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 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 191 267 173
Rank change year-on-year +76 -94 +143
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 239 274 718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.85% 1.16% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.27% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 134 230 616
10th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £74,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £86,563 £88,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £117,500 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% +17.07%
75th Percentile £150,000 £146,250 £150,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £165,250 £175,000
England median annual salary £112,500 £117,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year -4.26% +6.82% +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 12,437 21,544 32,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.18% 91.15% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,360 15,990 23,508
10th Percentile £42,464 £37,519 £43,411
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,830 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,555 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.30% -5.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £115,000
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 12 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 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
Central London +31 39 £107,500 -6.52% 40
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 5 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.26%) nginx
2 3 (1.26%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.84%) GemFire
4 1 (0.42%) Apache
4 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 45 (18.83%) AWS
2 20 (8.37%) GCP
3 18 (7.53%) Pulumi
4 14 (5.86%) Azure
5 12 (5.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (2.51%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.51%) Datadog
6 6 (2.51%) Serverless
7 5 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.67%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (0.42%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.42%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.42%) PaaS
9 1 (0.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.04%) TCP/IP
2 16 (6.69%) Multicast
3 7 (2.93%) BGP
3 7 (2.93%) VPN
4 6 (2.51%) EIGRP
4 6 (2.51%) Firewall
4 6 (2.51%) HSRP
4 6 (2.51%) IPsec
4 6 (2.51%) OSPF
4 6 (2.51%) SNMP
4 6 (2.51%) VRRP
5 5 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.67%) LAN
7 3 (1.26%) DNS
7 3 (1.26%) VLAN
8 2 (0.84%) WAN
9 1 (0.42%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.42%) IOS XR
9 1 (0.42%) Network Security
9 1 (0.42%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.18%) MySQL
2 8 (3.35%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.51%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.09%) KDB
5 4 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.67%) Tick Data
6 3 (1.26%) Redis
7 2 (0.84%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.84%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Arrow
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.42%) Big Data
8 1 (0.42%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.42%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.42%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 14 (5.86%) GitLab
2 11 (4.60%) Git
2 11 (4.60%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.77%) JIRA
4 6 (2.51%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.26%) Maven
5 3 (1.26%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.84%) Gradle
7 1 (0.42%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.42%) JUnit
7 1 (0.42%) Selenium
7 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 125 (52.30%) Finance
2 77 (32.22%) Banking
3 52 (21.76%) Front Office
4 38 (15.90%) Investment Banking
5 30 (12.55%) Social Skills
6 15 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.93%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.67%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.26%) Games
10 2 (0.84%) Back Office
10 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 148 (61.92%) Developer
2 87 (36.40%) C++ Developer
3 68 (28.45%) Senior
4 54 (22.59%) Low Latency C++ Developer
5 50 (20.92%) Senior Developer
6 45 (18.83%) Quantitative Developer
7 39 (16.32%) Senior C++ Developer
8 37 (15.48%) Java Developer
9 36 (15.06%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 34 (14.23%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
10 34 (14.23%) Senior Quantitative Developer
11 33 (13.81%) Linux Developer
12 31 (12.97%) Software Engineer
13 21 (8.79%) Front Office Developer
14 18 (7.53%) Platform Engineer
15 16 (6.69%) Electronic Trading Developer
16 15 (6.28%) Python Developer
17 14 (5.86%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
17 14 (5.86%) Senior Python Developer
17 14 (5.86%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.88%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 26 (10.88%) Kafka
2 15 (6.28%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (3.77%) pytest
4 8 (3.35%) gRPC
4 8 (3.35%) RESTful
5 7 (2.93%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (2.51%) Middleware
6 6 (2.51%) web3js
7 5 (2.09%) .NET
8 4 (1.67%) Spring
9 3 (1.26%) LEMP Stack
9 3 (1.26%) Node.js
9 3 (1.26%) React
9 3 (1.26%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.84%) ActiveMQ
10 2 (0.84%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.84%) WebSockets
10 2 (0.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (21.34%) Equities
2 49 (20.50%) Hedge funds
3 46 (19.25%) Algorithms
4 35 (14.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 30 (12.55%) Fixed Income
6 24 (10.04%) Data Structures
7 22 (9.21%) FPGA
8 20 (8.37%) Public Cloud
9 18 (7.53%) Derivative
10 14 (5.86%) Management Information System
11 13 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (4.60%) Cloud Native
12 11 (4.60%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (2.51%) Blockchain
13 6 (2.51%) Web3
14 5 (2.09%) IPTV
15 4 (1.67%) Equity Derivative
15 4 (1.67%) IoT
16 3 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
16 3 (1.26%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 108 (45.19%) Linux
2 7 (2.93%) CentOS
2 7 (2.93%) Unix
3 4 (1.67%) Rocky
4 2 (0.84%) Windows
5 1 (0.42%) Fedora
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (24.69%) Multithreading
2 54 (22.59%) Fintech
3 41 (17.15%) Software Engineering
4 38 (15.90%) CI/CD
5 37 (15.48%) Agile
6 35 (14.64%) DevOps
7 30 (12.55%) Concurrent Programming
8 29 (12.13%) Electronic Trading
8 29 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (11.72%) Computer Science
9 28 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (10.88%) Deployment Automation
10 26 (10.88%) Mathematics
11 24 (10.04%) OOP
12 23 (9.62%) Containerisation
12 23 (9.62%) Test Automation
13 21 (8.79%) Algorithmic Trading
13 21 (8.79%) Order Management
14 20 (8.37%) Continuous Integration
15 19 (7.95%) OO
Programming Languages
1 114 (47.70%) C++
2 96 (40.17%) Python
3 86 (35.98%) Java
4 39 (16.32%) C
5 20 (8.37%) Go
6 18 (7.53%) Bicep
7 17 (7.11%) SQL
8 12 (5.02%) C#
9 10 (4.18%) Bash
10 9 (3.77%) Ruby
11 7 (2.93%) JavaScript
11 7 (2.93%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.67%) Rust
12 4 (1.67%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.84%) Perl
13 2 (0.84%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.42%) PHP
14 1 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (7.95%) Degree
2 11 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (2.51%) CCNA
3 6 (2.51%) CCNP
3 6 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.67%) CCIE
4 4 (1.67%) CCSA
4 4 (1.67%) CCSE
5 3 (1.26%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.84%) PhD
7 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.21%) QA
System Software
1 50 (20.92%) Docker
2 3 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (21.76%) Kubernetes
2 31 (12.97%) Terraform
3 28 (11.72%) Ansible
4 19 (7.95%) Puppet
5 18 (7.53%) Podman
5 18 (7.53%) Progress Chef
6 9 (3.77%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.93%) Grafana
7 7 (2.93%) Nagios
8 3 (1.26%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.42%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 11 (4.60%) Arista
1 11 (4.60%) Cisco
2 10 (4.18%) CheckPoint
3 9 (3.77%) SolarWinds
4 8 (3.35%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.93%) Refinitiv
5 7 (2.93%) Splunk
6 6 (2.51%) Bloomberg
6 6 (2.51%) Fortinet
6 6 (2.51%) Solace
7 5 (2.09%) Meraki
8 4 (1.67%) Databricks
8 4 (1.67%) F5
8 4 (1.67%) Rapid7
9 3 (1.26%) VMware
10 2 (0.84%) Alibaba
10 2 (0.84%) Microsoft
10 2 (0.84%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.42%) FXall
11 1 (0.42%) Ping Identity