Ultra-Low Latency Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Ultra-Low Latency
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 427 569 653
Rank change year-on-year +142 +84 +172
Permanent jobs citing Ultra-Low Latency 3 16 6
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.019% 0.047% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.020% 0.052% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 1 13 6
10th Percentile - £97,750 £100,000
25th Percentile £153,750 £113,750 £101,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £157,500 £142,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +29.55% -
75th Percentile £161,250 £146,250 £128,125
90th Percentile - - £132,500
UK median annual salary £156,250 £142,500 £182,500
% change year-on-year +9.65% -21.92% +21.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,670 30,949 40,734
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.39% 91.59% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9,785 23,494 28,287
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%

Ultra-Low Latency
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Ultra-Low Latency
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Ultra-Low Latency salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Ultra-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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Redis
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) gRPC
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 3 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 3 (100.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) B2C
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) High-Frequency Trading
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Garbage Collection
3 1 (33.33%) Market Making
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Rust
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes