Low Latency Jobs with Work from Home Options

Low Latency
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Low Latency skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Low Latency over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 230 491
Rank change year-on-year -258 +261 -93
Permanent jobs citing Low Latency 114 561 468
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.32% 1.50% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.56% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 90 411 235
10th Percentile £72,000 £60,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £88,125 £75,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £111,250 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% - +32.80%
75th Percentile £133,750 £140,000 £130,000
90th Percentile £146,250 £160,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £110,000 £105,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Low Latency falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,847 35,988 73,511
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.59% 96.02% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,766 25,695 42,040
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 12 June 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 (3.51%) Apache
1 4 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.75%) MQSeries
Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 39 (34.21%) AWS
2 21 (18.42%) Azure
3 4 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (3.51%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (3.51%) Amazon S3
3 4 (3.51%) AWS CodePipeline
3 4 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (3.51%) GCP
3 4 (3.51%) Power Platform
3 4 (3.51%) Serverless
4 2 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.88%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (0.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.28%) TCP/IP
2 7 (6.14%) Network Security
3 5 (4.39%) BGP
3 5 (4.39%) DNS
3 5 (4.39%) Firewall
3 5 (4.39%) OSPF
3 5 (4.39%) WAN
4 4 (3.51%) DHCP
5 3 (2.63%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (2.63%) EIGRP
5 3 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (2.63%) LAN
5 3 (2.63%) MPLS
5 3 (2.63%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.63%) VPN
5 3 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.75%) Multicast
7 1 (0.88%) DNSSEC
7 1 (0.88%) IPv4
7 1 (0.88%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.39%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.51%) Flink
2 4 (3.51%) Power BI
2 4 (3.51%) Tableau
3 3 (2.63%) Event Store
4 2 (1.75%) MySQL
4 2 (1.75%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.88%) KDB
5 1 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.02%) GitLab
3 5 (4.39%) Git
4 2 (1.75%) IntelliJ
4 2 (1.75%) JUnit
5 1 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.88%) Mockito
5 1 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (49.12%) Finance
2 36 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 20 (17.54%) Front Office
4 15 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.77%) Banking
6 8 (7.02%) Investment Banking
7 6 (5.26%) Financial Institution
7 6 (5.26%) Retail
8 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 73 (64.04%) Developer
2 44 (38.60%) Java Developer
3 39 (34.21%) Senior
4 23 (20.18%) Senior Developer
5 22 (19.30%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 18 (15.79%) C++ Developer
7 16 (14.04%) Senior Java Developer
8 14 (12.28%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 12 (10.53%) Lead
10 11 (9.65%) C# Developer
10 11 (9.65%) Python Engineer
11 10 (8.77%) C++/Java Developer
11 10 (8.77%) Lead Developer
11 10 (8.77%) Software Engineer
12 8 (7.02%) Lead Java Developer
13 7 (6.14%) Full Stack Developer
13 7 (6.14%) React Developer
14 6 (5.26%) .NET Developer
15 5 (4.39%) Full-Stack C# Developer
15 5 (4.39%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.28%) .NET
2 12 (10.53%) .NET Core
3 11 (9.65%) React
4 9 (7.89%) Kafka
5 8 (7.02%) Node.js
5 8 (7.02%) Spring
6 7 (6.14%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.51%) CSS
7 4 (3.51%) HTML
7 4 (3.51%) RESTful
7 4 (3.51%) Vue
8 3 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (2.63%) Hibernate
8 3 (2.63%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.75%) JSON
9 2 (1.75%) OpenMP
10 1 (0.88%) Apache Wicket
10 1 (0.88%) GWT
10 1 (0.88%) JSF
10 1 (0.88%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.30%) Client/Server
1 22 (19.30%) FPGA
2 19 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (14.91%) Equities
3 17 (14.91%) Hedge funds
4 6 (5.26%) Sports Betting
5 5 (4.39%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.39%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.39%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.51%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.51%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.51%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.63%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.75%) ASIC
8 2 (1.75%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.75%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.75%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 25 (21.93%) Linux
2 8 (7.02%) Windows
3 4 (3.51%) Unix
3 4 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (38.60%) Multithreading
2 33 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (23.68%) Software Engineering
4 26 (22.81%) Computer Science
5 19 (16.67%) Agile
6 18 (15.79%) Microservices
7 17 (14.91%) Ultra-Low Latency
8 15 (13.16%) Fintech
9 14 (12.28%) CI/CD
10 11 (9.65%) DevOps
10 11 (9.65%) Full Stack Development
11 10 (8.77%) Quantitative Trading
11 10 (8.77%) SDLC
12 9 (7.89%) Concurrent Programming
12 9 (7.89%) Containerisation
12 9 (7.89%) Front End Development
13 8 (7.02%) Mathematics
13 8 (7.02%) Mentoring
14 7 (6.14%) Disaster Recovery
15 6 (5.26%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 59 (51.75%) Java
2 33 (28.95%) C#
3 29 (25.44%) C++
4 25 (21.93%) Python
5 16 (14.04%) C
5 16 (14.04%) SQL
6 11 (9.65%) JavaScript
7 7 (6.14%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.51%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.51%) VBA
9 2 (1.75%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.88%) Bash
10 1 (0.88%) F#
10 1 (0.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (19.30%) Degree
2 5 (4.39%) PhD
3 3 (2.63%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.63%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.75%) CCIE
4 2 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.63%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (7.02%) Docker
2 4 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.88%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 25 (21.93%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.39%) Terraform
3 2 (1.75%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (9.65%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.39%) Cisco
2 5 (4.39%) Juniper
3 3 (2.63%) Fortinet
3 3 (2.63%) Palo Alto
3 3 (2.63%) Solace
3 3 (2.63%) SolarWinds
4 2 (1.75%) TIBCO
5 1 (0.88%) Google
5 1 (0.88%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.88%) Red Hat