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 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 586 336 475
Rank change year-on-year -250 +139 -26
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 316 1,017 1,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 1.02% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 1.07% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 260 786 609
10th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £75,219 £75,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £102,500 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +5.13% +8.33%
75th Percentile £140,000 £144,375 £126,250
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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
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 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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 20 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 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
England -219 283 £115,000 +4.55% 209
London -97 269 £115,000 -4.17% 183
Work from Home -217 128 £111,250 +11.25% 112
UK excluding London -211 38 £72,500 +4.40% 78
Scotland -137 23 £65,000 -6.40% 2
South East +4 5 £102,500 +46.43% 52
North of England -40 5 £85,000 +23.51% 4
Northern Ireland +21 3 £105,000 +35.48% 2
North West -13 3 £125,000 +145.17% 4
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
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 (2.85%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.22%) Apache
3 4 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.27%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.27%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 120 (37.97%) AWS
2 39 (12.34%) Azure
3 18 (5.70%) GCP
4 11 (3.48%) Serverless
5 8 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (2.53%) ChatGPT
5 8 (2.53%) SaaS
6 5 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (1.27%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (1.27%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.27%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (1.27%) GitHub
7 4 (1.27%) IBM Cloud
7 4 (1.27%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.63%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.63%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.33%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.16%) Firewall
3 8 (2.53%) VPN
4 7 (2.22%) DNS
4 7 (2.22%) Network Security
4 7 (2.22%) WAN
5 6 (1.90%) BGP
5 6 (1.90%) DHCP
5 6 (1.90%) OSPF
6 5 (1.58%) LAN
7 3 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.95%) EIGRP
7 3 (0.95%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.95%) MPLS
7 3 (0.95%) Multicast
7 3 (0.95%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.63%) SNMP
9 1 (0.32%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.91%) NoSQL
2 18 (5.70%) MySQL
3 10 (3.16%) Redis
3 10 (3.16%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.85%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.90%) Big Data
5 6 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.58%) Flink
6 5 (1.58%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.58%) Tableau
7 4 (1.27%) Power BI
8 3 (0.95%) Event Store
9 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.32%) KDB
9 1 (0.32%) Looker
9 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.32%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 25 (7.91%) Git
2 18 (5.70%) Jenkins
3 15 (4.75%) GitLab
4 4 (1.27%) JIRA
4 4 (1.27%) Maven
4 4 (1.27%) Selenium
5 3 (0.95%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.63%) JUnit
7 1 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.32%) GCC
7 1 (0.32%) GDB
7 1 (0.32%) Mockito
7 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 137 (43.35%) Finance
2 92 (29.11%) Social Skills
3 68 (21.52%) Front Office
4 51 (16.14%) Banking
5 38 (12.03%) Investment Banking
6 28 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.11%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.53%) Games
10 6 (1.90%) Retail
11 2 (0.63%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.32%) Back Office
12 1 (0.32%) Marketing
12 1 (0.32%) Military
12 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 202 (63.92%) Developer
2 113 (35.76%) Java Developer
3 81 (25.63%) Senior
4 55 (17.41%) Senior Developer
5 38 (12.03%) C++ Developer
6 37 (11.71%) Senior Java Developer
7 35 (11.08%) Lead
8 34 (10.76%) Software Engineer
9 32 (10.13%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 30 (9.49%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 26 (8.23%) Lead Developer
12 19 (6.01%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 19 (6.01%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 18 (5.70%) Java Engineer
13 18 (5.70%) Python Engineer
14 17 (5.38%) .NET Developer
15 14 (4.43%) C# Developer
16 13 (4.11%) Front Office Developer
17 12 (3.80%) C++/Java Developer
17 12 (3.80%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (11.71%) Spring Boot
2 35 (11.08%) Kafka
3 30 (9.49%) .NET
4 29 (9.18%) Spring
5 20 (6.33%) React
6 15 (4.75%) FIX Protocol
7 14 (4.43%) .NET Core
8 13 (4.11%) AngularJS
9 12 (3.80%) Hibernate
10 11 (3.48%) RESTful
11 9 (2.85%) Node.js
11 9 (2.85%) Vue
12 7 (2.22%) JSON
12 7 (2.22%) REST
13 6 (1.90%) LDAP
14 5 (1.58%) Middleware
14 5 (1.58%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (1.58%) Rendezvous
14 5 (1.58%) Web Services
15 4 (1.27%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 59 (18.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 42 (13.29%) Hedge funds
3 32 (10.13%) Client/Server
4 31 (9.81%) Equities
4 31 (9.81%) FPGA
5 26 (8.23%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (7.91%) Algorithms
7 22 (6.96%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (6.33%) Fixed Income
9 9 (2.85%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.90%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.90%) Sports Betting
11 5 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.58%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.27%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.95%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.95%) Product Ownership
14 2 (0.63%) Verilog
14 2 (0.63%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 59 (18.67%) Linux
2 17 (5.38%) Unix
3 15 (4.75%) Windows
4 5 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.95%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.63%) CentOS
7 1 (0.32%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (32.91%) Multithreading
2 76 (24.05%) Computer Science
3 72 (22.78%) Software Engineering
4 68 (21.52%) Agile
5 67 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (18.67%) Electronic Trading
7 57 (18.04%) Microservices
8 56 (17.72%) Fintech
9 34 (10.76%) High-Frequency Trading
9 34 (10.76%) Mathematics
10 32 (10.13%) DevOps
10 32 (10.13%) SDLC
11 27 (8.54%) Full Stack Development
12 26 (8.23%) CI/CD
12 26 (8.23%) Concurrent Programming
12 26 (8.23%) TDD
13 25 (7.91%) Algorithmic Trading
14 24 (7.59%) Test Automation
15 22 (6.96%) Ultra-Low Latency
16 20 (6.33%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 183 (57.91%) Java
2 83 (26.27%) Python
3 74 (23.42%) C++
4 63 (19.94%) C#
5 39 (12.34%) SQL
6 31 (9.81%) C
7 28 (8.86%) Rust
8 27 (8.54%) JavaScript
9 13 (4.11%) Perl
10 10 (3.16%) Go
10 10 (3.16%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.58%) Bash
12 4 (1.27%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.27%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.27%) VBA
13 3 (0.95%) F#
14 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 62 (19.62%) Degree
2 20 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (5.70%) Master's Degree
4 10 (3.16%) PhD
5 4 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.95%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.63%) CCIE
7 2 (0.63%) ISEB
8 1 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.32%) CCNP
8 1 (0.32%) CISSP
8 1 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.32%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.90%) Accessibility
1 6 (1.90%) QA
2 4 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (0.95%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 51 (16.14%) Docker
2 4 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) Lustre
3 1 (0.32%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 74 (23.42%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.65%) Ansible
3 7 (2.22%) Terraform
4 6 (1.90%) Puppet
5 3 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.63%) Grafana
6 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 2 (0.63%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.32%) Nmap
7 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (5.38%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.80%) Google
3 10 (3.16%) Cisco
4 9 (2.85%) Solace
5 8 (2.53%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.53%) TIBCO
6 7 (2.22%) Fortinet
6 7 (2.22%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.90%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.58%) IBM
8 5 (1.58%) Juniper
9 3 (0.95%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.95%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.63%) F5
10 2 (0.63%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.63%) Oracle
10 2 (0.63%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.32%) Databricks
11 1 (0.32%) NetApp
11 1 (0.32%) Workday