Low Latency Java Developer Jobs

Java Developer - Low Latency
UK

The median Java Developer - Low Latency salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 690 862 939
Rank change year-on-year +172 +77 +247
Permanent jobs requiring a Low Latency Java Developer 2 34 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.035% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.036% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 1 22 49
10th Percentile - £72,500 £83,750
25th Percentile - £105,625 £88,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £142,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +29.55% -
75th Percentile - £146,250 £150,000
90th Percentile - £167,500 £167,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - £65,000 £65,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Low Latency Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Low Latency Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency Java Developer in the UK

Low Latency Java Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Low Latency Java Developer.

Salary trend for Low Latency Java Developer in the UK

Low Latency Java Developer
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Low Latency Java Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +143 2 £90,000 -36.84% 7
London +79 2 £90,000 -36.84% 7

Low Latency Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Low Latency Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Low Latency Java Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Garbage Collection
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) High-Frequency Trading
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle

Low Latency Java Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Garbage Collection
2 1 (50.00%) High-Frequency Trading
2 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle