Concurrent Programming Job Trends

Concurrent Programming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Concurrent Programming skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 648 587 765
Rank change year-on-year -61 +178 +67
Permanent jobs citing Concurrent Programming 49 55 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.064% 0.13% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.082% 0.14% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 34 45 63
10th Percentile £65,125 £78,750 £52,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £116,500 £105,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £140,000 £161,250 £150,000
90th Percentile £141,750 £165,000 £155,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £90,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -31.11% +44.00% -19.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Concurrent Programming 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,591 38,445 75,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.47% 93.42% 86.89%
Number of salaries quoted 36,208 22,191 57,021
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

Concurrent Programming
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Concurrent Programming relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Concurrent Programming job vacancy trend in the UK

Concurrent Programming
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Concurrent Programming.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Concurrent Programming

Concurrent Programming
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Concurrent Programming over the 6 months to 25 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Concurrent Programming in the UK

Concurrent Programming
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Concurrent Programming within the UK over the 6 months to 25 March 2026. 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
England -52 47 £123,000 +17.14% 28
London -17 36 £125,000 +17.65% 16
Work from Home +7 15 £86,250 -13.75% 10
UK excluding London -55 10 £62,000 -31.11% 11
South West -38 5 £50,000 -41.35%
South East - 4 £65,000 - 6
North West -25 1 £59,000 - 1
North of England -51 1 £59,000 - 2

Concurrent Programming
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 8 (16.33%) AWS
2 6 (12.24%) Azure
3 2 (4.08%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (4.08%) GCP
3 2 (4.08%) GitHub
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.49%) Multicast
2 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.04%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.20%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.04%) KDB
4 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Gradle
2 1 (2.04%) GDB
2 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.04%) VisualVM
2 1 (2.04%) WinDbg
2 1 (2.04%) YourKit
General
1 35 (71.43%) Finance
2 24 (48.98%) Front Office
3 12 (24.49%) Financial Institution
4 5 (10.20%) Aerospace
5 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.16%) Social Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Automotive
7 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (63.27%) Developer
2 13 (26.53%) C++ Developer
3 12 (24.49%) Software Engineer
4 11 (22.45%) Senior
5 8 (16.33%) Java Developer
6 7 (14.29%) Java Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) C++ Software Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Senior Developer
8 4 (8.16%) C# Developer
8 4 (8.16%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Kafka Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 3 (6.12%) Front Office Developer
9 3 (6.12%) Python Developer
9 3 (6.12%) Senior Java Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) .NET Developer
10 2 (4.08%) Senior .NET Developer
10 2 (4.08%) Senior C# .NET Developer
10 2 (4.08%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (40.82%) FIX Protocol
2 11 (22.45%) Spring
2 11 (22.45%) Spring Boot
3 10 (20.41%) React
4 8 (16.33%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (14.29%) .NET
5 7 (14.29%) Kafka
6 6 (12.24%) Akka
7 5 (10.20%) ActiveMQ
7 5 (10.20%) JMS
7 5 (10.20%) RxJava
7 5 (10.20%) Spring WebFlux
8 4 (8.16%) ASP.NET
8 4 (8.16%) Middleware
8 4 (8.16%) ZeroMQ
9 3 (6.12%) .NET Core
9 3 (6.12%) RESTful
10 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (4.08%) REST
10 2 (4.08%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (24.49%) Derivative
3 10 (20.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.16%) N-Tier
5 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (4.08%) Fixed Income
7 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.04%) ARM Cortex
7 1 (2.04%) Credit Risk
7 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.04%) Equities
7 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.04%) Grid Computing
7 1 (2.04%) Hedge funds
7 1 (2.04%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 20 (40.82%) Linux
2 12 (24.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.04%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (2.04%) SafeRTOS
3 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (57.14%) Low Latency
2 19 (38.78%) Software Engineering
3 18 (36.73%) Multithreading
4 17 (34.69%) Unit Testing
5 15 (30.61%) Agile
6 12 (24.49%) Microservices
6 12 (24.49%) SOA
6 12 (24.49%) Systems Analysis
6 12 (24.49%) TDD
7 9 (18.37%) Fintech
7 9 (18.37%) JVM Tuning
7 9 (18.37%) Performance Optimisation
7 9 (18.37%) Performance Tuning
7 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (18.37%) Scrum
8 8 (16.33%) AI
8 8 (16.33%) CI/CD
8 8 (16.33%) Collaborative Culture
8 8 (16.33%) Electronic Trading
8 8 (16.33%) OO
Programming Languages
1 20 (40.82%) C++
2 19 (38.78%) Java
3 11 (22.45%) Python
4 8 (16.33%) C#
5 5 (10.20%) Bash
5 5 (10.20%) SQL
6 3 (6.12%) C
7 1 (2.04%) Embedded C
7 1 (2.04%) Embedded C++
7 1 (2.04%) Go
7 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.04%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) DO-254
2 1 (2.04%) HAZOP
2 1 (2.04%) IEC 61508
2 1 (2.04%) IEC 62304
2 1 (2.04%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 9 (18.37%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (18.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Red Hat
2 6 (12.24%) Solace
3 4 (8.16%) Microsoft