Low Latency Jobs in England

Low Latency
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 570 339
Rank change year-on-year +172 -231 +98
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 294 308 779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.32% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.39% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 157 231 633
10th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £155,000 £145,000 £150,000
90th Percentile £172,500 £165,000 £170,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £110,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +6.33%

All Process and 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 45,887 79,212 77,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.16% 82.43% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 23,187 56,399 47,887
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,446 £34,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,759
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,015 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +0.03% -9.54% +1.33%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in England

Low Latency
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Low Latency in England

Low Latency
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in England over the 6 months to 15 June 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 15 June 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 +76 242 £115,000 +2.22% 777
North of England +97 30 £75,000 -11.76% 43
North West +39 23 £70,000 -44.00% 34
South East +94 8 £65,000 -36.59% 344
Yorkshire - 7 £122,773 - 8
Midlands - 3 - - 7
East of England +43 2 - - 23
South West +115 1 - - 12
West Midlands - 1 - - 7
Low Latency
UK

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (2.04%) GemFire
2 4 (1.36%) Apache
2 4 (1.36%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.02%) nginx
3 3 (1.02%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.34%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.34%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 64 (21.77%) AWS
2 24 (8.16%) GCP
3 17 (5.78%) Azure
4 13 (4.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (4.42%) Cloud Computing
5 12 (4.08%) Serverless
6 10 (3.40%) Amazon S3
6 10 (3.40%) Datadog
6 10 (3.40%) Pulumi
7 9 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (3.06%) SaaS
8 3 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.68%) PaaS
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.34%) GitHub
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.34%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.50%) TCP/IP
2 19 (6.46%) Multicast
3 11 (3.74%) BGP
3 11 (3.74%) VPN
4 8 (2.72%) DNS
4 8 (2.72%) Firewall
5 7 (2.38%) EIGRP
5 7 (2.38%) HSRP
5 7 (2.38%) IPsec
5 7 (2.38%) OSPF
5 7 (2.38%) SNMP
5 7 (2.38%) VRRP
6 6 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (1.70%) DHCP
7 5 (1.70%) HTTP
7 5 (1.70%) WAN
8 4 (1.36%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (1.36%) InfiniBand
8 4 (1.36%) IOS XR
8 4 (1.36%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 18 (6.12%) KDB
3 17 (5.78%) Redis
4 14 (4.76%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.40%) DynamoDB
6 9 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.38%) Kdb+
8 6 (2.04%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.70%) Hazelcast
10 4 (1.36%) Apache Ignite
10 4 (1.36%) CockroachDB
10 4 (1.36%) InterSystems Cache
10 4 (1.36%) MySQL
10 4 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.36%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.36%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.36%) Tick Data
11 3 (1.02%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 18 (6.12%) Jenkins
2 16 (5.44%) GitLab
3 15 (5.10%) Git
4 9 (3.06%) CircleCI
4 9 (3.06%) JIRA
5 6 (2.04%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (1.36%) JUnit
6 4 (1.36%) Mockito
7 3 (1.02%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.68%) Gradle
8 2 (0.68%) Maven
9 1 (0.34%) CMake
9 1 (0.34%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.34%) MLflow
General
1 162 (55.10%) Finance
2 106 (36.05%) Banking
3 62 (21.09%) Front Office
4 46 (15.65%) Social Skills
5 41 (13.95%) Investment Banking
6 21 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (7.14%) Law
7 10 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (3.06%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.72%) Games
10 4 (1.36%) Wholesale Banking
11 3 (1.02%) Back Office
11 3 (1.02%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Retail
13 1 (0.34%) Automotive
13 1 (0.34%) Military
13 1 (0.34%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 155 (52.72%) Developer
2 95 (32.31%) Senior
3 86 (29.25%) C++ Developer
4 52 (17.69%) Senior Developer
5 50 (17.01%) Low Latency C++ Developer
6 48 (16.33%) Software Engineer
