Low Latency Jobs in the City of London

Low Latency
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 140 97
Rank change year-on-year +29 -43 +73
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 37 40 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.79% 1.19% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 1.29% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 34 37 119
10th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £88,750
25th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +2.44%
75th Percentile £156,875 £130,000 £130,000
90th Percentile £172,500 £140,000 £162,500
Central London median annual salary £107,500 £115,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +2.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,984 3,092 4,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 95.94% 92.08% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,502 2,446 3,687
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in the City of London

Low Latency
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Low Latency in the City of London

Low Latency
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Low Latency in the City of London

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (5.41%) nginx
1 2 (5.41%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 13 (35.14%) AWS
2 4 (10.81%) GCP
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (5.41%) Azure
5 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) Multicast
2 4 (10.81%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.41%) DNS
3 2 (5.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) KDB
1 4 (10.81%) MySQL
2 3 (8.11%) Redis
3 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.70%) Big Data
4 1 (2.70%) Kdb+
4 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Git
2 3 (8.11%) JIRA
3 2 (5.41%) GitLab
4 1 (2.70%) Eclipse
General
1 16 (43.24%) Finance
2 11 (29.73%) Banking
3 8 (21.62%) Front Office
4 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Games
5 1 (2.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (54.05%) Developer
2 10 (27.03%) Java Developer
3 9 (24.32%) Software Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) Senior
5 6 (16.22%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 6 (16.22%) Java Engineer
6 5 (13.51%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 5 (13.51%) Front Office Developer
6 5 (13.51%) Quantitative Developer
6 5 (13.51%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (10.81%) C++ Developer
7 4 (10.81%) Java Developer - Fintech
7 4 (10.81%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (10.81%) Senior Developer
8 3 (8.11%) C++ Software Developer
8 3 (8.11%) C++ Software Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Senior C++ Developer
8 3 (8.11%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (8.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 5 (13.51%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (8.11%) Kafka
3 3 (8.11%) pytest
4 2 (5.41%) gRPC
4 2 (5.41%) LEMP Stack
4 2 (5.41%) Node.js
4 2 (5.41%) WebSockets
5 1 (2.70%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (40.54%) Algorithms
2 11 (29.73%) Derivative
2 11 (29.73%) Fixed Income
3 10 (27.03%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (21.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (10.81%) Equities
6 3 (8.11%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (8.11%) Hedge funds
7 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
7 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (5.41%) FPGA
8 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
8 1 (2.70%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 1 (2.70%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) CentOS
3 2 (5.41%) Rocky
4 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) Multithreading
2 15 (40.54%) Concurrent Programming
3 11 (29.73%) Software Engineering
4 9 (24.32%) Electronic Trading
5 8 (21.62%) Market Making
6 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (16.22%) Mathematics
7 6 (16.22%) Risk Management
8 5 (13.51%) Agile
8 5 (13.51%) Computer Science
8 5 (13.51%) DevOps
8 5 (13.51%) Distributed Cache
8 5 (13.51%) Fintech
8 5 (13.51%) Memory Management
8 5 (13.51%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (13.51%) Re-Platforming
8 5 (13.51%) Ultra-Low Latency
9 4 (10.81%) CI/CD
9 4 (10.81%) Clean Code
9 4 (10.81%) Garbage Collection
Programming Languages
1 20 (54.05%) Java
2 13 (35.14%) Python
3 12 (32.43%) C++
4 4 (10.81%) Bash
4 4 (10.81%) SQL
5 3 (8.11%) C#
6 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.41%) Rust
7 1 (2.70%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.70%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.03%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Ansible
1 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
1 4 (10.81%) Nagios
2 2 (5.41%) Grafana
2 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (5.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Solace
2 4 (10.81%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.41%) Rapid7
3 2 (5.41%) SolarWinds
3 2 (5.41%) Splunk
3 2 (5.41%) VMware
4 1 (2.70%) Murex