Low Latency Job Trends in the North West

Low Latency
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Low Latency skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 187 176
Rank change year-on-year +15 -11 +121
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 11 22 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.18% 0.42% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.47% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 11 20 10
10th Percentile £51,250 - £46,350
25th Percentile £54,375 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £83,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.36% +39.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £102,500 - £70,000
England median annual salary £112,500 £100,000 £117,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.89% +17.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,122 4,712 3,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.27% 90.23% 89.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,464 2,332 2,655
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Low Latency job vacancy trend in the North West

Low Latency
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Low Latency.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Low Latency

Low Latency
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in the North West over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Low Latency in the North West

Low Latency
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Low Latency within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Manchester +18 11 £60,000 -28.36% 51
Low Latency
England

Low Latency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (18.18%) Dagster
1 2 (18.18%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) MongoDB
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (9.09%) Redis
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
1 7 (63.64%) Senior
2 6 (54.55%) .NET Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior .NET Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Architect
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Python Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Python Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Technical Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (9.09%) Games Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) .NET
2 5 (45.45%) .NET Core
2 5 (45.45%) Akka
2 5 (45.45%) Akka.NET
2 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) React
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) WebSockets
3 1 (9.09%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Client/Server
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Microservices
3 6 (54.55%) Clean Code
3 6 (54.55%) Performance Optimisation
3 6 (54.55%) Scrum
4 5 (45.45%) API Testing
4 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
4 5 (45.45%) End-to-End Testing
4 5 (45.45%) Functional Testing
4 5 (45.45%) Unit Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Data Munging
5 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) ETL
5 2 (18.18%) High Availability
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (18.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) Erlang
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker