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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 594 337 480
Rank change year-on-year -257 +143 -54
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 322 1,029 1,136
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% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 267 793 578
10th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £53,970
25th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £71,250
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 £127,188
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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
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 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 9 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% 143
London -86 274 £117,500 - 123
Work from Home -234 132 £112,500 +15.38% 76
UK excluding London -211 40 £72,500 +4.40% 26
Scotland -147 24 £65,000 -6.40% 1
North of England -24 6 £85,000 +66.72% 1
South East -7 5 £102,500 +46.43% 8
North West +3 4 £95,250 +86.82% 1
Northern Ireland +17 3 £105,000 +35.48% 3
North East - 2 £85,000 -
East of England +20 1 £120,000 +140.00% 4
South West -32 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 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 18 (5.59%) TCP/IP
2 9 (2.80%) Firewall
3 7 (2.17%) Network Security
3 7 (2.17%) VPN
4 6 (1.86%) BGP
4 6 (1.86%) OSPF
4 6 (1.86%) WAN
5 5 (1.55%) DHCP
5 5 (1.55%) DNS
6 4 (1.24%) LAN
7 3 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.93%) EIGRP
7 3 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.93%) MPLS
7 3 (0.93%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.62%) Multicast
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
1 131 (40.68%) Finance
2 97 (30.12%) Social Skills
3 73 (22.67%) Front Office
4 56 (17.39%) Banking
5 43 (13.35%) Investment Banking
6 28 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (4.35%) 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
1 210 (65.22%) Developer
2 118 (36.65%) Java Developer
3 81 (25.16%) Senior
4 56 (17.39%) Senior Developer
5 39 (12.11%) C++ Developer
6 36 (11.18%) Senior Java Developer
7 35 (10.87%) Lead
7 35 (10.87%) Software Engineer
8 34 (10.56%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 30 (9.32%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 25 (7.76%) Lead Developer
11 22 (6.83%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 22 (6.83%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 19 (5.90%) Python Engineer
13 18 (5.59%) .NET Developer
13 18 (5.59%) Java Engineer
14 15 (4.66%) Front Office Developer
15 14 (4.35%) C# Developer
16 13 (4.04%) Quantitative Developer
17 12 (3.73%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (11.49%) Kafka
2 34 (10.56%) Spring Boot
3 32 (9.94%) .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%) Rendezvous
14 5 (1.55%) Web Services
15 4 (1.24%) CSS
15 4 (1.24%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (18.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 42 (13.04%) Hedge funds
3 34 (10.56%) Equities
4 31 (9.63%) Client/Server
4 31 (9.63%) FPGA
5 27 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (7.76%) Algorithms
7 23 (7.14%) Fixed Income
7 23 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.48%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.86%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.86%) Sports Betting
10 5 (1.55%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.24%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.93%) Hackathon
12 3 (0.93%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.93%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.62%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 60 (18.63%) Linux
2 14 (4.35%) Unix
2 14 (4.35%) Windows
3 5 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.93%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.31%) CentOS
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 64 (19.88%) Electronic Trading
7 60 (18.63%) Microservices
8 59 (18.32%) Fintech
9 39 (12.11%) Mathematics
10 36 (11.18%) High-Frequency Trading
11 32 (9.94%) DevOps
12 31 (9.63%) Full Stack Development
12 31 (9.63%) SDLC
13 30 (9.32%) Algorithmic Trading
14 29 (9.01%) TDD
15 28 (8.70%) Concurrent Programming
16 27 (8.39%) CI/CD
17 23 (7.14%) Test Automation
18 22 (6.83%) Ultra-Low Latency
19 18 (5.59%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 187 (58.07%) Java
2 82 (25.47%) Python
3 74 (22.98%) C++
4 64 (19.88%) C#
5 40 (12.42%) SQL
6 30 (9.32%) C
7 28 (8.70%) JavaScript
8 27 (8.39%) Rust
9 11 (3.42%) Perl
10 10 (3.11%) Go
10 10 (3.11%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.24%) Bash
11 4 (1.24%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.24%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.24%) VBA
12 3 (0.93%) F#
13 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 64 (19.88%) Degree
2 21 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (5.90%) 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 20 (6.21%) Ansible
3 7 (2.17%) Terraform
4 5 (1.55%) Puppet
5 3 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.62%) Grafana
7 1 (0.31%) Nmap
7 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
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
8 5 (1.55%) IBM
8 5 (1.55%) Juniper
8 5 (1.55%) Red Hat
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