Low Latency Jobs in London

Low Latency
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 262 166
Rank change year-on-year +79 -96 +132
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 245 270 692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.92% 1.12% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 1.24% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 133 222 609
10th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £74,850
25th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £88,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +17.07%
75th Percentile £152,500 £145,938 £150,000
90th Percentile £167,000 £165,000 £175,000
England median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.00%

All Process and 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 12,300 21,691 30,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.24% 90.27% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,989 15,892 22,392
10th Percentile £41,750 £37,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £55,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Low Latency as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in London

Low Latency
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Low Latency in London

Low Latency
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 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
Central London +29 42 £110,000 +19.24% 49
Low Latency
England

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.22%) nginx
1 3 (1.22%) Tomcat
2 2 (0.82%) GemFire
2 2 (0.82%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.41%) Apache
3 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 46 (18.78%) AWS
2 18 (7.35%) GCP
3 14 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 14 (5.71%) Azure
3 14 (5.71%) Pulumi
4 8 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (3.27%) Amazon S3
4 8 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (3.27%) Datadog
4 8 (3.27%) Serverless
5 5 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (1.63%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (0.41%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.41%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.41%) PaaS
7 1 (0.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.61%) TCP/IP
2 19 (7.76%) Multicast
3 11 (4.49%) BGP
4 9 (3.67%) VPN
5 7 (2.86%) EIGRP
5 7 (2.86%) Firewall
5 7 (2.86%) HSRP
5 7 (2.86%) IPsec
5 7 (2.86%) OSPF
5 7 (2.86%) SNMP
5 7 (2.86%) VRRP
6 6 (2.45%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (2.04%) WAN
8 4 (1.63%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (1.63%) IOS XR
8 4 (1.63%) NX-OS
9 3 (1.22%) DNS
9 3 (1.22%) VLAN
10 2 (0.82%) LAN
10 2 (0.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.49%) NoSQL
2 10 (4.08%) KDB
3 8 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (3.27%) DynamoDB
4 7 (2.86%) MySQL
5 4 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.63%) Kdb+
5 4 (1.63%) Redis
5 4 (1.63%) Tick Data
6 3 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.22%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.82%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Arrow
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.41%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.41%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (6.53%) GitLab
2 15 (6.12%) Git
2 15 (6.12%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.67%) JIRA
4 8 (3.27%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.82%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.41%) Gradle
6 1 (0.41%) JUnit
6 1 (0.41%) Maven
6 1 (0.41%) Mockito
General
1 135 (55.10%) Finance
2 92 (37.55%) Banking
3 60 (24.49%) Front Office
4 43 (17.55%) Investment Banking
5 32 (13.06%) Social Skills
6 12 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.67%) Law
8 8 (3.27%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.63%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.22%) Games
11 2 (0.82%) Back Office
11 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Retail
12 1 (0.41%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 150 (61.22%) Developer
2 87 (35.51%) C++ Developer
3 74 (30.20%) Senior
4 53 (21.63%) Low Latency C++ Developer
5 49 (20.00%) Senior Developer
6 44 (17.96%) Quantitative Developer
7 40 (16.33%) Senior C++ Developer
8 34 (13.88%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 34 (13.88%) Linux Developer
9 33 (13.47%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
9 33 (13.47%) Senior Quantitative Developer
9 33 (13.47%) Software Engineer
10 32 (13.06%) Java Developer
11 20 (8.16%) Front Office Developer
12 18 (7.35%) Lead
13 17 (6.94%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
13 17 (6.94%) Senior Software Engineer
14 16 (6.53%) Electronic Trading Developer
15 15 (6.12%) Linux Scripter
15 15 (6.12%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.61%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 26 (10.61%) Kafka
2 20 (8.16%) FIX Protocol
3 11 (4.49%) gRPC
4 10 (4.08%) RESTful
5 9 (3.67%) pytest
5 9 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (3.27%) Middleware
6 8 (3.27%) web3js
7 7 (2.86%) .NET
8 3 (1.22%) LEMP Stack
8 3 (1.22%) Node.js
8 3 (1.22%) React
8 3 (1.22%) Spring
9 2 (0.82%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.82%) Jinja
9 2 (0.82%) Pandas
9 2 (0.82%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.82%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 55 (22.45%) Equities
2 48 (19.59%) Hedge funds
3 45 (18.37%) Algorithms
4 39 (15.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 32 (13.06%) Fixed Income
6 24 (9.80%) Data Structures
7 21 (8.57%) FPGA
8 20 (8.16%) Derivative
9 17 (6.94%) Public Cloud
10 15 (6.12%) Cloud Native
10 15 (6.12%) Management Information System
11 13 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (5.31%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (3.27%) Blockchain
12 8 (3.27%) Web3
13 6 (2.45%) IPTV
14 5 (2.04%) Data Centre
15 4 (1.63%) Equity Derivative
15 4 (1.63%) IoT
16 3 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 109 (44.49%) Linux
2 13 (5.31%) Unix
3 7 (2.86%) CentOS
4 3 (1.22%) Rocky
5 2 (0.82%) Windows
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (26.12%) Multithreading
2 48 (19.59%) Fintech
2 48 (19.59%) Software Engineering
3 46 (18.78%) Agile
4 38 (15.51%) CI/CD
4 38 (15.51%) DevOps
5 35 (14.29%) Concurrent Programming
6 34 (13.88%) Electronic Trading
7 31 (12.65%) Computer Science
7 31 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (12.65%) Test Automation
8 29 (11.84%) Mathematics
9 27 (11.02%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (10.61%) Containerisation
11 25 (10.20%) Continuous Integration
11 25 (10.20%) OOP
11 25 (10.20%) Risk Management
12 24 (9.80%) Analytics
12 24 (9.80%) Deployment Automation
13 23 (9.39%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (47.35%) C++
2 96 (39.18%) Python
3 84 (34.29%) Java
4 39 (15.92%) C
5 23 (9.39%) Go
6 18 (7.35%) SQL
7 14 (5.71%) Bicep
7 14 (5.71%) C#
8 11 (4.49%) Bash
9 7 (2.86%) Ruby
10 6 (2.45%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.04%) Rust
11 5 (2.04%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.22%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.82%) Perl
13 2 (0.82%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (6.53%) Degree
2 13 (5.31%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (2.86%) CCNA
3 7 (2.86%) CCNP
4 6 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.22%) CCIE
5 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.82%) CCSA
6 2 (0.82%) CCSE
6 2 (0.82%) PhD
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.16%) QA
System Software
1 46 (18.78%) Docker
2 3 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (20.41%) Kubernetes
2 35 (14.29%) Terraform
3 27 (11.02%) Ansible
4 15 (6.12%) Puppet
5 14 (5.71%) Podman
5 14 (5.71%) Progress Chef
6 11 (4.49%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.86%) Grafana
7 7 (2.86%) Nagios
8 3 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.41%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 13 (5.31%) Arista
1 13 (5.31%) Cisco
2 10 (4.08%) SolarWinds
3 9 (3.67%) CheckPoint
4 8 (3.27%) Red Hat
4 8 (3.27%) Refinitiv
5 7 (2.86%) Bloomberg
5 7 (2.86%) Fortinet
5 7 (2.86%) Solace
5 7 (2.86%) Splunk
6 6 (2.45%) Meraki
7 4 (1.63%) Databricks
7 4 (1.63%) Rapid7
8 3 (1.22%) VMware
9 2 (0.82%) Alibaba
9 2 (0.82%) F5
9 2 (0.82%) Google
9 2 (0.82%) Microsoft
9 2 (0.82%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.41%) Ping Identity