Low Latency
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Low Latency skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 412 493
Rank change year-on-year -80 +81 -136
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 341 287 293
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.58% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.65% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 189 180 181
10th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £113,250 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% +25.83% -21.02%
75th Percentile £127,500 £155,000 £127,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £183,000 £147,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -11.76% +30.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Low Latency 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 86,265 44,296 59,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 89.00% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59,107 24,598 32,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Low Latency relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Low Latency job vacancy trend in the UK

Low Latency
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Low Latency.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Low Latency

Low Latency
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Low Latency over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Low Latency within the UK over the 6 months to 9 October 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 -87 315 £100,000 -11.11% 961
London -40 251 £100,000 -13.04% 839
Work from Home -24 91 £100,000 -20.00% 282
UK excluding London -97 71 £75,000 - 159
East of England -21 20 £100,000 +25.00% 22
South East -38 19 £60,000 +9.09% 33
North of England -72 17 £57,500 -17.86% 25
North East - 11 - - 2
Scotland +16 8 - - 12
South West -71 7 - - 18
North West -33 6 £57,500 -17.86% 18

Low Latency
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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (3.52%) Confluence
2 3 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.59%) Apache Solr
3 2 (0.59%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.29%) Apache
4 1 (0.29%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 14 (4.11%) Lightworks
2 9 (2.64%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (2.64%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 80 (23.46%) AWS
2 57 (16.72%) Azure
3 49 (14.37%) GCP
4 16 (4.69%) GitHub
5 15 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (3.52%) OpenShift
7 11 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (3.23%) IaaS
8 10 (2.93%) Serverless
9 9 (2.64%) Amazon ECR
9 9 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (2.64%) Amazon S3
9 9 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.35%) Datadog
10 8 (2.35%) SaaS
11 6 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.76%) Slack
12 5 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.50%) Multicast
2 25 (7.33%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.64%) Wireshark
4 8 (2.35%) Firewall
4 8 (2.35%) FIX Connectivity
5 7 (2.05%) 3GPP
5 7 (2.05%) DNS
5 7 (2.05%) GSM
5 7 (2.05%) LTE
5 7 (2.05%) Radio Access Network
5 7 (2.05%) RANAP
5 7 (2.05%) SS7
5 7 (2.05%) UMTS
6 5 (1.47%) BGP
6 5 (1.47%) HTTP
7 4 (1.17%) Broadband
7 4 (1.17%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.59%) OSPF
8 2 (0.59%) SSL
8 2 (0.59%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.11%) NoSQL
2 13 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (3.52%) MySQL
3 12 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (3.52%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.52%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.93%) KDB
5 9 (2.64%) DynamoDB
5 9 (2.64%) Redis
6 7 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.88%) Kdb+
8 3 (0.88%) ZAP BI
9 2 (0.59%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.59%) Flink
9 2 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.59%) Spatial Data
10 1 (0.29%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.29%) Parquet
10 1 (0.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 34 (9.97%) Git
2 25 (7.33%) JIRA
3 23 (6.74%) GitLab
3 23 (6.74%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.05%) GCC
4 7 (2.05%) GDB
5 6 (1.76%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.88%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.88%) Gradle
6 3 (0.88%) JUnit
6 3 (0.88%) NUnit
6 3 (0.88%) Postman
6 3 (0.88%) Selenium
6 3 (0.88%) Snyk
6 3 (0.88%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.59%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.59%) MSI
7 2 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.29%) Storybook
8 1 (0.29%) Vite
General
1 178 (52.20%) Finance
2 58 (17.01%) Banking
3 52 (15.25%) Front Office
3 52 (15.25%) Social Skills
4 32 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (4.99%) Law
7 13 (3.81%) Telecoms
8 10 (2.93%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.93%) Military
8 10 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.64%) Aerospace
9 9 (2.64%) Legal
9 9 (2.64%) Spanish Language
