Low Latency Jobs in Central London

Low Latency
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Low Latency skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Low Latency over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 147 112
Rank change year-on-year +29 -35 +56
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 42 41 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.75% 1.08% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.18% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 38 36 120
10th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £88,750
25th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £92,250 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.24% -14.19% +4.88%
75th Percentile £157,500 £130,000 £130,000
90th Percentile £173,250 £140,000 £162,500
London median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £120,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +17.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Low Latency falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,321 3,472 4,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.71% 91.83% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,586 2,632 3,900
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in Central London

Low Latency
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Low Latency in Central London

Low Latency
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Low Latency in Central London

Low Latency
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
City of London +38 40 £120,000 +30.08% 37
Low Latency
London

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (4.76%) nginx
1 2 (4.76%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 14 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (9.52%) GCP
3 3 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (4.76%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (4.76%) Azure
5 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) Multicast
2 4 (9.52%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.76%) DNS
3 2 (4.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) KDB
2 4 (9.52%) MySQL
3 3 (7.14%) Redis
4 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.76%) Kdb+
4 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Git
2 3 (7.14%) JIRA
3 2 (4.76%) GitLab
4 1 (2.38%) Eclipse
General
1 17 (40.48%) Finance
2 12 (28.57%) Banking
3 11 (26.19%) Front Office
4 3 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Back Office
5 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.38%) Games
6 1 (2.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (59.52%) Developer
2 11 (26.19%) Java Developer
3 9 (21.43%) Software Engineer
4 8 (19.05%) Senior
5 7 (16.67%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 6 (14.29%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 6 (14.29%) Front Office Developer
6 6 (14.29%) Java Engineer
6 6 (14.29%) Quantitative Developer
7 5 (11.90%) C++ Developer
7 5 (11.90%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (9.52%) C++ Software Engineer
8 4 (9.52%) Java Developer - Fintech
8 4 (9.52%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (9.52%) Lead
8 4 (9.52%) Senior Developer
9 3 (7.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 3 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
9 3 (7.14%) Software Developer
9 3 (7.14%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 5 (11.90%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (7.14%) Kafka
2 3 (7.14%) pytest
3 2 (4.76%) gRPC
3 2 (4.76%) LEMP Stack
3 2 (4.76%) Node.js
3 2 (4.76%) WebSockets
4 1 (2.38%) .NET
4 1 (2.38%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 13 (30.95%) Fixed Income
3 12 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (23.81%) Derivative
5 7 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (14.29%) Hedge funds
7 4 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (7.14%) Equities
8 3 (7.14%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
9 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
9 1 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (2.38%) FPGA
9 1 (2.38%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 1 (2.38%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Linux
2 4 (9.52%) CentOS
3 2 (4.76%) Rocky
3 2 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) Multithreading
2 18 (42.86%) Concurrent Programming
3 12 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 11 (26.19%) Electronic Trading
5 9 (21.43%) Market Making
5 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (19.05%) Mathematics
7 7 (16.67%) Risk Management
8 6 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 6 (14.29%) Distributed Cache
8 6 (14.29%) Fintech
8 6 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (14.29%) Re-Platforming
9 5 (11.90%) Agile
9 5 (11.90%) DevOps
9 5 (11.90%) Memory Management
10 4 (9.52%) Capacity Planning
10 4 (9.52%) Configuration Management
10 4 (9.52%) Data Analysis
10 4 (9.52%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 20 (47.62%) Java
2 15 (35.71%) C++
2 15 (35.71%) Python
3 5 (11.90%) Bash
4 4 (9.52%) C#
4 4 (9.52%) SQL
5 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
2 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.43%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Ansible
1 4 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 4 (9.52%) Nagios
2 2 (4.76%) Grafana
2 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Solace
2 4 (9.52%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.76%) Rapid7
3 2 (4.76%) SolarWinds
3 2 (4.76%) Splunk
3 2 (4.76%) VMware
4 1 (2.38%) Murex
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle