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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 674 630
Rank change year-on-year +80 -44 +269
Permanent jobs citing Concurrent Programming 51 39 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.086% 0.072% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.080% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 43 27 88
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 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £145,000
90th Percentile £142,000 £165,000 £175,000
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 48,217 49,041 48,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.67% 90.12% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 28,251 24,093 36,700
10th Percentile £28,456 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 4 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 4 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 +105 51 £110,000 +10.00% 85
London +69 42 £123,000 +23.00% 13
Work from Home +79 10 £100,000 - 81
UK excluding London +65 5 £65,000 -12.02% 78
South East - 3 £65,000 - 24
South West +11 2 - - 8

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 20 (39.22%) 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%) VisualVM
1 2 (3.92%) YourKit
2 1 (1.96%) Git
2 1 (1.96%) Gradle
2 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (78.43%) Finance
2 17 (33.33%) Front Office
3 16 (31.37%) Financial Institution
4 5 (9.80%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Banking
5 3 (5.88%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.92%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (50.98%) Developer
2 19 (37.25%) Software Engineer
3 17 (33.33%) Java Engineer
4 15 (29.41%) Java Software Engineer
4 15 (29.41%) Kafka Engineer
5 13 (25.49%) C++ Developer
6 10 (19.61%) Senior
7 6 (11.76%) Java Developer
8 5 (9.80%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 4 (7.84%) Senior Developer
10 3 (5.88%) C# Developer
10 3 (5.88%) Java Developer - Fintech
10 3 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
11 2 (3.92%) C# .NET Developer
11 2 (3.92%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 2 (3.92%) Lead
11 2 (3.92%) Scala Developer
11 2 (3.92%) Senior C# .NET Developer
11 2 (3.92%) Senior Java Engineer
11 2 (3.92%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (35.29%) Kafka
2 17 (33.33%) Akka
3 16 (31.37%) Spring
3 16 (31.37%) Spring Boot
4 15 (29.41%) FIX Protocol
4 15 (29.41%) RabbitMQ
4 15 (29.41%) RxJava
4 15 (29.41%) Spring WebFlux
5 13 (25.49%) ActiveMQ
5 13 (25.49%) JMS
6 6 (11.76%) .NET
7 4 (7.84%) React
8 3 (5.88%) .NET Core
8 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET
8 3 (5.88%) RESTful
9 2 (3.92%) AngularJS
9 2 (3.92%) Middleware
9 2 (3.92%) REST
9 2 (3.92%) WPF
9 2 (3.92%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.53%) Derivative
2 11 (21.57%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (11.76%) 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 21 (41.18%) Linux
2 12 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Android
3 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (56.86%) Low Latency
1 29 (56.86%) Multithreading
2 23 (45.10%) Microservices
2 23 (45.10%) Software Engineering
3 22 (43.14%) Agile
3 22 (43.14%) Fintech
4 20 (39.22%) TDD
5 15 (29.41%) BDD
5 15 (29.41%) Pair Programming
5 15 (29.41%) Unit Testing
6 13 (25.49%) High Availability
7 12 (23.53%) SOA
7 12 (23.53%) Systems Analysis
8 10 (19.61%) Memory Management
9 8 (15.69%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (11.76%) Scrum
10 6 (11.76%) Ultra-Low Latency
11 5 (9.80%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 26 (50.98%) Java
2 18 (35.29%) C++
3 7 (13.73%) C#
4 5 (9.80%) Python
4 5 (9.80%) SQL
5 4 (7.84%) C
6 3 (5.88%) Bash
7 2 (3.92%) Rust
8 1 (1.96%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (5.88%) Degree
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) QA
2 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (41.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (37.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Red Hat
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.92%) Solarflare
4 1 (1.96%) Google
4 1 (1.96%) Solace