10 8 (2.35%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.76%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.76%) Retail
12 4 (1.17%) Electronics
13 3 (0.88%) Games
14 2 (0.59%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 98 (28.74%) Developer
2 92 (26.98%) Software Engineer
3 85 (24.93%) Senior
4 36 (10.56%) Lead
5 35 (10.26%) C++ Software Engineer
6 31 (9.09%) C++ Developer
6 31 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 31 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 26 (7.62%) Senior Software Engineer
8 22 (6.45%) Java Engineer
8 22 (6.45%) Systems Engineer
9 21 (6.16%) Python Engineer
10 20 (5.87%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 16 (4.69%) Administrator
11 16 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (4.69%) Python Software Engineer
12 15 (4.40%) Linux Engineer
12 15 (4.40%) Low Latency Java Developer
12 15 (4.40%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 15 (4.40%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (12.32%) FIX Protocol
2 32 (9.38%) Terraform
3 28 (8.21%) RESTful
4 27 (7.92%) Kafka
5 23 (6.74%) PyTorch
6 21 (6.16%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 19 (5.57%) React
7 19 (5.57%) TensorFlow
8 18 (5.28%) RabbitMQ
9 16 (4.69%) pytest
10 15 (4.40%) .NET
10 15 (4.40%) LangChain
10 15 (4.40%) LangGraph
10 15 (4.40%) scikit-learn
11 14 (4.11%) WebSockets
12 11 (3.23%) Spring
13 10 (2.93%) Spring Boot
14 8 (2.35%) gRPC
14 8 (2.35%) Node.js
14 8 (2.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 54 (15.84%) Cloud Native
2 49 (14.37%) Fixed Income
3 45 (13.20%) Distributed Systems
4 44 (12.90%) Equities
5 40 (11.73%) Algorithms
6 31 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 23 (6.74%) Distributed Architecture
8 21 (6.16%) Data Centre
8 21 (6.16%) Derivative
9 18 (5.28%) FPGA
10 17 (4.99%) Hedge funds
11 16 (4.69%) Product Ownership
12 15 (4.40%) Onboarding
13 12 (3.52%) Data Structures
14 11 (3.23%) Driving Licence
15 9 (2.64%) Blockchain
15 9 (2.64%) Distributed Computing
15 9 (2.64%) Eurex
16 7 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
16 7 (2.05%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 104 (30.50%) Linux
2 14 (4.11%) Windows
3 11 (3.23%) CentOS
4 8 (2.35%) Unix
5 3 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.59%) Rocky
7 1 (0.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (41.35%) Software Engineering
2 83 (24.34%) CI/CD
3 64 (18.77%) Test Automation
4 61 (17.89%) AI
5 57 (16.72%) Agile
6 54 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (15.25%) Computer Science
8 49 (14.37%) Containerisation
8 49 (14.37%) Electronic Trading
9 43 (12.61%) DevOps
10 42 (12.32%) Event-Driven
11 40 (11.73%) Infrastructure as Code
11 40 (11.73%) Ultra-Low Latency
12 39 (11.44%) SDLC
12 39 (11.44%) Technical Leadership
13 36 (10.56%) Microservices
14 34 (9.97%) Fintech
14 34 (9.97%) Machine Learning
15 32 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
15 32 (9.38%) Market Making
Programming Languages
1 126 (36.95%) Python
2 104 (30.50%) C++
3 98 (28.74%) Java
4 27 (7.92%) SQL
5 25 (7.33%) Go
6 24 (7.04%) Rust
7 15 (4.40%) Bash
7 15 (4.40%) C#
7 15 (4.40%) TypeScript
8 14 (4.11%) C
9 8 (2.35%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.35%) Scala
10 7 (2.05%) Clojure
10 7 (2.05%) Erlang
11 3 (0.88%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.59%) PHP
13 1 (0.29%) Perl
13 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (13.78%) Degree
2 24 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (5.87%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.87%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (2.93%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.05%) Chartered Engineer
6 4 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.88%) OCP
7 3 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.59%) CCNP
8 2 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.59%) EMC Certification
8 2 (0.59%) HNC
8 2 (0.59%) HND
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.85%) QA
2 11 (3.23%) ISO 14000
2 11 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.64%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.88%) NIST
5 2 (0.59%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.59%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 50 (14.66%) Docker
2 7 (2.05%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 55 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.16%) Ansible
3 16 (4.69%) Grafana
4 13 (3.81%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.64%) Nagios
6 4 (1.17%) Argo
6 4 (1.17%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.59%) Packer
8 1 (0.29%) Graylog
Vendors
1 17 (4.99%) Red Hat
2 14 (4.11%) Oracle
2 14 (4.11%) Splunk
3 11 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.23%) Solace
4 10 (2.93%) Bloomberg
4 10 (2.93%) Reuters
5 9 (2.64%) CQG
5 9 (2.64%) ION Trading
5 9 (2.64%) Patsystems
5 9 (2.64%) Rapid7
5 9 (2.64%) Trayport
6 7 (2.05%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.76%) Cisco
8 5 (1.47%) Arista
9 4 (1.17%) New Relic
9 4 (1.17%) Solarflare
10 3 (0.88%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.59%) Altera
11 2 (0.59%) SolarWinds