Concurrent Programming Job Trends

Concurrent Programming
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Concurrent Programming skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 618 743 635
Rank change year-on-year +125 -108 +285
Permanent jobs citing Concurrent Programming 58 53 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.068% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.084% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 44 41 140
10th Percentile - £57,500 £65,500
25th Percentile £78,750 £70,097 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £85,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -19.05% -
75th Percentile £115,625 £122,500 £135,000
90th Percentile £168,500 £142,500 £152,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £71,991 £67,000
% change year-on-year -2.77% +7.45% -16.25%

All Process and 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 43,869 63,416 56,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.70% 81.19% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,728 36,039 42,828
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Concurrent Programming
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Concurrent Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Concurrent Programming 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 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Concurrent Programming in the UK

Concurrent Programming
Top 7 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 September 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
England +119 52 £105,000 +35.48% 16
London +75 47 £105,000 +10.53% 11
Work from Home +66 9 £170,000 +119.35% 10
UK excluding London +111 7 £70,000 -2.77% 9
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
South West +74 2 - -
Scotland +41 1 £70,000 -17.65% 1

Concurrent Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (6.90%) Apache
1 4 (6.90%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 37 (63.79%) AWS
2 4 (6.90%) Azure
3 2 (3.45%) BlazeMeter
3 2 (3.45%) GitHub
3 2 (3.45%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.72%) GCP
4 1 (1.72%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) Internet
1 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.72%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.97%) MongoDB
2 6 (10.34%) Big Data
2 6 (10.34%) MySQL
2 6 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.90%) Apache Hive
3 4 (6.90%) Hadoop
3 4 (6.90%) Redis
3 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.17%) Tick Data
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.45%) DB2
5 2 (3.45%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.45%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.72%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Git
2 4 (6.90%) JUnit
3 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (3.45%) CircleCI
4 2 (3.45%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.45%) JIRA
4 2 (3.45%) Maven
4 2 (3.45%) Mockito
4 2 (3.45%) Postman
4 2 (3.45%) REST Assured
4 2 (3.45%) Selenium
4 2 (3.45%) SoapUI
4 2 (3.45%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.45%) Subversion
4 2 (3.45%) Xcode
4 2 (3.45%) XCTest
5 1 (1.72%) VisualVM
5 1 (1.72%) YourKit
General
1 39 (67.24%) Finance
2 24 (41.38%) Financial Institution
3 15 (25.86%) Front Office
4 14 (24.14%) Banking
5 6 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (10.34%) Investment Banking
5 6 (10.34%) Social Skills
6 5 (8.62%) Law
7 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (51.72%) Java Engineer
2 27 (46.55%) Java Software Engineer
2 27 (46.55%) Software Engineer
3 22 (37.93%) Developer
4 19 (32.76%) Senior
5 12 (20.69%) Java Developer
5 12 (20.69%) Kafka Engineer
6 9 (15.52%) Senior Java Engineer
7 8 (13.79%) Senior Developer
8 7 (12.07%) C++ Developer
8 7 (12.07%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 7 (12.07%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (8.62%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 5 (8.62%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 4 (6.90%) Apache Spark Developer
10 4 (6.90%) Front Office Developer
10 4 (6.90%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
10 4 (6.90%) Senior C++ Developer
11 3 (5.17%) Lead
11 3 (5.17%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (63.79%) Kafka
2 35 (60.34%) Spring
2 35 (60.34%) Spring Boot
3 25 (43.10%) Akka
4 24 (41.38%) RxJava
4 24 (41.38%) Spring WebFlux
5 20 (34.48%) AngularJS
6 8 (13.79%) ActiveMQ
6 8 (13.79%) JMS
6 8 (13.79%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (10.34%) Hibernate
7 6 (10.34%) J2EE
8 4 (6.90%) CSS
8 4 (6.90%) HTML
8 4 (6.90%) HTML5
8 4 (6.90%) Java EE
9 2 (3.45%) CSS3
9 2 (3.45%) React
9 2 (3.45%) REST
9 2 (3.45%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (10.34%) Fixed Income
3 5 (8.62%) Algorithms
4 4 (6.90%) Equities
4 4 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (6.90%) Hedge funds
4 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.17%) Data Structures
5 3 (5.17%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.45%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.72%) FPGA
7 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.72%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.72%) Mobile Computing
7 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.72%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 14 (24.14%) Linux
2 6 (10.34%) Unix
3 1 (1.72%) Android
3 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (89.66%) Multithreading
2 36 (62.07%) Agile
3 35 (60.34%) Software Engineering
4 31 (53.45%) Microservices
5 26 (44.83%) Fintech
5 26 (44.83%) TDD
6 25 (43.10%) Low Latency
7 24 (41.38%) BDD
7 24 (41.38%) Pair Programming
8 16 (27.59%) High Availability
9 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
10 9 (15.52%) SDLC
10 9 (15.52%) Ultra-Low Latency
11 8 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (13.79%) Memory Management
11 8 (13.79%) Risk Management
12 7 (12.07%) Electronic Trading
12 7 (12.07%) Event-Driven
12 7 (12.07%) Unit Testing
13 6 (10.34%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 46 (79.31%) Java
2 12 (20.69%) SQL
3 10 (17.24%) C++
4 5 (8.62%) Python
5 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.90%) Rust
6 2 (3.45%) C
6 2 (3.45%) Groovy
6 2 (3.45%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.72%) Go
7 1 (1.72%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
1 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.72%) Degree
2 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (56.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (53.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) Sybase
2 5 (8.62%) Oracle
2 5 (8.62%) Solace
3 2 (3.45%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (3.45%) Databricks
3 2 (3.45%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.45%) Google
3 2 (3.45%) IBM
3 2 (3.45%) Solarflare
3 2 (3.45%) Splunk
4 1 (1.72%) ION Trading