7 42 (14.29%) Quantitative Developer
8 40 (13.61%) Senior C++ Developer
9 33 (11.22%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 33 (11.22%) Linux Developer
10 31 (10.54%) Java Developer
10 31 (10.54%) Lead
10 31 (10.54%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
10 31 (10.54%) Senior Quantitative Developer
11 25 (8.50%) Java Engineer
11 25 (8.50%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (6.80%) Front Office Developer
13 19 (6.46%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
14 16 (5.44%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 15 (5.10%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (14.97%) Kafka
2 27 (9.18%) FIX Protocol
3 25 (8.50%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 21 (7.14%) .NET
5 20 (6.80%) RESTful
6 18 (6.12%) Middleware
6 18 (6.12%) React
7 15 (5.10%) gRPC
7 15 (5.10%) RabbitMQ
8 14 (4.76%) Node.js
9 10 (3.40%) Spring
10 9 (3.06%) pytest
10 9 (3.06%) web3js
11 7 (2.38%) WebSockets
12 6 (2.04%) Express.js
12 6 (2.04%) Spring Boot
13 5 (1.70%) CSS
13 5 (1.70%) HTML
13 5 (1.70%) React Native
14 4 (1.36%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 59 (20.07%) Equities
2 53 (18.03%) Hedge funds
3 51 (17.35%) Algorithms
4 44 (14.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 33 (11.22%) Fixed Income
6 31 (10.54%) Data Structures
7 26 (8.84%) Derivative
8 24 (8.16%) Cloud Native
9 23 (7.82%) Greenfield Project
10 22 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
11 19 (6.46%) FPGA
12 16 (5.44%) Blockchain
12 16 (5.44%) Public Cloud
13 15 (5.10%) Management Information System
14 9 (3.06%) Web3
15 8 (2.72%) Product Ownership
16 6 (2.04%) Data Centre
16 6 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
16 6 (2.04%) IPTV
17 4 (1.36%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 115 (39.12%) Linux
2 21 (7.14%) Unix
3 6 (2.04%) Windows
4 4 (1.36%) CentOS
5 3 (1.02%) Rocky
5 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.34%) Android
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (25.51%) Software Engineering
2 70 (23.81%) Multithreading
3 65 (22.11%) Agile
4 60 (20.41%) CI/CD
5 50 (17.01%) Computer Science
6 43 (14.63%) Fintech
7 42 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
8 41 (13.95%) Test Automation
9 40 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (13.27%) DevOps
10 39 (13.27%) SDLC
11 34 (11.56%) Concurrent Programming
12 33 (11.22%) Mathematics
13 32 (10.88%) OO
14 30 (10.20%) Containerisation
15 29 (9.86%) Analytics
15 29 (9.86%) Microservices
16 28 (9.52%) Event-Driven
16 28 (9.52%) Market Making
16 28 (9.52%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 117 (39.80%) C++
2 102 (34.69%) Java
3 96 (32.65%) Python
4 40 (13.61%) C
5 31 (10.54%) SQL
6 29 (9.86%) C#
7 25 (8.50%) Go
8 16 (5.44%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.74%) Bash
9 11 (3.74%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.40%) Bicep
11 9 (3.06%) Rust
12 8 (2.72%) Ruby
13 7 (2.38%) Shell Script
14 6 (2.04%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.70%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.70%) Perl
16 3 (1.02%) PowerShell
17 1 (0.34%) MATLAB
17 1 (0.34%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 31 (10.54%) Degree
2 14 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.72%) CCNA
4 8 (2.72%) CCNP
5 4 (1.36%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.36%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.02%) CCIE
6 3 (1.02%) LPIC
6 3 (1.02%) MCSE
6 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.02%) PhD
6 3 (1.02%) RHCE
7 2 (0.68%) CCSA
7 2 (0.68%) CCSE
7 2 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.34%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.78%) QA
2 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
System Software
1 54 (18.37%) Docker
2 6 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.36%) NFS
4 3 (1.02%) GPFS
4 3 (1.02%) Lustre
5 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 58 (19.73%) Kubernetes
2 35 (11.90%) Terraform
3 20 (6.80%) Ansible
4 12 (4.08%) Prometheus
5 11 (3.74%) Puppet
6 10 (3.40%) Podman
6 10 (3.40%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.36%) Grafana
7 4 (1.36%) Nagios
8 3 (1.02%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.34%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.34%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (5.10%) Solace
2 13 (4.42%) Arista
2 13 (4.42%) Cisco
3 12 (4.08%) Bloomberg
4 11 (3.74%) Oracle
5 10 (3.40%) SolarWinds
5 10 (3.40%) TIBCO
6 9 (3.06%) CheckPoint
7 8 (2.72%) Refinitiv
8 7 (2.38%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.04%) Google
9 6 (2.04%) Meraki
9 6 (2.04%) VMware
10 5 (1.70%) Microsoft
10 5 (1.70%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.36%) Splunk
12 2 (0.68%) Alibaba
12 2 (0.68%) Databricks
12 2 (0.68%) F5
12 2 (0.68%) Reuters