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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 335 484
Rank change year-on-year -253 +149 -56
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 321 1,020 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 1.03% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 1.08% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 265 790 599
10th Percentile £63,600 £60,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £102,500 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +5.13% +8.33%
75th Percentile £145,000 £142,500 £126,250
90th Percentile £165,000 £165,000 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £69,447 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% +15.75% -

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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -218 288 £115,000 +4.55% 192
London -87 273 £117,500 -2.08% 167
Work from Home -225 130 £111,250 +11.25% 100
UK excluding London -229 39 £75,000 +8.00% 65
Scotland -142 23 £65,000 -6.40% 2
North of England -23 6 £85,000 +23.51% 4
South East -5 5 £102,500 +46.43% 39
North West -6 4 £95,250 +86.82% 4
Northern Ireland +11 3 £105,000 +35.48% 2
North East - 2 £85,000 -
East of England +4 1 £120,000 +140.00% 4
South West -36 1 £110,000 +59.83% 10

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 (2.18%) Apache
3 4 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.25%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.25%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 119 (37.07%) AWS
2 39 (12.15%) Azure
3 18 (5.61%) GCP
4 11 (3.43%) Serverless
5 8 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (2.49%) ChatGPT
5 8 (2.49%) SaaS
6 5 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (1.25%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (1.25%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.25%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (1.25%) GitHub
7 4 (1.25%) IBM Cloud
7 4 (1.25%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.62%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.62%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.92%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.12%) Firewall
3 8 (2.49%) VPN
4 7 (2.18%) Network Security
5 6 (1.87%) BGP
5 6 (1.87%) DNS
5 6 (1.87%) OSPF
5 6 (1.87%) WAN
6 5 (1.56%) DHCP
7 4 (1.25%) LAN
8 3 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (0.93%) EIGRP
8 3 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.93%) MPLS
8 3 (0.93%) Multicast
8 3 (0.93%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.31%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.79%) NoSQL
2 18 (5.61%) MySQL
3 10 (3.12%) Redis
3 10 (3.12%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.80%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.87%) Big Data
5 6 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.56%) Flink
6 5 (1.56%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.56%) Tableau
7 4 (1.25%) Power BI
8 3 (0.93%) Event Store
9 2 (0.62%) Tick Data
10 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.31%) KDB
10 1 (0.31%) Looker
10 1 (0.31%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (7.79%) Git
2 18 (5.61%) Jenkins
3 15 (4.67%) GitLab
4 4 (1.25%) Maven
4 4 (1.25%) Selenium
5 3 (0.93%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.62%) JIRA
6 2 (0.62%) JUnit
7 1 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.31%) GCC
7 1 (0.31%) GDB
7 1 (0.31%) Mockito
7 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 134 (41.74%) Finance
2 95 (29.60%) Social Skills
3 72 (22.43%) Front Office
4 57 (17.76%) Banking
5 44 (13.71%) Investment Banking
6 28 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.05%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.49%) Games
10 6 (1.87%) 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 (64.80%) Developer
2 117 (36.45%) Java Developer
3 80 (24.92%) Senior
4 55 (17.13%) Senior Developer
5 39 (12.15%) C++ Developer
6 37 (11.53%) Senior Java Developer
7 36 (11.21%) Lead
8 34 (10.59%) Software Engineer
9 33 (10.28%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 30 (9.35%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 26 (8.10%) Lead Developer
12 21 (6.54%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 21 (6.54%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 18 (5.61%) Java Engineer
13 18 (5.61%) Python Engineer
14 17 (5.30%) .NET Developer
15 14 (4.36%) C# Developer
16 13 (4.05%) Front Office Developer
17 12 (3.74%) Java Software Engineer
17 12 (3.74%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.21%) Spring Boot
2 35 (10.90%) Kafka
3 30 (9.35%) .NET
4 29 (9.03%) Spring
5 20 (6.23%) React
6 15 (4.67%) FIX Protocol
7 14 (4.36%) .NET Core
8 13 (4.05%) AngularJS
9 12 (3.74%) Hibernate
10 11 (3.43%) RESTful
11 9 (2.80%) Node.js
11 9 (2.80%) Vue
12 7 (2.18%) JSON
12 7 (2.18%) REST
13 6 (1.87%) Middleware
14 5 (1.56%) LDAP
14 5 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (1.56%) Rendezvous
14 5 (1.56%) Web Services
15 4 (1.25%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 61 (19.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 42 (13.08%) Hedge funds
3 34 (10.59%) Equities
4 32 (9.97%) Client/Server
5 31 (9.66%) FPGA
6 27 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (7.79%) Algorithms
8 23 (7.17%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (6.85%) Fixed Income
10 9 (2.80%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.87%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.87%) Sports Betting
12 5 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.56%) Data Centre
13 4 (1.25%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
14 3 (0.93%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.93%) Product Ownership
15 2 (0.62%) Verilog
15 2 (0.62%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 61 (19.00%) Linux
2 16 (4.98%) Unix
3 15 (4.67%) Windows
4 5 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.56%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.93%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.31%) CentOS
6 1 (0.31%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (34.58%) Multithreading
2 79 (24.61%) Computer Science
3 72 (22.43%) Software Engineering
4 70 (21.81%) Agile
5 68 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (19.31%) Electronic Trading
7 57 (17.76%) Microservices
8 55 (17.13%) Fintech
9 38 (11.84%) Mathematics
10 34 (10.59%) High-Frequency Trading
11 32 (9.97%) DevOps
11 32 (9.97%) SDLC
12 29 (9.03%) Concurrent Programming
13 28 (8.72%) Algorithmic Trading
13 28 (8.72%) Full Stack Development
13 28 (8.72%) TDD
14 26 (8.10%) CI/CD
15 24 (7.48%) Test Automation
16 23 (7.17%) Ultra-Low Latency
17 20 (6.23%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 187 (58.26%) Java
2 82 (25.55%) Python
3 75 (23.36%) C++
4 63 (19.63%) C#
5 40 (12.46%) SQL
6 31 (9.66%) C
7 28 (8.72%) Rust
8 27 (8.41%) JavaScript
9 12 (3.74%) Perl
10 10 (3.12%) Go
10 10 (3.12%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.56%) Bash
12 4 (1.25%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.25%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.25%) VBA
13 3 (0.93%) F#
14 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 62 (19.31%) Degree
2 20 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (5.61%) Master's Degree
4 10 (3.12%) PhD
5 4 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.93%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.62%) CCIE
7 2 (0.62%) ISEB
8 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.31%) CCNP
8 1 (0.31%) CISSP
8 1 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.31%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.87%) Accessibility
1 6 (1.87%) QA
2 4 (1.25%) 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 50 (15.58%) Docker
2 4 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Lustre
3 1 (0.31%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 74 (23.05%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.23%) Ansible
3 7 (2.18%) Terraform
4 6 (1.87%) Puppet
5 3 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.62%) Grafana
6 2 (0.62%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.31%) Nmap
7 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 17 (5.30%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.74%) Google
3 10 (3.12%) Cisco
4 9 (2.80%) Solace
5 8 (2.49%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.49%) TIBCO
6 7 (2.18%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.87%) Palo Alto
7 6 (1.87%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.56%) IBM
8 5 (1.56%) Juniper
9 3 (0.93%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.62%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.62%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.62%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.31%) Databricks
11 1 (0.31%) F5
11 1 (0.31%) NetApp
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle
11 1 (0.31%) Workday