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 20 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 347 481
Rank change year-on-year -189 +134 -89
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 295 904 927
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.96% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 1.00% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 247 719 502
10th Percentile £73,250 £61,180 £57,500
25th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £117,500 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £146,250 £150,000 £130,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £167,500 £150,000
UK median annual salary £113,750 £100,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +13.75% - +17.65%

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 72,310 90,560 124,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 86.04% 95.68% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 53,571 53,351 74,211
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,308 £33,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,000
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 £61,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.93% +2.92% +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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -67 277 £120,000 +7.87% 122
North of England -25 7 £85,000 +54.55% 4
South East +17 5 £102,500 +46.43% 6
North West +4 4 £95,250 +73.18% 4
North East - 2 £85,000 -
West Midlands +29 1 £60,000 +4.35% 1
Yorkshire +13 1 - -
Midlands -14 1 £60,000 - 1
South West -23 1 £110,000 +59.83% 5
East of England - 1 £120,000 - 2
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 (2.37%) 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 94 (31.86%) AWS
2 30 (10.17%) Azure
3 9 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (3.05%) Serverless
4 6 (2.03%) Amazon S3
4 6 (2.03%) GCP
5 5 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (1.36%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (1.36%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (1.36%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.68%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (0.68%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.68%) SaaS
8 1 (0.34%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.42%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.03%) Firewall
3 4 (1.36%) DHCP
3 4 (1.36%) DNS
3 4 (1.36%) Network Security
3 4 (1.36%) VPN
4 3 (1.02%) BGP
4 3 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.02%) OSPF
4 3 (1.02%) WAN
5 2 (0.68%) Multicast
6 1 (0.34%) HSRP
6 1 (0.34%) IGMP
6 1 (0.34%) LAN
6 1 (0.34%) SAN
6 1 (0.34%) VRRP
6 1 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.80%) NoSQL
2 14 (4.75%) MySQL
2 14 (4.75%) Redis
3 9 (3.05%) Relational Database
3 9 (3.05%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.69%) Flink
4 5 (1.69%) Tableau
5 4 (1.36%) Power BI
6 3 (1.02%) Big Data
6 3 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.02%) Event Store
7 2 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.68%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.68%) Metadata
7 2 (0.68%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.68%) Tick Data
8 1 (0.34%) KDB
8 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (5.76%) Git
2 13 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.07%) GitLab
4 3 (1.02%) GCC
4 3 (1.02%) GDB
5 2 (0.68%) JUnit
6 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.34%) JIRA
6 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 118 (40.00%) Finance
2 75 (25.42%) Social Skills
3 65 (22.03%) Front Office
4 51 (17.29%) Banking
5 42 (14.24%) Investment Banking
6 26 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.41%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.71%) Games
9 7 (2.37%) Retail
10 5 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.02%) Marketing
12 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.34%) Back Office
13 1 (0.34%) Military
13 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.34%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 204 (69.15%) Developer
2 112 (37.97%) Java Developer
3 79 (26.78%) Senior
4 57 (19.32%) Senior Developer
5 39 (13.22%) C++ Developer
6 34 (11.53%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 34 (11.53%) Senior Java Developer
7 31 (10.51%) Lead
8 30 (10.17%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 29 (9.83%) Software Engineer
10 24 (8.14%) .NET Developer
11 23 (7.80%) Lead Developer
12 22 (7.46%) Python Engineer
13 21 (7.12%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 21 (7.12%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
14 15 (5.08%) C# Developer
15 13 (4.41%) Front Office Developer
15 13 (4.41%) Quantitative Developer
16 12 (4.07%) C++/Java Developer
16 12 (4.07%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.88%) .NET
2 33 (11.19%) Kafka
3 24 (8.14%) Spring Boot
4 21 (7.12%) .NET Core
4 21 (7.12%) React
5 20 (6.78%) Spring
6 13 (4.41%) FIX Protocol
7 12 (4.07%) AngularJS
8 9 (3.05%) LINQ
8 9 (3.05%) Node.js
8 9 (3.05%) REST
9 8 (2.71%) .NET Framework
9 8 (2.71%) ASP.NET
9 8 (2.71%) ASP.NET Web API
9 8 (2.71%) Hibernate
9 8 (2.71%) Middleware
10 7 (2.37%) RESTful
11 5 (1.69%) Rendezvous
11 5 (1.69%) ZeroMQ
12 4 (1.36%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 60 (20.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 40 (13.56%) Hedge funds
3 34 (11.53%) Equities
4 30 (10.17%) Client/Server
4 30 (10.17%) FPGA
5 23 (7.80%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (6.78%) Fixed Income
8 14 (4.75%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.03%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.03%) Sports Betting
10 4 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.36%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.36%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.36%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.68%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.68%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 65 (22.03%) Linux
2 10 (3.39%) Unix
2 10 (3.39%) Windows
3 5 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (31.86%) Multithreading
2 85 (28.81%) Computer Science
3 61 (20.68%) Software Engineering
4 58 (19.66%) Electronic Trading
5 57 (19.32%) Agile
6 54 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (17.97%) Fintech
8 52 (17.63%) Microservices
9 39 (13.22%) Mathematics
10 38 (12.88%) High-Frequency Trading
11 37 (12.54%) Algorithmic Trading
12 25 (8.47%) Full Stack Development
13 24 (8.14%) Concurrent Programming
14 23 (7.80%) DevOps
14 23 (7.80%) SDLC
15 22 (7.46%) Ultra-Low Latency
16 20 (6.78%) TDD
17 19 (6.44%) CI/CD
18 17 (5.76%) SOLID
19 16 (5.42%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 161 (54.58%) Java
2 75 (25.42%) Python
3 70 (23.73%) C++
4 68 (23.05%) C#
5 40 (13.56%) SQL
6 27 (9.15%) C
7 26 (8.81%) Rust
8 16 (5.42%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.05%) Perl
9 9 (3.05%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.03%) Bash
10 6 (2.03%) Go
11 4 (1.36%) F#
11 4 (1.36%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.36%) VBA
12 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.68%) R
12 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 58 (19.66%) Degree
2 23 (7.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (6.10%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.37%) PhD
5 4 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.68%) CCIE
7 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
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 11 (3.73%) QA
2 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.34%) NIST
3 1 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 40 (13.56%) Docker
2 4 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Lustre
3 1 (0.34%) NFS
Systems Management
1 61 (20.68%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.39%) Ansible
3 6 (2.03%) Terraform
4 4 (1.36%) Puppet
5 3 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.34%) Argo
6 1 (0.34%) Nmap
6 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (6.44%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.37%) Cisco
3 6 (2.03%) Red Hat
3 6 (2.03%) Solace
4 5 (1.69%) Google
4 5 (1.69%) TIBCO
5 4 (1.36%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.02%) Databricks
6 3 (1.02%) ION Trading
6 3 (1.02%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.68%) Juniper
7 2 (0.68%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.34%) Arista
8 1 (0.34%) IBM
8 1 (0.34%) Intel
8 1 (0.34%) NetApp
8 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.34%) Workday