Low Latency Jobs in London

Low Latency
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 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 258 167 298
Rank change year-on-year -91 +131 -28
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 273 686 1,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.13% 2.15% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 2.26% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 222 603 484
10th Percentile £67,750 £75,000 £67,875
25th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £120,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +17.07% +10.81%
75th Percentile £145,938 £150,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £175,000 £150,000
England median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,759 30,392 71,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.06% 95.23% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 15,918 22,244 34,287
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in London

Low Latency
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Low Latency in London

Low Latency
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Low Latency in London

Low Latency
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Low Latency within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London -37 41 £92,250 -16.14% 10
East London - 6 £150,000 -
Low Latency
England

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (2.56%) Apache
2 4 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.47%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.37%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 98 (35.90%) AWS
2 23 (8.42%) Azure
3 8 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (2.93%) Serverless
4 5 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (1.83%) GCP
5 4 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (1.47%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (1.47%) Amazon S3
5 4 (1.47%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (1.47%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.10%) SaaS
7 2 (0.73%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.73%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.96%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.56%) DNS
3 6 (2.20%) DHCP
3 6 (2.20%) Firewall
4 4 (1.47%) Network Security
4 4 (1.47%) VPN
4 4 (1.47%) WAN
5 3 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.73%) BGP
6 2 (0.73%) LAN
6 2 (0.73%) Multicast
6 2 (0.73%) OSPF
6 2 (0.73%) SNMP
7 1 (0.37%) DNSSEC
7 1 (0.37%) IPv4
7 1 (0.37%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 15 (5.49%) MySQL
3 12 (4.40%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.30%) Redis
4 9 (3.30%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.83%) Big Data
5 5 (1.83%) Flink
5 5 (1.83%) Tableau
6 4 (1.47%) Power BI
7 3 (1.10%) Event Store
8 2 (0.73%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.37%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.37%) KDB
9 1 (0.37%) Looker
9 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.37%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (5.49%) Git
2 14 (5.13%) GitLab
2 14 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.10%) JIRA
4 2 (0.73%) JUnit
5 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.37%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.37%) GCC
5 1 (0.37%) GDB
5 1 (0.37%) Mockito
5 1 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 124 (45.42%) Finance
2 74 (27.11%) Social Skills
3 68 (24.91%) Front Office
4 47 (17.22%) Banking
5 38 (13.92%) Investment Banking
6 25 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.13%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.93%) Games
9 6 (2.20%) Retail
10 3 (1.10%) Law
10 3 (1.10%) Legal
11 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.37%) Back Office
12 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.37%) Marketing
12 1 (0.37%) Military
12 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 192 (70.33%) Developer
2 110 (40.29%) Java Developer
3 73 (26.74%) Senior
4 49 (17.95%) Senior Developer
5 36 (13.19%) Senior Java Developer
6 34 (12.45%) C++ Developer
7 31 (11.36%) Low Latency Java Developer
8 30 (10.99%) Lead
8 30 (10.99%) Software Engineer
9 27 (9.89%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 26 (9.52%) Lead Developer
11 22 (8.06%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 20 (7.33%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 17 (6.23%) .NET Developer
14 16 (5.86%) Python Engineer
15 15 (5.49%) C# Developer
16 12 (4.40%) C++/Java Developer
16 12 (4.40%) Quantitative Developer
17 11 (4.03%) Front Office Developer
17 11 (4.03%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.55%) Spring Boot
2 29 (10.62%) .NET
3 28 (10.26%) Kafka
4 25 (9.16%) Spring
5 14 (5.13%) FIX Protocol
5 14 (5.13%) React
6 13 (4.76%) .NET Core
7 11 (4.03%) Hibernate
8 7 (2.56%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.56%) RESTful
9 6 (2.20%) LDAP
10 5 (1.83%) Apache Wicket
10 5 (1.83%) gRPC
10 5 (1.83%) JPA
10 5 (1.83%) JSF
10 5 (1.83%) Middleware
10 5 (1.83%) Rendezvous
10 5 (1.83%) Spring MVC
10 5 (1.83%) Vaadin
11 4 (1.47%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 57 (20.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 43 (15.75%) Hedge funds
3 33 (12.09%) Client/Server
3 33 (12.09%) Equities
4 27 (9.89%) FPGA
5 21 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (6.59%) Fixed Income
8 14 (5.13%) Algorithms
9 10 (3.66%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.83%) Sports Betting
11 4 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.47%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.10%) Blockchain
12 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.10%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.10%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.73%) ASIC
13 2 (0.73%) Verilog
13 2 (0.73%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 54 (19.78%) Linux
2 17 (6.23%) Unix
3 10 (3.66%) Windows
4 5 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.83%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.73%) CentOS
6 1 (0.37%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 76 (27.84%) Computer Science
3 66 (24.18%) Software Engineering
4 62 (22.71%) Electronic Trading
5 59 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (20.51%) Agile
7 49 (17.95%) Fintech
8 45 (16.48%) Microservices
9 33 (12.09%) High-Frequency Trading
9 33 (12.09%) Mathematics
10 32 (11.72%) SDLC
11 27 (9.89%) Algorithmic Trading
12 23 (8.42%) DevOps
13 22 (8.06%) Full Stack Development
14 21 (7.69%) TDD
14 21 (7.69%) Ultra-Low Latency
15 20 (7.33%) Test Automation
16 18 (6.59%) CI/CD
17 17 (6.23%) Concurrent Programming
17 17 (6.23%) OO
Programming Languages
1 169 (61.90%) Java
2 70 (25.64%) Python
3 64 (23.44%) C++
4 62 (22.71%) C#
5 35 (12.82%) SQL
6 30 (10.99%) Rust
7 28 (10.26%) C
8 16 (5.86%) JavaScript
9 12 (4.40%) Perl
10 7 (2.56%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.20%) Go
12 5 (1.83%) Bash
13 4 (1.47%) F#
13 4 (1.47%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.47%) VBA
14 3 (1.10%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.73%) Solidity
16 1 (0.37%) PHP
16 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (18.32%) Degree
2 17 (6.23%) Master's Degree
3 16 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.20%) PhD
5 3 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.73%) CCIE
6 2 (0.73%) ISEB
7 1 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.37%) CISSP
7 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.83%) QA
2 2 (0.73%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.37%) NIST
System Software
1 49 (17.95%) Docker
2 4 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 63 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.76%) Ansible
3 7 (2.56%) Terraform
4 5 (1.83%) Puppet
5 3 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (0.37%) Grafana
7 1 (0.37%) Nmap
7 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (5.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.56%) Red Hat
3 6 (2.20%) Cisco
3 6 (2.20%) Solace
4 5 (1.83%) TIBCO
5 4 (1.47%) Google
6 3 (1.10%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.10%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.10%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.73%) F5
7 2 (0.73%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.73%) Juniper
7 2 (0.73%) Oracle
8 1 (0.37%) Databricks
8 1 (0.37%) IBM
8 1 (0.37%) NetApp