Low Latency Job Trends in London

Low Latency
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Low Latency skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 218 186
Rank change year-on-year +68 -32 +41
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 261 228 326
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.83% 1.47% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 1.55% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 178 143 284
10th Percentile £96,375 £68,750 £72,875
25th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £122,500 £105,000 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -12.50% +17.07%
75th Percentile £145,000 £138,750 £150,000
90th Percentile £167,000 £162,500 £196,250
England median annual salary £112,500 £101,250 £117,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -13.83% +17.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,468 14,690 17,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.42% 94.68% 92.24%
Number of salaries quoted 7,944 8,039 14,063
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,245 £40,702
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,357 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in London

Low Latency
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Low Latency.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Low Latency

Low Latency
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in London over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Low Latency in London

Low Latency
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Low Latency within the London region over the 6 months to 18 January 2026. 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
Central London +50 46 £127,500 +27.50% 41
Low Latency
England

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 5 (1.92%) Apache Pulsar
1 5 (1.92%) Confluence
2 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.38%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.68%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.38%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 53 (20.31%) AWS
2 33 (12.64%) Azure
3 27 (10.34%) GCP
4 10 (3.83%) GitHub
5 7 (2.68%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (2.30%) Datadog
6 6 (2.30%) Serverless
7 5 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.77%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.38%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (0.38%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.38%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.38%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (16.09%) Multicast
2 24 (9.20%) TCP/IP
3 12 (4.60%) LAN
4 5 (1.92%) VPN
4 5 (1.92%) WAN
5 4 (1.53%) BGP
5 4 (1.53%) IGMP
5 4 (1.53%) OSPF
6 3 (1.15%) DNS
6 3 (1.15%) Firewall
6 3 (1.15%) Network Security
6 3 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.15%) Wireless
7 2 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.77%) FIX Connectivity
7 2 (0.77%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.38%) Broadband
8 1 (0.38%) HSRP
8 1 (0.38%) VRRP
8 1 (0.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.75%) NoSQL
2 10 (3.83%) DynamoDB
2 10 (3.83%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.30%) KDB
3 6 (2.30%) Redis
4 5 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.92%) Couchbase
5 3 (1.15%) Tick Data
6 2 (0.77%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.38%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.38%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.38%) MySQL
7 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (6.51%) JIRA
2 10 (3.83%) Git
3 9 (3.45%) GitLab
4 7 (2.68%) CircleCI
4 7 (2.68%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.77%) Gradle
5 2 (0.77%) VisualVM
5 2 (0.77%) YourKit
6 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.38%) MLflow
General
1 133 (50.96%) Finance
2 91 (34.87%) Front Office
3 67 (25.67%) Banking
4 43 (16.48%) Social Skills
5 30 (11.49%) Investment Banking
6 19 (7.28%) Telecoms
7 17 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (3.45%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.53%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.77%) Games
12 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.38%) French Language
Job Titles
1 131 (50.19%) Developer
2 85 (32.57%) Senior
3 55 (21.07%) C++ Developer
4 39 (14.94%) Software Engineer
5 38 (14.56%) Low Latency C++ Developer
6 36 (13.79%) Linux Developer
7 30 (11.49%) Quantitative Developer
7 30 (11.49%) Senior Developer
8 27 (10.34%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 26 (9.96%) Java Developer
10 23 (8.81%) React Developer
11 20 (7.66%) Senior C++ Developer
11 20 (7.66%) Senior Software Engineer
12 18 (6.90%) C++ Software Engineer
12 18 (6.90%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
12 18 (6.90%) Linux Scripter
12 18 (6.90%) Python Developer
12 18 (6.90%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
12 18 (6.90%) Senior Python Developer
12 18 (6.90%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (26.82%) FIX Protocol
2 48 (18.39%) Kafka
3 31 (11.88%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 31 (11.88%) WebSockets
4 28 (10.73%) React
5 26 (9.96%) RESTful
6 21 (8.05%) gRPC
6 21 (8.05%) Highcharts JS
6 21 (8.05%) OpenFin
7 13 (4.98%) REST
8 12 (4.60%) pytest
9 11 (4.21%) Spring
10 10 (3.83%) Java Concurrency
11 9 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (2.30%) Spring Boot
13 5 (1.92%) .NET
13 5 (1.92%) Memcached
13 5 (1.92%) OAuth
13 5 (1.92%) OAuth2
13 5 (1.92%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 65 (24.90%) Equities
2 63 (24.14%) Algorithms
3 51 (19.54%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (18.01%) Fixed Income
5 36 (13.79%) Derivative
6 32 (12.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 30 (11.49%) Hedge funds
8 29 (11.11%) Cloud Native
8 29 (11.11%) Data Structures
9 20 (7.66%) FPGA
10 18 (6.90%) Management Information System
11 9 (3.45%) AI Agents
12 8 (3.07%) Blockchain
12 8 (3.07%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (3.07%) Virtual Team
12 8 (3.07%) Web3
13 7 (2.68%) Distributed Architecture
13 7 (2.68%) Onboarding
14 6 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (1.92%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 94 (36.02%) Linux
2 16 (6.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (3.45%) Android
4 6 (2.30%) Windows
5 2 (0.77%) Unix
6 1 (0.38%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (25.67%) Electronic Trading
2 61 (23.37%) Computer Science
3 56 (21.46%) Agile
4 55 (21.07%) Containerisation
4 55 (21.07%) Software Engineering
5 44 (16.86%) Microservices
5 44 (16.86%) Performance Tuning
6 42 (16.09%) Analytics
7 39 (14.94%) Algorithmic Trading
8 37 (14.18%) AI
9 35 (13.41%) CI/CD
9 35 (13.41%) Machine Learning
9 35 (13.41%) OOP
10 34 (13.03%) Performance Optimisation
10 34 (13.03%) Ultra-Low Latency
11 33 (12.64%) DevOps
12 32 (12.26%) Mathematics
13 30 (11.49%) Concurrent Programming
13 30 (11.49%) Event-Driven
13 30 (11.49%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 96 (36.78%) Java
2 93 (35.63%) C++
3 63 (24.14%) Python
4 28 (10.73%) Go
5 22 (8.43%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.66%) C
7 15 (5.75%) Rust
8 12 (4.60%) C#
9 9 (3.45%) SQL
10 7 (2.68%) Kotlin
10 7 (2.68%) Scala
11 5 (1.92%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.15%) Bash
13 1 (0.38%) Korn
13 1 (0.38%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 55 (21.07%) Degree
2 32 (12.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (6.51%) Master's Degree
4 16 (6.13%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (5.75%) CCNP
6 12 (4.60%) PhD
7 10 (3.83%) CCIE
8 8 (3.07%) CCSA
8 8 (3.07%) CCSE
9 1 (0.38%) CCA
9 1 (0.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.51%) QA
2 3 (1.15%) MiFID
3 2 (0.77%) Data Quality
System Software
1 31 (11.88%) Docker
2 4 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (11.88%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.60%) Terraform
3 8 (3.07%) Ansible
3 8 (3.07%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.53%) Nagios
5 3 (1.15%) Grafana
6 2 (0.77%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.38%) Kibana
7 1 (0.38%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.38%) Puppet
7 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (6.13%) Cisco
2 14 (5.36%) Red Hat
3 10 (3.83%) Arista
4 8 (3.07%) CheckPoint
5 7 (2.68%) F5
6 5 (1.92%) Ericsson
6 5 (1.92%) Mavenir
6 5 (1.92%) Nokia
7 4 (1.53%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.53%) CQG
7 4 (1.53%) ION Trading
7 4 (1.53%) Oracle
7 4 (1.53%) Patsystems
7 4 (1.53%) Reuters
7 4 (1.53%) Splunk
7 4 (1.53%) Trayport
7 4 (1.53%) VMware
8 3 (1.15%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.15%) Solarflare
8 3 (1.15%) SolarWinds