Low Latency Job Trends in England

Low Latency
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Low Latency skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 414 360
Rank change year-on-year +68 -54 +62
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 289 282 331
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 0.57% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.63% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 207 183 284
10th Percentile £78,500 £62,500 £66,250
25th Percentile £98,750 £74,500 £84,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £100,000 £117,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.89% +17.50%
75th Percentile £145,000 £137,500 £150,000
90th Percentile £170,000 £155,000 £200,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £97,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -11.36% +15.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,784 44,895 41,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.28% 90.18% 91.26%
Number of salaries quoted 25,500 22,481 31,965
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in England

Low Latency
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Low Latency.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Low Latency

Low Latency
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Low Latency in England

Low Latency
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Low Latency within the England region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
London +66 266 £121,000 +10.46% 264
North of England 0 12 £68,750 -16.67% 196
North West +15 11 £60,000 -28.36% 100
East of England +24 9 £80,000 -20.00% 134
South West +8 1 £80,000 +23.08% 92
Yorkshire -5 1 £80,000 +14.29% 84
Midlands - 1 £100,000 - 156
West Midlands - 1 £100,000 - 81
Low Latency
UK

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 6 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.73%) Apache Pulsar
2 5 (1.73%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.04%) Confluence
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.35%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.42%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.35%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 61 (21.11%) AWS
2 38 (13.15%) Azure
3 30 (10.38%) GCP
4 8 (2.77%) GitHub
5 6 (2.08%) Amazon S3
6 5 (1.73%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (1.73%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (1.73%) Prefect
7 4 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.38%) Datadog
7 4 (1.38%) Serverless
8 3 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.69%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (0.69%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (0.69%) Dagster
9 2 (0.69%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (15.92%) Multicast
2 25 (8.65%) TCP/IP
3 13 (4.50%) LAN
4 7 (2.42%) WAN
5 6 (2.08%) Firewall
5 6 (2.08%) VPN
6 5 (1.73%) BGP
6 5 (1.73%) IGMP
6 5 (1.73%) OSPF
7 4 (1.38%) DNS
7 4 (1.38%) Network Security
7 4 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.38%) Wireless
8 2 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (0.69%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (0.69%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.35%) Broadband
9 1 (0.35%) HSRP
9 1 (0.35%) VRRP
9 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.23%) NoSQL
2 14 (4.84%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.77%) DynamoDB
4 7 (2.42%) Redis
5 6 (2.08%) KDB
5 6 (2.08%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.73%) Couchbase
7 3 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.04%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.69%) Tick Data
9 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.35%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.35%) MySQL
9 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (5.54%) JIRA
2 12 (4.15%) Git
3 10 (3.46%) GitLab
4 5 (1.73%) CircleCI
4 5 (1.73%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.38%) MLflow
6 2 (0.69%) VisualVM
6 2 (0.69%) YourKit
7 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.35%) Gradle
General
1 138 (47.75%) Finance
2 91 (31.49%) Front Office
3 68 (23.53%) Banking
4 54 (18.69%) Social Skills
5 30 (10.38%) Investment Banking
6 19 (6.57%) Telecoms
7 18 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (3.81%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.04%) Games
11 3 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.04%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.69%) Legal
13 1 (0.35%) Back Office
13 1 (0.35%) French Language
Job Titles
1 134 (46.37%) Developer
2 93 (32.18%) Senior
