Ultra-Low Latency Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Ultra-Low Latency
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Ultra-Low Latency skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ultra-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 303 - 475
Rank change year-on-year - - +156
Contract jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% - 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% - 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £710
25th Percentile £565 - £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 - £875
Median % change year-on-year - - +118.75%
75th Percentile £595 - £988
90th Percentile - - £1,040
UK median daily rate £900 £850 £800
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -3.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Ultra-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%

Ultra-Low Latency
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Ultra-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 Ultra-Low Latency.

Ultra-Low Latency daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Ultra-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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) HSRP
1 1 (100.00%) IGMP
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) Unicast
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VRRP
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Direct Market Access
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Smart Order Routing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco