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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 562 351
Rank change year-on-year +131 -211 +114
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 282 291 854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.57% 0.34% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.40% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 164 242 681
10th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £67,500
25th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £116,250 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +5.68% +10.00%
75th Percentile £148,125 £146,250 £150,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £165,000 £167,500
UK median annual salary £110,000 £111,250 £100,000
% change year-on-year -1.12% +11.25% -

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 46,211 73,441 86,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.15% 85.47% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,829 53,979 51,188
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 13 May 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 13 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
London +69 239 £115,000 -2.13% 448
North of England +71 27 £85,000 - 39
North West +28 20 £65,000 -31.76% 32
Yorkshire - 7 £122,773 - 7
South East +98 4 £75,000 -26.83% 169
East of England +42 3 £40,000 -66.67% 10
South West +120 2 - - 9
Midlands - 2 - - 10
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 (2.13%) GemFire
2 5 (1.77%) Apache
2 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.06%) nginx
3 3 (1.06%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 57 (20.21%) AWS
2 27 (9.57%) GCP
3 20 (7.09%) Azure
4 18 (6.38%) Pulumi
5 12 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (3.19%) SaaS
7 7 (2.48%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.48%) Serverless
8 6 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.13%) Datadog
9 5 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.42%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (0.71%) GitHub
11 2 (0.71%) PaaS
12 1 (0.35%) Azure API Management
12 1 (0.35%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.51%) TCP/IP
2 16 (5.67%) Multicast
3 9 (3.19%) BGP
3 9 (3.19%) VPN
4 8 (2.84%) EIGRP
4 8 (2.84%) Firewall
4 8 (2.84%) OSPF
5 7 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (2.13%) HSRP
6 6 (2.13%) IPsec
6 6 (2.13%) LAN
6 6 (2.13%) SNMP
6 6 (2.13%) VRRP
7 4 (1.42%) HTTP
7 4 (1.42%) WAN
8 3 (1.06%) DNS
8 3 (1.06%) Network Security
8 3 (1.06%) VLAN
9 2 (0.71%) Broadband
9 2 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.96%) MongoDB
2 13 (4.61%) NoSQL
3 11 (3.90%) Redis
4 10 (3.55%) MySQL
5 7 (2.48%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.13%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.13%) KDB
7 5 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.42%) Apache Ignite
8 4 (1.42%) InterSystems Cache
8 4 (1.42%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.42%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.42%) Tick Data
9 3 (1.06%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.71%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.35%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 15 (5.32%) GitLab
2 13 (4.61%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.26%) Git
4 9 (3.19%) JIRA
5 6 (2.13%) CircleCI
5 6 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (1.42%) Maven
7 3 (1.06%) Gradle
7 3 (1.06%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.35%) CMake
8 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.35%) JUnit
8 1 (0.35%) Selenium
8 1 (0.35%) Subversion
General
1 142 (50.35%) Finance
2 85 (30.14%) Banking
3 55 (19.50%) Front Office
4 38 (13.48%) Investment Banking
5 37 (13.12%) Social Skills
6 17 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.84%) Games
7 8 (2.84%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.42%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.06%) Law
10 2 (0.71%) Back Office
10 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.71%) Retail
11 1 (0.35%) Military
11 1 (0.35%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 158 (56.03%) Developer
2 87 (30.85%) C++ Developer
3 78 (27.66%) Senior
4 54 (19.15%) Low Latency C++ Developer
5 53 (18.79%) Senior Developer
6 45 (15.96%) Quantitative Developer
7 40 (14.18%) Software Engineer
