Low Latency Jobs in London

Low Latency
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 264 167 317
Rank change year-on-year -97 +150 -60
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 269 717 936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.14% 2.13% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 2.23% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 224 617 460
10th Percentile £70,000 £74,050 £68,625
25th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £120,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +17.07% +10.81%
75th Percentile £146,250 £150,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £175,000 £150,000
England median annual salary £115,000 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +11.11%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,516 32,155 68,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.97% 95.34% 97.01%
Number of salaries quoted 15,872 23,232 34,355
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,171 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Low Latency
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Low Latency in London

Low Latency
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Low Latency in London

Low Latency
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Low Latency in London

Low Latency
Job Locations in 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 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
Central London -26 38 £115,000 +9.52% 13
East London - 6 £150,000 - 47
Low Latency
England

Low Latency
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 7 (2.60%) Apache
2 4 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.49%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.37%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 93 (34.57%) AWS
2 24 (8.92%) Azure
3 8 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (2.97%) Serverless
4 5 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (1.49%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (1.49%) Amazon S3
5 4 (1.49%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (1.49%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.12%) GCP
6 3 (1.12%) SaaS
7 2 (0.74%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.74%) Kong
8 1 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.37%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.43%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.60%) DNS
2 7 (2.60%) Firewall
3 6 (2.23%) DHCP
4 5 (1.86%) VPN
5 4 (1.49%) Network Security
5 4 (1.49%) WAN
6 3 (1.12%) BGP
6 3 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.12%) Multicast
6 3 (1.12%) OSPF
7 2 (0.74%) LAN
7 2 (0.74%) SNMP
8 1 (0.37%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.37%) HSRP
8 1 (0.37%) IGMP
8 1 (0.37%) IPv4
8 1 (0.37%) IPv6
8 1 (0.37%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.92%) NoSQL
2 15 (5.58%) MySQL
3 10 (3.72%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.35%) Redis
4 9 (3.35%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.86%) Flink
5 5 (1.86%) Tableau
6 4 (1.49%) Power BI
7 3 (1.12%) Big Data
7 3 (1.12%) Event Store
8 2 (0.74%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.37%) KDB
9 1 (0.37%) Looker
9 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.37%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (5.58%) Git
2 14 (5.20%) GitLab
2 14 (5.20%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.12%) JIRA
4 2 (0.74%) JUnit
5 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.37%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.37%) GCC
5 1 (0.37%) GDB
5 1 (0.37%) Mockito
5 1 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 125 (46.47%) Finance
2 73 (27.14%) Social Skills
3 66 (24.54%) Front Office
4 46 (17.10%) Banking
5 37 (13.75%) Investment Banking
6 25 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.09%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.97%) Games
9 6 (2.23%) Retail
10 2 (0.74%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.37%) Back Office
11 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.37%) Marketing
11 1 (0.37%) Military
11 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 188 (69.89%) Developer
2 104 (38.66%) Java Developer
3 70 (26.02%) Senior
4 48 (17.84%) Senior Developer
5 38 (14.13%) C++ Developer
6 33 (12.27%) Senior Java Developer
7 31 (11.52%) Low Latency Java Developer
8 30 (11.15%) Lead
8 30 (11.15%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 26 (9.67%) Lead Developer
9 26 (9.67%) Software Engineer
10 19 (7.06%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 19 (7.06%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 18 (6.69%) Python Engineer
12 17 (6.32%) .NET Developer
13 14 (5.20%) C# Developer
14 12 (4.46%) C++/Java Developer
15 11 (4.09%) Front Office Developer
15 11 (4.09%) Quantitative Developer
15 11 (4.09%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.27%) Spring Boot
2 29 (10.78%) .NET
3 28 (10.41%) Kafka
4 21 (7.81%) Spring
5 14 (5.20%) .NET Core
6 13 (4.83%) FIX Protocol
6 13 (4.83%) React
7 9 (3.35%) Hibernate
8 8 (2.97%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.60%) RESTful
10 6 (2.23%) LDAP
11 5 (1.86%) Middleware
11 5 (1.86%) Rendezvous
12 4 (1.49%) CSS
12 4 (1.49%) HTML
12 4 (1.49%) Node.js
12 4 (1.49%) ZeroMQ
13 3 (1.12%) JSF
13 3 (1.12%) REST
13 3 (1.12%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 56 (20.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 42 (15.61%) Hedge funds
3 32 (11.90%) Client/Server
4 31 (11.52%) Equities
4 31 (11.52%) FPGA
5 21 (7.81%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (6.32%) Fixed Income
8 13 (4.83%) Algorithms
9 9 (3.35%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.86%) Sports Betting
11 4 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.12%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.12%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.74%) Bitcoin
13 2 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
13 2 (0.74%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.74%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 57 (21.19%) Linux
2 17 (6.32%) Unix
3 10 (3.72%) Windows
4 5 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.86%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.74%) CentOS
6 1 (0.37%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (33.46%) Multithreading
2 73 (27.14%) Computer Science
3 60 (22.30%) Software Engineering
4 59 (21.93%) Electronic Trading
5 57 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (19.70%) Agile
7 42 (15.61%) Fintech
8 41 (15.24%) Microservices
9 34 (12.64%) High-Frequency Trading
9 34 (12.64%) Mathematics
10 27 (10.04%) SDLC
11 25 (9.29%) Algorithmic Trading
12 24 (8.92%) DevOps
13 22 (8.18%) Full Stack Development
13 22 (8.18%) Ultra-Low Latency
14 21 (7.81%) TDD
15 20 (7.43%) Test Automation
16 18 (6.69%) CI/CD
17 16 (5.95%) Automated Trading
17 16 (5.95%) Concurrent Programming
Programming Languages
1 160 (59.48%) Java
2 71 (26.39%) Python
3 68 (25.28%) C++
4 62 (23.05%) C#
5 33 (12.27%) SQL
6 31 (11.52%) C
7 28 (10.41%) Rust
8 14 (5.20%) JavaScript
9 12 (4.46%) Perl
10 7 (2.60%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.86%) Bash
11 5 (1.86%) Go
12 4 (1.49%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.49%) VBA
13 3 (1.12%) F#
13 3 (1.12%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (18.22%) Degree
2 17 (6.32%) Master's Degree
3 16 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.23%) PhD
5 4 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.74%) CCIE
6 2 (0.74%) ISEB
7 1 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.37%) CCNP
7 1 (0.37%) CISSP
7 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.23%) QA
2 2 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.37%) NIST
System Software
1 44 (16.36%) Docker
2 4 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 59 (21.93%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.20%) Ansible
3 7 (2.60%) Terraform
4 6 (2.23%) Puppet
5 3 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 2 (0.74%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.37%) Grafana
7 1 (0.37%) Nmap
7 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (5.95%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.60%) Cisco
2 7 (2.60%) Red Hat
3 6 (2.23%) Solace
4 5 (1.86%) TIBCO
5 4 (1.49%) Fortinet
5 4 (1.49%) Google
6 3 (1.12%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.12%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.74%) F5
7 2 (0.74%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.74%) Juniper
7 2 (0.74%) Oracle
8 1 (0.37%) Arista
8 1 (0.37%) Databricks
8 1 (0.37%) IBM
8 1 (0.37%) NetApp