Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Protocol Buffers skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Protocol Buffers over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 475 786 650
Rank change year-on-year +311 -136 +179
Permanent jobs citing Protocol Buffers 488 166 740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.17% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.29% 0.57% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 488 150 206
10th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £107,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +7.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £143,750 £150,000 £130,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £151,250 £133,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% -12.50% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Protocol Buffers is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,317 29,159 68,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.77% 29.95% 41.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15,893 18,093 29,995
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Protocol Buffers
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Protocol Buffers as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Protocol Buffers in the UK

Protocol Buffers
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Protocol Buffers.

Salary trend for Protocol Buffers in the UK

Protocol Buffers
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Protocol Buffers over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Protocol Buffers in the UK

Protocol Buffers
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Protocol Buffers within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +328 488 £115,000 +6.98% 16
London +324 481 £115,000 +6.98% 14
Work from Home +236 383 £135,000 +25.58% 16
UK excluding London -18 7 £67,500 -3.57% 2
East of England - 3 £67,500 -
Midlands - 3 £72,500 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £72,500 - 1
South West -28 1 £78,000 +11.43% 1

Protocol Buffers
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
1 481 (98.57%) Apache Airflow
2 406 (83.20%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 484 (99.18%) AWS
2 352 (72.13%) dbt
3 306 (62.70%) Snowflake
4 279 (57.17%) GCP
5 126 (25.82%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 406 (83.20%) Apache Ignite
2 352 (72.13%) Amazon Athena
2 352 (72.13%) Apache Arrow
2 352 (72.13%) Dremio
3 306 (62.70%) Data Lake
4 105 (21.52%) PostgreSQL
5 54 (11.07%) Big Data
6 3 (0.61%) Redis
7 1 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.20%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.20%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.20%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 63 (12.91%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.20%) Git
2 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.20%) JUnit
2 1 (0.20%) Maven
General
1 485 (99.39%) Finance
2 427 (87.50%) Front Office
3 379 (77.66%) Banking
4 271 (55.53%) Investment Banking
5 3 (0.61%) Electronics
6 1 (0.20%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 306 (62.70%) Software Engineer
2 229 (46.93%) Python Engineer
2 229 (46.93%) Python Software Engineer
3 217 (44.47%) Developer
4 214 (43.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 171 (35.04%) AWS Engineer
6 168 (34.43%) Python Developer
7 117 (23.98%) AWS Software Engineer
8 115 (23.57%) Lead
8 115 (23.57%) React Developer
9 99 (20.29%) Senior
10 97 (19.88%) Senior Software Engineer
11 94 (19.26%) Java Engineer
11 94 (19.26%) Java Software Engineer
12 70 (14.34%) Software Developer
13 60 (12.30%) Architect
14 59 (12.09%) Solutions Architect
14 59 (12.09%) Team Leader
15 56 (11.48%) Lead Software Engineer
15 56 (11.48%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 485 (99.39%) gRPC
2 301 (61.68%) Pandas
3 289 (59.22%) NumPy
3 289 (59.22%) SciPy
4 159 (32.58%) React
5 144 (29.51%) Redux
6 111 (22.75%) Material-UI
7 36 (7.38%) Node.js
8 31 (6.35%) AngularJS
9 30 (6.15%) Vue
10 9 (1.84%) .NET
10 9 (1.84%) ASP.NET
10 9 (1.84%) ASP.NET Core
11 3 (0.61%) CSS
11 3 (0.61%) Django
11 3 (0.61%) HTML
11 3 (0.61%) JSON
12 1 (0.20%) Java SE
12 1 (0.20%) JPA
12 1 (0.20%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 426 (87.30%) Fixed Income
1 426 (87.30%) Hedge funds
2 337 (69.06%) Equities
3 285 (58.40%) Derivative
4 276 (56.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 54 (11.07%) Clustering
6 36 (7.38%) Pricing Data
7 1 (0.20%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (98.57%) Asset Management
2 433 (88.73%) Software Engineering
3 415 (85.04%) Agile
4 411 (84.22%) Investment Management
5 117 (23.98%) Full Stack Development
6 112 (22.95%) Greeks
7 104 (21.31%) Line Management
8 99 (20.29%) Artificial Intelligence
8 99 (20.29%) Automated Trading
8 99 (20.29%) Machine Learning
9 54 (11.07%) DevOps
9 54 (11.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 37 (7.58%) Fintech
11 36 (7.38%) Performance Attribution
12 31 (6.35%) Analytics
13 19 (3.89%) User Experience
14 18 (3.69%) Credit Risk Analysis
14 18 (3.69%) Front End Development
15 13 (2.66%) Data Architecture
16 12 (2.46%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 485 (99.39%) Python
2 424 (86.89%) TypeScript
3 379 (77.66%) JavaScript
4 321 (65.78%) Java
5 57 (11.68%) Go
6 37 (7.58%) SQL
7 13 (2.66%) Ruby
7 13 (2.66%) Scala
8 9 (1.84%) C#
9 3 (0.61%) Cython
9 3 (0.61%) Rust
9 3 (0.61%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (0.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (22.95%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (1.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (11.89%) Kubernetes
2 54 (11.07%) Prometheus
2 54 (11.07%) Terraform
Vendors
1 99 (20.29%) Google