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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 594 342 480
Rank change year-on-year -252 +138 -46
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 322 1,027 1,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 1.02% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 1.06% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 267 792 577
10th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £53,970
25th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £145,000 £140,000 £127,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £165,000 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,447 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.40% +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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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 10 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 10 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 -202 289 £117,500 +6.82% 138
London -81 274 £117,500 -2.08% 117
Work from Home -233 132 £112,500 +15.38% 72
UK excluding London -222 40 £72,500 +4.40% 28
Scotland -137 24 £65,000 -6.40% 1
North of England -30 6 £85,000 +66.72% 1
South East +2 5 £102,500 +46.43% 8
North West -8 4 £95,250 +86.82% 1
Northern Ireland +12 3 £105,000 +35.48% 3
North East - 2 £85,000 -
East of England +18 1 £120,000 +140.00% 4
South West -30 1 £110,000 +59.83% 7

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 (2.17%) Apache
3 4 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.24%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.24%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 118 (36.65%) AWS
2 40 (12.42%) Azure
3 18 (5.59%) GCP
4 11 (3.42%) Serverless
5 8 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (2.48%) ChatGPT
5 8 (2.48%) SaaS
6 5 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (1.24%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (1.24%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.24%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (1.24%) GitHub
7 4 (1.24%) IBM Cloud
7 4 (1.24%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.62%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.62%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.90%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.11%) Firewall
3 8 (2.48%) VPN
4 7 (2.17%) Network Security
5 6 (1.86%) BGP
5 6 (1.86%) OSPF
5 6 (1.86%) WAN
6 5 (1.55%) DHCP
6 5 (1.55%) DNS
7 4 (1.24%) 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%) HSRP
9 1 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.76%) NoSQL
2 18 (5.59%) MySQL
3 11 (3.42%) Redis
4 10 (3.11%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.80%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.86%) Big Data
8 5 (1.55%) Flink
8 5 (1.55%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.55%) Tableau
9 4 (1.24%) Power BI
10 3 (0.93%) Event Store
11 2 (0.62%) Tick Data
12 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.31%) KDB
12 1 (0.31%) Looker
12 1 (0.31%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (7.76%) Git
2 18 (5.59%) Jenkins
3 15 (4.66%) GitLab
4 4 (1.24%) Maven
4 4 (1.24%) 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
1 130 (40.37%) Finance
2 98 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 73 (22.67%) Front Office
4 57 (17.70%) Banking
5 44 (13.66%) Investment Banking
6 28 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.04%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.48%) Games
10 6 (1.86%) 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
1 209 (64.91%) Developer
2 117 (36.34%) Java Developer
3 80 (24.84%) Senior
4 55 (17.08%) Senior Developer
5 39 (12.11%) C++ Developer
6 35 (10.87%) Lead
6 35 (10.87%) Senior Java Developer
6 35 (10.87%) Software Engineer
7 33 (10.25%) Low Latency Java Developer
8 30 (9.32%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 25 (7.76%) Lead Developer
10 22 (6.83%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 22 (6.83%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 19 (5.90%) Python Engineer
12 18 (5.59%) .NET Developer
12 18 (5.59%) Java Engineer
13 15 (4.66%) Front Office Developer
14 14 (4.35%) C# Developer
15 13 (4.04%) Quantitative Developer
16 12 (3.73%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (11.49%) Kafka
2 34 (10.56%) Spring Boot
3 31 (9.63%) .NET
4 29 (9.01%) Spring
5 22 (6.83%) React
6 15 (4.66%) .NET Core
7 14 (4.35%) AngularJS
7 14 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
8 12 (3.73%) Hibernate
9 11 (3.42%) RESTful
10 9 (2.80%) Node.js
10 9 (2.80%) Vue
11 8 (2.48%) REST
12 7 (2.17%) JSON
13 6 (1.86%) Middleware
13 6 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (1.55%) LDAP
14 5 (1.55%) Rendezvous
14 5 (1.55%) Web Services
15 4 (1.24%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 59 (18.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 42 (13.04%) Hedge funds
3 34 (10.56%) Equities
4 32 (9.94%) Client/Server
5 31 (9.63%) FPGA
6 27 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (7.76%) Algorithms
8 23 (7.14%) Fixed Income
8 23 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.80%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.86%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.86%) Sports Betting
11 5 (1.55%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.24%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.93%) Hackathon
13 3 (0.93%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.93%) Product Ownership
14 2 (0.62%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 60 (18.63%) Linux
2 15 (4.66%) Unix
2 15 (4.66%) Windows
3 5 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.93%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.31%) CentOS
5 1 (0.31%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (34.16%) Multithreading
2 81 (25.16%) Computer Science
3 73 (22.67%) Software Engineering
4 72 (22.36%) Agile
5 68 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (19.57%) Electronic Trading
7 59 (18.32%) Microservices
8 58 (18.01%) Fintech
9 39 (12.11%) Mathematics
10 35 (10.87%) High-Frequency Trading
11 32 (9.94%) DevOps
11 32 (9.94%) SDLC
12 30 (9.32%) Algorithmic Trading
12 30 (9.32%) Full Stack Development
13 29 (9.01%) TDD
14 28 (8.70%) Concurrent Programming
15 27 (8.39%) CI/CD
16 23 (7.14%) Test Automation
16 23 (7.14%) Ultra-Low Latency
17 18 (5.59%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 186 (57.76%) Java
2 82 (25.47%) Python
3 74 (22.98%) C++
4 63 (19.57%) C#
5 40 (12.42%) SQL
6 31 (9.63%) C
7 28 (8.70%) JavaScript
8 27 (8.39%) Rust
9 12 (3.73%) Perl
10 10 (3.11%) Go
10 10 (3.11%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.55%) Bash
12 4 (1.24%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.24%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.24%) VBA
13 3 (0.93%) F#
14 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (19.57%) Degree
2 20 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (5.59%) Master's Degree
4 10 (3.11%) PhD
5 4 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.93%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.62%) CCIE
7 2 (0.62%) ISEB
7 2 (0.62%) Numerate Degree
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%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.17%) QA
2 6 (1.86%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.93%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 50 (15.53%) Docker
2 4 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 75 (23.29%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.52%) Ansible
3 7 (2.17%) Terraform
4 6 (1.86%) 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 (5.28%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.73%) Google
3 10 (3.11%) Cisco
4 9 (2.80%) Solace
5 8 (2.48%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.48%) TIBCO
6 7 (2.17%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.86%) Palo Alto
7 6 (1.86%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.55%) IBM
8 5 (1.55%) Juniper
9 3 (0.93%) ION Trading
9 3 (0.93%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.62%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.62%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.31%) Arista
11 1 (0.31%) Databricks
11 1 (0.31%) F5
11 1 (0.31%) NetApp
11 1 (0.31%) Workday