Low Latency Jobs in the UK excluding London

Low Latency
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 720 509 696
Rank change year-on-year -211 +187 -114
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 38 247 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.053% 0.42% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.44% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 30 135 113
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £39,905
25th Percentile £54,375 £56,219 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £69,447 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% +15.75% -
75th Percentile £91,934 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £95,000 £89,250
UK median annual salary £110,000 £102,500 £97,500
% change year-on-year +7.32% +5.13% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,818 56,534 68,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.50% 95.59% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 41,261 29,197 41,375
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in the UK excluding London

Low Latency
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Low Latency in the UK excluding London

Low Latency
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Low Latency in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Low Latency in the UK excluding London

Low Latency
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Scotland -137 23 £65,000 -6.40% 2
South East +4 5 £102,500 +46.43% 53
North of England -40 5 £85,000 +23.51% 7
Northern Ireland +21 3 £105,000 +35.48% 2
North West -13 3 £125,000 +145.17% 7
North East - 2 £85,000 -
East of England +6 1 £120,000 +140.00% 4
South West -32 1 £110,000 +59.83% 9
Low Latency
UK

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (7.89%) Apache Spark
1 3 (7.89%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 22 (57.89%) AWS
2 14 (36.84%) GCP
3 10 (26.32%) Azure
4 8 (21.05%) ChatGPT
5 4 (10.53%) GitHub
5 4 (10.53%) IBM Cloud
5 4 (10.53%) SaaS
6 3 (7.89%) Serverless
7 1 (2.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.89%) Big Data
2 3 (7.89%) Hadoop
2 3 (7.89%) MySQL
3 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (26.32%) Git
2 4 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.53%) Maven
2 4 (10.53%) Selenium
3 3 (7.89%) IntelliJ
4 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.63%) GitLab
4 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 16 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.68%) Finance
3 8 (21.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (13.16%) Banking
5 2 (5.26%) Front Office
6 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Developer
2 8 (21.05%) Java Engineer
2 8 (21.05%) Software Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) Senior
4 6 (15.79%) Java Developer
4 6 (15.79%) Senior Developer
5 5 (13.16%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 5 (13.16%) Lead
6 4 (10.53%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Python Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Architect
8 2 (5.26%) E-Commerce Architect
8 2 (5.26%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Front Office Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Lead Java Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Python Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.63%) AWS Software Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.68%) Vue
2 8 (21.05%) Spring
3 7 (18.42%) JSON
3 7 (18.42%) React
4 5 (13.16%) AngularJS
4 5 (13.16%) Kafka
4 5 (13.16%) Node.js
5 4 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (10.53%) REST
5 4 (10.53%) RESTful
5 4 (10.53%) Spring Boot
5 4 (10.53%) Web Services
5 4 (10.53%) WebSphere MQ
6 3 (7.89%) Hibernate
6 3 (7.89%) MLlib
6 3 (7.89%) MXNet
6 3 (7.89%) NumPy
6 3 (7.89%) PyTorch
6 3 (7.89%) scikit-learn
6 3 (7.89%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Algorithms
2 6 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.89%) Fixed Income
3 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.26%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.63%) Replication
5 1 (2.63%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Windows
2 3 (7.89%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) Microservices
2 13 (34.21%) Agile
3 12 (31.58%) Fintech
3 12 (31.58%) Multithreading
3 12 (31.58%) Software Engineering
4 11 (28.95%) Artificial Intelligence
4 11 (28.95%) Generative AI
5 8 (21.05%) Concurrent Programming
6 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
6 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.79%) DevOps
7 6 (15.79%) Machine Learning
8 5 (13.16%) API Integration
8 5 (13.16%) Full Stack Development
8 5 (13.16%) High Availability
8 5 (13.16%) SDLC
8 5 (13.16%) User Experience
8 5 (13.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 4 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (10.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (52.63%) Java
2 11 (28.95%) JavaScript
3 10 (26.32%) Python
4 4 (10.53%) C++
4 4 (10.53%) SQL
5 3 (7.89%) Go
5 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.63%) C#
6 1 (2.63%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) Degree
2 4 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (10.53%) PhD
3 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 13 (34.21%) Kubernetes
2 7 (18.42%) Ansible
3 1 (2.63%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) OpenAI
2 7 (18.42%) Google
3 4 (10.53%) IBM
4 3 (7.89%) Solace
4 3 (7.89%) TIBCO
5 2 (5.26%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.63%) Workday