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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 608 341 448
Rank change year-on-year -267 +107 -2
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 330 929 1,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 1.00% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 1.05% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 255 728 643
10th Percentile £63,500 £61,180 £51,250
25th Percentile £75,109 £77,500 £67,500
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 £122,500
90th Percentile £162,000 £165,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £69,447 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% +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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 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 9 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 -228 299 £112,500 -2.17% 161
London -104 284 £115,000 -4.17% 135
Work from Home -239 116 £111,250 +11.25% 74
UK excluding London -227 35 £75,000 +8.00% 23
Scotland -115 19 £65,000 -6.40% 3
North of England -42 6 £85,000 +6.25% 5
South East -15 5 £102,500 +46.43% 4
North West -19 4 £125,000 +145.17% 4
Northern Ireland +7 2 £105,000 +35.48% 1
East of England -10 2 £100,000 +100.00% 3
North East - 2 £85,000 - 1
South West -38 1 £110,000 +59.83% 6

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 11 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.73%) Apache
3 4 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.21%) Ethereum
4 2 (0.61%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.42%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 128 (38.79%) AWS
2 31 (9.39%) Azure
3 19 (5.76%) GCP
4 9 (2.73%) Serverless
5 8 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (1.52%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (1.52%) SaaS
8 4 (1.21%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.21%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (1.21%) ChatGPT
8 4 (1.21%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.61%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.61%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (0.61%) Kong
10 1 (0.30%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.45%) TCP/IP
2 9 (2.73%) Firewall
3 7 (2.12%) DNS
3 7 (2.12%) Network Security
3 7 (2.12%) VPN
3 7 (2.12%) WAN
4 6 (1.82%) DHCP
5 5 (1.52%) BGP
5 5 (1.52%) LAN
5 5 (1.52%) OSPF
6 3 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (0.91%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (0.91%) EIGRP
6 3 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.91%) MPLS
6 3 (0.91%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.61%) Multicast
7 2 (0.61%) SNMP
8 1 (0.30%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.18%) NoSQL
2 19 (5.76%) MySQL
3 12 (3.64%) Redis
3 12 (3.64%) Relational Database
4 10 (3.03%) Big Data
5 9 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (2.73%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.12%) Flink
7 6 (1.82%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.52%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.52%) Tableau
9 4 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.21%) Power BI
10 3 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.91%) Event Store
11 2 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.61%) KDB
11 2 (0.61%) Tick Data
12 1 (0.30%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 20 (6.06%) Git
2 14 (4.24%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.94%) GitLab
4 5 (1.52%) JIRA
5 2 (0.61%) Gatling
5 2 (0.61%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.61%) JUnit
6 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.30%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.30%) GCC
6 1 (0.30%) GDB
6 1 (0.30%) Maven
6 1 (0.30%) Mockito
6 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.30%) Selenium
6 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 148 (44.85%) Finance
2 90 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 70 (21.21%) Front Office
4 55 (16.67%) Banking
5 39 (11.82%) Investment Banking
6 28 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (7.27%) Financial Institution
8 12 (3.64%) Law
8 12 (3.64%) Legal
9 8 (2.42%) Games
10 7 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.82%) Retail
12 2 (0.61%) Billing
12 2 (0.61%) Electronics
12 2 (0.61%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Back Office
13 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 209 (63.33%) Developer
2 122 (36.97%) Java Developer
3 92 (27.88%) Senior
4 57 (17.27%) Senior Developer
