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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 658 666
Rank change year-on-year +59 +8 +197
Permanent jobs citing Concurrent Programming 51 37 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.084% 0.069% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.076% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 41 27 82
10th Percentile £78,750 £62,000 £52,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £118,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -15.79% +13.10%
75th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £146,875
90th Percentile £142,500 £165,000 £218,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £73,876 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.02% +23.13% -20.00%

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 49,245 48,425 53,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.71% 90.86% 89.54%
Number of salaries quoted 28,981 23,503 40,689
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 January 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 January 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 +80 51 £110,000 +10.00% 14
London +66 41 £125,000 +25.00% 8
Work from Home +78 11 £100,000 - 5
UK excluding London +57 6 £65,000 -12.02% 6
South West +9 3 - -
South East - 3 £65,000 - 5

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 18 (35.29%) AWS
2 5 (9.80%) Azure
3 2 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (3.92%) GCP
3 2 (3.92%) GitHub
4 1 (1.96%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.53%) Multicast
2 3 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.49%) MongoDB
2 5 (9.80%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.96%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) CircleCI
1 2 (3.92%) Gradle
1 2 (3.92%) VisualVM
1 2 (3.92%) YourKit
2 1 (1.96%) Git
2 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (78.43%) Finance
2 18 (35.29%) Front Office
3 15 (29.41%) Financial Institution
4 5 (9.80%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Aerospace
5 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Banking
5 3 (5.88%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (50.98%) Developer
2 18 (35.29%) Software Engineer
3 15 (29.41%) Java Engineer
4 13 (25.49%) C++ Developer
4 13 (25.49%) Java Software Engineer
4 13 (25.49%) Kafka Engineer
5 9 (17.65%) Senior
6 6 (11.76%) Java Developer
7 5 (9.80%) Low Latency Java Developer
8 4 (7.84%) Senior Developer
9 3 (5.88%) C# Developer
9 3 (5.88%) C++ Software Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Java Developer - Fintech
10 2 (3.92%) C# .NET Developer
10 2 (3.92%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 2 (3.92%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 2 (3.92%) Lead
10 2 (3.92%) Scala Developer
10 2 (3.92%) Senior C# .NET Developer
10 2 (3.92%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (31.37%) FIX Protocol
1 16 (31.37%) Kafka
2 15 (29.41%) Akka
2 15 (29.41%) RabbitMQ
2 15 (29.41%) Spring
2 15 (29.41%) Spring Boot
3 13 (25.49%) ActiveMQ
3 13 (25.49%) JMS
3 13 (25.49%) RxJava
3 13 (25.49%) Spring WebFlux
4 6 (11.76%) .NET
5 5 (9.80%) React
6 3 (5.88%) .NET Core
6 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET
6 3 (5.88%) Middleware
6 3 (5.88%) RESTful
6 3 (5.88%) ZeroMQ
7 2 (3.92%) DPDK
7 2 (3.92%) REST
7 2 (3.92%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.53%) Derivative
2 11 (21.57%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (13.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.88%) N-Tier
5 2 (3.92%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.92%) Equities
5 2 (3.92%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.96%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.96%) FPGA
6 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.96%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.96%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 22 (43.14%) Linux
2 12 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Android
3 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (58.82%) Low Latency
2 28 (54.90%) Multithreading
3 22 (43.14%) Software Engineering
4 21 (41.18%) Agile
4 21 (41.18%) Microservices
5 20 (39.22%) Fintech
6 18 (35.29%) TDD
7 16 (31.37%) Unit Testing
8 13 (25.49%) BDD
8 13 (25.49%) Pair Programming
9 12 (23.53%) High Availability
9 12 (23.53%) SOA
9 12 (23.53%) Systems Analysis
10 10 (19.61%) Memory Management
11 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (15.69%) Performance Tuning
13 7 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (13.73%) Scrum
13 7 (13.73%) Ultra-Low Latency
14 6 (11.76%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 25 (49.02%) Java
2 19 (37.25%) C++
3 7 (13.73%) C#
4 6 (11.76%) Python
5 5 (9.80%) SQL
6 4 (7.84%) Bash
6 4 (7.84%) C
7 2 (3.92%) Rust
8 1 (1.96%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (7.84%) Degree
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) QA
2 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (37.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Red Hat
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.92%) Solace
3 2 (3.92%) Solarflare
4 1 (1.96%) Google