Low Latency Jobs with Work from Home Options

Low Latency
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 472 229 493
Rank change year-on-year -243 +264 -79
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 121 583 449
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 1.52% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 1.58% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 96 427 227
10th Percentile £70,000 £59,758 £60,000
25th Percentile £75,219 £75,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +33.33%
75th Percentile £133,750 £140,000 £130,625
90th Percentile £146,250 £160,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £110,000 £105,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,322 36,922 72,167
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.16% 96.00% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,561 26,118 41,820
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Low Latency
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Low Latency as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Low Latency trend for jobs with a WFH option

Low Latency
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Low Latency over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

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 (3.31%) Apache
1 4 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.65%) MQSeries
Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 41 (33.88%) AWS
2 24 (19.83%) Azure
3 6 (4.96%) GCP
4 4 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (3.31%) Amazon Kinesis
4 4 (3.31%) Amazon S3
4 4 (3.31%) AWS CodePipeline
4 4 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (3.31%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (3.31%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.31%) Serverless
5 3 (2.48%) SaaS
6 2 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.65%) GitHub
6 2 (1.65%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.22%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.79%) Network Security
3 5 (4.13%) BGP
3 5 (4.13%) DNS
3 5 (4.13%) Firewall
3 5 (4.13%) OSPF
3 5 (4.13%) WAN
4 4 (3.31%) DHCP
5 3 (2.48%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (2.48%) EIGRP
5 3 (2.48%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (2.48%) LAN
5 3 (2.48%) MPLS
5 3 (2.48%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.48%) VPN
5 3 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.65%) Multicast
7 1 (0.83%) DNSSEC
7 1 (0.83%) IPv4
7 1 (0.83%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.13%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.31%) Flink
2 4 (3.31%) Power BI
2 4 (3.31%) Tableau
3 3 (2.48%) Event Store
4 2 (1.65%) MySQL
5 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.83%) KDB
5 1 (0.83%) Redis
5 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (9.92%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.44%) GitLab
3 7 (5.79%) Git
4 2 (1.65%) IntelliJ
4 2 (1.65%) JUnit
4 2 (1.65%) Maven
4 2 (1.65%) Selenium
5 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.83%) Mockito
5 1 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
General
1 63 (52.07%) Finance
2 41 (33.88%) Social Skills
3 22 (18.18%) Front Office
4 15 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (10.74%) Banking
6 9 (7.44%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.96%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.96%) Retail
8 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.83%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 76 (62.81%) Developer
2 46 (38.02%) Java Developer
3 41 (33.88%) Senior
4 24 (19.83%) Senior Developer
5 23 (19.01%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 20 (16.53%) C++ Developer
7 17 (14.05%) Senior Java Developer
8 16 (13.22%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 13 (10.74%) Python Engineer
10 12 (9.92%) C# Developer
10 12 (9.92%) C++/Java Developer
10 12 (9.92%) Lead
10 12 (9.92%) Software Engineer
11 10 (8.26%) Lead Developer
12 8 (6.61%) Full Stack Developer
12 8 (6.61%) Lead Java Developer
13 7 (5.79%) React Developer
14 6 (4.96%) .NET Developer
14 6 (4.96%) Java Engineer
14 6 (4.96%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.57%) .NET
2 12 (9.92%) .NET Core
2 12 (9.92%) React
3 11 (9.09%) Kafka
4 10 (8.26%) Spring
5 8 (6.61%) Node.js
6 7 (5.79%) AngularJS
7 6 (4.96%) RESTful
8 5 (4.13%) Spring Boot
9 4 (3.31%) CSS
9 4 (3.31%) HTML
9 4 (3.31%) JSON
9 4 (3.31%) Vue
10 3 (2.48%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (2.48%) Web Services
11 2 (1.65%) Hibernate
11 2 (1.65%) OpenMP
11 2 (1.65%) REST
11 2 (1.65%) WebSphere MQ
12 1 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.83%) FPGA
2 22 (18.18%) Client/Server
3 19 (15.70%) Equities
3 19 (15.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (14.05%) Hedge funds
5 7 (5.79%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.96%) Sports Betting
7 5 (4.13%) Data Centre
7 5 (4.13%) Data Structures
7 5 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (3.31%) Algorithms
8 4 (3.31%) Fixed Income
8 4 (3.31%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.48%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.65%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.65%) Verilog
10 2 (1.65%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 28 (23.14%) Linux
2 8 (6.61%) Windows
3 4 (3.31%) Unix
3 4 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.02%) Multithreading
2 32 (26.45%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (23.97%) Computer Science
4 28 (23.14%) Software Engineering
5 22 (18.18%) Agile
6 20 (16.53%) Microservices
7 18 (14.88%) Fintech
8 16 (13.22%) Ultra-Low Latency
9 15 (12.40%) CI/CD
10 13 (10.74%) DevOps
11 12 (9.92%) Full Stack Development
11 12 (9.92%) SDLC
12 11 (9.09%) Mathematics
13 10 (8.26%) Mentoring
13 10 (8.26%) Quantitative Trading
14 9 (7.44%) Concurrent Programming
14 9 (7.44%) Containerisation
14 9 (7.44%) Front End Development
15 7 (5.79%) Disaster Recovery
15 7 (5.79%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 64 (52.89%) Java
2 34 (28.10%) C#
3 32 (26.45%) C++
4 27 (22.31%) Python
5 18 (14.88%) C
5 18 (14.88%) SQL
6 12 (9.92%) JavaScript
7 8 (6.61%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.31%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.31%) VBA
9 2 (1.65%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.83%) Bash
10 1 (0.83%) F#
10 1 (0.83%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (19.83%) Degree
2 5 (4.13%) PhD
3 3 (2.48%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.48%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.65%) CCIE
4 2 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.48%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (8.26%) Docker
2 4 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.83%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 28 (23.14%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.13%) Terraform
3 2 (1.65%) Ansible
4 1 (0.83%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.13%) Cisco
2 5 (4.13%) Juniper
3 3 (2.48%) Fortinet
3 3 (2.48%) Google
3 3 (2.48%) Palo Alto
3 3 (2.48%) Solace
3 3 (2.48%) SolarWinds
4 2 (1.65%) IBM
4 2 (1.65%) TIBCO
5 1 (0.83%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.83%) Red Hat