Low Latency Jobs

Low Latency
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Low Latency skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Low Latency over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 342 437
Rank change year-on-year -231 +95 +42
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 281 776 1,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.96% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 1.01% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 175 605 661
10th Percentile £61,250 £63,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% +8.33%
75th Percentile £130,000 £150,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £157,500 £168,250 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +17.86% +16.67% +4.35%

All Process and 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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Low Latency as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Low Latency over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -223 254 £110,000 -8.33% 33
London -100 234 £110,000 -8.33% 24
Work from Home -212 73 £112,500 +7.14% 18
UK excluding London -146 34 £82,500 +17.86% 22
Scotland -68 13 £65,000 -
North West -19 11 £82,500 +48.67% 1
North of England -42 11 £82,500 +3.13% 4
South East -3 4 £102,500 +46.43% 6
Northern Ireland +9 2 £105,000 +35.48% 6
East of England -3 2 £100,000 +100.00% 2
South West -10 2 £87,500 +27.14% 4

Low Latency
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 14 (4.98%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.91%) Apache
3 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.71%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.36%) nginx
4 1 (0.36%) SAS
4 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 30 (10.68%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 133 (47.33%) AWS
2 36 (12.81%) GCP
3 19 (6.76%) Azure
4 7 (2.49%) Amazon Kinesis
4 7 (2.49%) Serverless
5 6 (2.14%) Amazon MSK
5 6 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (1.42%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.42%) SaaS
8 2 (0.71%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.71%) ChatGPT
8 2 (0.71%) Kong
9 1 (0.36%) Cloud Composer
9 1 (0.36%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.63%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.20%) Firewall
2 9 (3.20%) VPN
3 7 (2.49%) DNS
4 6 (2.14%) WAN
5 5 (1.78%) DHCP
5 5 (1.78%) LAN
6 4 (1.42%) BGP
6 4 (1.42%) Network Security
6 4 (1.42%) OSPF
7 3 (1.07%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (1.07%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (1.07%) EIGRP
7 3 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (1.07%) MPLS
7 3 (1.07%) Multicast
7 3 (1.07%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.71%) SNMP
9 1 (0.36%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.03%) NoSQL
2 18 (6.41%) DynamoDB
3 13 (4.63%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (4.27%) Big Data
5 11 (3.91%) MySQL
5 11 (3.91%) Redis
5 11 (3.91%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.85%) Flink
8 7 (2.49%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.78%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.07%) Hazelcast
11 3 (1.07%) KDB
12 2 (0.71%) Event Store
13 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.36%) Tableau
13 1 (0.36%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 12 (4.27%) Git
1 12 (4.27%) GitLab
2 11 (3.91%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.14%) Gatling
4 5 (1.78%) JIRA
5 2 (0.71%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.71%) Mockito
6 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.36%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.36%) JUnit
6 1 (0.36%) Maven
6 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.36%) Selenium
6 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 156 (55.52%) Finance
2 71 (25.27%) Banking
3 67 (23.84%) Social Skills
4 50 (17.79%) Front Office
5 45 (16.01%) Financial Institution
6 42 (14.95%) Law
6 42 (14.95%) Legal
7 32 (11.39%) Investment Banking
8 20 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.07%) Billing
10 3 (1.07%) Electronics
10 3 (1.07%) Retail
11 2 (0.71%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Back Office
12 1 (0.36%) Games
12 1 (0.36%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 141 (50.18%) Developer
2 96 (34.16%) Java Developer
3 95 (33.81%) Senior
4 66 (23.49%) Software Engineer
5 42 (14.95%) Senior Developer
6 33 (11.74%) Senior Java Developer
7 30 (10.68%) Senior Software Engineer
8 23 (8.19%) C++ Developer
9 22 (7.83%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 20 (7.12%) Java Engineer
