Low Latency
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Low Latency skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Low Latency over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 331 483
Rank change year-on-year -251 +152 -67
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 331 1,093 1,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 1.04% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 1.08% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 276 844 571
10th Percentile £62,500 £58,882 £55,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £113,750 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £145,000 £140,000 £130,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £162,500 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £68,823 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.71% +14.71% -2.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Low Latency is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,343 100,922 147,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,769 59,097 83,311
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Top 15 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 24 April 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 -193 297 £117,500 +11.90% 139
London -72 279 £118,750 +3.26% 123
Work from Home -206 140 £112,500 +18.42% 85
UK excluding London -219 44 £70,000 +1.71% 25
Scotland -148 25 £65,000 -6.40% 3
North of England -39 7 £85,000 +54.55% 6
South East +13 5 £102,500 +46.43% 4
Northern Ireland +15 4 £107,500 +38.71% 5
North West -6 4 £95,250 +73.18% 6
North East - 2 £85,000 -
West Midlands +22 1 £60,000 +4.35% 1
Yorkshire +14 1 - -
Midlands -24 1 £60,000 - 1
South West -26 1 £110,000 +59.83% 4
East of England - 1 £120,000 - 2

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 9 (2.72%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.11%) Apache
3 5 (1.51%) MQSeries
4 4 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.21%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 115 (34.74%) AWS
2 41 (12.39%) Azure
3 18 (5.44%) GCP
4 11 (3.32%) Serverless
5 8 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (2.42%) ChatGPT
6 7 (2.11%) SaaS
7 5 (1.51%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.21%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.21%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (1.21%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.21%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (1.21%) GitHub
8 4 (1.21%) IBM Cloud
8 4 (1.21%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.14%) TCP/IP
2 9 (2.72%) Firewall
3 7 (2.11%) Network Security
3 7 (2.11%) VPN
3 7 (2.11%) WAN
4 6 (1.81%) BGP
4 6 (1.81%) OSPF
5 5 (1.51%) DHCP
5 5 (1.51%) DNS
5 5 (1.51%) LAN
6 3 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (0.91%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (0.91%) EIGRP
6 3 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.91%) MPLS
6 3 (0.91%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.60%) Multicast
8 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.95%) NoSQL
2 18 (5.44%) MySQL
3 13 (3.93%) Redis
4 9 (2.72%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.72%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.81%) Big Data
7 5 (1.51%) Flink
7 5 (1.51%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.51%) Tableau
8 4 (1.21%) Power BI
9 3 (0.91%) Event Store
10 2 (0.60%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.60%) Tick Data
11 1 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.30%) Looker
11 1 (0.30%) Metadata
11 1 (0.30%) Metadata Repository
11 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (7.85%) Git
2 17 (5.14%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.63%) GitLab
4 4 (1.21%) IntelliJ
4 4 (1.21%) Maven
4 4 (1.21%) Selenium
5 3 (0.91%) GCC
5 3 (0.91%) GDB
6 2 (0.60%) JIRA
6 2 (0.60%) JUnit
7 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.30%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 130 (39.27%) Finance
2 93 (28.10%) Social Skills
3 69 (20.85%) Front Office
4 57 (17.22%) Banking
5 44 (13.29%) Investment Banking
6 28 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (4.23%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.42%) Games
10 7 (2.11%) Retail
11 2 (0.60%) Marketing
12 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.30%) Back Office
12 1 (0.30%) Military
12 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 214 (64.65%) Developer
2 117 (35.35%) Java Developer
3 85 (25.68%) Senior
4 60 (18.13%) Senior Developer
5 39 (11.78%) C++ Developer
6 37 (11.18%) Software Engineer
7 35 (10.57%) Lead
7 35 (10.57%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 35 (10.57%) Senior Java Developer
8 30 (9.06%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 24 (7.25%) Lead Developer
10 23 (6.95%) .NET Developer
11 21 (6.34%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 21 (6.34%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 21 (6.34%) Python Engineer
12 18 (5.44%) Java Engineer
13 15 (4.53%) C# Developer
13 15 (4.53%) Front Office Developer
14 13 (3.93%) Quantitative Developer
15 12 (3.63%) C++/Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.78%) Kafka
2 37 (11.18%) .NET
3 30 (9.06%) Spring Boot
4 29 (8.76%) Spring
5 27 (8.16%) React
6 20 (6.04%) .NET Core
7 16 (4.83%) AngularJS
8 13 (3.93%) FIX Protocol
9 12 (3.63%) Hibernate
9 12 (3.63%) REST
10 11 (3.32%) RESTful
11 9 (2.72%) Node.js
11 9 (2.72%) Vue
12 8 (2.42%) JSON
12 8 (2.42%) LINQ
12 8 (2.42%) Middleware
13 7 (2.11%) .NET Framework
13 7 (2.11%) ASP.NET
13 7 (2.11%) ASP.NET Web API
14 6 (1.81%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 62 (18.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 41 (12.39%) Hedge funds
3 34 (10.27%) Equities
4 30 (9.06%) Client/Server
4 30 (9.06%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (9.06%) FPGA
5 26 (7.85%) Greenfield Project
6 25 (7.55%) Algorithms
7 23 (6.95%) Fixed Income
8 7 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (2.11%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.81%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.81%) Sports Betting
10 5 (1.51%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.21%) Hackathon
11 4 (1.21%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.21%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (0.60%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 67 (20.24%) Linux
2 14 (4.23%) Windows
3 12 (3.63%) Unix
4 5 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.21%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.60%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (31.72%) Multithreading
2 85 (25.68%) Computer Science
3 72 (21.75%) Software Engineering
4 71 (21.45%) Agile
5 65 (19.64%) Fintech
5 65 (19.64%) Microservices
6 64 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (18.73%) Electronic Trading
8 39 (11.78%) Mathematics
9 38 (11.48%) High-Frequency Trading
10 36 (10.88%) Algorithmic Trading
11 31 (9.37%) Full Stack Development
12 30 (9.06%) DevOps
13 29 (8.76%) SDLC
14 28 (8.46%) Concurrent Programming
15 27 (8.16%) TDD
16 25 (7.55%) CI/CD
17 22 (6.65%) Ultra-Low Latency
18 19 (5.74%) Test Automation
19 17 (5.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 183 (55.29%) Java
2 89 (26.89%) Python
3 77 (23.26%) C++
4 68 (20.54%) C#
5 44 (13.29%) SQL
6 29 (8.76%) JavaScript
7 27 (8.16%) C
7 27 (8.16%) Rust
8 11 (3.32%) Go
8 11 (3.32%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.02%) Perl
10 6 (1.81%) Bash
11 4 (1.21%) F#
11 4 (1.21%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.21%) VBA
12 2 (0.60%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 68 (20.54%) Degree
2 26 (7.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (5.74%) Master's Degree
4 10 (3.02%) PhD
5 4 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.91%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.60%) CCIE
8 1 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.30%) CCNP
8 1 (0.30%) CISSP
8 1 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.30%) ISEB
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.02%) QA
2 6 (1.81%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (14.80%) Docker
2 4 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) Lustre
3 1 (0.30%) NFS
Systems Management
1 73 (22.05%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.04%) Ansible
3 6 (1.81%) Terraform
4 4 (1.21%) Puppet
5 3 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.30%) Argo
6 1 (0.30%) Grafana
6 1 (0.30%) Nmap
6 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (5.44%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.63%) Google
3 10 (3.02%) Cisco
3 10 (3.02%) Solace
4 9 (2.72%) TIBCO
5 8 (2.42%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.11%) Fortinet
6 7 (2.11%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.81%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.51%) IBM
8 5 (1.51%) Juniper
9 3 (0.91%) ION Trading
9 3 (0.91%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.60%) Databricks
10 2 (0.60%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.30%) Arista
11 1 (0.30%) F5
11 1 (0.30%) NetApp
11 1 (0.30%) Workday