Low Latency Jobs in the City of London

Low Latency
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Low Latency skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Low Latency over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 104 177
Rank change year-on-year -34 +73 -13
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 42 139 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.25% 2.79% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 2.93% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 39 126 95
10th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 -
25th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £88,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +2.44% +17.14%
75th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £126,250
90th Percentile £140,000 £155,000 £137,500
Central London median annual salary £115,000 £105,000 £102,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +2.44% +17.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,108 4,747 6,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 92.53% 95.32% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,496 4,011 5,613
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.67% +3.45% +3.57%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in the City of London

Low Latency
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Low Latency in the City of London.

Salary trend for Low Latency in the City of London

Low Latency
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Low Latency in the City of London

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (9.52%) Apache
1 4 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) MQSeries
Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (19.05%) Azure
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
3 4 (9.52%) AWS CodePipeline
3 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (9.52%) Power Platform
3 4 (9.52%) Serverless
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Network Security
2 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.05%) NoSQL
2 4 (9.52%) Flink
2 4 (9.52%) Power BI
2 4 (9.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) GitLab
1 7 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.52%) Git
3 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 23 (54.76%) Social Skills
2 22 (52.38%) Finance
3 19 (45.24%) Front Office
4 8 (19.05%) Banking
5 6 (14.29%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 28 (66.67%) Developer
2 24 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 19 (45.24%) Senior
4 10 (23.81%) Senior Developer
4 10 (23.81%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Quantitative Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Python Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Python Software Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) C++ Developer
7 2 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Front Office Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Junior
7 2 (4.76%) Junior Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Junior Quantitative Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) Spring Boot
2 5 (11.90%) React
2 5 (11.90%) RESTful
2 5 (11.90%) WPF
3 4 (9.52%) AngularJS
3 4 (9.52%) CSS
3 4 (9.52%) HTML
3 4 (9.52%) Kafka
3 4 (9.52%) Node.js
4 1 (2.38%) .NET
4 1 (2.38%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.38%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 16 (38.10%) Equities
2 8 (19.05%) FPGA
3 5 (11.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.38%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (35.71%) Multithreading
2 13 (30.95%) Microservices
3 11 (26.19%) CI/CD
4 10 (23.81%) High-Frequency Trading
5 9 (21.43%) Agile
5 9 (21.43%) Fintech
6 8 (19.05%) B2B
6 8 (19.05%) Clean Code
6 8 (19.05%) SDLC
7 7 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
8 6 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
8 6 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 6 (14.29%) DevOps
8 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (14.29%) Proprietary Trading
8 6 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 5 (11.90%) Computer Science
9 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (11.90%) Market Making
10 4 (9.52%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 35 (83.33%) Java
2 13 (30.95%) C++
3 12 (28.57%) Python
4 10 (23.81%) SQL
5 8 (19.05%) C#
6 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 4 (9.52%) VBA
7 1 (2.38%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.14%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 9 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (47.62%) Kubernetes
2 6 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) Solace
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco
3 1 (2.38%) IBM
3 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.38%) TIBCO