3 53 (18.34%) C++ Developer
4 40 (13.84%) Software Engineer
5 37 (12.80%) Low Latency C++ Developer
6 36 (12.46%) Linux Developer
7 31 (10.73%) Quantitative Developer
8 28 (9.69%) Senior Developer
9 27 (9.34%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 27 (9.34%) Java Developer
10 23 (7.96%) Senior Software Engineer
11 21 (7.27%) Network Engineer
11 21 (7.27%) React Developer
12 20 (6.92%) Python Engineer
13 18 (6.23%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 18 (6.23%) C++ Software Engineer
13 18 (6.23%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
13 18 (6.23%) Linux Scripter
13 18 (6.23%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
13 18 (6.23%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (23.53%) FIX Protocol
2 50 (17.30%) Kafka
3 32 (11.07%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 30 (10.38%) WebSockets
5 25 (8.65%) React
6 23 (7.96%) RESTful
7 20 (6.92%) Highcharts JS
7 20 (6.92%) OpenFin
8 19 (6.57%) gRPC
9 14 (4.84%) REST
10 12 (4.15%) .NET
10 12 (4.15%) pytest
11 10 (3.46%) Java Concurrency
11 10 (3.46%) Spring
12 8 (2.77%) Akka
13 6 (2.08%) .NET Core
13 6 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (1.73%) Memcached
14 5 (1.73%) Node.js
14 5 (1.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 67 (23.18%) Algorithms
2 64 (22.15%) Equities
3 57 (19.72%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (15.92%) Fixed Income
5 37 (12.80%) Derivative
6 31 (10.73%) Hedge funds
7 30 (10.38%) Data Structures
8 29 (10.03%) Cloud Native
8 29 (10.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 22 (7.61%) FPGA
10 19 (6.57%) Management Information System
11 10 (3.46%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (3.46%) Virtual Team
12 9 (3.11%) AI Agents
12 9 (3.11%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (2.77%) Onboarding
14 7 (2.42%) Web3
15 6 (2.08%) Blockchain
15 6 (2.08%) Data Centre
15 6 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 105 (36.33%) Linux
2 19 (6.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (3.11%) Android
4 6 (2.08%) Windows
5 2 (0.69%) CentOS
6 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (23.18%) Computer Science
2 64 (22.15%) Electronic Trading
3 63 (21.80%) Containerisation
4 59 (20.42%) Software Engineering
5 56 (19.38%) Agile
6 49 (16.96%) Microservices
7 45 (15.57%) Performance Tuning
8 43 (14.88%) Analytics
8 43 (14.88%) CI/CD
8 43 (14.88%) Ultra-Low Latency
9 39 (13.49%) Algorithmic Trading
9 39 (13.49%) DevOps
9 39 (13.49%) Machine Learning
10 37 (12.80%) AI
10 37 (12.80%) Mathematics
11 36 (12.46%) Performance Optimisation
12 35 (12.11%) OOP
13 32 (11.07%) Order Management
13 32 (11.07%) Test Automation
14 29 (10.03%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 97 (33.56%) Java
2 93 (32.18%) C++
3 82 (28.37%) Python
4 25 (8.65%) Go
5 22 (7.61%) JavaScript
6 21 (7.27%) C
7 19 (6.57%) SQL
8 18 (6.23%) C#
9 10 (3.46%) Rust
10 8 (2.77%) Bash
11 7 (2.42%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.42%) Scala
12 4 (1.38%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.04%) Erlang
14 1 (0.35%) Korn
14 1 (0.35%) PromQL
14 1 (0.35%) SystemVerilog
14 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (21.45%) Degree
2 34 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (7.27%) Master's Degree
4 20 (6.92%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (5.54%) CCNP
5 16 (5.54%) PhD
6 10 (3.46%) CCIE
7 8 (2.77%) CCSA
7 8 (2.77%) CCSE
8 4 (1.38%) CCNA
9 2 (0.69%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.69%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.35%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.92%) QA
2 3 (1.04%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.35%) MiFID
3 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (11.76%) Docker
2 6 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (11.07%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.88%) Ansible
3 12 (4.15%) Terraform
4 9 (3.11%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.08%) Grafana
6 5 (1.73%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.38%) Kubeflow
7 4 (1.38%) Nagios
8 2 (0.69%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.35%) Kibana
9 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (6.92%) Cisco
2 14 (4.84%) Red Hat
3 10 (3.46%) Arista
4 8 (2.77%) CheckPoint
5 7 (2.42%) F5
6 6 (2.08%) Fortinet
6 6 (2.08%) Solarflare
6 6 (2.08%) VMware
7 5 (1.73%) Ericsson
7 5 (1.73%) Mavenir
7 5 (1.73%) Nokia
8 4 (1.38%) Mellanox
8 4 (1.38%) Splunk
9 3 (1.04%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.04%) CQG
9 3 (1.04%) ION Trading
9 3 (1.04%) Meraki
9 3 (1.04%) Oracle
9 3 (1.04%) Patsystems
9 3 (1.04%) Reuters