 (4.44%) Brocade
3 2 (4.44%) Cisco
3 2 (4.44%) Confluent
3 2 (4.44%) Extreme Networks
3 2 (4.44%) VMware
4 1 (2.22%) Ciena
4 1 (2.22%) Cramer
4 1 (2.22%) IBM
4 1 (2.22%) Infoblox
4 1 (2.22%) ION Trading
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.22%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.22%) Nokia
4 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.22%) Refinitiv
4 1 (2.22%) Tradeweb