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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 313 354
Rank change year-on-year -136 +41 -63
Contract jobs citing Low Latency 153 467 672
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.84% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.94% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 390 520
10th Percentile £514 £481 £525
25th Percentile £559 £625 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £888 £850 £850
90th Percentile £1,093 £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 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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
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 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 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 9 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 -112 148 £751 +2.46% 161
London -116 124 £800 +6.67% 135
Work from Home +12 70 £750 - 74
UK excluding London +32 25 £525 +7.69% 23
North of England +31 15 £439 +3.24% 5
North West +19 14 £439 +4.78% 4
South West - 8 £538 - 6
Midlands +19 1 £550 +22.22% 1
Yorkshire +12 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 (3.27%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.31%) Apache
2 2 (1.31%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) Confluence
3 1 (0.65%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.65%) MetaMask
3 1 (0.65%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.65%) SAS
3 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (1.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (7.84%) ION MarketView
2 4 (2.61%) RMDS
3 2 (1.31%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.50%) AWS
2 11 (7.19%) Azure
3 6 (3.92%) GitHub
4 5 (3.27%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (3.27%) Serverless
5 4 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.61%) Azure Functions
5 4 (2.61%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (2.61%) GCP
5 4 (2.61%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.96%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (1.96%) NuGet
6 3 (1.96%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.96%) SAP Fieldglass
7 2 (1.31%) PaaS
7 2 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.46%) Firewall
2 6 (3.92%) Network Security
3 4 (2.61%) InfiniBand
3 4 (2.61%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.96%) DNS
5 2 (1.31%) BGP
5 2 (1.31%) DHCP
5 2 (1.31%) FIX Connectivity
5 2 (1.31%) OSPF
5 2 (1.31%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.31%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (1.31%) VLAN
5 2 (1.31%) VPN
5 2 (1.31%) WAN
5 2 (1.31%) Wireless
6 1 (0.65%) Multicast
6 1 (0.65%) SAN
6 1 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (19.61%) KDB
2 8 (5.23%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.58%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.27%) Big Data
4 5 (3.27%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.96%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.96%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.96%) Power BI
6 3 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.31%) Tableau
8 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.65%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (3.27%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.61%) Git
2 4 (2.61%) JIRA
3 3 (1.96%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.96%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.31%) GitLab
5 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.65%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.65%) Gradle
5 1 (0.65%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.65%) JUnit
5 1 (0.65%) Maven
5 1 (0.65%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 75 (49.02%) Finance
2 40 (26.14%) Banking
3 28 (18.30%) Front Office
4 24 (15.69%) Social Skills
5 14 (9.15%) Investment Banking
6 10 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.61%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.96%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.65%) Back Office
10 1 (0.65%) Games
10 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 95 (62.09%) Developer
2 57 (37.25%) Java Developer
3 32 (20.92%) Senior
4 25 (16.34%) Senior Developer
5 20 (13.07%) Senior Java Developer
6 19 (12.42%) Network Engineer
7 14 (9.15%) Software Engineer
8 12 (7.84%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 10 (6.54%) C++ Developer
10 8 (5.23%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 7 (4.58%) Cisco Engineer
11 7 (4.58%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 7 (4.58%) Data Engineer
11 7 (4.58%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 6 (3.92%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 6 (3.92%) Java Engineer
12 6 (3.92%) Java Software Engineer
12 6 (3.92%) Python Developer
12 6 (3.92%) Senior Network Engineer
13 4 (2.61%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (18.95%) FIX Protocol
2 16 (10.46%) Spring
3 14 (9.15%) React
4 11 (7.19%) .NET
5 10 (6.54%) Kafka
6 9 (5.88%) Spring Boot
7 8 (5.23%) Rendezvous
7 8 (5.23%) RESTful
8 7 (4.58%) Java EE
8 7 (4.58%) Middleware
9 6 (3.92%) .NET Core
10 5 (3.27%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (3.27%) HTML
10 5 (3.27%) HTML5
11 4 (2.61%) AngularJS
11 4 (2.61%) Ultra Messaging
11 4 (2.61%) XML
12 3 (1.96%) .NET Framework
12 3 (1.96%) WPF
13 2 (1.31%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (25.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 20 (13.07%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (13.07%) Fixed Income
3 18 (11.76%) Derivative
4 16 (10.46%) Algorithms
4 16 (10.46%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (7.19%) Data Structures
6 8 (5.23%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (4.58%) Cloud Native
7 7 (4.58%) Equity Derivative
7 7 (4.58%) Hedge funds
8 6 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (3.92%) Equities
9 5 (3.27%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.96%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.31%) Blockchain
11 2 (1.31%) Market Risk
11 2 (1.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 1 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.03%) Linux
2 16 (10.46%) Unix
3 1 (0.65%) Android
3 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (33.99%) Electronic Trading
2 38 (24.84%) Agile
3 32 (20.92%) Multithreading
4 31 (20.26%) Continuous Integration
5 30 (19.61%) Algorithmic Trading
6 27 (17.65%) Test Automation
7 26 (16.99%) Analytics
8 24 (15.69%) E-Commerce
9 23 (15.03%) OO
10 20 (13.07%) Software Engineering
10 20 (13.07%) User Acceptance Testing
11 19 (12.42%) Multithreaded Programming
12 17 (11.11%) Computer Science
13 16 (10.46%) Design Patterns
14 15 (9.80%) High Availability
15 14 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (8.50%) DevOps
16 13 (8.50%) Microservices
16 13 (8.50%) SDLC
17 12 (7.84%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 76 (49.67%) Java
2 30 (19.61%) Python
3 19 (12.42%) C++
4 13 (8.50%) C#
4 13 (8.50%) SQL
5 9 (5.88%) Perl
6 7 (4.58%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.92%) Bash
8 4 (2.61%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.96%) Scala
10 2 (1.31%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.31%) PHP
10 2 (1.31%) Solidity
10 2 (1.31%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.31%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.65%) Jython
11 1 (0.65%) Ruby
11 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (18.30%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (14.38%) CCNA
3 19 (12.42%) Degree
4 15 (9.80%) CCNP
5 7 (4.58%) CCIE
5 7 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.92%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.92%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.96%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.31%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.65%) CISM
9 1 (0.65%) CISSP
9 1 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.96%) QA
2 2 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.65%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (5.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.23%) Ansible
3 7 (4.58%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (1.31%) Grafana
4 2 (1.31%) Terraform
5 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (18.30%) Cisco
2 27 (17.65%) ION Trading
3 15 (9.80%) Solace
4 13 (8.50%) CheckPoint
4 13 (8.50%) F5
4 13 (8.50%) Fortinet
5 11 (7.19%) TIBCO
6 10 (6.54%) Arista
7 9 (5.88%) Palo Alto
8 7 (4.58%) Riverbed
9 6 (3.92%) SolarWinds
10 5 (3.27%) Microsoft
11 4 (2.61%) Bloomberg
11 4 (2.61%) Tradeweb
12 3 (1.96%) Google
12 3 (1.96%) Red Hat
12 3 (1.96%) ServiceNow
13 2 (1.31%) Oracle
13 2 (1.31%) Radianz
13 2 (1.31%) Reuters