Low Latency Contracts in Central London

Low Latency
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 97 127
Rank change year-on-year -12 +30 -40
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 28 83 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.16% 2.26% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 2.48% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 64 63
10th Percentile £517 - £613
25th Percentile £702 £625 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £838 £800 £805
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -0.62% +19.26%
75th Percentile £953 £966 £913
90th Percentile £1,037 £1,063 £950
London median daily rate £800 £750 £775
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +14.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,195 3,349 4,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.74% 91.28% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,540 2,258 3,100
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +6.05%
75th Percentile £680 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 47
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.33 £25.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £31.19 £53.19 £54.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%

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 12 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 12 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 -11 28 £838 +4.69% 13
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 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.57%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (7.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.71%) AWS
1 3 (10.71%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (3.57%) GitHub
3 1 (3.57%) NuGet
3 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.14%) DNS
3 2 (7.14%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (3.57%) BGP
4 1 (3.57%) DHCP
4 1 (3.57%) Multicast
4 1 (3.57%) Network Security
4 1 (3.57%) OSPF
4 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.57%) VLAN
4 1 (3.57%) VPN
4 1 (3.57%) WAN
4 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) KDB
2 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Eclipse
2 2 (7.14%) Gradle
2 2 (7.14%) IntelliJ
2 2 (7.14%) Maven
3 1 (3.57%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.57%) GitLab
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (60.71%) Finance
2 10 (35.71%) Front Office
3 8 (28.57%) Banking
4 6 (21.43%) Investment Banking
5 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 16 (57.14%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Java Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Senior
4 4 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Network Operations Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Data Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Java Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Market Data Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Market Data Project Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Pricing Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (14.29%) React
3 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
3 3 (10.71%) Rendezvous
4 2 (7.14%) Middleware
5 1 (3.57%) .NET
5 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.57%) RESTful
5 1 (3.57%) Spring
5 1 (3.57%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (21.43%) Equities
2 6 (21.43%) Fixed Income
3 4 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
4 3 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (10.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (7.14%) Market Risk
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.57%) Derivative
6 1 (3.57%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Electronic Trading
2 6 (21.43%) Multithreading
2 6 (21.43%) OO
3 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
4 4 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
4 4 (14.29%) Analytics
4 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 4 (14.29%) DevOps
4 4 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
4 4 (14.29%) High Availability
4 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 3 (10.71%) Agile
5 3 (10.71%) E-business
5 3 (10.71%) E-Commerce
5 3 (10.71%) Incident Management
5 3 (10.71%) Multithreaded Programming
5 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (10.71%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (10.71%) SDLC
5 3 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Java
2 9 (32.14%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) Kotlin
3 3 (10.71%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) C++
4 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) Bash
5 1 (3.57%) C#
5 1 (3.57%) Jython
5 1 (3.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (21.43%) Degree
3 4 (14.29%) CCIE
3 4 (14.29%) CCNA
3 4 (14.29%) CCNP
4 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (10.71%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Ansible
2 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Cisco
2 4 (14.29%) Arista
2 4 (14.29%) Bloomberg
2 4 (14.29%) ION Trading
2 4 (14.29%) Solace
2 4 (14.29%) TIBCO
3 3 (10.71%) CheckPoint
3 3 (10.71%) F5
3 3 (10.71%) Fortinet
3 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
3 3 (10.71%) SolarWinds
4 2 (7.14%) BT
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.14%) Radianz
4 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.14%) Refinitiv
4 2 (7.14%) Reuters
5 1 (3.57%) IBM
5 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.57%) VMware