Low Latency Jobs with Work from Home Options

Low Latency
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 447 230 510
Rank change year-on-year -217 +280 -107
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 128 613 392
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.38% 1.51% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 1.57% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 102 445 216
10th Percentile £68,000 £58,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £75,219 £72,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £111,250 £100,000 £98,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% +1.27% +36.21%
75th Percentile £133,750 £137,500 £131,563
90th Percentile £146,250 £160,000 £143,750
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,838 38,971 69,157
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.04% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,338 27,094 41,652
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Low Latency
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Low Latency as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Low Latency trend for jobs with a WFH option

Low Latency
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Low Latency.

Low Latency salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Low Latency
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Low Latency over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Low Latency salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (3.13%) Apache
1 4 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.56%) MQSeries
Applications
1 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 45 (35.16%) AWS
2 27 (21.09%) Azure
3 8 (6.25%) GCP
4 5 (3.91%) SaaS
5 4 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (3.13%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (3.13%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.13%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (3.13%) GitHub
5 4 (3.13%) IBM Cloud
5 4 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.13%) Serverless
6 2 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.78%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 16 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.47%) Network Security
3 5 (3.91%) BGP
3 5 (3.91%) DNS
3 5 (3.91%) Firewall
3 5 (3.91%) OSPF
3 5 (3.91%) WAN
4 4 (3.13%) DHCP
5 3 (2.34%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (2.34%) EIGRP
5 3 (2.34%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (2.34%) LAN
5 3 (2.34%) MPLS
5 3 (2.34%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.34%) VPN
5 3 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.56%) Multicast
7 1 (0.78%) DNSSEC
7 1 (0.78%) IPv4
7 1 (0.78%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.69%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.13%) Flink
2 4 (3.13%) Power BI
2 4 (3.13%) Tableau
3 3 (2.34%) Event Store
4 2 (1.56%) MySQL
4 2 (1.56%) Redis
5 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.78%) KDB
5 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (10.94%) Jenkins
2 10 (7.81%) Git
2 10 (7.81%) GitLab
3 4 (3.13%) Maven
3 4 (3.13%) Selenium
4 2 (1.56%) IntelliJ
4 2 (1.56%) JUnit
5 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.78%) Mockito
5 1 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
General
1 67 (52.34%) Finance
2 43 (33.59%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.19%) Front Office
4 15 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.72%) Banking
5 9 (7.03%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.69%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.69%) Retail
7 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.78%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 77 (60.16%) Developer
2 47 (36.72%) Java Developer
3 42 (32.81%) Senior
4 25 (19.53%) Senior Developer
5 23 (17.97%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 20 (15.63%) C++ Developer
7 17 (13.28%) Senior Java Developer
8 16 (12.50%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 15 (11.72%) Python Engineer
10 14 (10.94%) Software Engineer
11 13 (10.16%) Lead
12 12 (9.38%) C++/Java Developer
13 11 (8.59%) C# Developer
14 10 (7.81%) Lead Developer
15 8 (6.25%) Full Stack Developer
15 8 (6.25%) Java Engineer
15 8 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
15 8 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
16 7 (5.47%) React Developer
17 6 (4.69%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.94%) .NET
1 14 (10.94%) Kafka
2 13 (10.16%) .NET Core
2 13 (10.16%) React
3 12 (9.38%) Spring
4 8 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 8 (6.25%) Node.js
4 8 (6.25%) RESTful
5 7 (5.47%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.69%) JSON
7 5 (3.91%) REST
7 5 (3.91%) Web Services
8 4 (3.13%) CSS
8 4 (3.13%) HTML
8 4 (3.13%) Vue
8 4 (3.13%) WebSphere MQ
9 2 (1.56%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (1.56%) Hibernate
9 2 (1.56%) LINQ
9 2 (1.56%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.75%) FPGA
2 21 (16.41%) Client/Server
3 20 (15.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 19 (14.84%) Equities
5 17 (13.28%) Hedge funds
6 7 (5.47%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (4.69%) Sports Betting
8 5 (3.91%) Data Centre
8 5 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (3.13%) Algorithms
9 4 (3.13%) Data Structures
9 4 (3.13%) Fixed Income
9 4 (3.13%) Virtual Team
10 3 (2.34%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (2.34%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.56%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.56%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.56%) Verilog
11 2 (1.56%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 29 (22.66%) Linux
2 8 (6.25%) Windows
3 4 (3.13%) Unix
3 4 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (35.94%) Multithreading
2 32 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (23.44%) Computer Science
3 30 (23.44%) Software Engineering
4 26 (20.31%) Agile
5 24 (18.75%) Microservices
6 22 (17.19%) Fintech
7 17 (13.28%) CI/CD
8 16 (12.50%) DevOps
8 16 (12.50%) Ultra-Low Latency
9 14 (10.94%) SDLC
10 13 (10.16%) Mathematics
11 12 (9.38%) Full Stack Development
11 12 (9.38%) Mentoring
12 10 (7.81%) Front End Development
12 10 (7.81%) Quantitative Trading
13 9 (7.03%) Concurrent Programming
13 9 (7.03%) Containerisation
14 7 (5.47%) Disaster Recovery
14 7 (5.47%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 67 (52.34%) Java
2 34 (26.56%) C#
3 32 (25.00%) C++
4 29 (22.66%) Python
5 22 (17.19%) SQL
6 18 (14.06%) C
7 13 (10.16%) JavaScript
8 9 (7.03%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.13%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.13%) VBA
10 3 (2.34%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.78%) Bash
11 1 (0.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (19.53%) Degree
2 5 (3.91%) PhD
3 3 (2.34%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.34%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.56%) CCIE
4 2 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.34%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 13 (10.16%) Docker
2 4 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.78%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 31 (24.22%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.91%) Terraform
3 2 (1.56%) Ansible
4 1 (0.78%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (8.59%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.91%) Cisco
2 5 (3.91%) Google
2 5 (3.91%) Juniper
3 4 (3.13%) IBM
4 3 (2.34%) Fortinet
4 3 (2.34%) Palo Alto
4 3 (2.34%) Solace
4 3 (2.34%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.56%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.78%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat