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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 636 716
Rank change year-on-year +17 +80 +138
Permanent jobs citing Concurrent Programming 53 45 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.078% 0.091% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.098% 0.099% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 41 31 77
10th Percentile £78,750 - £52,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £105,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £140,000 £163,750 £150,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £165,000 £177,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £85,253 £65,000
% change year-on-year -23.76% +31.16% -16.13%

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 53,894 45,456 65,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.39% 92.40% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 32,246 22,087 51,057
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £29,440
25th Percentile £38,296 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Concurrent Programming in the UK

Concurrent Programming
Top 6 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 18 February 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 +48 52 £120,000 +14.29% 29
London +35 42 £125,000 +19.05% 19
Work from Home +41 13 £100,000 - 12
UK excluding London +6 7 £65,000 -23.76% 15
South West +4 4 - - 3
South East - 3 £65,000 - 9

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 16 (30.19%) AWS
2 5 (9.43%) Azure
3 3 (5.66%) GCP
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (3.77%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (22.64%) Multicast
2 3 (5.66%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.64%) MongoDB
2 5 (9.43%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.89%) KDB
4 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Gradle
2 2 (3.77%) VisualVM
2 2 (3.77%) YourKit
3 1 (1.89%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
General
1 43 (81.13%) Finance
2 21 (39.62%) Front Office
3 17 (32.08%) Financial Institution
4 6 (11.32%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.55%) Aerospace
5 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.55%) Banking
6 3 (5.66%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (52.83%) Developer
2 17 (32.08%) Software Engineer
3 15 (28.30%) Java Engineer
4 13 (24.53%) C++ Developer
5 11 (20.75%) Java Software Engineer
5 11 (20.75%) Kafka Engineer
6 10 (18.87%) Senior
7 7 (13.21%) Java Developer
8 5 (9.43%) Low Latency Java Developer
8 5 (9.43%) Senior Developer
9 4 (7.55%) C++ Software Engineer
10 3 (5.66%) C# Developer
10 3 (5.66%) Front Office Developer
10 3 (5.66%) Java Developer - Fintech
10 3 (5.66%) Senior Java Engineer
11 2 (3.77%) C# .NET Developer
11 2 (3.77%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 2 (3.77%) Scala Developer
11 2 (3.77%) Senior C# .NET Developer
11 2 (3.77%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (35.85%) FIX Protocol
2 16 (30.19%) Spring
2 16 (30.19%) Spring Boot
3 15 (28.30%) Kafka
4 14 (26.42%) Akka
4 14 (26.42%) RabbitMQ
5 12 (22.64%) ActiveMQ
5 12 (22.64%) JMS
5 12 (22.64%) RxJava
5 12 (22.64%) Spring WebFlux
6 7 (13.21%) React
7 6 (11.32%) .NET
8 4 (7.55%) Middleware
8 4 (7.55%) ZeroMQ
9 3 (5.66%) .NET Core
9 3 (5.66%) ASP.NET
10 2 (3.77%) REST
10 2 (3.77%) RESTful
10 2 (3.77%) WPF
11 1 (1.89%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.64%) Derivative
1 12 (22.64%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (15.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.66%) N-Tier
4 2 (3.77%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.77%) Equities
5 1 (1.89%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.89%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.89%) FPGA
5 1 (1.89%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.89%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 21 (39.62%) Linux
2 12 (22.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (58.49%) Low Latency
2 28 (52.83%) Multithreading
3 21 (39.62%) Software Engineering
4 20 (37.74%) Agile
5 19 (35.85%) Microservices
6 18 (33.96%) Fintech
6 18 (33.96%) TDD
6 18 (33.96%) Unit Testing
7 12 (22.64%) BDD
7 12 (22.64%) Pair Programming
7 12 (22.64%) SOA
7 12 (22.64%) Systems Analysis
8 11 (20.75%) High Availability
9 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (16.98%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (15.09%) Collaborative Culture
11 8 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (15.09%) JVM Tuning
11 8 (15.09%) Scrum
12 7 (13.21%) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages
1 28 (52.83%) Java
2 19 (35.85%) C++
3 9 (16.98%) Python
4 7 (13.21%) C#
5 6 (11.32%) SQL
6 5 (9.43%) Bash
7 3 (5.66%) C
8 1 (1.89%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (9.43%) Degree
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) QA
System Software
1 17 (32.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (32.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) Red Hat
2 4 (7.55%) Solace
3 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.89%) Solarflare