Low Latency
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 337 496
Rank change year-on-year -249 +159 -83
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 325 1,073 1,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 1.03% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 1.07% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 270 826 577
10th Percentile £62,500 £58,882 £55,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £145,000 £140,000 £130,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £165,000 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £68,823 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.34% +14.71% -4.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Low Latency over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Low Latency within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England -203 291 £117,500 +11.90% 146
London -79 274 £120,000 +4.35% 128
Work from Home -221 139 £112,500 +18.42% 80
UK excluding London -220 43 £72,500 +5.34% 25
Scotland -153 25 £65,000 -6.40% 3
North of England -38 7 £85,000 +54.55% 4
South East +23 5 £102,500 +46.43% 7
Northern Ireland +22 4 £105,000 +35.48% 3
North West -3 4 £95,250 +73.18% 4
North East - 2 £85,000 -
Yorkshire +17 1 - -
East of England +13 1 £120,000 +140.00% 2
South West -14 1 £110,000 +59.83% 5

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 9 (2.77%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.15%) Apache
3 5 (1.54%) MQSeries
4 4 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.23%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 115 (35.38%) AWS
2 41 (12.62%) Azure
3 18 (5.54%) GCP
4 11 (3.38%) Serverless
5 8 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (2.46%) ChatGPT
6 7 (2.15%) SaaS
7 5 (1.54%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.23%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (1.23%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (1.23%) GitHub
8 4 (1.23%) IBM Cloud
8 4 (1.23%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.23%) TCP/IP
2 9 (2.77%) Firewall
3 7 (2.15%) Network Security
3 7 (2.15%) VPN
3 7 (2.15%) WAN
4 6 (1.85%) BGP
4 6 (1.85%) OSPF
5 5 (1.54%) DHCP
5 5 (1.54%) DNS
5 5 (1.54%) LAN
6 3 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (0.92%) EIGRP
6 3 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.92%) MPLS
6 3 (0.92%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.31%) HSRP
7 1 (0.31%) Multicast
7 1 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.08%) NoSQL
2 19 (5.85%) MySQL
3 13 (4.00%) Redis
4 9 (2.77%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.77%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.85%) Big Data
7 5 (1.54%) Flink
7 5 (1.54%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.54%) Tableau
8 4 (1.23%) Power BI
9 3 (0.92%) Event Store
10 2 (0.62%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.62%) Tick Data
11 1 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.31%) Looker
11 1 (0.31%) Metadata
11 1 (0.31%) Metadata Repository
11 1 (0.31%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (7.69%) Git
2 17 (5.23%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.69%) GitLab
4 4 (1.23%) IntelliJ
4 4 (1.23%) Maven
4 4 (1.23%) Selenium
5 2 (0.62%) GCC
5 2 (0.62%) GDB
5 2 (0.62%) JIRA
5 2 (0.62%) JUnit
6 1 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 128 (39.38%) Finance
2 93 (28.62%) Social Skills
3 69 (21.23%) Front Office
4 56 (17.23%) Banking
5 43 (13.23%) Investment Banking
6 29 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (4.31%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.46%) Games
10 7 (2.15%) Retail
11 2 (0.62%) Marketing
12 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.31%) Back Office
12 1 (0.31%) Military
12 1 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.31%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 211 (64.92%) Developer
2 116 (35.69%) Java Developer
3 83 (25.54%) Senior
4 59 (18.15%) Senior Developer
5 39 (12.00%) C++ Developer
6 37 (11.38%) Software Engineer
7 35 (10.77%) Lead
7 35 (10.77%) Senior Java Developer
8 34 (10.46%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 30 (9.23%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 24 (7.38%) Lead Developer
11 22 (6.77%) .NET Developer
12 21 (6.46%) Python Engineer
13 20 (6.15%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 20 (6.15%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
14 18 (5.54%) Java Engineer
15 15 (4.62%) C# Developer
15 15 (4.62%) Front Office Developer
16 13 (4.00%) Quantitative Developer
17 12 (3.69%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.69%) Kafka
2 36 (11.08%) .NET
3 30 (9.23%) Spring Boot
4 29 (8.92%) Spring
5 27 (8.31%) React
6 19 (5.85%) .NET Core
7 16 (4.92%) AngularJS
8 13 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
8 13 (4.00%) Hibernate
9 11 (3.38%) REST
9 11 (3.38%) RESTful
10 9 (2.77%) Node.js
10 9 (2.77%) Vue
11 8 (2.46%) JSON
12 7 (2.15%) LINQ
12 7 (2.15%) Middleware
13 6 (1.85%) .NET Framework
13 6 (1.85%) ASP.NET
13 6 (1.85%) ASP.NET Web API
13 6 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 60 (18.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 41 (12.62%) Hedge funds
3 34 (10.46%) Equities
4 30 (9.23%) Client/Server
4 30 (9.23%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (9.23%) FPGA
5 25 (7.69%) Algorithms
5 25 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (7.08%) Fixed Income
7 7 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (1.85%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.85%) Sports Betting
9 5 (1.54%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.23%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.23%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.92%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.92%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.62%) ASIC
Operating Systems
1 63 (19.38%) Linux
2 14 (4.31%) Windows
3 12 (3.69%) Unix
4 5 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.23%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.62%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (32.00%) Multithreading
2 85 (26.15%) Computer Science
3 73 (22.46%) Software Engineering
4 70 (21.54%) Agile
5 64 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (19.38%) Microservices
7 62 (19.08%) Fintech
8 61 (18.77%) Electronic Trading
9 39 (12.00%) Mathematics
10 37 (11.38%) High-Frequency Trading
11 35 (10.77%) Algorithmic Trading
12 31 (9.54%) Full Stack Development
13 30 (9.23%) DevOps
14 29 (8.92%) SDLC
15 28 (8.62%) Concurrent Programming
16 27 (8.31%) TDD
17 24 (7.38%) CI/CD
18 22 (6.77%) Ultra-Low Latency
19 19 (5.85%) Test Automation
20 17 (5.23%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 181 (55.69%) Java
2 86 (26.46%) Python
3 74 (22.77%) C++
4 66 (20.31%) C#
5 42 (12.92%) SQL
6 29 (8.92%) JavaScript
7 27 (8.31%) C
8 26 (8.00%) Rust
9 11 (3.38%) Perl
9 11 (3.38%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.08%) Go
11 6 (1.85%) Bash
12 4 (1.23%) F#
12 4 (1.23%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.23%) VBA
13 2 (0.62%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 67 (20.62%) Degree
2 25 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (5.85%) Master's Degree
4 10 (3.08%) PhD
5 4 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.92%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.62%) CCIE
8 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.31%) CCNP
8 1 (0.31%) CISSP
8 1 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.31%) ISEB
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.31%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.77%) QA
2 6 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.92%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.31%) NIST
5 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (15.08%) Docker
2 4 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Lustre
3 1 (0.31%) NFS
Systems Management
1 72 (22.15%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.46%) Ansible
3 6 (1.85%) Terraform
4 4 (1.23%) Puppet
5 3 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.31%) Grafana
6 1 (0.31%) Nmap
6 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (5.54%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.69%) Google
3 10 (3.08%) Cisco
3 10 (3.08%) Solace
4 9 (2.77%) TIBCO
5 8 (2.46%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.15%) Fortinet
6 7 (2.15%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.85%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.54%) IBM
8 5 (1.54%) Juniper
9 3 (0.92%) ION Trading
9 3 (0.92%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.62%) Databricks
10 2 (0.62%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.62%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.31%) Arista
11 1 (0.31%) F5
11 1 (0.31%) NetApp
11 1 (0.31%) Workday