Low Latency Job Trends in Central London

Low Latency
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Low Latency skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 152 140
Rank change year-on-year +52 -12 -13
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 45 32 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 1.76% 1.00% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 1.04% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 38 23 30
10th Percentile £100,000 £84,000 £103,500
25th Percentile £105,063 £85,000 £105,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £100,000 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -16.67% +17.07%
75th Percentile £166,250 £137,500 £137,500
90th Percentile £172,500 - £142,750
London median annual salary £122,500 £106,250 £120,000
% change year-on-year +15.29% -11.46% +17.07%

All Process & 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 2,233 3,083 2,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 87.26% 95.89% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,643 1,839 2,542
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Low Latency relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Low Latency job vacancy trend in Central London

Low Latency
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Low Latency.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Low Latency

Low Latency
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in Central London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 2026. 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 +43 45 £125,000 +25.00% 42
Low Latency
London

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.22%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.56%) AWS
2 5 (11.11%) Azure
2 5 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (2.22%) GitHub
3 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) Multicast
2 1 (2.22%) BGP
2 1 (2.22%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (2.22%) Firewall
2 1 (2.22%) IGMP
2 1 (2.22%) OSPF
2 1 (2.22%) VPN
2 1 (2.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) KDB
1 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.22%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.22%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.22%) Gradle
2 1 (2.22%) MLflow
General
1 21 (46.67%) Front Office
2 14 (31.11%) Finance
3 6 (13.33%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.44%) Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) French Language
Job Titles
1 27 (60.00%) Developer
2 9 (20.00%) Senior
3 7 (15.56%) Software Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) C++ Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Quantitative Developer
6 3 (6.67%) C# Developer
6 3 (6.67%) C++ Software Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Voice Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Voice Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Front Office Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Lead
7 2 (4.44%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Rust Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Lead Java Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Rust Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.89%) Kafka
2 12 (26.67%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (20.00%) Java Concurrency
4 3 (6.67%) .NET
4 3 (6.67%) RESTful
5 2 (4.44%) React
5 2 (4.44%) Spring
5 2 (4.44%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.44%) Web Services
6 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.22%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 1 (2.22%) DPDK
6 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.22%) gRPC
6 1 (2.22%) HTML
6 1 (2.22%) HTML5
6 1 (2.22%) J2SE
6 1 (2.22%) Redux
6 1 (2.22%) WebSockets
6 1 (2.22%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 19 (42.22%) Algorithms
2 14 (31.11%) Derivative
3 12 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (26.67%) Equities
4 9 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (13.33%) Cloud Native
6 5 (11.11%) Data Structures
6 5 (11.11%) Hedge funds
7 4 (8.89%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (4.44%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (4.44%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (4.44%) Fixed Income
10 1 (2.22%) FPGA
10 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
10 1 (2.22%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.78%) Linux
2 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (44.44%) Electronic Trading
2 17 (37.78%) Mathematics
3 16 (35.56%) Computer Science
4 13 (28.89%) Algorithmic Trading
4 13 (28.89%) Multithreading
4 13 (28.89%) Quantitative Research
5 11 (24.44%) Analytics
5 11 (24.44%) Software Engineering
6 10 (22.22%) Ultra-Low Latency
7 9 (20.00%) Market Making
7 9 (20.00%) Quantitative Trading
7 9 (20.00%) Smart Order Routing
8 8 (17.78%) Applied Mathematics
8 8 (17.78%) Concurrent Programming
8 8 (17.78%) Data Analysis
8 8 (17.78%) Microservices
8 8 (17.78%) Statistics
9 7 (15.56%) High-Frequency Trading
9 7 (15.56%) Memory Management
9 7 (15.56%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 23 (51.11%) Java
2 13 (28.89%) C++
3 12 (26.67%) Python
4 5 (11.11%) Rust
4 5 (11.11%) SQL
5 4 (8.89%) C#
6 3 (6.67%) Go
7 2 (4.44%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.22%) C
8 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.22%) Korn
8 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) Degree
2 7 (15.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 5 (11.11%) PhD
4 1 (2.22%) CCNP
4 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Ansible
2 1 (2.22%) Nagios
2 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.22%) Puppet
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.22%) Arista
2 1 (2.22%) Cisco
2 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
2 1 (2.22%) Solace
2 1 (2.22%) Solarflare
2 1 (2.22%) SolarWinds