SIMD Job Trends in London

Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SIMD in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited SIMD over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SIMD 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.010% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.028% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £137,250 - -
25th Percentile £140,625 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £152,500 - -
75th Percentile £165,625 - -
90th Percentile £169,750 - -
England median annual salary £152,500 - £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

All Generic Skills
London

SIMD falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,103 5,315 9,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.05% 44.53% 40.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,325 2,995 6,781
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,450 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,125 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -0.84%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £136,250 £130,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

SIMD
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SIMD job vacancy trend in London

SIMD
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SIMD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SIMD

SIMD
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Rust Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Rust Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) DPDK
1 2 (100.00%) eBPF
1 2 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Rust
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus