Low Latency Jobs in England

Low Latency
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 351 468
Rank change year-on-year -203 +117 -81
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 294 874 985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.95% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.99% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 244 695 519
10th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £56,219
25th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £117,500 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £146,250 £150,000 £130,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £167,500 £145,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £100,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% +2.56% +11.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,201 88,357 126,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.80% 95.62% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 53,948 52,208 73,866
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,291 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,783 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,185 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in England

Low Latency
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Low Latency in England.

Salary trend for Low Latency in England

Low Latency
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Low Latency in England

Low Latency
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Low Latency within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -77 277 £120,000 +4.35% 121
North of England -33 7 £85,000 +54.55% 2
South East +2 5 £102,500 +46.43% 6
North West -7 4 £95,250 +73.18% 2
North East - 2 £85,000 -
East of England +16 1 £120,000 +140.00% 3
Yorkshire +7 1 - -
South West -34 1 £110,000 +59.83% 6
Low Latency
UK

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (2.38%) Apache
2 4 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.36%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.36%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.34%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 98 (33.33%) AWS
2 29 (9.86%) Azure
3 7 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (2.38%) Serverless
4 6 (2.04%) GCP
5 4 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (1.36%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (1.36%) Amazon S3
5 4 (1.36%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (1.36%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.36%) SaaS
6 3 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.02%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (0.68%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (0.68%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.68%) Kong
8 1 (0.34%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.78%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.04%) Firewall
3 5 (1.70%) DHCP
3 5 (1.70%) DNS
4 4 (1.36%) Network Security
4 4 (1.36%) VPN
4 4 (1.36%) WAN
5 3 (1.02%) BGP
5 3 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (1.02%) OSPF
6 2 (0.68%) LAN
7 1 (0.34%) HSRP
7 1 (0.34%) IGMP
7 1 (0.34%) Multicast
7 1 (0.34%) SAN
7 1 (0.34%) SNMP
7 1 (0.34%) VRRP
7 1 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.50%) NoSQL
2 15 (5.10%) MySQL
3 12 (4.08%) Redis
4 10 (3.40%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.06%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.70%) Flink
6 5 (1.70%) Tableau
7 4 (1.36%) Power BI
8 3 (1.02%) Big Data
8 3 (1.02%) Event Store
9 2 (0.68%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.68%) Tick Data
10 1 (0.34%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.34%) KDB
10 1 (0.34%) Looker
10 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (5.78%) Git
2 14 (4.76%) GitLab
2 14 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.68%) GCC
3 2 (0.68%) GDB
3 2 (0.68%) JIRA
3 2 (0.68%) JUnit
4 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.34%) Mockito
4 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 122 (41.50%) Finance
2 78 (26.53%) Social Skills
3 70 (23.81%) Front Office
4 50 (17.01%) Banking
5 41 (13.95%) Investment Banking
6 24 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.42%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.72%) Games
9 7 (2.38%) Retail
10 4 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.34%) Back Office
12 1 (0.34%) Marketing
12 1 (0.34%) Military
12 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 203 (69.05%) Developer
2 115 (39.12%) Java Developer
3 78 (26.53%) Senior
4 55 (18.71%) Senior Developer
5 39 (13.27%) C++ Developer
6 36 (12.24%) Senior Java Developer
7 34 (11.56%) Lead
7 34 (11.56%) Low Latency Java Developer
8 30 (10.20%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 29 (9.86%) Software Engineer
10 25 (8.50%) Lead Developer
11 22 (7.48%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 22 (7.48%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 20 (6.80%) Python Engineer
13 19 (6.46%) .NET Developer
14 14 (4.76%) C# Developer
15 13 (4.42%) Front Office Developer
15 13 (4.42%) Quantitative Developer
16 12 (4.08%) C++/Java Developer
16 12 (4.08%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.22%) .NET
2 31 (10.54%) Kafka
3 29 (9.86%) Spring Boot
4 21 (7.14%) Spring
5 18 (6.12%) React
6 16 (5.44%) .NET Core
7 13 (4.42%) FIX Protocol
8 10 (3.40%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.06%) Hibernate
9 9 (3.06%) Node.js
10 7 (2.38%) Middleware
10 7 (2.38%) RESTful
11 5 (1.70%) LINQ
11 5 (1.70%) Rendezvous
11 5 (1.70%) REST
12 4 (1.36%) .NET Framework
12 4 (1.36%) ASP.NET Web API
12 4 (1.36%) gRPC
12 4 (1.36%) Vue
12 4 (1.36%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 58 (19.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 41 (13.95%) Hedge funds
3 34 (11.56%) Equities
4 31 (10.54%) FPGA
5 30 (10.20%) Client/Server
6 22 (7.48%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (6.80%) Fixed Income
8 19 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (4.76%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.38%) Data Structures
11 6 (2.04%) Sports Betting
12 4 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.36%) Hackathon
12 4 (1.36%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.36%) Virtual Team
13 3 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (1.02%) Onboarding
14 2 (0.68%) Blockchain
14 2 (0.68%) Data Centre
14 2 (0.68%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 64 (21.77%) Linux
2 13 (4.42%) Unix
3 10 (3.40%) Windows
4 5 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.68%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 82 (27.89%) Computer Science
3 63 (21.43%) Electronic Trading
3 63 (21.43%) Software Engineering
4 60 (20.41%) Agile
5 57 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (17.01%) Microservices
7 49 (16.67%) Fintech
8 40 (13.61%) Mathematics
9 37 (12.59%) High-Frequency Trading
10 32 (10.88%) Algorithmic Trading
11 26 (8.84%) Full Stack Development
11 26 (8.84%) SDLC
11 26 (8.84%) TDD
12 25 (8.50%) DevOps
13 23 (7.82%) Concurrent Programming
14 22 (7.48%) CI/CD
14 22 (7.48%) Ultra-Low Latency
15 17 (5.78%) Test Automation
16 15 (5.10%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 170 (57.82%) Java
2 73 (24.83%) Python
3 69 (23.47%) C++
4 64 (21.77%) C#
5 37 (12.59%) SQL
6 28 (9.52%) C
7 27 (9.18%) Rust
8 15 (5.10%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.74%) Perl
10 9 (3.06%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.04%) Bash
12 5 (1.70%) Go
13 4 (1.36%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.36%) VBA
14 3 (1.02%) F#
14 3 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 55 (18.71%) Degree
2 19 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (6.12%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.38%) PhD
5 4 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.68%) CCIE
8 1 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.34%) CCNP
8 1 (0.34%) CISSP
8 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.34%) ISEB
8 1 (0.34%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.38%) QA
2 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.34%) NIST
2 1 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 43 (14.63%) Docker
2 4 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Lustre
3 1 (0.34%) NFS
Systems Management
1 63 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.08%) Ansible
3 6 (2.04%) Terraform
4 4 (1.36%) Puppet
5 3 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.34%) Nmap
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (5.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.38%) Cisco
2 7 (2.38%) Red Hat
3 6 (2.04%) Solace
4 5 (1.70%) Google
4 5 (1.70%) TIBCO
5 4 (1.36%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.02%) ION Trading
6 3 (1.02%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.68%) Juniper
7 2 (0.68%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.68%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.34%) Arista
8 1 (0.34%) Databricks
8 1 (0.34%) F5
8 1 (0.34%) IBM
8 1 (0.34%) Intel
8 1 (0.34%) NetApp
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle
8 1 (0.34%) Workday