Protocol Buffers Contracts with Work from Home Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 419 563
Rank change year-on-year +183 +144 -87
Contract jobs citing Protocol Buffers 101 48 62
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.67% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.79% 0.74% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 42 44
10th Percentile £700 £438 £463
25th Percentile £750 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £600 £663
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -9.43% +42.47%
75th Percentile £888 £766 £838
90th Percentile - £788 -
UK median daily rate £800 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +33.33% +4.35% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,622 6,461 13,230
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.91% 25.26% 29.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,540 4,808 9,769
10th Percentile £331 £394 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.46% +12.99%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 80 119
10th Percentile £28.00 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -27.94% +31.31% +10.00%

Protocol Buffers
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Protocol Buffers as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Protocol Buffers trend for jobs with a WFH option

Protocol Buffers
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Protocol Buffers.

Protocol Buffers daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Protocol Buffers
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Protocol Buffers over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Protocol Buffers daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Protocol Buffers
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 98 (97.03%) Apache Airflow
2 77 (76.24%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 98 (97.03%) AWS
2 87 (86.14%) dbt
3 70 (69.31%) Snowflake
4 56 (55.45%) GCP
5 9 (8.91%) Azure
6 1 (0.99%) Cloud Run
6 1 (0.99%) Google App Engine
6 1 (0.99%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (86.14%) Amazon Athena
1 87 (86.14%) Apache Arrow
1 87 (86.14%) Dremio
2 77 (76.24%) Apache Ignite
3 70 (69.31%) Data Lake
4 12 (11.88%) Big Data
5 2 (1.98%) MySQL
5 2 (1.98%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Cucumber
1 2 (1.98%) Hamcrest
1 2 (1.98%) JUnit
General
1 98 (97.03%) Finance
2 86 (85.15%) Front Office
3 72 (71.29%) Banking
4 67 (66.34%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (60.40%) Software Engineer
2 43 (42.57%) Developer
3 41 (40.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 40 (39.60%) AWS Engineer
5 36 (35.64%) Python Engineer
5 36 (35.64%) Python Software Engineer
6 32 (31.68%) Lead
7 28 (27.72%) AWS Software Engineer
7 28 (27.72%) Senior
7 28 (27.72%) Senior Software Engineer
8 25 (24.75%) Java Engineer
8 25 (24.75%) Java Software Engineer
9 23 (22.77%) Python Developer
9 23 (22.77%) Software Developer
10 21 (20.79%) Team Leader
11 20 (19.80%) Lead Developer
11 20 (19.80%) Lead Software Developer
11 20 (19.80%) Lead Software Engineer
11 20 (19.80%) Software Team Leader
12 14 (13.86%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (98.02%) gRPC
2 78 (77.23%) Pandas
3 72 (71.29%) NumPy
3 72 (71.29%) SciPy
4 19 (18.81%) React
5 13 (12.87%) Redux
6 11 (10.89%) AngularJS
6 11 (10.89%) Vue
7 10 (9.90%) Node.js
8 6 (5.94%) Material-UI
9 3 (2.97%) .NET
9 3 (2.97%) ASP.NET
9 3 (2.97%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (1.98%) Kafka
10 2 (1.98%) REST
10 2 (1.98%) Spring
10 2 (1.98%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 83 (82.18%) Fixed Income
2 79 (78.22%) Hedge funds
3 73 (72.28%) Derivative
3 73 (72.28%) Equities
4 70 (69.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (11.88%) Clustering
6 6 (5.94%) Pricing Data
7 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (97.03%) Asset Management
2 86 (85.15%) Software Engineering
3 80 (79.21%) Agile
3 80 (79.21%) Investment Management
4 27 (26.73%) Line Management
5 25 (24.75%) Greeks
6 15 (14.85%) Analytics
7 12 (11.88%) DevOps
7 12 (11.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 10 (9.90%) Fintech
8 10 (9.90%) Performance Attribution
9 9 (8.91%) Data Architecture
10 6 (5.94%) Mentoring
10 6 (5.94%) Product Management
11 5 (4.95%) Credit Risk Analysis
11 5 (4.95%) Front End Development
11 5 (4.95%) Full Stack Development
11 5 (4.95%) User Experience
12 3 (2.97%) Roadmaps
12 3 (2.97%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 99 (98.02%) JavaScript
2 98 (97.03%) Python
3 86 (85.15%) TypeScript
4 81 (80.20%) Java
5 12 (11.88%) Go
6 7 (6.93%) Ruby
6 7 (6.93%) Scala
7 3 (2.97%) C#
8 1 (0.99%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (24.75%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.98%) QA
Systems Management
1 12 (11.88%) Kubernetes
1 12 (11.88%) Prometheus
1 12 (11.88%) Terraform