Low Latency Jobs in England

Low Latency
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Low Latency skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Low Latency over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 339 459
Rank change year-on-year -222 +120 -46
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 288 847 1,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.95% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.99% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 239 674 536
10th Percentile £70,000 £65,750 £56,219
25th Percentile £82,500 £84,063 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £146,250 £150,000 £128,125
90th Percentile £165,000 £169,250 £146,875
UK median annual salary £110,000 £101,250 £100,000
% change year-on-year +8.64% +1.25% +12.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Low Latency is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,224 85,386 129,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.41% 95.61% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 53,820 50,634 73,490
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,095
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,410 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024. 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 -87 273 £117,500 -2.08% 123
North of England -44 6 £85,000 +66.72% 2
South East -1 5 £102,500 +46.43% 7
North West -7 4 £95,250 +86.82% 2
North East - 2 £85,000 -
East of England +4 1 £120,000 +140.00% 4
South West -34 1 £110,000 +59.83% 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 7 (2.43%) Apache
2 4 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.39%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.35%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 100 (34.72%) AWS
2 27 (9.38%) Azure
3 8 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (2.78%) Serverless
4 6 (2.08%) GCP
5 5 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (1.39%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.39%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (1.39%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.39%) SaaS
7 2 (0.69%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (0.69%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.69%) Kong
8 1 (0.35%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.35%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.60%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.43%) Firewall
3 5 (1.74%) DHCP
3 5 (1.74%) DNS
3 5 (1.74%) VPN
4 4 (1.39%) Network Security
5 3 (1.04%) BGP
5 3 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (1.04%) Multicast
5 3 (1.04%) OSPF
5 3 (1.04%) WAN
6 1 (0.35%) HSRP
6 1 (0.35%) IGMP
6 1 (0.35%) LAN
6 1 (0.35%) SNMP
6 1 (0.35%) VRRP
6 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 15 (5.21%) MySQL
3 10 (3.47%) Redis
3 10 (3.47%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.74%) Flink
5 5 (1.74%) Tableau
6 4 (1.39%) Power BI
7 3 (1.04%) Big Data
7 3 (1.04%) Event Store
8 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.69%) Tick Data
9 1 (0.35%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.35%) KDB
9 1 (0.35%) Looker
9 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (5.56%) Git
2 15 (5.21%) GitLab
3 14 (4.86%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.69%) JIRA
4 2 (0.69%) JUnit
5 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.35%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.35%) GCC
5 1 (0.35%) GDB
5 1 (0.35%) Mockito
5 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 124 (43.06%) Finance
2 80 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 69 (23.96%) Front Office
4 51 (17.71%) Banking
5 42 (14.58%) Investment Banking
6 25 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.17%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.78%) Games
9 6 (2.08%) Retail
10 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.69%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.35%) Back Office
12 1 (0.35%) Marketing
12 1 (0.35%) Military
12 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 199 (69.10%) Developer
2 113 (39.24%) Java Developer
3 75 (26.04%) Senior
4 52 (18.06%) Senior Developer
5 39 (13.54%) C++ Developer
6 36 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
7 33 (11.46%) Lead
8 32 (11.11%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 30 (10.42%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 27 (9.38%) Software Engineer
11 25 (8.68%) Lead Developer
12 21 (7.29%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 21 (7.29%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 18 (6.25%) Python Engineer
14 17 (5.90%) .NET Developer
15 14 (4.86%) C# Developer
16 13 (4.51%) Quantitative Developer
17 12 (4.17%) C++/Java Developer
17 12 (4.17%) Front Office Developer
18 11 (3.82%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 30 (10.42%) .NET
3 29 (10.07%) Kafka
4 21 (7.29%) Spring
5 14 (4.86%) .NET Core
5 14 (4.86%) React
6 13 (4.51%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (3.13%) Hibernate
7 9 (3.13%) Node.js
8 8 (2.78%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.43%) RESTful
10 6 (2.08%) Middleware
11 5 (1.74%) LDAP
11 5 (1.74%) Rendezvous
12 4 (1.39%) CSS
12 4 (1.39%) HTML
12 4 (1.39%) Vue
12 4 (1.39%) ZeroMQ
13 3 (1.04%) FastAPI
13 3 (1.04%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 58 (20.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 42 (14.58%) Hedge funds
3 34 (11.81%) Equities
4 32 (11.11%) Client/Server
5 31 (10.76%) FPGA
6 21 (7.29%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (6.94%) Fixed Income
8 19 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (4.86%) Algorithms
10 9 (3.13%) Data Structures
11 6 (2.08%) Sports Betting
12 4 (1.39%) Virtual Team
13 3 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (1.04%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.04%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.04%) Product Ownership
14 2 (0.69%) ASIC
14 2 (0.69%) Verilog
14 2 (0.69%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 60 (20.83%) Linux
2 15 (5.21%) Unix
3 12 (4.17%) Windows
4 5 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) CentOS
5 1 (0.35%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (34.72%) Multithreading
2 79 (27.43%) Computer Science
3 62 (21.53%) Software Engineering
4 61 (21.18%) Electronic Trading
5 59 (20.49%) Agile
5 59 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (15.97%) Microservices
7 45 (15.63%) Fintech
8 39 (13.54%) Mathematics
9 35 (12.15%) High-Frequency Trading
10 29 (10.07%) Algorithmic Trading
11 27 (9.38%) SDLC
12 25 (8.68%) DevOps
13 24 (8.33%) TDD
14 23 (7.99%) Concurrent Programming
14 23 (7.99%) Full Stack Development
14 23 (7.99%) Ultra-Low Latency
15 22 (7.64%) CI/CD
16 19 (6.60%) Test Automation
17 16 (5.56%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 169 (58.68%) Java
2 68 (23.61%) C++
2 68 (23.61%) Python
3 62 (21.53%) C#
4 35 (12.15%) SQL
5 31 (10.76%) C
6 27 (9.38%) Rust
7 15 (5.21%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.17%) Perl
9 9 (3.13%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.74%) Bash
10 5 (1.74%) Go
11 4 (1.39%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.39%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.39%) VBA
12 3 (1.04%) F#
13 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (18.06%) Degree
2 17 (5.90%) Master's Degree
3 16 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.43%) PhD
5 4 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.69%) CCIE
6 2 (0.69%) ISEB
6 2 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.35%) CCNP
7 1 (0.35%) CISSP
7 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.35%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.08%) QA
2 2 (0.69%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 43 (14.93%) Docker
2 4 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 64 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.51%) Ansible
3 7 (2.43%) Terraform
4 6 (2.08%) Puppet
5 3 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.69%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.35%) Grafana
7 1 (0.35%) Nmap
7 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 17 (5.90%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.43%) Cisco
3 6 (2.08%) Red Hat
3 6 (2.08%) Solace
4 5 (1.74%) Google
4 5 (1.74%) TIBCO
5 4 (1.39%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.04%) ION Trading
6 3 (1.04%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.69%) Juniper
7 2 (0.69%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.69%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.35%) Arista
8 1 (0.35%) Databricks
8 1 (0.35%) F5
8 1 (0.35%) IBM
8 1 (0.35%) NetApp
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle
8 1 (0.35%) Workday