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 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 534 708 503
Rank change year-on-year +174 -205 +198
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 52 40 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.056% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.067% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 31 32 146
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,875 £58,125 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% +4.40% +15.75%
75th Percentile £105,875 £91,934 £85,000
90th Percentile £140,677 £118,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £110,000 £112,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -2.22% +12.50% -

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 36,419 59,619 57,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.92% 83.98% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,159 41,251 29,495
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,716 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,100 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 12 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 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
North of England +83 27 £85,000 - 35
North West +18 20 £65,000 -31.76% 29
Scotland +95 7 £75,659 +16.40% 10
Northern Ireland +43 7 £90,000 -14.29% 4
Yorkshire - 7 £122,773 - 6
South East +96 4 £75,000 -26.83% 167
East of England +48 3 £40,000 -66.67% 10
South West +107 2 - - 7
Midlands - 2 - - 11
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 (17.31%) Apache
2 7 (13.46%) Apache Spark
3 4 (7.69%) GemFire
4 1 (1.92%) Confluence
4 1 (1.92%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 11 (21.15%) AWS
2 9 (17.31%) GCP
3 8 (15.38%) SaaS
4 7 (13.46%) Azure
5 6 (11.54%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (5.77%) Serverless
7 2 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.85%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.92%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.92%) GitHub
8 1 (1.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) HTTP
2 2 (3.85%) BGP
2 2 (3.85%) Broadband
2 2 (3.85%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (3.85%) EIGRP
2 2 (3.85%) Firewall
2 2 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (3.85%) LAN
2 2 (3.85%) MPLS
2 2 (3.85%) Network Security
2 2 (3.85%) OSPF
2 2 (3.85%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (3.85%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.85%) VPN
2 2 (3.85%) WAN
2 2 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 9 (17.31%) SQL Server
3 8 (15.38%) Redis
4 7 (13.46%) NoSQL
5 6 (11.54%) Big Data
6 5 (9.62%) Apache Hive
6 5 (9.62%) Relational Database
7 4 (7.69%) Apache Ignite
7 4 (7.69%) Hadoop
7 4 (7.69%) InterSystems Cache
7 4 (7.69%) MySQL
7 4 (7.69%) RDBMS
8 3 (5.77%) Hazelcast
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.92%) CouchDB
10 1 (1.92%) HBase
10 1 (1.92%) Impala
10 1 (1.92%) KDB
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.77%) Git
3 3 (5.77%) GitLab
4 2 (3.85%) CircleCI
4 2 (3.85%) JIRA
5 1 (1.92%) CMake
5 1 (1.92%) Gradle
5 1 (1.92%) Maven
5 1 (1.92%) Selenium
General
1 27 (51.92%) Finance
2 15 (28.85%) Banking
3 7 (13.46%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.62%) Games
5 4 (7.69%) Law
6 3 (5.77%) Front Office
7 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.85%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.92%) Military
8 1 (1.92%) Online Betting
8 1 (1.92%) Retail
8 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) Developer
2 14 (26.92%) Software Engineer
3 11 (21.15%) Senior
4 8 (15.38%) Lead
5 6 (11.54%) Java Developer
5 6 (11.54%) Java Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Lead Software Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) .NET Developer
6 5 (9.62%) Apache Spark Developer
6 5 (9.62%) Java Server Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Server Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.85%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.85%) C++ Software Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Engineering Manager
8 2 (3.85%) Graduate
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Manager
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (36.54%) Kafka
2 14 (26.92%) .NET
3 10 (19.23%) Node.js
3 10 (19.23%) React
3 10 (19.23%) Spring
4 6 (11.54%) Express.js
4 6 (11.54%) Spring Boot
5 5 (9.62%) Middleware
5 5 (9.62%) RESTful
6 4 (7.69%) CSS
6 4 (7.69%) Hibernate
6 4 (7.69%) HTML
6 4 (7.69%) J2EE
6 4 (7.69%) Java EE
6 4 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (5.77%) .NET Core
7 3 (5.77%) React Native
8 2 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (3.85%) JSON
8 2 (3.85%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 9 (17.31%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (11.54%) Cloud Native
3 6 (11.54%) Data Structures
3 6 (11.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (9.62%) Algorithms
5 4 (7.69%) Derivative
5 4 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (5.77%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (5.77%) Equities
6 3 (5.77%) Fixed Income
7 2 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (3.85%) Data Centre
7 2 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (3.85%) Media Streaming
7 2 (3.85%) Over-the-Top Content
7 2 (3.85%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (1.92%) Acoustics
8 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (26.92%) Linux
2 7 (13.46%) Unix
3 2 (3.85%) Windows
3 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 20 (38.46%) Microservices
2 20 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 14 (26.92%) Scrum
4 12 (23.08%) Multithreading
4 12 (23.08%) Roadmaps
5 10 (19.23%) Agile
5 10 (19.23%) Mentoring
5 10 (19.23%) SDLC
5 10 (19.23%) Software Testing
6 9 (17.31%) Containerisation
6 9 (17.31%) Design Patterns
6 9 (17.31%) OO
6 9 (17.31%) OOP
7 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (13.46%) Clean Code
8 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (11.54%) Architectural Patterns
9 6 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (11.54%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 16 (30.77%) Java
1 16 (30.77%) SQL
2 15 (28.85%) C#
3 12 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 9 (17.31%) TypeScript
5 6 (11.54%) PL/SQL
6 4 (7.69%) C++
7 2 (3.85%) Bash
7 2 (3.85%) C
7 2 (3.85%) Python
7 2 (3.85%) Ruby
8 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.92%) Rust
8 1 (1.92%) Scala
8 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) Degree
2 5 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 13 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.77%) Terraform
3 2 (3.85%) Grafana
3 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) Oracle
2 5 (9.62%) Solace
2 5 (9.62%) Sybase
2 5 (9.62%) TIBCO
3 2 (3.85%) Cisco
3 2 (3.85%) Fortinet
3 2 (3.85%) Juniper
3 2 (3.85%) Palo Alto
3 2 (3.85%) Ping Identity
3 2 (3.85%) SolarWinds
3 2 (3.85%) VMware
4 1 (1.92%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.92%) Google
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft