Ultra-Low Latency
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Ultra-Low Latency skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Ultra-Low Latency over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 728 1047 1093
Rank change year-on-year +319 +46 -383
Permanent jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency 13 29 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.023% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.024% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 11 23 4
10th Percentile £95,000 £78,500 -
25th Percentile £157,500 £87,500 £88,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £200,000 £120,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +29.73% -11.90%
75th Percentile £225,000 £170,000 £96,250
90th Percentile - £187,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Ultra-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 50,088 118,671 122,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.74% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 36,209 72,079 81,851
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,492 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,025 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,219 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.35% +6.44% +4.17%

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 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Ultra-Low Latency in the UK

Ultra-Low Latency
Top 2 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 4 December 2023. 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 +317 13 £200,000 +66.67% 15
London +251 13 £200,000 +66.67% 14

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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) BGP
2 1 (7.69%) HSRP
2 1 (7.69%) IGMP
2 1 (7.69%) Multicast
2 1 (7.69%) OSPF
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Tick Data
General
1 2 (15.38%) Banking
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Front Office
2 1 (7.69%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Developer
2 7 (53.85%) C++ Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Quantitative Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Low Latency Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Prime Brokerage Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Quantitative Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Switch Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 11 (84.62%) Hedge funds
2 9 (69.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.69%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 9 (69.23%) Algorithmic Trading
3 8 (61.54%) Multithreading
3 8 (61.54%) Systematic Trading
4 7 (53.85%) Backtesting
4 7 (53.85%) Computer Science
4 7 (53.85%) Concurrent Programming
4 7 (53.85%) Data Management
4 7 (53.85%) Investment Management
4 7 (53.85%) Mathematics
4 7 (53.85%) Memory Management
4 7 (53.85%) Physics
5 2 (15.38%) Market Making
6 1 (7.69%) Configuration Management
6 1 (7.69%) Electronic Trading
6 1 (7.69%) High Availability
6 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (7.69%) Open Source
6 1 (7.69%) Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (7.69%) Proprietary Trading
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) C++
2 2 (15.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) CCNP
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.69%) CCNA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Ceph
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Puppet
1 1 (7.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Arista
2 1 (7.69%) Fortinet