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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 209 209
Rank change year-on-year +41 0 +14
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 255 243 323
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.68% 1.62% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 1.70% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 177 152 288
10th Percentile £93,750 £68,750 £73,750
25th Percentile £98,750 £80,000 £89,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £111,250 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -7.29% +14.29%
75th Percentile £145,000 £140,000 £150,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £162,500 £180,000
England median annual salary £112,500 £103,750 £115,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -9.78% +13.58%

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 13,176 14,320 19,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.64% 95.29% 91.80%
Number of salaries quoted 8,493 7,757 15,719
10th Percentile £37,375 £43,250 £39,085
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,001 £52,524
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -12.00%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +39 48 £125,000 +21.95% 35
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 (1.96%) Apache Pulsar
1 5 (1.96%) Confluence
2 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) Luigi
Applications
1 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.96%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.39%) Endur
2 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 53 (20.78%) AWS
2 32 (12.55%) Azure
3 26 (10.20%) GCP
4 13 (5.10%) GitHub
5 11 (4.31%) Amazon S3
6 10 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (3.92%) Serverless
7 9 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (3.53%) Datadog
8 8 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (3.14%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.96%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.18%) SaaS
11 2 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.78%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.39%) Amazon ECR
12 1 (0.39%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 41 (16.08%) Multicast
2 22 (8.63%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.35%) LAN
4 4 (1.57%) VPN
5 3 (1.18%) BGP
5 3 (1.18%) Firewall
5 3 (1.18%) IGMP
5 3 (1.18%) OSPF
6 2 (0.78%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.78%) FIX Connectivity
6 2 (0.78%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.39%) Broadband
7 1 (0.39%) HSRP
7 1 (0.39%) Network Security
7 1 (0.39%) VRRP
7 1 (0.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.84%) NoSQL
2 14 (5.49%) DynamoDB
3 10 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (2.75%) Redis
6 5 (1.96%) Couchbase
7 4 (1.57%) KDB
8 3 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.78%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.78%) MySQL
9 2 (0.78%) Tick Data
10 1 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.39%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.39%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (6.67%) JIRA
2 14 (5.49%) Git
3 11 (4.31%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.92%) CircleCI
4 10 (3.92%) GitLab
5 3 (1.18%) Gradle
6 2 (0.78%) VisualVM
6 2 (0.78%) YourKit
7 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.39%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.39%) MLflow
7 1 (0.39%) Subversion
7 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.39%) WinDbg
General
1 131 (51.37%) Finance
2 92 (36.08%) Front Office
3 69 (27.06%) Banking
4 35 (13.73%) Social Skills
5 30 (11.76%) Investment Banking
6 19 (7.45%) Telecoms
7 17 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (4.31%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.57%) Spanish Language
11 3 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Games
12 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Back Office
13 1 (0.39%) French Language
13 1 (0.39%) Law
13 1 (0.39%) Legal
13 1 (0.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 131 (51.37%) Developer
2 88 (34.51%) Senior
3 55 (21.57%) C++ Developer
4 39 (15.29%) Software Engineer
5 37 (14.51%) Senior Developer
6 36 (14.12%) Low Latency C++ Developer
7 34 (13.33%) Linux Developer
8 27 (10.59%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 25 (9.80%) Quantitative Developer
