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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 333 484
Rank change year-on-year -256 +151 -72
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 331 1,065 1,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 1.02% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 1.07% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 275 818 578
10th Percentile £62,500 £58,882 £55,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £72,813 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £145,000 £140,000 £129,375
90th Percentile £165,000 £165,000 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,447 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.40% +15.75% -

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 84,697 99,477 149,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.97% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 58,401 83,209
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,025 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,330
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 1 May 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 1 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
England -202 297 £117,500 +11.90% 182
London -73 280 £120,000 +4.35% 162
Work from Home -215 141 £112,500 +18.42% 108
UK excluding London -222 43 £72,500 +4.40% 27
Scotland -153 25 £65,000 -6.40% 3
North of England -46 7 £85,000 +60.40% 2
South East +4 5 £102,500 +46.43% 9
Northern Ireland +24 4 £105,000 +35.48% 3
North West -5 4 £95,250 +73.18% 2
North East - 2 £85,000 -
Yorkshire +13 1 - -
East of England +12 1 £120,000 +140.00% 3
South West -30 1 £110,000 +59.83% 6

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 (2.72%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.11%) Apache
3 5 (1.51%) MQSeries
4 4 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.21%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 119 (35.95%) AWS
2 41 (12.39%) Azure
3 18 (5.44%) GCP
4 11 (3.32%) Serverless
5 8 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (2.42%) ChatGPT
5 8 (2.42%) SaaS
6 5 (1.51%) Amazon S3
6 5 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.21%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (1.21%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (1.21%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (1.21%) GitHub
7 4 (1.21%) IBM Cloud
7 4 (1.21%) Power Platform
8 3 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.91%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.14%) TCP/IP
2 9 (2.72%) Firewall
3 7 (2.11%) Network Security
3 7 (2.11%) VPN
3 7 (2.11%) WAN
4 6 (1.81%) BGP
4 6 (1.81%) OSPF
5 5 (1.51%) DHCP
5 5 (1.51%) DNS
5 5 (1.51%) LAN
6 3 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (0.91%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (0.91%) EIGRP
6 3 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.91%) MPLS
6 3 (0.91%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.30%) HSRP
7 1 (0.30%) Multicast
7 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.25%) NoSQL
2 19 (5.74%) MySQL
3 12 (3.63%) Redis
4 10 (3.02%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.72%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.81%) Big Data
8 5 (1.51%) Flink
8 5 (1.51%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.51%) Tableau
9 4 (1.21%) Power BI
10 3 (0.91%) Event Store
11 2 (0.60%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.60%) Tick Data
12 1 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.30%) Looker
12 1 (0.30%) Metadata
12 1 (0.30%) Metadata Repository
12 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (7.85%) Git
2 18 (5.44%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.23%) GitLab
4 4 (1.21%) IntelliJ
4 4 (1.21%) Maven
4 4 (1.21%) Selenium
5 2 (0.60%) GCC
5 2 (0.60%) GDB
5 2 (0.60%) JIRA
5 2 (0.60%) JUnit
6 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.30%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.30%) Mockito
6 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 131 (39.58%) Finance
2 96 (29.00%) Social Skills
3 73 (22.05%) Front Office
4 57 (17.22%) Banking
5 44 (13.29%) Investment Banking
6 29 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (4.23%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.42%) Games
10 7 (2.11%) Retail
11 2 (0.60%) Marketing
11 2 (0.60%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.30%) Back Office
12 1 (0.30%) Military
12 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 214 (64.65%) Developer
2 118 (35.65%) Java Developer
3 84 (25.38%) Senior
4 59 (17.82%) Senior Developer
5 39 (11.78%) C++ Developer
6 37 (11.18%) Lead
6 37 (11.18%) Software Engineer