10 20 (7.12%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 18 (6.41%) Lead
11 18 (6.41%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 17 (6.05%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 14 (4.98%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (3.20%) Architect
14 9 (3.20%) Lead Developer
14 9 (3.20%) Quantitative Developer
14 9 (3.20%) Senior Java Engineer
15 8 (2.85%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (17.08%) Spring
2 40 (14.23%) React
3 37 (13.17%) Spring Boot
4 20 (7.12%) Kafka
5 18 (6.41%) .NET
6 16 (5.69%) FIX Protocol
7 11 (3.91%) Hibernate
8 9 (3.20%) .NET Core
9 8 (2.85%) Apache Wicket
9 8 (2.85%) JSF
9 8 (2.85%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (2.85%) REST
9 8 (2.85%) Spring MVC
9 8 (2.85%) Web Services
10 7 (2.49%) LDAP
10 7 (2.49%) Node.js
11 6 (2.14%) GraphQL
11 6 (2.14%) JPA
11 6 (2.14%) Lambda Expressions
11 6 (2.14%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 48 (17.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 31 (11.03%) Blockchain
3 30 (10.68%) NFT
4 26 (9.25%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (9.25%) Hedge funds
5 24 (8.54%) Algorithms
6 23 (8.19%) Distributed Computing
7 22 (7.83%) Fixed Income
8 18 (6.41%) Equities
9 17 (6.05%) Data Structures
10 16 (5.69%) FPGA
11 15 (5.34%) Client/Server
12 8 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (2.14%) Blog
13 6 (2.14%) Media Streaming
14 5 (1.78%) Data Centre
15 4 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
15 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
16 3 (1.07%) Bitcoin
16 3 (1.07%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 43 (15.30%) Linux
2 20 (7.12%) Unix
3 12 (4.27%) Windows
4 6 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.78%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.07%) CentOS
7 2 (0.71%) Debian
7 2 (0.71%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.36%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (33.45%) Agile
2 88 (31.32%) Computer Science
3 86 (30.60%) Software Engineering
4 80 (28.47%) Multithreading
5 79 (28.11%) Fintech
6 59 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (19.22%) Microservices
8 50 (17.79%) SDLC
9 48 (17.08%) Electronic Trading
10 42 (14.95%) Business Development
11 36 (12.81%) Asset Management
12 34 (12.10%) Cryptocurrency
13 31 (11.03%) DeFi
13 31 (11.03%) Performance Testing
14 30 (10.68%) E-Commerce
15 29 (10.32%) DevOps
16 26 (9.25%) Mentoring
17 25 (8.90%) Concurrent Programming
17 25 (8.90%) TDD
18 23 (8.19%) OO
Programming Languages
1 190 (67.62%) Java
2 58 (20.64%) Python
3 53 (18.86%) C++
4 44 (15.66%) JavaScript
5 43 (15.30%) Rust
6 32 (11.39%) SQL
7 30 (10.68%) C#
7 30 (10.68%) Solidity
8 19 (6.76%) C
8 19 (6.76%) Go
9 18 (6.41%) Scala
10 9 (3.20%) Perl
11 8 (2.85%) Kotlin
12 7 (2.49%) TypeScript
13 6 (2.14%) Bash
14 4 (1.42%) F#
15 3 (1.07%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.36%) PHP
16 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 43 (15.30%) Degree
2 24 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (4.98%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.49%) PhD
5 3 (1.07%) ISEB
5 3 (1.07%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.36%) CCIE
6 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.78%) QA
2 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (1.07%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.07%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.07%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) NIST
System Software
1 76 (27.05%) Docker
2 3 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.36%) PowerDNS
3 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 97 (34.52%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.34%) Ansible
3 12 (4.27%) Terraform
4 6 (2.14%) Puppet
5 3 (1.07%) Grafana
5 3 (1.07%) MOM
5 3 (1.07%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 2 (0.71%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.36%) Nagios
7 1 (0.36%) Nmap
7 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.36%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 11 (3.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.85%) Red Hat
3 7 (2.49%) Cisco
3 7 (2.49%) Solace
4 6 (2.14%) Databricks
4 6 (2.14%) Fortinet
4 6 (2.14%) Palo Alto
5 4 (1.42%) Google
5 4 (1.42%) Juniper
5 4 (1.42%) SolarWinds
6 3 (1.07%) ION Trading
6 3 (1.07%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.71%) F5
7 2 (0.71%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.71%) Oracle
7 2 (0.71%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.36%) NetApp
8 1 (0.36%) Splunk
8 1 (0.36%) Tradeweb
8 1 (0.36%) VMware