Low Latency Contracts in Central London

Low Latency
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 94 126
Rank change year-on-year -21 +32 -40
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 22 86 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.92% 2.32% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 2.54% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 65 61
10th Percentile £517 - £613
25th Percentile £643 £625 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £800 £800
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +18.52%
75th Percentile £919 £963 £913
90th Percentile £1,042 £1,063 £950
London median daily rate £800 £740 £775
% change year-on-year +8.11% -4.52% +14.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,386 4,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.81% 91.29% 92.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,291 3,136
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 27 45
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.85 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £17.56 £25.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.38 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in Central London

Low Latency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Low Latency in Central London

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Low Latency in Central London

Low Latency
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
City of London -14 22 £825 +3.13% 10
Low Latency
London

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (9.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) NuGet
3 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
3 2 (9.09%) DNS
4 1 (4.55%) BGP
4 1 (4.55%) DHCP
4 1 (4.55%) Multicast
4 1 (4.55%) Network Security
4 1 (4.55%) OSPF
4 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
4 1 (4.55%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (4.55%) VLAN
4 1 (4.55%) VPN
4 1 (4.55%) WAN
4 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) KDB
2 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
1 1 (4.55%) GitLab
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
1 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (68.18%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Front Office
3 6 (27.27%) Banking
4 4 (18.18%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Back Office
5 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Java Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Network Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Data Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Java Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Market Data Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Market Data Project Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Network Operations Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Pricing Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Project Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Python Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (13.64%) Rendezvous
3 2 (9.09%) Middleware
3 2 (9.09%) React
4 1 (4.55%) .NET
4 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.55%) RESTful
4 1 (4.55%) Spring
4 1 (4.55%) Ultra Messaging
4 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (18.18%) Equities
2 4 (18.18%) Fixed Income
3 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
3 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
4 2 (9.09%) Market Risk
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.55%) Derivative
5 1 (4.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Unix
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Electronic Trading
2 4 (18.18%) Algorithmic Trading
2 4 (18.18%) Analytics
2 4 (18.18%) High Availability
2 4 (18.18%) Multithreading
2 4 (18.18%) OO
2 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
3 3 (13.64%) Agile
3 3 (13.64%) DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) E-Commerce
3 3 (13.64%) Multithreaded Programming
3 3 (13.64%) SDLC
3 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
3 3 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (9.09%) Backtesting
4 2 (9.09%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (9.09%) Functional Programming
4 2 (9.09%) Prototyping
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Java
2 7 (31.82%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) C++
4 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) Jython
5 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (18.18%) CCNA
3 3 (13.64%) CCIE
3 3 (13.64%) CCNP
3 3 (13.64%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
1 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Cisco
2 4 (18.18%) Bloomberg
2 4 (18.18%) Solace
2 4 (18.18%) TIBCO
3 3 (13.64%) Arista
3 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
4 2 (9.09%) BT
4 2 (9.09%) CheckPoint
4 2 (9.09%) F5
4 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
4 2 (9.09%) ION Trading
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.09%) Radianz
4 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 2 (9.09%) Refinitiv
4 2 (9.09%) Reuters
4 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.55%) IBM
5 1 (4.55%) Meraki
5 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto