Ultra-Low Latency Jobs in England

Ultra-Low Latency
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Ultra-Low Latency skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ultra-Low Latency over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 670 817 896
Rank change year-on-year +147 +79 +217
Permanent jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency 21 23 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.043% 0.027% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.031% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 12 20 15
10th Percentile £94,250 £74,125 £102,000
25th Percentile £105,313 £93,750 £105,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £156,250 £142,500 £165,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.65% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £190,000 £146,250 £232,500
90th Percentile - £191,250 -
UK median annual salary £156,250 £142,500 £165,000
% change year-on-year +9.65% -13.64% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Ultra-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 45,933 73,419 85,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.08% 85.47% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 24,038 53,988 50,920
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,308
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%

Ultra-Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Ultra-Low Latency in England

Ultra-Low Latency
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Ultra-Low Latency in England

Ultra-Low Latency
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Ultra-Low Latency in England

Ultra-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 Ultra-Low Latency within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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 +107 16 £145,000 +1.75% 56
East of England - 1 £40,000 - 3
Ultra-Low Latency
UK

Ultra-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 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (19.05%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) LAN
2 1 (4.76%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Tick Data
2 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.52%) Redis
General
1 12 (57.14%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Banking
3 4 (19.05%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) Front Office
5 1 (4.76%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) C++ Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Deployment Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Network Deployment Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Network Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
4 3 (14.29%) Java Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) QA Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Java Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) C++ Quantitative Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Graduate
6 1 (4.76%) Graduate Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Quantitative Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior C++ Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (9.52%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 2 (9.52%) gRPC
2 2 (9.52%) Kafka
2 2 (9.52%) WebSockets
3 1 (4.76%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Hedge funds
2 6 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (19.05%) Blockchain
3 4 (19.05%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
4 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
4 2 (9.52%) Derivative
4 2 (9.52%) Equities
4 2 (9.52%) FPGA
5 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 10 (47.62%) Computer Science
3 7 (33.33%) Concurrent Programming
3 7 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 7 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 5 (23.81%) Algorithmic Trading
4 5 (23.81%) Investment Management
4 5 (23.81%) Market Making
4 5 (23.81%) Mathematics
5 4 (19.05%) Backtesting
5 4 (19.05%) Change Control
5 4 (19.05%) Change Management
5 4 (19.05%) Client Onboarding
5 4 (19.05%) Cryptocurrency
5 4 (19.05%) Data Management
5 4 (19.05%) Load Balancing
5 4 (19.05%) Memory Management
5 4 (19.05%) Physics
5 4 (19.05%) Systematic Trading
5 4 (19.05%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) C++
2 8 (38.10%) Java
3 6 (28.57%) Python
4 2 (9.52%) Rust
5 1 (4.76%) Bash
5 1 (4.76%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (19.05%) CCIE
2 4 (19.05%) CCNP
2 4 (19.05%) CCSA
2 4 (19.05%) CCSE
2 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Arista
1 4 (19.05%) CheckPoint
1 4 (19.05%) Cisco
1 4 (19.05%) F5
2 1 (4.76%) Bloomberg
2 1 (4.76%) Reuters