Low Latency Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Low Latency
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 446 228
Rank change year-on-year +125 -218 +284
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 96 139 638
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.63% 0.41% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.45% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 61 111 458
10th Percentile £47,500 £72,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £90,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £112,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +18.42% -2.56%
75th Percentile £140,677 £136,875 £134,688
90th Percentile £162,500 £156,250 £160,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +2.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,134 30,993 40,912
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.17% 91.62% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,780 23,560 28,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Low Latency
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Low Latency as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Low Latency trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Low Latency
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Low Latency.

Low Latency salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Low Latency
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Low Latency over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Low Latency salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (4.17%) Apache
2 3 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.13%) GemFire
3 2 (2.08%) Confluence
3 2 (2.08%) nginx
3 2 (2.08%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.08%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 31 (32.29%) AWS
2 20 (20.83%) GCP
3 14 (14.58%) Azure
4 7 (7.29%) SaaS
5 4 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (4.17%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (3.13%) Prefect
7 2 (2.08%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (2.08%) PaaS
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon Neptune
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.04%) GitHub
8 1 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 23 (23.96%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.21%) Multicast
3 2 (2.08%) BGP
3 2 (2.08%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (2.08%) DNS
3 2 (2.08%) EIGRP
3 2 (2.08%) Firewall
3 2 (2.08%) HTTP
3 2 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (2.08%) LAN
3 2 (2.08%) MPLS
3 2 (2.08%) Network Security
3 2 (2.08%) OSPF
3 2 (2.08%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.08%) VLAN
3 2 (2.08%) VPN
3 2 (2.08%) WAN
3 2 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.04%) 3GPP
4 1 (1.04%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.54%) MongoDB
2 9 (9.38%) Redis
3 8 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.21%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.21%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.17%) MySQL
5 4 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.13%) Apache Ignite
6 3 (3.13%) Big Data
6 3 (3.13%) Hazelcast
6 3 (3.13%) InterSystems Cache
6 3 (3.13%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.08%) CouchDB
7 2 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.04%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.04%) HBase
8 1 (1.04%) Impala
8 1 (1.04%) Pinecone
8 1 (1.04%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 10 (10.42%) Git
1 10 (10.42%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.25%) JIRA
2 6 (6.25%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (5.21%) GitLab
4 3 (3.13%) MLflow
5 2 (2.08%) Gradle
5 2 (2.08%) Maven
5 2 (2.08%) Selenium
6 1 (1.04%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.04%) Robot Framework
General
1 49 (51.04%) Finance
2 41 (42.71%) Banking
3 16 (16.67%) Front Office
4 15 (15.63%) Investment Banking
5 11 (11.46%) Social Skills
6 4 (4.17%) Law
6 4 (4.17%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.08%) Retail
9 1 (1.04%) Games
Job Titles
1 50 (52.08%) Developer
2 25 (26.04%) Software Engineer
3 23 (23.96%) C++ Developer
4 19 (19.79%) Java Developer
4 19 (19.79%) Linux Developer
4 19 (19.79%) Low Latency C++ Developer
5 18 (18.75%) Senior
6 14 (14.58%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
6 14 (14.58%) Linux Scripter
7 12 (12.50%) Java Engineer
8 9 (9.38%) Front Office Developer
8 9 (9.38%) Lead
8 9 (9.38%) Senior Developer
9 8 (8.33%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 8 (8.33%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
9 8 (8.33%) Lead Software Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) .NET Developer
11 5 (5.21%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (25.00%) Kafka
2 12 (12.50%) .NET
2 12 (12.50%) Node.js
3 11 (11.46%) React
4 6 (6.25%) Express.js
4 6 (6.25%) RESTful
5 5 (5.21%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (5.21%) Spring
6 4 (4.17%) CSS
6 4 (4.17%) HTML
6 4 (4.17%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.17%) WebSockets
7 3 (3.13%) .NET Core
7 3 (3.13%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (3.13%) JSON
7 3 (3.13%) Middleware
7 3 (3.13%) pytest
7 3 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (3.13%) REST
7 3 (3.13%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.79%) FPGA
2 17 (17.71%) Algorithms
3 15 (15.63%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (11.46%) Cloud Native
5 9 (9.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (8.33%) Product Ownership
7 7 (7.29%) Data Structures
7 7 (7.29%) Derivative
8 6 (6.25%) Fixed Income
9 3 (3.13%) Credit Derivative
9 3 (3.13%) Equities
9 3 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
9 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
10 2 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (2.08%) Data Centre
11 1 (1.04%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (1.04%) Reference Data
11 1 (1.04%) Semantic Web
11 1 (1.04%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 32 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (5.21%) Unix
3 4 (4.17%) CentOS
4 2 (2.08%) Rocky
5 1 (1.04%) Debian
5 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (31.25%) Agile
2 29 (30.21%) CI/CD
3 26 (27.08%) Software Engineering
4 23 (23.96%) Microservices
5 17 (17.71%) Containerisation
6 16 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
6 16 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 16 (16.67%) Multithreading
6 16 (16.67%) TDD
7 15 (15.63%) Event-Driven
8 14 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (13.54%) DevOps
9 13 (13.54%) Scrum
10 12 (12.50%) Clean Code
10 12 (12.50%) Concurrent Programming
10 12 (12.50%) Roadmaps
11 10 (10.42%) Software Testing
12 9 (9.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 8 (8.33%) Market Making
13 8 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 55 (57.29%) Java
2 24 (25.00%) C++
3 22 (22.92%) SQL
4 20 (20.83%) C
5 16 (16.67%) Python
6 13 (13.54%) C#
7 12 (12.50%) JavaScript
8 9 (9.38%) TypeScript
9 6 (6.25%) PL/SQL
10 4 (4.17%) Bash
11 2 (2.08%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.08%) Rust
12 1 (1.04%) Go
12 1 (1.04%) PHP
12 1 (1.04%) Ruby
12 1 (1.04%) SHACL
12 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.04%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 14 (14.58%) Degree
2 5 (5.21%) Master's Degree
2 5 (5.21%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.08%) PhD
5 1 (1.04%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (31.25%) Docker
2 2 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.04%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 31 (32.29%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.21%) Terraform
3 4 (4.17%) Ansible
3 4 (4.17%) Nagios
4 2 (2.08%) Grafana
4 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 10 (10.42%) Oracle
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.17%) Red Hat
2 4 (4.17%) Solace
2 4 (4.17%) SolarWinds
3 3 (3.13%) Ping Identity
3 3 (3.13%) TIBCO
4 2 (2.08%) Cisco
4 2 (2.08%) Fortinet
4 2 (2.08%) Google
4 2 (2.08%) Juniper
4 2 (2.08%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.08%) Rapid7
4 2 (2.08%) Splunk
4 2 (2.08%) VMware
5 1 (1.04%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.04%) OpenAI