8 39 (13.83%) Senior C++ Developer
9 38 (13.48%) Java Developer
10 36 (12.77%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 34 (12.06%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
11 34 (12.06%) Senior Quantitative Developer
12 33 (11.70%) Linux Developer
13 21 (7.45%) Front Office Developer
14 18 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
15 17 (6.03%) Lead
16 16 (5.67%) Electronic Trading Developer
16 16 (5.67%) Senior Software Engineer
17 15 (5.32%) Python Developer
18 14 (4.96%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.12%) Kafka
2 26 (9.22%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 19 (6.74%) .NET
4 16 (5.67%) FIX Protocol
5 14 (4.96%) RESTful
6 13 (4.61%) Node.js
6 13 (4.61%) React
7 11 (3.90%) Middleware
7 11 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (3.19%) pytest
9 8 (2.84%) gRPC
9 8 (2.84%) Spring
10 6 (2.13%) Express.js
10 6 (2.13%) web3js
11 5 (1.77%) HTML
12 4 (1.42%) CSS
12 4 (1.42%) Spring Boot
12 4 (1.42%) WebSockets
13 3 (1.06%) GraphQL
13 3 (1.06%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 54 (19.15%) Equities
2 53 (18.79%) Hedge funds
3 50 (17.73%) Algorithms
4 39 (13.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 33 (11.70%) Fixed Income
6 28 (9.93%) Data Structures
7 22 (7.80%) Derivative
7 22 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (7.80%) FPGA
8 20 (7.09%) Public Cloud
9 17 (6.03%) Cloud Native
10 16 (5.67%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (4.96%) Management Information System
12 10 (3.55%) Blockchain
13 8 (2.84%) Product Ownership
14 6 (2.13%) Web3
15 5 (1.77%) IPTV
16 4 (1.42%) Data Centre
16 4 (1.42%) Equity Derivative
16 4 (1.42%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 114 (40.43%) Linux
2 11 (3.90%) Unix
3 7 (2.48%) CentOS
4 4 (1.42%) Rocky
4 4 (1.42%) Windows
5 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.35%) Fedora
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (22.34%) Multithreading
2 60 (21.28%) CI/CD
3 56 (19.86%) Fintech
4 55 (19.50%) Software Engineering
5 42 (14.89%) Agile
6 37 (13.12%) Computer Science
7 36 (12.77%) DevOps
7 36 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (12.06%) Electronic Trading
9 30 (10.64%) Concurrent Programming
9 30 (10.64%) Microservices
10 29 (10.28%) Containerisation
10 29 (10.28%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (9.93%) OOP
12 27 (9.57%) Deployment Automation
13 26 (9.22%) Mathematics
14 24 (8.51%) Algorithmic Trading
14 24 (8.51%) Test Automation
15 23 (8.16%) Event-Driven
15 23 (8.16%) OO
Programming Languages
1 116 (41.13%) C++
2 97 (34.40%) Python
3 96 (34.04%) Java
4 41 (14.54%) C
5 27 (9.57%) C#
6 25 (8.87%) SQL
7 20 (7.09%) Go
8 19 (6.74%) JavaScript
9 18 (6.38%) Bicep
10 11 (3.90%) Ruby
11 10 (3.55%) Bash
12 9 (3.19%) TypeScript
13 7 (2.48%) Kotlin
14 6 (2.13%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.77%) Rust
16 4 (1.42%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.71%) Perl
17 2 (0.71%) PowerShell
18 1 (0.35%) PHP
18 1 (0.35%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 29 (10.28%) Degree
2 11 (3.90%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.13%) CCNA
4 6 (2.13%) CCNP
5 4 (1.42%) CCIE
5 4 (1.42%) CCSA
5 4 (1.42%) CCSE
5 4 (1.42%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.06%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.71%) PhD
8 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.16%) QA
2 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 60 (21.28%) Docker
2 5 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (20.92%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.35%) Terraform
3 28 (9.93%) Ansible
4 19 (6.74%) Puppet
5 18 (6.38%) Podman
5 18 (6.38%) Progress Chef
6 9 (3.19%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.48%) Grafana
7 7 (2.48%) Nagios
8 3 (1.06%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.35%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 13 (4.61%) Cisco
2 11 (3.90%) Arista
2 11 (3.90%) Oracle
2 11 (3.90%) Solace
2 11 (3.90%) SolarWinds
3 10 (3.55%) CheckPoint
4 8 (2.84%) Fortinet
4 8 (2.84%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.48%) Bloomberg
5 7 (2.48%) Refinitiv
5 7 (2.48%) Splunk
5 7 (2.48%) TIBCO
6 5 (1.77%) Meraki
6 5 (1.77%) VMware
7 4 (1.42%) Databricks
7 4 (1.42%) F5
7 4 (1.42%) Rapid7
8 3 (1.06%) Microsoft
9 2 (0.71%) Google
9 2 (0.71%) Juniper