5 46 (13.94%) Software Engineer
6 42 (12.73%) Senior Java Developer
7 34 (10.30%) Lead
8 33 (10.00%) C++ Developer
9 31 (9.39%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 26 (7.88%) Lead Developer
11 25 (7.58%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 23 (6.97%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 21 (6.36%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
14 17 (5.15%) .NET Developer
15 16 (4.85%) Java Engineer
16 15 (4.55%) C# Developer
16 15 (4.55%) Front Office Developer
16 15 (4.55%) Python Engineer
17 13 (3.94%) Senior Software Engineer
18 12 (3.64%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (12.12%) Spring Boot
2 34 (10.30%) Spring
3 32 (9.70%) Kafka
4 30 (9.09%) .NET
5 24 (7.27%) React
6 19 (5.76%) FIX Protocol
7 13 (3.94%) .NET Core
7 13 (3.94%) Hibernate
8 10 (3.03%) AngularJS
9 9 (2.73%) Node.js
10 8 (2.42%) RESTful
11 7 (2.12%) Vue
12 6 (1.82%) LDAP
12 6 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (1.52%) Apache Wicket
13 5 (1.52%) JPA
13 5 (1.52%) JSF
13 5 (1.52%) Middleware
13 5 (1.52%) REST
13 5 (1.52%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 65 (19.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 45 (13.64%) Hedge funds
3 33 (10.00%) Client/Server
4 32 (9.70%) Equities
5 29 (8.79%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (7.58%) FPGA
7 22 (6.67%) Algorithms
8 21 (6.36%) Greenfield Project
9 20 (6.06%) Fixed Income
10 10 (3.03%) Data Structures
11 9 (2.73%) Blockchain
12 8 (2.42%) NFT
13 7 (2.12%) Distributed Computing
14 6 (1.82%) Onboarding
14 6 (1.82%) Sports Betting
15 5 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
15 5 (1.52%) Data Centre
16 4 (1.21%) Virtual Team
17 3 (0.91%) Management Information System
17 3 (0.91%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 55 (16.67%) Linux
2 17 (5.15%) Unix
3 15 (4.55%) Windows
4 6 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.61%) CentOS
6 2 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.30%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (31.52%) Multithreading
2 90 (27.27%) Computer Science
3 86 (26.06%) Software Engineering
4 77 (23.33%) Agile
5 69 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (20.61%) Fintech
7 63 (19.09%) Electronic Trading
8 61 (18.48%) Microservices
9 38 (11.52%) SDLC
10 33 (10.00%) Mathematics
11 32 (9.70%) High-Frequency Trading
12 31 (9.39%) DevOps
13 29 (8.79%) Algorithmic Trading
13 29 (8.79%) Concurrent Programming
14 26 (7.88%) Full Stack Development
15 24 (7.27%) CI/CD
16 23 (6.97%) TDD
16 23 (6.97%) Ultra-Low Latency
17 21 (6.36%) OO
18 20 (6.06%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 199 (60.30%) Java
2 80 (24.24%) Python
3 66 (20.00%) C++
4 63 (19.09%) C#
5 36 (10.91%) Rust
5 36 (10.91%) SQL
6 31 (9.39%) JavaScript
7 26 (7.88%) C
8 13 (3.94%) Perl
9 12 (3.64%) Go
10 8 (2.42%) Solidity
10 8 (2.42%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.82%) Scala
12 5 (1.52%) Bash
12 5 (1.52%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.21%) F#
13 4 (1.21%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.21%) VBA
14 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 60 (18.18%) Degree
2 20 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (5.76%) Master's Degree
4 11 (3.33%) PhD
5 3 (0.91%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.61%) CCIE
6 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.61%) ISEB
7 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.21%) Accessibility
1 4 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (1.21%) QA
2 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 60 (18.18%) Docker
2 4 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) Lustre
3 1 (0.30%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 85 (25.76%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.76%) Ansible
3 9 (2.73%) Terraform
4 5 (1.52%) Puppet
5 3 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (0.30%) Grafana
7 1 (0.30%) Nmap
7 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (4.85%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.73%) Cisco
3 7 (2.12%) Google
3 7 (2.12%) Red Hat
3 7 (2.12%) Solace
4 6 (1.82%) Fortinet
4 6 (1.82%) Palo Alto
4 6 (1.82%) TIBCO
5 5 (1.52%) Juniper
6 4 (1.21%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.91%) Databricks
7 3 (0.91%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.91%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.61%) F5
8 2 (0.61%) ION Trading
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle
8 2 (0.61%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.30%) IBM
9 1 (0.30%) NetApp
9 1 (0.30%) Workday