Low Latency Contracts

Low Latency
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 425 319 340
Rank change year-on-year -106 +21 -40
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 160 459 668
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.83% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.92% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 383 517
10th Percentile £515 £482 £525
25th Percentile £581 £625 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £900 £851 £850
90th Percentile £1,048 £950 £913
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £488 £540
% change year-on-year +7.69% -9.72% +23.43%
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 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 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 11 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 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
England -110 155 £751 +1.42% 162
London -101 131 £800 +6.67% 139
Work from Home +17 71 £750 - 79
UK excluding London +21 25 £525 +7.69% 24
North of England +25 15 £439 -3.84% 5
North West +23 14 £439 +3.24% 3
South West - 8 £538 - 5
Yorkshire +14 1 - - 1
Midlands +14 1 £550 +22.22% 1
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
Wales - 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 5 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.25%) Apache
2 2 (1.25%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.63%) MetaMask
3 1 (0.63%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.63%) SAS
3 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (7.50%) ION MarketView
2 4 (2.50%) RMDS
3 1 (0.63%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 14 (8.75%) AWS
2 11 (6.88%) Azure
3 6 (3.75%) GitHub
4 5 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (3.13%) Serverless
5 4 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.50%) Azure Functions
5 4 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (2.50%) GCP
5 4 (2.50%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.88%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (1.88%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (1.88%) NuGet
6 3 (1.88%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.88%) SAP Fieldglass
7 2 (1.25%) PaaS
7 2 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.25%) Firewall
2 6 (3.75%) Network Security
3 4 (2.50%) InfiniBand
3 4 (2.50%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.88%) DNS
4 3 (1.88%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (1.25%) BGP
5 2 (1.25%) DHCP
5 2 (1.25%) OSPF
5 2 (1.25%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.25%) VLAN
5 2 (1.25%) VPN
5 2 (1.25%) WAN
5 2 (1.25%) Wireless
6 1 (0.63%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.63%) Multicast
6 1 (0.63%) SAN
6 1 (0.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (19.38%) KDB
2 8 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.38%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.13%) Big Data
4 5 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.88%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.88%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.88%) Power BI
6 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.25%) Tableau
8 1 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.63%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (5.63%) Git
2 5 (3.13%) Gradle
2 5 (3.13%) IntelliJ
2 5 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.13%) Maven
3 4 (2.50%) Eclipse
3 4 (2.50%) JIRA
4 3 (1.88%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.88%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.25%) GitLab
6 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.63%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.63%) JUnit
6 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 76 (47.50%) Finance
2 42 (26.25%) Banking
3 34 (21.25%) Front Office
4 28 (17.50%) Social Skills
5 15 (9.38%) Investment Banking
6 10 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.88%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.63%) Back Office
10 1 (0.63%) Games
10 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 100 (62.50%) Developer
2 63 (39.38%) Java Developer
3 31 (19.38%) Senior
4 24 (15.00%) Senior Developer
5 21 (13.13%) Network Engineer
6 19 (11.88%) Senior Java Developer
7 14 (8.75%) Software Engineer
8 12 (7.50%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 9 (5.63%) C++ Developer
10 8 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
10 8 (5.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 8 (5.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 7 (4.38%) Data Engineer
12 6 (3.75%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 6 (3.75%) Front Office Developer
12 6 (3.75%) Java Engineer
12 6 (3.75%) Java Software Engineer
12 6 (3.75%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 6 (3.75%) Python Developer
12 6 (3.75%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (19.38%) FIX Protocol
2 16 (10.00%) Spring
3 15 (9.38%) React
4 11 (6.88%) .NET
5 10 (6.25%) Kafka
6 9 (5.63%) Spring Boot
7 8 (5.00%) Rendezvous
7 8 (5.00%) RESTful
8 7 (4.38%) Java EE
8 7 (4.38%) Middleware
9 6 (3.75%) .NET Core
10 5 (3.13%) AngularJS
10 5 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (3.13%) HTML
10 5 (3.13%) HTML5
11 4 (2.50%) Ultra Messaging
11 4 (2.50%) XML
12 3 (1.88%) .NET Framework
12 3 (1.88%) WPF
13 2 (1.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 40 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 21 (13.13%) Fixed Income
3 20 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (11.25%) Algorithms
4 18 (11.25%) Derivative
5 16 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (6.25%) Data Structures
6 10 (6.25%) Equities
7 8 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (4.38%) Cloud Native
8 7 (4.38%) Hedge funds
9 6 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (3.75%) Equity Derivative
10 5 (3.13%) Management Information System
11 4 (2.50%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (1.25%) Market Risk
13 2 (1.25%) TWAP
13 2 (1.25%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.75%) Linux
2 15 (9.38%) Unix
3 1 (0.63%) Android
3 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (34.38%) Electronic Trading
2 40 (25.00%) Agile
3 37 (23.13%) Multithreading
4 32 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 30 (18.75%) Algorithmic Trading
6 27 (16.88%) Test Automation
7 26 (16.25%) OO
8 25 (15.63%) Analytics
9 24 (15.00%) E-Commerce
10 22 (13.75%) Software Engineering
11 20 (12.50%) Design Patterns
11 20 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
12 19 (11.88%) Multithreaded Programming
13 18 (11.25%) Computer Science
14 15 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (8.75%) High Availability
16 13 (8.13%) DevOps
16 13 (8.13%) Microservices
16 13 (8.13%) SDLC
16 13 (8.13%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 82 (51.25%) Java
2 32 (20.00%) Python
3 18 (11.25%) C++
4 13 (8.13%) C#
4 13 (8.13%) SQL
5 9 (5.63%) Perl
6 7 (4.38%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.75%) Bash
8 4 (2.50%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.88%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.88%) Scala
10 2 (1.25%) PHP
10 2 (1.25%) Solidity
10 2 (1.25%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.25%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.63%) Jython
11 1 (0.63%) Ruby
11 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (14.38%) CCNA
3 21 (13.13%) Degree
4 17 (10.63%) CCNP
5 8 (5.00%) CCIE
5 8 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.75%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.75%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.88%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.88%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.25%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.63%) CISM
9 1 (0.63%) CISSP
9 1 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.88%) QA
2 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (5.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (6.25%) Ansible
1 10 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.75%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (1.25%) Grafana
3 2 (1.25%) Terraform
4 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (18.75%) Cisco
2 28 (17.50%) ION Trading
3 15 (9.38%) CheckPoint
3 15 (9.38%) F5
3 15 (9.38%) Fortinet
3 15 (9.38%) Solace
4 12 (7.50%) Arista
5 11 (6.88%) TIBCO
6 10 (6.25%) Palo Alto
7 8 (5.00%) Riverbed
8 7 (4.38%) SolarWinds
9 5 (3.13%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.50%) Bloomberg
10 4 (2.50%) Tradeweb
11 3 (1.88%) Google
11 3 (1.88%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.88%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.25%) Oracle
12 2 (1.25%) Radianz
12 2 (1.25%) Reuters