Low Latency Jobs

Low Latency
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Low Latency skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Low Latency over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 597 337 451
Rank change year-on-year -260 +114 -3
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 322 960 1,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 1.01% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 1.06% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 258 754 636
10th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £75,219 £76,563 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £105,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £140,000 £147,500 £125,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £167,500 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £69,447 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.80% +15.75% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Low Latency over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Low Latency in the UK

Low Latency
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Low Latency within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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 -224 289 £115,000 - 189
London -92 276 £115,000 -4.17% 163
Work from Home -253 121 £112,500 +12.50% 81
UK excluding London -215 36 £70,000 +0.80% 38
Scotland -123 22 £65,000 -6.40% 3
South East -20 5 £102,500 +46.43% 16
North of England -38 4 £85,000 +14.23% 5
Northern Ireland +9 2 £105,000 +35.48% 1
East of England -4 2 £100,000 +100.00% 5
North West -25 2 £125,000 +145.17% 5
North East - 2 £85,000 -
South West -38 1 £110,000 +59.83% 4

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 9 (2.80%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.17%) Apache
3 4 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.24%) Ethereum
4 3 (0.93%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.24%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 122 (37.89%) AWS
2 35 (10.87%) Azure
3 18 (5.59%) GCP
4 10 (3.11%) Serverless
5 8 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (1.86%) ChatGPT
6 6 (1.86%) SaaS
7 5 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.24%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (1.24%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.24%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (1.24%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.62%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.62%) GitHub
9 2 (0.62%) IBM Cloud
9 2 (0.62%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.90%) TCP/IP
2 9 (2.80%) Firewall
3 7 (2.17%) DNS
3 7 (2.17%) Network Security
3 7 (2.17%) VPN
3 7 (2.17%) WAN
4 6 (1.86%) DHCP
5 5 (1.55%) BGP
5 5 (1.55%) LAN
5 5 (1.55%) OSPF
6 3 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (0.93%) EIGRP
6 3 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.93%) MPLS
6 3 (0.93%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.62%) Multicast
7 2 (0.62%) SNMP
8 1 (0.31%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.39%) NoSQL
2 17 (5.28%) MySQL
3 12 (3.73%) Relational Database
4 10 (3.11%) Redis
5 9 (2.80%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.48%) Big Data
7 6 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.55%) Flink
8 5 (1.55%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.55%) Tableau
9 4 (1.24%) Power BI
10 3 (0.93%) Event Store
11 2 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.62%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.31%) Hazelcast
12 1 (0.31%) KDB
12 1 (0.31%) Looker
12 1 (0.31%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.31%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 22 (6.83%) Git
2 16 (4.97%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.35%) GitLab
4 5 (1.55%) JIRA
5 2 (0.62%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.62%) JUnit
5 2 (0.62%) Maven
5 2 (0.62%) Selenium
6 1 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.31%) GCC
6 1 (0.31%) GDB
6 1 (0.31%) Mockito
6 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 141 (43.79%) Finance
2 92 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 72 (22.36%) Front Office
4 53 (16.46%) Banking
5 40 (12.42%) Investment Banking
6 28 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (5.59%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.48%) Games
10 6 (1.86%) Law
10 6 (1.86%) Legal
10 6 (1.86%) Retail
11 2 (0.62%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.31%) Back Office
12 1 (0.31%) Marketing
12 1 (0.31%) Military
12 1 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 208 (64.60%) Developer
2 121 (37.58%) Java Developer
3 86 (26.71%) Senior
4 56 (17.39%) Senior Developer
5 40 (12.42%) Senior Java Developer
6 39 (12.11%) Software Engineer
7 34 (10.56%) C++ Developer
7 34 (10.56%) Lead
8 32 (9.94%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 27 (8.39%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 26 (8.07%) Lead Developer
11 22 (6.83%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 20 (6.21%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 17 (5.28%) .NET Developer
14 16 (4.97%) Java Engineer
14 16 (4.97%) Python Engineer
15 15 (4.66%) C# Developer
15 15 (4.66%) Front Office Developer
16 12 (3.73%) C++/Java Developer
16 12 (3.73%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (12.11%) Spring Boot
2 33 (10.25%) Kafka
3 32 (9.94%) Spring
4 30 (9.32%) .NET
5 22 (6.83%) React
6 18 (5.59%) FIX Protocol
7 13 (4.04%) .NET Core
7 13 (4.04%) Hibernate
8 11 (3.42%) AngularJS
9 9 (2.80%) Node.js
9 9 (2.80%) RESTful
10 8 (2.48%) Vue
11 6 (1.86%) LDAP
11 6 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.55%) Apache Wicket
12 5 (1.55%) JSF
12 5 (1.55%) Middleware
12 5 (1.55%) Rendezvous
12 5 (1.55%) Spring MVC
12 5 (1.55%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 61 (18.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 43 (13.35%) Hedge funds
3 33 (10.25%) Client/Server
3 33 (10.25%) Equities
4 27 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (8.39%) FPGA
5 24 (7.45%) Algorithms
6 22 (6.83%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (6.21%) Fixed Income
8 10 (3.11%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.86%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.86%) Sports Betting
10 5 (1.55%) Blockchain
10 5 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.55%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.24%) NFT
11 4 (1.24%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.93%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 56 (17.39%) Linux
2 17 (5.28%) Unix
3 14 (4.35%) Windows
4 5 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.62%) CentOS
5 2 (0.62%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.31%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (32.92%) Multithreading
2 83 (25.78%) Computer Science
3 78 (24.22%) Software Engineering
4 71 (22.05%) Agile
5 69 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (19.57%) Fintech
7 62 (19.25%) Electronic Trading
8 58 (18.01%) Microservices
9 37 (11.49%) SDLC
10 33 (10.25%) High-Frequency Trading
10 33 (10.25%) Mathematics
11 29 (9.01%) Concurrent Programming
11 29 (9.01%) DevOps
12 27 (8.39%) Algorithmic Trading
12 27 (8.39%) Full Stack Development
13 24 (7.45%) CI/CD
14 23 (7.14%) TDD
15 22 (6.83%) Test Automation
16 21 (6.52%) Ultra-Low Latency
17 19 (5.90%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 193 (59.94%) Java
2 81 (25.16%) Python
3 69 (21.43%) C++
4 63 (19.57%) C#
5 38 (11.80%) SQL
6 32 (9.94%) Rust
7 29 (9.01%) JavaScript
8 28 (8.70%) C
9 13 (4.04%) Perl
10 11 (3.42%) Go
11 9 (2.80%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.55%) Bash
13 4 (1.24%) F#
13 4 (1.24%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.24%) Solidity
13 4 (1.24%) VBA
14 3 (0.93%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.62%) Scala
15 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 61 (18.94%) Degree
2 20 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (5.90%) Master's Degree
4 11 (3.42%) PhD
5 3 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (0.93%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.62%) CCIE
6 2 (0.62%) ISEB
7 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.31%) CISSP
7 1 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.31%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.55%) Accessibility
1 5 (1.55%) QA
2 4 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (17.08%) Docker
2 4 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Lustre
3 1 (0.31%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 79 (24.53%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.90%) Ansible
3 7 (2.17%) Terraform
4 5 (1.55%) Puppet
5 3 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.62%) Grafana
6 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (0.31%) Nmap
7 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (5.28%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.80%) Cisco
2 9 (2.80%) Google
3 8 (2.48%) Solace
4 7 (2.17%) Red Hat
4 7 (2.17%) TIBCO
5 6 (1.86%) Fortinet
5 6 (1.86%) OpenAI
5 6 (1.86%) Palo Alto
6 5 (1.55%) Juniper
7 3 (0.93%) IBM
7 3 (0.93%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.93%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.62%) F5
8 2 (0.62%) ION Trading
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle
8 2 (0.62%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.31%) Databricks
9 1 (0.31%) NetApp
9 1 (0.31%) Workday