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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 685 875 957
Rank change year-on-year +190 +82 +201
Permanent jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency 21 23 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.023% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.027% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 12 20 15
10th Percentile £94,250 £74,125 £102,000
25th Percentile £105,313 £93,750 £105,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £156,250 £142,500 £165,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.65% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £190,000 £146,250 £232,500
90th Percentile - £191,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 - -

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 51,302 84,920 96,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.76% 85.59% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 27,015 59,883 56,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,008 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £98,474 £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%

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 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Ultra-Low Latency in the UK

Ultra-Low Latency
Top 5 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 11 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 +157 21 £156,250 +9.65% 61
London +103 16 £145,000 +1.75% 55
Work from Home +143 3 £157,500 +10.53% 22
East of England - 1 £40,000 - 3
UK excluding London - 1 £40,000 - 27

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 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (19.05%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) LAN
2 1 (4.76%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Tick Data
2 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.52%) Redis
General
1 12 (57.14%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Banking
3 4 (19.05%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) Front Office
5 1 (4.76%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) C++ Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Deployment Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Network Deployment Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Network Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
4 3 (14.29%) Java Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) QA Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Java Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) C++ Quantitative Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Graduate
6 1 (4.76%) Graduate Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Quantitative Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior C++ Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (9.52%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 2 (9.52%) gRPC
2 2 (9.52%) Kafka
2 2 (9.52%) WebSockets
3 1 (4.76%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Hedge funds
2 6 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (19.05%) Blockchain
3 4 (19.05%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
4 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
4 2 (9.52%) Derivative
4 2 (9.52%) Equities
4 2 (9.52%) FPGA
5 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 10 (47.62%) Computer Science
3 7 (33.33%) Concurrent Programming
3 7 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 7 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 5 (23.81%) Algorithmic Trading
4 5 (23.81%) Investment Management
4 5 (23.81%) Market Making
4 5 (23.81%) Mathematics
5 4 (19.05%) Backtesting
5 4 (19.05%) Change Control
5 4 (19.05%) Change Management
5 4 (19.05%) Client Onboarding
5 4 (19.05%) Cryptocurrency
5 4 (19.05%) Data Management
5 4 (19.05%) Load Balancing
5 4 (19.05%) Memory Management
5 4 (19.05%) Physics
5 4 (19.05%) Systematic Trading
5 4 (19.05%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) C++
2 8 (38.10%) Java
3 6 (28.57%) Python
4 2 (9.52%) Rust
5 1 (4.76%) Bash
5 1 (4.76%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (19.05%) CCIE
2 4 (19.05%) CCNP
2 4 (19.05%) CCSA
2 4 (19.05%) CCSE
2 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Arista
1 4 (19.05%) CheckPoint
1 4 (19.05%) Cisco
1 4 (19.05%) F5
2 1 (4.76%) Bloomberg
2 1 (4.76%) Reuters