Protocol Buffers Contracts

Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Protocol Buffers skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Protocol Buffers over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 435 663 703
Rank change year-on-year +228 +40 -79
Contract jobs citing Protocol Buffers 153 59 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.098% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.71% 0.42% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 46 107
10th Percentile £538 £438 £463
25th Percentile £663 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £850 £747 £700
90th Percentile £888 £788 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £538 £650
% change year-on-year +2.33% -17.31% +46.07%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,955 14,016 24,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.52% 23.35% 27.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,226 10,231 17,684
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £656
90th Percentile £765 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 156 243
10th Percentile £20.77 £30.38 £21.20
25th Percentile £39.92 £45.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.63 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £63.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.90% +29.08% +8.89%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Protocol Buffers in the UK

Protocol Buffers
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Protocol Buffers over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Protocol Buffers in the UK

Protocol Buffers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Protocol Buffers in the UK

Protocol Buffers
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Protocol Buffers within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +227 153 £775 +21.57% 12
London +209 150 £775 +14.81% 11
Work from Home +177 97 £800 +33.33% 7
UK excluding London +64 3 £550 +2.33% 1
Midlands - 2 £500 -
West Midlands - 2 £500 -
South East - 1 £575 -

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
1 146 (95.42%) Apache Airflow
2 125 (81.70%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 147 (96.08%) AWS
2 111 (72.55%) GCP
3 92 (60.13%) dbt
4 68 (44.44%) Snowflake
5 55 (35.95%) Azure
6 1 (0.65%) Cloud Run
6 1 (0.65%) Firebase
6 1 (0.65%) Google App Engine
6 1 (0.65%) SaaS
6 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (81.70%) Apache Ignite
2 92 (60.13%) Amazon Athena
2 92 (60.13%) Apache Arrow
2 92 (60.13%) Dremio
3 68 (44.44%) Data Lake
4 41 (26.80%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (6.54%) Big Data
6 3 (1.96%) MySQL
6 3 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (17.65%) Cypress.io
2 3 (1.96%) Cucumber
2 3 (1.96%) Hamcrest
2 3 (1.96%) JUnit
3 2 (1.31%) Git
4 1 (0.65%) Xcode
General
1 146 (95.42%) Finance
2 136 (88.89%) Front Office
3 120 (78.43%) Banking
4 74 (48.37%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 105 (68.63%) Software Engineer
2 94 (61.44%) Developer
3 89 (58.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 79 (51.63%) Python Engineer
4 79 (51.63%) Python Software Engineer
5 69 (45.10%) Python Developer
6 45 (29.41%) React Developer
7 41 (26.80%) AWS Engineer
8 31 (20.26%) AWS Software Engineer
9 30 (19.61%) Lead
10 26 (16.99%) Senior
10 26 (16.99%) Senior Software Engineer
10 26 (16.99%) Software Developer
11 22 (14.38%) Full Stack Developer
11 22 (14.38%) Java Engineer
11 22 (14.38%) Java Software Engineer
12 21 (13.73%) Full Stack Engineer
12 21 (13.73%) Full Stack Python Developer
12 21 (13.73%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 19 (12.42%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (96.08%) gRPC
2 87 (56.86%) Pandas
3 79 (51.63%) NumPy
3 79 (51.63%) SciPy
4 62 (40.52%) React
5 54 (35.29%) Redux
6 49 (32.03%) Material-UI
7 13 (8.50%) AngularJS
7 13 (8.50%) Vue
8 10 (6.54%) Node.js
9 4 (2.61%) Spring
9 4 (2.61%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.96%) .NET
10 3 (1.96%) ASP.NET
10 3 (1.96%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (1.96%) Kafka
10 3 (1.96%) REST
11 1 (0.65%) AVFoundation
11 1 (0.65%) iOS SDK
11 1 (0.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 129 (84.31%) Fixed Income
2 118 (77.12%) Hedge funds
3 89 (58.17%) Equities
4 75 (49.02%) Derivative
5 72 (47.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (6.54%) Clustering
7 4 (2.61%) Pricing Data
8 3 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (95.42%) Asset Management
2 136 (88.89%) Software Engineering
3 128 (83.66%) Agile
4 121 (79.08%) Investment Management
5 47 (30.72%) Full Stack Development
6 41 (26.80%) Artificial Intelligence
6 41 (26.80%) Automated Trading
6 41 (26.80%) Machine Learning
7 32 (20.92%) Line Management
8 24 (15.69%) Analytics
9 22 (14.38%) Greeks
10 13 (8.50%) Data Architecture
11 11 (7.19%) DevOps
12 10 (6.54%) Fintech
12 10 (6.54%) Performance Attribution
12 10 (6.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 6 (3.92%) Mentoring
13 6 (3.92%) Product Management
14 5 (3.27%) Credit Risk Analysis
14 5 (3.27%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 146 (95.42%) Python
2 133 (86.93%) TypeScript
3 103 (67.32%) JavaScript
4 85 (55.56%) Java
5 18 (11.76%) SQL
6 12 (7.84%) Go
7 9 (5.88%) Ruby
7 9 (5.88%) Scala
8 3 (1.96%) C#
9 1 (0.65%) C
9 1 (0.65%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (0.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (6.54%) Kubernetes
1 10 (6.54%) Prometheus
1 10 (6.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (26.80%) Google