Low Latency Jobs in the UK excluding London

Low Latency
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 528 726 526
Rank change year-on-year +198 -200 +177
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 51 36 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.048% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.058% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 26 28 120
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,938 £58,882
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +8.00% +15.75%
75th Percentile £110,938 £94,576 £85,000
90th Percentile £140,677 £120,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £110,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% +4.76% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in the UK excluding London

Low Latency
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Low Latency in the UK excluding London

Low Latency
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Low Latency in the UK excluding London

Low Latency
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
North of England +62 29 £85,000 - 54
North West +21 22 £65,000 -48.00% 46
South East +80 7 £65,000 -36.59% 18
Yorkshire - 7 £122,773 - 8
Scotland +106 5 £100,000 +53.85% 10
Northern Ireland +45 5 - - 9
Midlands - 3 - - 13
East of England +50 2 - - 13
West Midlands - 1 - - 12
Low Latency
UK

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 9 (17.65%) Apache
2 7 (13.73%) Apache Spark
3 4 (7.84%) GemFire
4 1 (1.96%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.65%) GCP
2 8 (15.69%) AWS
2 8 (15.69%) SaaS
3 5 (9.80%) Azure
4 4 (7.84%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (5.88%) Serverless
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.92%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.96%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) HTTP
2 3 (5.88%) DHCP
2 3 (5.88%) DNS
2 3 (5.88%) InfiniBand
3 2 (3.92%) Broadband
3 2 (3.92%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.96%) Firewall
4 1 (1.96%) VPN
4 1 (1.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.57%) MongoDB
2 8 (15.69%) Redis
3 7 (13.73%) SQL Server
4 6 (11.76%) NoSQL
5 5 (9.80%) Apache Hive
5 5 (9.80%) Big Data
6 4 (7.84%) Apache Ignite
6 4 (7.84%) Hadoop
6 4 (7.84%) InterSystems Cache
6 4 (7.84%) KDB
6 4 (7.84%) MySQL
6 4 (7.84%) RDBMS
6 4 (7.84%) Relational Database
7 3 (5.88%) Hazelcast
8 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.96%) CouchDB
9 1 (1.96%) HBase
9 1 (1.96%) Impala
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (7.84%) GitLab
3 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.92%) CircleCI
4 2 (3.92%) Git
5 1 (1.96%) CMake
5 1 (1.96%) Gradle
5 1 (1.96%) JIRA
5 1 (1.96%) Maven
General
1 26 (50.98%) Finance
2 12 (23.53%) Banking
3 9 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.80%) Games
5 4 (7.84%) Law
6 3 (5.88%) Front Office
7 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.92%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.96%) Automotive
8 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.96%) Military
8 1 (1.96%) Online Betting
8 1 (1.96%) Retail
8 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Developer
2 13 (25.49%) Senior
3 10 (19.61%) Software Engineer
4 9 (17.65%) Java Engineer
5 8 (15.69%) Lead
6 6 (11.76%) Java Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Lead Software Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Apache Spark Developer
7 5 (9.80%) Java Server Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Server Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) Architect
8 4 (7.84%) Senior Developer
9 3 (5.88%) .NET Developer
9 3 (5.88%) Technical Architect
10 2 (3.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 2 (3.92%) Head of IT
10 2 (3.92%) Ruby Developer
10 2 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (3.92%) Senior Technical Architect
10 2 (3.92%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (35.29%) Kafka
2 12 (23.53%) .NET
3 10 (19.61%) Node.js
3 10 (19.61%) React
4 9 (17.65%) Spring
5 8 (15.69%) Middleware
6 6 (11.76%) Express.js
6 6 (11.76%) RESTful
7 5 (9.80%) Spring Boot
8 4 (7.84%) CSS
8 4 (7.84%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (7.84%) Hibernate
8 4 (7.84%) HTML
8 4 (7.84%) J2EE
8 4 (7.84%) Java EE
8 4 (7.84%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (7.84%) Rendezvous
9 3 (5.88%) .NET Core
9 3 (5.88%) React Native
9 3 (5.88%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.49%) Product Ownership
2 9 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (13.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (11.76%) Cloud Native
5 5 (9.80%) Data Structures
6 4 (7.84%) Algorithms
6 4 (7.84%) Derivative
7 3 (5.88%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (5.88%) Equities
7 3 (5.88%) Fixed Income
8 2 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (3.92%) Media Streaming
8 2 (3.92%) Over-the-Top Content
8 2 (3.92%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (1.96%) Acoustics
9 1 (1.96%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (1.96%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (1.96%) Infotainment
9 1 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (31.37%) Linux
2 5 (9.80%) Unix
3 3 (5.88%) Windows
4 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.96%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 16 (31.37%) Software Engineering
3 15 (29.41%) Microservices
4 13 (25.49%) SDLC
5 12 (23.53%) Scrum
6 10 (19.61%) Multithreading
6 10 (19.61%) Roadmaps
6 10 (19.61%) Software Testing
7 9 (17.65%) Agile
7 9 (17.65%) Design Patterns
7 9 (17.65%) OO
7 9 (17.65%) OOP
8 8 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (15.69%) Electronic Trading
9 7 (13.73%) Containerisation
9 7 (13.73%) Mentoring
10 6 (11.76%) Architectural Patterns
10 6 (11.76%) Event-Driven
10 6 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (11.76%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 17 (33.33%) Java
2 15 (29.41%) SQL
3 13 (25.49%) C#
4 12 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 10 (19.61%) TypeScript
6 6 (11.76%) PL/SQL
7 5 (9.80%) Python
8 4 (7.84%) Bash
9 3 (5.88%) Ruby
10 2 (3.92%) C
10 2 (3.92%) C++
10 2 (3.92%) Perl
11 1 (1.96%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.96%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.96%) Rust
11 1 (1.96%) Scala
11 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) Degree
2 5 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.92%) LPIC
3 2 (3.92%) MCSE
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.92%) RHCE
4 1 (1.96%) CCNA
4 1 (1.96%) CCNP
4 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (23.53%) Docker
2 3 (5.88%) NFS
3 2 (3.92%) GPFS
3 2 (3.92%) Lustre
3 2 (3.92%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.96%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (21.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.88%) Terraform
3 2 (3.92%) Grafana
3 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (21.57%) Oracle
2 8 (15.69%) Solace
2 8 (15.69%) TIBCO
3 5 (9.80%) Sybase
4 4 (7.84%) Bloomberg
5 2 (3.92%) Ping Identity
5 2 (3.92%) VMware
6 1 (1.96%) Google
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.96%) QNX