9 25 (9.80%) React Developer
10 23 (9.02%) Java Developer
10 23 (9.02%) Senior C++ Developer
11 20 (7.84%) Senior Software Engineer
12 18 (7.06%) C++ Software Engineer
12 18 (7.06%) Lead
13 17 (6.67%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
13 17 (6.67%) Python Developer
13 17 (6.67%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
13 17 (6.67%) Senior Python Developer
13 17 (6.67%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (27.84%) FIX Protocol
2 51 (20.00%) Kafka
3 33 (12.94%) WebSockets
4 32 (12.55%) React
5 30 (11.76%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 29 (11.37%) RESTful
7 24 (9.41%) gRPC
8 21 (8.24%) Highcharts JS
8 21 (8.24%) OpenFin
9 13 (5.10%) RabbitMQ
9 13 (5.10%) REST
10 12 (4.71%) pytest
11 11 (4.31%) Spring
12 9 (3.53%) Java Concurrency
13 8 (3.14%) web3js
14 6 (2.35%) Spring Boot
15 5 (1.96%) .NET
15 5 (1.96%) Memcached
15 5 (1.96%) OAuth
15 5 (1.96%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 57 (22.35%) Equities
2 52 (20.39%) Algorithms
3 48 (18.82%) Fixed Income
4 46 (18.04%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (13.73%) Derivative
6 34 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 33 (12.94%) Cloud Native
8 27 (10.59%) Data Structures
9 26 (10.20%) Hedge funds
10 19 (7.45%) FPGA
11 17 (6.67%) Management Information System
12 10 (3.92%) Web3
13 9 (3.53%) AI Agents
14 8 (3.14%) Blockchain
14 8 (3.14%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (2.75%) Distributed Architecture
15 7 (2.75%) Onboarding
16 6 (2.35%) Virtual Team
17 5 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
18 4 (1.57%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 92 (36.08%) Linux
2 14 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (4.31%) Windows
4 9 (3.53%) Android
5 2 (0.78%) Unix
6 1 (0.39%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (24.71%) Electronic Trading
2 60 (23.53%) Agile
3 58 (22.75%) Software Engineering
4 56 (21.96%) Computer Science
5 55 (21.57%) Containerisation
6 47 (18.43%) Microservices
7 45 (17.65%) Analytics
8 42 (16.47%) Performance Tuning
9 41 (16.08%) CI/CD
9 41 (16.08%) Performance Optimisation
10 37 (14.51%) Test Automation
11 36 (14.12%) AI
12 34 (13.33%) OOP
13 32 (12.55%) DevOps
14 31 (12.16%) Algorithmic Trading
14 31 (12.16%) Event-Driven
14 31 (12.16%) Machine Learning
14 31 (12.16%) Multithreading
15 30 (11.76%) Concurrent Programming
15 30 (11.76%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 95 (37.25%) C++
2 91 (35.69%) Java
3 61 (23.92%) Python
4 31 (12.16%) Go
5 24 (9.41%) JavaScript
6 19 (7.45%) C
6 19 (7.45%) Rust
7 16 (6.27%) C#
7 16 (6.27%) SQL
8 8 (3.14%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.75%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.75%) Scala
10 2 (0.78%) Bash
11 1 (0.39%) Korn
11 1 (0.39%) Perl
11 1 (0.39%) PHP
11 1 (0.39%) PromQL
11 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (19.61%) Degree
2 32 (12.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.10%) Master's Degree
4 10 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (3.53%) CCNP
6 8 (3.14%) CCIE
7 6 (2.35%) CCSA
7 6 (2.35%) CCSE
7 6 (2.35%) PhD
8 2 (0.78%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.78%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.39%) CCA
9 1 (0.39%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.67%) QA
2 3 (1.18%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.18%) MiFID
3 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (13.33%) Docker
2 3 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.39%) Xen
Systems Management
1 34 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.10%) Terraform
3 10 (3.92%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.57%) Nagios
5 3 (1.18%) Ansible
6 2 (0.78%) Grafana
6 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.39%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.39%) Puppet
7 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (5.49%) Red Hat
2 10 (3.92%) Cisco
3 7 (2.75%) Arista
4 6 (2.35%) CheckPoint
5 5 (1.96%) Bloomberg
5 5 (1.96%) Ericsson
5 5 (1.96%) F5
5 5 (1.96%) Mavenir
5 5 (1.96%) Nokia
5 5 (1.96%) Solace
6 4 (1.57%) CQG
6 4 (1.57%) ION Trading
6 4 (1.57%) Oracle
6 4 (1.57%) Patsystems
6 4 (1.57%) Reuters
6 4 (1.57%) Trayport
7 3 (1.18%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.18%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.18%) Splunk
7 3 (1.18%) VMware