Ultra-Low Latency Jobs

Ultra-Low Latency
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Ultra-Low Latency skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ultra-Low Latency over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 678 886 943
Rank change year-on-year +208 +57 +267
Permanent jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency 24 21 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.020% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.024% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 13 18 17
10th Percentile £91,750 £72,375 £103,000
25th Percentile £107,500 £98,750 £105,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £180,000 £142,500 £132,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% +7.55% -5.36%
75th Percentile £190,000 £146,250 £232,500
90th Percentile £206,000 £158,625 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Ultra-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 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

Ultra-Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Ultra-Low Latency in the UK

Ultra-Low Latency
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Ultra-Low Latency in the UK

Ultra-Low Latency
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Ultra-Low Latency in the UK

Ultra-Low Latency
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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 +174 24 £180,000 +26.32% 49
London +101 17 £115,000 -19.30% 43
Work from Home +110 5 £157,500 +10.53% 15
UK excluding London - 1 - - 5
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

Ultra-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 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (8.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.17%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) BGP
1 2 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (8.33%) IOS XR
1 2 (8.33%) LAN
1 2 (8.33%) Multicast
1 2 (8.33%) NX-OS
1 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (8.33%) WAN
2 1 (4.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Tick Data
2 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Redis
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 17 (70.83%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Banking
3 5 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (16.67%) Front Office
4 4 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Law
6 1 (4.17%) Automotive
6 1 (4.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) C++ Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Senior
3 4 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Deployment Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Network Deployment Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Architect
6 1 (4.17%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Pricing Developer
6 1 (4.17%) QA Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Senior C++ Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Software Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (8.33%) gRPC
1 2 (8.33%) Kafka
1 2 (8.33%) WebSockets
2 1 (4.17%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 11 (45.83%) Hedge funds
2 6 (25.00%) Blockchain
2 6 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (12.50%) Equities
4 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
4 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
4 2 (8.33%) Derivative
5 1 (4.17%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (4.17%) FPGA
5 1 (4.17%) Infotainment
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 11 (45.83%) Computer Science
3 10 (41.67%) Software Engineering
4 9 (37.50%) Concurrent Programming
4 9 (37.50%) Multithreading
5 7 (29.17%) Market Making
6 6 (25.00%) Cryptocurrency
7 5 (20.83%) Mathematics
8 4 (16.67%) Agile
8 4 (16.67%) Algorithmic Trading
8 4 (16.67%) Backtesting
8 4 (16.67%) Data Management
8 4 (16.67%) Investment Management
8 4 (16.67%) Memory Management
8 4 (16.67%) Physics
8 4 (16.67%) Systematic Trading
9 3 (12.50%) Event-Driven
9 3 (12.50%) High-Frequency Trading
9 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
10 2 (8.33%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) Java
2 9 (37.50%) Python
3 7 (29.17%) C++
4 2 (8.33%) Go
4 2 (8.33%) Rust
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) C
5 1 (4.17%) C#
5 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.17%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) CCNP
1 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (12.50%) CCIE
2 3 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) CCSA
3 2 (8.33%) CCSE
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Arista
1 4 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (8.33%) CheckPoint
2 2 (8.33%) F5
3 1 (4.17%) Bloomberg
3 1 (4.17%) QNX
3 1 (4.17%) Reuters