Low Latency Contracts

Low Latency
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 432 281 363
Rank change year-on-year -151 +82 -74
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 142 536 637
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.94% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 1.04% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 449 475
10th Percentile £525 £497 £525
25th Percentile £600 £625 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £841
90th Percentile £1,088 £950 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £631 £540
% change year-on-year -16.83% +16.90% +24.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £83.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Low Latency over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Low Latency.

Hourly rate trend for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 15 May 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
England -140 137 £750 +0.03% 140
London -104 124 £775 +3.33% 121
Work from Home -5 66 £751 +0.07% 95
UK excluding London +15 14 £525 -16.83% 29
North of England +17 6 £575 +35.29% 2
North West +15 5 £575 +37.31% 2
South West - 5 £525 - 8
Midlands +30 2 £525 +16.67% 2
Scotland +24 1 £780 +4.00% 4
Yorkshire +20 1 - -
West Midlands +16 1 £500 +11.11% 2
East Midlands - 1 £550 -

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.23%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.41%) Apache
2 2 (1.41%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.70%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.70%) MetaMask
3 1 (0.70%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.70%) SAS
3 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (1.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (6.34%) ION MarketView
2 4 (2.82%) RMDS
3 2 (1.41%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 11 (7.75%) AWS
2 9 (6.34%) Azure
3 5 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (3.52%) GitHub
4 4 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (2.82%) OpenShift
4 4 (2.82%) Serverless
5 3 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.11%) Azure Functions
5 3 (2.11%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (2.11%) NuGet
5 3 (2.11%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.41%) GCP
6 2 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (0.70%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.70%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.75%) Firewall
2 5 (3.52%) Network Security
3 4 (2.82%) InfiniBand
4 3 (2.11%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.41%) FIX Connectivity
5 2 (1.41%) HTTP
5 2 (1.41%) Multicast
5 2 (1.41%) VPN
6 1 (0.70%) DHCP
6 1 (0.70%) DMZ
6 1 (0.70%) DNS
6 1 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.70%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.70%) SAN
6 1 (0.70%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.70%) SSL
6 1 (0.70%) Unicast
6 1 (0.70%) VLAN
6 1 (0.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.31%) KDB
2 7 (4.93%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.93%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.23%) Big Data
4 4 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.82%) Hadoop
4 4 (2.82%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.11%) Power BI
5 3 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (1.41%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.41%) Tableau
7 1 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.70%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.70%) HBase
7 1 (0.70%) MySQL
7 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (3.52%) Git
2 4 (2.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.11%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.11%) JIRA
3 3 (2.11%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.70%) GitLab
4 1 (0.70%) Gradle
4 1 (0.70%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.70%) JUnit
4 1 (0.70%) Maven
4 1 (0.70%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 71 (50.00%) Finance
2 36 (25.35%) Banking
3 25 (17.61%) Front Office
4 21 (14.79%) Social Skills
5 16 (11.27%) Investment Banking
6 9 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.82%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.41%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.70%) Back Office
10 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.70%) Games
10 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (59.15%) Developer
2 49 (34.51%) Java Developer
3 32 (22.54%) Senior
4 24 (16.90%) Senior Developer
5 18 (12.68%) Senior Java Developer
6 15 (10.56%) Network Engineer
7 13 (9.15%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 13 (9.15%) Software Engineer
8 12 (8.45%) C++ Developer
9 8 (5.63%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 7 (4.93%) Java Engineer
10 7 (4.93%) Senior Network Engineer
11 6 (4.23%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 6 (4.23%) Java Software Engineer
12 5 (3.52%) Cisco Engineer
12 5 (3.52%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 5 (3.52%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 4 (2.82%) Data Engineer
13 4 (2.82%) Python Developer
14 3 (2.11%) Exchange Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (23.94%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (8.45%) React
3 11 (7.75%) .NET
3 11 (7.75%) Kafka
4 7 (4.93%) Rendezvous
4 7 (4.93%) Spring
5 6 (4.23%) .NET Core
5 6 (4.23%) Middleware
6 5 (3.52%) HTML
6 5 (3.52%) HTML5
7 4 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.82%) Ultra Messaging
7 4 (2.82%) XML
8 3 (2.11%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.11%) WPF
9 2 (1.41%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.41%) JSON
9 2 (1.41%) Node.js
9 2 (1.41%) REST
9 2 (1.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 37 (26.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 24 (16.90%) Derivative
3 19 (13.38%) Fixed Income
4 17 (11.97%) Algorithms
5 16 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (8.45%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (7.04%) Data Structures
8 9 (6.34%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (5.63%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (5.63%) Equity Derivative
9 8 (5.63%) Hedge funds
10 7 (4.93%) Cloud Native
10 7 (4.93%) Equities
11 4 (2.82%) Management Information System
12 3 (2.11%) Data Centre
13 2 (1.41%) Blockchain
13 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (1.41%) Market Risk
14 1 (0.70%) PKI
14 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (18.31%) Linux
2 16 (11.27%) Unix
3 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (37.32%) Electronic Trading
2 37 (26.06%) Agile
3 36 (25.35%) Algorithmic Trading
4 30 (21.13%) Multithreading
5 24 (16.90%) Analytics
5 24 (16.90%) Test Automation
6 20 (14.08%) Continuous Integration
7 19 (13.38%) E-Commerce
7 19 (13.38%) High Availability
8 18 (12.68%) Software Engineering
8 18 (12.68%) User Acceptance Testing
9 16 (11.27%) Computer Science
9 16 (11.27%) Multithreaded Programming
10 14 (9.86%) OO
11 13 (9.15%) Incident Management
12 12 (8.45%) Fintech
13 11 (7.75%) Change Management
13 11 (7.75%) DevOps
13 11 (7.75%) Microservices
13 11 (7.75%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 65 (45.77%) Java
2 27 (19.01%) Python
3 20 (14.08%) C++
4 13 (9.15%) C#
5 10 (7.04%) Perl
5 10 (7.04%) SQL
6 7 (4.93%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.23%) Bash
8 4 (2.82%) Scala
9 3 (2.11%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.41%) PHP
10 2 (1.41%) Solidity
10 2 (1.41%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.41%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.70%) Jython
11 1 (0.70%) Ruby
11 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (15.49%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (12.68%) CCNA
2 18 (12.68%) Degree
3 9 (6.34%) CCNP
4 6 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.23%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.23%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.82%) CCIE
6 3 (2.11%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.70%) CISM
7 1 (0.70%) CISSP
7 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.11%) QA
2 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (4.23%) Docker
2 2 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (7.75%) ITRS Geneos
2 7 (4.93%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.52%) Ansible
4 2 (1.41%) Terraform
5 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.70%) Grafana
5 1 (0.70%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.70%) Oozie
Vendors
1 24 (16.90%) Cisco
2 23 (16.20%) ION Trading
3 14 (9.86%) Solace
4 10 (7.04%) TIBCO
5 9 (6.34%) F5
5 9 (6.34%) Fortinet
6 8 (5.63%) Arista
6 8 (5.63%) CheckPoint
7 5 (3.52%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.82%) Bloomberg
8 4 (2.82%) Riverbed
8 4 (2.82%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.11%) Microsoft
9 3 (2.11%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.11%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.11%) Tradeweb
10 2 (1.41%) BT
10 2 (1.41%) MarketAxess
10 2 (1.41%) Radianz
10 2 (1.41%) Reuters