7 36 (10.88%) Senior Java Developer
8 35 (10.57%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 30 (9.06%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 25 (7.55%) Lead Developer
11 22 (6.65%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 22 (6.65%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 21 (6.34%) .NET Developer
12 21 (6.34%) Python Engineer
13 19 (5.74%) Java Engineer
14 15 (4.53%) C# Developer
14 15 (4.53%) Front Office Developer
15 13 (3.93%) Quantitative Developer
16 12 (3.63%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.48%) Kafka
2 35 (10.57%) .NET
3 32 (9.67%) Spring Boot
4 30 (9.06%) Spring
5 26 (7.85%) React
6 18 (5.44%) .NET Core
7 15 (4.53%) AngularJS
8 13 (3.93%) FIX Protocol
8 13 (3.93%) Hibernate
9 11 (3.32%) RESTful
10 10 (3.02%) REST
11 9 (2.72%) Node.js
11 9 (2.72%) Vue
12 8 (2.42%) JSON
13 7 (2.11%) Middleware
14 6 (1.81%) LINQ
14 6 (1.81%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (1.51%) .NET Framework
15 5 (1.51%) ASP.NET Web API
15 5 (1.51%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 60 (18.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 41 (12.39%) Hedge funds
3 34 (10.27%) Equities
4 31 (9.37%) FPGA
5 30 (9.06%) Client/Server
5 30 (9.06%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (7.55%) Algorithms
6 25 (7.55%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (7.25%) Fixed Income
8 7 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (2.11%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.81%) Sports Betting
10 5 (1.51%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.21%) Hackathon
11 4 (1.21%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.21%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.91%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (0.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 64 (19.34%) Linux
2 14 (4.23%) Windows
3 13 (3.93%) Unix
4 5 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.21%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.60%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (32.63%) Multithreading
2 85 (25.68%) Computer Science
3 74 (22.36%) Agile
3 74 (22.36%) Software Engineering
4 66 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (19.34%) Electronic Trading
5 64 (19.34%) Microservices
6 61 (18.43%) Fintech
7 40 (12.08%) Mathematics
8 37 (11.18%) High-Frequency Trading
9 33 (9.97%) Algorithmic Trading
10 32 (9.67%) Full Stack Development
11 31 (9.37%) DevOps
11 31 (9.37%) TDD
12 30 (9.06%) SDLC
13 27 (8.16%) CI/CD
13 27 (8.16%) Concurrent Programming
14 22 (6.65%) Ultra-Low Latency
15 21 (6.34%) Test Automation
16 18 (5.44%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 188 (56.80%) Java
2 88 (26.59%) Python
3 76 (22.96%) C++
4 66 (19.94%) C#
5 42 (12.69%) SQL
6 29 (8.76%) JavaScript
7 28 (8.46%) C
8 27 (8.16%) Rust
9 11 (3.32%) Perl
9 11 (3.32%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.02%) Go
11 6 (1.81%) Bash
12 4 (1.21%) F#
12 4 (1.21%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.21%) VBA
13 3 (0.91%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 68 (20.54%) Degree
2 25 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (5.74%) Master's Degree
4 10 (3.02%) PhD
5 4 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.91%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.60%) CCIE
8 1 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.30%) CCNP
8 1 (0.30%) CISSP
8 1 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.30%) ISEB
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.42%) QA
2 6 (1.81%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.60%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.30%) NIST
6 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 51 (15.41%) Docker
2 4 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) Lustre
3 1 (0.30%) NFS
Systems Management
1 74 (22.36%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.34%) Ansible
3 6 (1.81%) Terraform
4 4 (1.21%) Puppet
5 3 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.30%) Grafana
6 1 (0.30%) Nmap
6 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (5.44%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.63%) Google
3 10 (3.02%) Cisco
3 10 (3.02%) Solace
4 9 (2.72%) TIBCO
5 8 (2.42%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.11%) Fortinet
6 7 (2.11%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.81%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.51%) IBM
8 5 (1.51%) Juniper
9 3 (0.91%) ION Trading
9 3 (0.91%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.60%) Databricks
10 2 (0.60%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.30%) Arista
11 1 (0.30%) F5
11 1 (0.30%) NetApp
11 1 (0.30%) Workday