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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 587 335
Rank change year-on-year +181 -252 +141
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 316 327 1,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.33% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.39% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 178 272 822
10th Percentile £61,000 £62,500 £58,882
25th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £113,750 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +13.75% -
75th Percentile £140,677 £145,000 £140,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £165,000 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £72,500 £68,823
% change year-on-year +17.24% +5.34% +14.71%

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 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Top 13 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 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 +153 288 £115,000 -2.13% 445
London +74 246 £115,000 -2.13% 384
Work from Home +150 97 £102,500 -8.89% 197
UK excluding London +223 57 £85,000 +17.24% 204
North of England +105 27 £85,000 - 25
North West +48 20 £65,000 -31.76% 22
Northern Ireland +43 12 £90,000 -14.29% 3
Scotland +115 8 £56,318 -13.36% 11
Yorkshire +82 7 £122,773 - 3
East of England +60 4 £40,000 -66.67% 4
South West +108 2 - - 8
South East +106 2 £75,000 -26.83% 144
Midlands - 2 - - 10

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 10 (3.16%) Apache
2 7 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.90%) Confluence
3 6 (1.90%) GemFire
3 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.95%) nginx
4 3 (0.95%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (1.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 67 (21.20%) AWS
2 33 (10.44%) GCP
3 29 (9.18%) Azure
4 20 (6.33%) Pulumi
5 11 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (3.48%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (2.85%) SaaS
7 8 (2.53%) Serverless
8 7 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.90%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.58%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.58%) Datadog
11 4 (1.27%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (1.27%) OpenShift
12 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.95%) Prefect
13 2 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.91%) TCP/IP
2 16 (5.06%) Multicast
3 7 (2.22%) LAN
4 6 (1.90%) BGP
4 6 (1.90%) EIGRP
4 6 (1.90%) Firewall
4 6 (1.90%) OSPF
4 6 (1.90%) VPN
5 5 (1.58%) HTTP
5 5 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.27%) HSRP
6 4 (1.27%) IPsec
6 4 (1.27%) SNMP
6 4 (1.27%) VRRP
7 3 (0.95%) 3GPP
7 3 (0.95%) 5G
7 3 (0.95%) DNS
7 3 (0.95%) VLAN
7 3 (0.95%) WAN
8 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.75%) NoSQL
2 14 (4.43%) MongoDB
2 14 (4.43%) MySQL
3 11 (3.48%) Redis
3 11 (3.48%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.22%) Big Data
5 6 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.90%) KDB
5 6 (1.90%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.58%) Apache Hive
6 5 (1.58%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.27%) Apache Ignite
7 4 (1.27%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.27%) InterSystems Cache
7 4 (1.27%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.27%) Tick Data
8 3 (0.95%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.63%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 19 (6.01%) Jenkins
2 18 (5.70%) Git
3 17 (5.38%) GitLab
3 17 (5.38%) JIRA
4 7 (2.22%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.90%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (1.27%) Maven
7 3 (0.95%) Gradle
7 3 (0.95%) MLflow
7 3 (0.95%) Selenium
7 3 (0.95%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.32%) CMake
8 1 (0.32%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.32%) JUnit
8 1 (0.32%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 164 (51.90%) Finance
2 95 (30.06%) Banking
3 56 (17.72%) Front Office
4 40 (12.66%) Investment Banking
5 36 (11.39%) Social Skills
6 18 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.16%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.90%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.90%) Games
9 5 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.27%) Law
11 3 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.63%) Back Office
12 2 (0.63%) Retail
13 1 (0.32%) Military
13 1 (0.32%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 175 (55.38%) Developer
2 93 (29.43%) C++ Developer
3 84 (26.58%) Senior
4 59 (18.67%) Senior Developer
5 58 (18.35%) Low Latency C++ Developer
6 49 (15.51%) Software Engineer
7 48 (15.19%) Quantitative Developer
8 44 (13.92%) Java Developer
9 41 (12.97%) Senior C++ Developer
10 39 (12.34%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 36 (11.39%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
11 36 (11.39%) Senior Quantitative Developer
12 34 (10.76%) Linux Developer
13 21 (6.65%) Front Office Developer
14 20 (6.33%) Platform Engineer
15 18 (5.70%) Lead
16 17 (5.38%) Senior Software Engineer
17 16 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
17 16 (5.06%) Electronic Trading Developer
17 16 (5.06%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (14.24%) Kafka
2 27 (8.54%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 19 (6.01%) .NET
4 17 (5.38%) FIX Protocol
5 16 (5.06%) RESTful
6 15 (4.75%) Spring
7 14 (4.43%) RabbitMQ
7 14 (4.43%) React
8 13 (4.11%) Node.js
9 11 (3.48%) Middleware
10 10 (3.16%) pytest
10 10 (3.16%) Spring Boot
11 9 (2.85%) REST
12 8 (2.53%) gRPC
13 6 (1.90%) Express.js
14 5 (1.58%) HTML
14 5 (1.58%) Web Services
14 5 (1.58%) web3js
15 4 (1.27%) J2EE
15 4 (1.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (18.67%) Equities
2 58 (18.35%) Algorithms
3 55 (17.41%) Hedge funds
4 44 (13.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 34 (10.76%) Fixed Income
6 31 (9.81%) Data Structures
7 25 (7.91%) Public Cloud
8 23 (7.28%) FPGA
9 22 (6.96%) Derivative
9 22 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
10 20 (6.33%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (6.01%) Cloud Native
12 14 (4.43%) Management Information System
13 13 (4.11%) Product Ownership
14 9 (2.85%) Blockchain
15 5 (1.58%) Web3
16 4 (1.27%) CUDA
16 4 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
16 4 (1.27%) IoT
16 4 (1.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 135 (42.72%) Linux
2 15 (4.75%) Unix
3 7 (2.22%) CentOS
4 5 (1.58%) Windows
5 4 (1.27%) Rocky
6 2 (0.63%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.32%) Debian
7 1 (0.32%) Fedora
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (25.32%) Multithreading
2 76 (24.05%) CI/CD
3 68 (21.52%) Software Engineering
4 64 (20.25%) Fintech
5 57 (18.04%) Agile
6 44 (13.92%) Computer Science
7 43 (13.61%) DevOps
8 42 (13.29%) Microservices
9 39 (12.34%) Containerisation
10 38 (12.03%) OOP
11 37 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (11.39%) Concurrent Programming
12 36 (11.39%) Infrastructure as Code
13 33 (10.44%) Electronic Trading
14 32 (10.13%) OO
15 31 (9.81%) Deployment Automation
16 29 (9.18%) Test Automation
17 28 (8.86%) Mathematics
18 26 (8.23%) Algorithmic Trading
18 26 (8.23%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 126 (39.87%) C++
2 111 (35.13%) Java
2 111 (35.13%) Python
3 48 (15.19%) C
4 35 (11.08%) SQL
5 31 (9.81%) C#
6 21 (6.65%) Go
7 20 (6.33%) Bicep
8 17 (5.38%) JavaScript
9 16 (5.06%) Bash
10 12 (3.80%) Ruby
11 9 (2.85%) TypeScript
12 8 (2.53%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.90%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.58%) Rust
14 5 (1.58%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.95%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.63%) Perl
16 2 (0.63%) Scala
17 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (12.03%) Degree
2 15 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (2.22%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.90%) CCNP
5 6 (1.90%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.58%) CCIE
6 5 (1.58%) CCSA
6 5 (1.58%) CCSE
7 4 (1.27%) CCNA
8 3 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.63%) PhD
10 1 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.91%) QA
2 3 (0.95%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 76 (24.05%) Docker
2 6 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 77 (24.37%) Kubernetes
2 37 (11.71%) Terraform
3 29 (9.18%) Ansible
4 21 (6.65%) Puppet
5 20 (6.33%) Podman
5 20 (6.33%) Progress Chef
6 10 (3.16%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.85%) Grafana
8 7 (2.22%) Nagios
9 3 (0.95%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 12 (3.80%) Oracle
2 11 (3.48%) Cisco
2 11 (3.48%) Solace
3 9 (2.85%) Arista
3 9 (2.85%) CheckPoint
3 9 (2.85%) SolarWinds
4 8 (2.53%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.22%) Splunk
5 7 (2.22%) TIBCO
6 6 (1.90%) Fortinet
6 6 (1.90%) Microsoft
6 6 (1.90%) VMware
7 5 (1.58%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.58%) F5
7 5 (1.58%) Refinitiv
7 5 (1.58%) Sybase
8 4 (1.27%) Databricks
8 4 (1.27%) NVIDIA
8 4 (1.27%) Rapid7
9 3 (0.95%) Meraki