Low Latency Jobs in London

Low Latency
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 178 320
Rank change year-on-year -85 +142 -74
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 274 720 850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.16% 2.05% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 2.15% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 231 616 433
10th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £67,750
25th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £115,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +12.20% +13.89%
75th Percentile £146,250 £150,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £167,500 £173,750 £150,000
England median annual salary £117,500 £105,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +11.90% +5.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,515 33,562 64,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.30% 95.35% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 16,011 24,064 34,411
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,477 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in London

Low Latency
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Low Latency in London

Low Latency
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Low Latency in London

Low Latency
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Low Latency within the London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Central London -34 42 £115,000 +9.52% 8
East London - 6 £150,000 -
Low Latency
England

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 7 (2.55%) Apache
2 4 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.46%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.46%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.36%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 89 (32.48%) AWS
2 26 (9.49%) Azure
3 7 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (2.55%) Serverless
4 4 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (1.46%) Amazon Kinesis
4 4 (1.46%) Amazon S3
4 4 (1.46%) AWS CodePipeline
4 4 (1.46%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.09%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (1.09%) GCP
5 3 (1.09%) SaaS
6 2 (0.73%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.73%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.20%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.19%) Firewall
3 5 (1.82%) DHCP
3 5 (1.82%) DNS
4 4 (1.46%) Network Security
4 4 (1.46%) VPN
5 3 (1.09%) BGP
5 3 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (1.09%) OSPF
5 3 (1.09%) WAN
6 1 (0.36%) HSRP
6 1 (0.36%) IGMP
6 1 (0.36%) LAN
6 1 (0.36%) Multicast
6 1 (0.36%) SNMP
6 1 (0.36%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.76%) NoSQL
2 15 (5.47%) MySQL
3 11 (4.01%) Redis
4 10 (3.65%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.28%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.82%) Flink
6 5 (1.82%) Tableau
7 4 (1.46%) Power BI
8 3 (1.09%) Big Data
8 3 (1.09%) Event Store
9 2 (0.73%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.73%) Tick Data
10 1 (0.36%) KDB
10 1 (0.36%) Looker
10 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (5.84%) Git
2 14 (5.11%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.74%) GitLab
4 2 (0.73%) GCC
4 2 (0.73%) GDB
4 2 (0.73%) JIRA
4 2 (0.73%) JUnit
5 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.36%) Mockito
5 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 118 (43.07%) Finance
2 76 (27.74%) Social Skills
3 70 (25.55%) Front Office
4 50 (18.25%) Banking
5 41 (14.96%) Investment Banking
6 24 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.38%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.92%) Games
9 6 (2.19%) Retail
10 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.36%) Back Office
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.36%) Marketing
11 1 (0.36%) Military
11 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 195 (71.17%) Developer
2 109 (39.78%) Java Developer
3 69 (25.18%) Senior
4 48 (17.52%) Senior Developer
5 39 (14.23%) C++ Developer
6 33 (12.04%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 31 (11.31%) Senior Java Developer
8 30 (10.95%) Lead
8 30 (10.95%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 28 (10.22%) Software Engineer
10 25 (9.12%) Lead Developer
11 22 (8.03%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 22 (8.03%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 20 (7.30%) Python Engineer
13 19 (6.93%) .NET Developer
14 14 (5.11%) C# Developer
15 13 (4.74%) Front Office Developer
15 13 (4.74%) Quantitative Developer
16 12 (4.38%) C++/Java Developer
17 11 (4.01%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.68%) .NET
2 30 (10.95%) Kafka
3 29 (10.58%) Spring Boot
4 21 (7.66%) Spring
5 17 (6.20%) React
6 16 (5.84%) .NET Core
7 13 (4.74%) FIX Protocol
8 10 (3.65%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.28%) Hibernate
10 7 (2.55%) RESTful
11 6 (2.19%) Middleware
12 5 (1.82%) LINQ
12 5 (1.82%) Rendezvous
12 5 (1.82%) REST
13 4 (1.46%) .NET Framework
13 4 (1.46%) ASP.NET
13 4 (1.46%) CSS
13 4 (1.46%) HTML
13 4 (1.46%) LDAP
13 4 (1.46%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 58 (21.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 41 (14.96%) Hedge funds
3 34 (12.41%) Equities
4 31 (11.31%) FPGA
5 30 (10.95%) Client/Server
6 22 (8.03%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (7.30%) Fixed Income
8 18 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (4.74%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.55%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.82%) Sports Betting
12 4 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.46%) Hackathon
12 4 (1.46%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.46%) Virtual Team
13 3 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (1.09%) Onboarding
14 2 (0.73%) Data Centre
14 2 (0.73%) Product Ownership
14 2 (0.73%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 58 (21.17%) Linux
2 13 (4.74%) Unix
3 8 (2.92%) Windows
4 5 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.36%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (34.31%) Multithreading
2 79 (28.83%) Computer Science
3 63 (22.99%) Electronic Trading
4 61 (22.26%) Software Engineering
5 55 (20.07%) Agile
5 55 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (16.79%) Fintech
7 43 (15.69%) Microservices
8 40 (14.60%) Mathematics
9 36 (13.14%) High-Frequency Trading
10 32 (11.68%) Algorithmic Trading
11 26 (9.49%) Full Stack Development
11 26 (9.49%) SDLC
12 24 (8.76%) TDD
13 23 (8.39%) DevOps
14 22 (8.03%) Ultra-Low Latency
15 19 (6.93%) Concurrent Programming
16 17 (6.20%) CI/CD
16 17 (6.20%) Test Automation
17 15 (5.47%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 163 (59.49%) Java
2 70 (25.55%) Python
3 68 (24.82%) C++
4 62 (22.63%) C#
5 35 (12.77%) SQL
6 28 (10.22%) C
7 26 (9.49%) Rust
8 14 (5.11%) JavaScript
9 10 (3.65%) Perl
10 7 (2.55%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.82%) Go
12 4 (1.46%) Bash
12 4 (1.46%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.46%) VBA
13 3 (1.09%) F#
14 2 (0.73%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (18.98%) Degree
2 18 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (6.57%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.19%) PhD
4 4 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.73%) CCIE
7 1 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.36%) CCNP
7 1 (0.36%) CISSP
7 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.36%) ISEB
7 1 (0.36%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.55%) QA
2 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.36%) NIST
2 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 43 (15.69%) Docker
2 4 (1.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (21.17%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.01%) Ansible
3 6 (2.19%) Terraform
4 4 (1.46%) Puppet
5 3 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.36%) Nmap
6 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (5.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.55%) Cisco
3 6 (2.19%) Solace
4 5 (1.82%) Red Hat
4 5 (1.82%) TIBCO
5 4 (1.46%) Fortinet
5 4 (1.46%) Google
6 3 (1.09%) ION Trading
6 3 (1.09%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.73%) Juniper
7 2 (0.73%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.36%) Arista
8 1 (0.36%) Databricks
8 1 (0.36%) F5
8 1 (0.36%) IBM
8 1 (0.36%) NetApp
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle