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

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 598 336
Rank change year-on-year +172 -262 +143
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 300 322 1,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.33% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.38% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 169 267 786
10th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £82,500 £78,125 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £110,000 £101,250
Median % change year-on-year - +8.64% +1.25%
75th Percentile £142,500 £145,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £165,500 £165,000 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £72,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +17.24% +4.40% +15.75%

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 51,770 84,704 95,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.86% 85.53% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,375 59,701 56,503
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 15 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 15 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 +133 280 £115,000 - 593
London +68 237 £115,000 -2.13% 497
Work from Home +98 91 £118,886 +5.68% 252
UK excluding London +187 49 £85,000 +17.24% 275
North of England +76 26 £85,000 - 42
North West +14 19 £65,000 -31.76% 33
Yorkshire - 7 £122,773 - 9
Scotland +96 6 £95,000 +46.15% 12
Northern Ireland +47 6 £90,000 -14.29% 5
South East +95 4 £75,000 -26.83% 179
East of England +44 3 £40,000 -66.67% 16
South West +119 2 - - 12
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 (3.33%) Apache
2 7 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.00%) GemFire
4 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.00%) nginx
5 3 (1.00%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.67%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 68 (22.67%) AWS
2 32 (10.67%) GCP
3 28 (9.33%) Azure
4 18 (6.00%) Pulumi
5 13 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (4.33%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (3.33%) Serverless
7 9 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (3.00%) SaaS
8 8 (2.67%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.33%) Datadog
10 5 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.33%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (1.33%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (1.00%) Prefect
13 2 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.00%) TCP/IP
2 17 (5.67%) Multicast
3 9 (3.00%) BGP
3 9 (3.00%) VPN
4 8 (2.67%) EIGRP
4 8 (2.67%) Firewall
4 8 (2.67%) OSPF
5 7 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (2.00%) HSRP
6 6 (2.00%) IPsec
6 6 (2.00%) LAN
6 6 (2.00%) SNMP
6 6 (2.00%) VRRP
7 5 (1.67%) HTTP
8 4 (1.33%) WAN
9 3 (1.00%) 3GPP
9 3 (1.00%) 5G
9 3 (1.00%) DNS
9 3 (1.00%) Network Security
9 3 (1.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 13 (4.33%) MySQL
3 12 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.33%) Redis
4 10 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.33%) DynamoDB
6 7 (2.33%) KDB
7 6 (2.00%) Big Data
7 6 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.67%) Apache Hive
8 5 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.33%) Apache Ignite
9 4 (1.33%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.33%) InterSystems Cache
9 4 (1.33%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.33%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.33%) Tick Data
10 2 (0.67%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 20 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 19 (6.33%) GitLab
3 16 (5.33%) Git
4 11 (3.67%) JIRA
5 9 (3.00%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.00%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.33%) Maven
8 3 (1.00%) Gradle
8 3 (1.00%) MLflow
8 3 (1.00%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.33%) CMake
9 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.33%) JUnit
9 1 (0.33%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.33%) Selenium
9 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 157 (52.33%) Finance
2 92 (30.67%) Banking
3 54 (18.00%) Front Office
4 40 (13.33%) Investment Banking
5 39 (13.00%) Social Skills
6 16 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.67%) Games
9 6 (2.00%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.33%) Law
11 3 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.67%) Back Office
12 2 (0.67%) Retail
13 1 (0.33%) Military
13 1 (0.33%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 161 (53.67%) Developer
2 87 (29.00%) C++ Developer
3 79 (26.33%) Senior
4 54 (18.00%) Low Latency C++ Developer
5 52 (17.33%) Senior Developer
6 45 (15.00%) Quantitative Developer
7 44 (14.67%) Software Engineer
8 41 (13.67%) Java Developer
9 39 (13.00%) Senior C++ Developer
10 36 (12.00%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 34 (11.33%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
11 34 (11.33%) Senior Quantitative Developer
12 33 (11.00%) Linux Developer
13 20 (6.67%) Front Office Developer
14 18 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
15 17 (5.67%) Lead
15 17 (5.67%) Senior Software Engineer
16 16 (5.33%) Java Engineer
17 15 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
17 15 (5.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (14.67%) Kafka
2 27 (9.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 18 (6.00%) .NET
3 18 (6.00%) FIX Protocol
3 18 (6.00%) RESTful
4 13 (4.33%) Spring
5 12 (4.00%) Middleware
5 12 (4.00%) Node.js
5 12 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
5 12 (4.00%) React
6 10 (3.33%) gRPC
6 10 (3.33%) pytest
7 8 (2.67%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.33%) web3js
9 6 (2.00%) Express.js
10 4 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.33%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.33%) HTML
10 4 (1.33%) J2EE
10 4 (1.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 55 (18.33%) Equities
2 54 (18.00%) Hedge funds
3 51 (17.00%) Algorithms
4 41 (13.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 34 (11.33%) Fixed Income
6 29 (9.67%) Data Structures
7 23 (7.67%) Derivative
7 23 (7.67%) Public Cloud
8 22 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (7.33%) FPGA
9 21 (7.00%) Cloud Native
10 19 (6.33%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (4.67%) Management Information System
12 13 (4.33%) Product Ownership
13 12 (4.00%) Blockchain
14 7 (2.33%) Web3
15 5 (1.67%) IPTV
16 4 (1.33%) Data Centre
16 4 (1.33%) Equity Derivative
16 4 (1.33%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 123 (41.00%) Linux
2 13 (4.33%) Unix
3 7 (2.33%) CentOS
4 4 (1.33%) Rocky
4 4 (1.33%) Windows
5 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.33%) Debian
6 1 (0.33%) Fedora
6 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (24.33%) CI/CD
2 70 (23.33%) Multithreading
3 64 (21.33%) Software Engineering
4 57 (19.00%) Fintech
5 49 (16.33%) Agile
6 42 (14.00%) DevOps
7 39 (13.00%) Computer Science
8 36 (12.00%) Containerisation
8 36 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (11.67%) Concurrent Programming
9 35 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 35 (11.67%) Microservices
10 34 (11.33%) Electronic Trading
10 34 (11.33%) OOP
11 29 (9.67%) Deployment Automation
11 29 (9.67%) Test Automation
12 28 (9.33%) OO
13 27 (9.00%) Mathematics
14 25 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
15 24 (8.00%) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages
1 119 (39.67%) C++
2 105 (35.00%) Java
3 103 (34.33%) Python
4 41 (13.67%) C
5 33 (11.00%) SQL
6 26 (8.67%) C#
7 22 (7.33%) Go
8 18 (6.00%) Bicep
9 17 (5.67%) JavaScript
10 12 (4.00%) Bash
11 11 (3.67%) Ruby
12 9 (3.00%) TypeScript
13 7 (2.33%) Kotlin
14 6 (2.00%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.67%) Rust
15 5 (1.67%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.67%) Perl
16 2 (0.67%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.67%) Scala
17 1 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (10.67%) Degree
2 11 (3.67%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.00%) CCNA
5 6 (2.00%) CCNP
5 6 (2.00%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.33%) CCIE
6 4 (1.33%) CCSA
6 4 (1.33%) CCSE
7 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.67%) PhD
9 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.33%) QA
2 3 (1.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 69 (23.00%) Docker
2 5 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 70 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 38 (12.67%) Terraform
3 28 (9.33%) Ansible
4 19 (6.33%) Puppet
5 18 (6.00%) Podman
5 18 (6.00%) Progress Chef
6 12 (4.00%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.00%) Grafana
8 7 (2.33%) Nagios
9 3 (1.00%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 13 (4.33%) Cisco
2 12 (4.00%) Oracle
2 12 (4.00%) Solace
3 11 (3.67%) Arista
3 11 (3.67%) SolarWinds
4 10 (3.33%) CheckPoint
5 8 (2.67%) Bloomberg
5 8 (2.67%) Fortinet
5 8 (2.67%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.67%) TIBCO
6 7 (2.33%) Refinitiv
6 7 (2.33%) Splunk
7 6 (2.00%) Microsoft
8 5 (1.67%) Meraki
8 5 (1.67%) Sybase
8 5 (1.67%) VMware
9 4 (1.33%) Databricks
9 4 (1.33%) F5
9 4 (1.33%) Rapid7
10 3 (1.00%) Ping Identity