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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 642 849 768
Rank change year-on-year +207 -81 +61
Permanent jobs citing Protocol Buffers 276 149 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.14% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.32% 0.46% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 276 132 190
10th Percentile £85,000 £65,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £102,500 £85,000 £84,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £127,500 £107,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.60% +7.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £143,750 £142,500 £124,375
90th Percentile £165,000 £151,250 £132,625
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 20,929 32,454 61,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.53% 30.47% 39.95%
Number of salaries quoted 15,703 19,819 30,667
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £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 19 April 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 19 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +252 276 £127,500 +18.60% 16
London +260 269 £127,500 +18.60% 9
Work from Home +183 208 £135,000 +25.58% 7
UK excluding London +23 7 £67,500 -3.57% 1
East of England - 3 £67,500 -
Midlands - 3 £72,500 -
West Midlands - 3 £72,500 -
South West -10 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
1 269 (97.46%) Apache Airflow
2 220 (79.71%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 272 (98.55%) AWS
2 195 (70.65%) GCP
3 181 (65.58%) dbt
4 130 (47.10%) Snowflake
5 93 (33.70%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (79.71%) Apache Ignite
2 181 (65.58%) Amazon Athena
2 181 (65.58%) Apache Arrow
2 181 (65.58%) Dremio
3 130 (47.10%) Data Lake
4 68 (24.64%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (8.70%) Big Data
6 3 (1.09%) Redis
7 1 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (13.77%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.36%) Git
2 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.36%) JUnit
2 1 (0.36%) Maven
General
1 273 (98.91%) Finance
2 245 (88.77%) Front Office
3 209 (75.72%) Banking
4 138 (50.00%) Investment Banking
5 3 (1.09%) Electronics
6 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 182 (65.94%) Software Engineer
2 157 (56.88%) Developer
3 154 (55.80%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 133 (48.19%) Python Engineer
4 133 (48.19%) Python Software Engineer
5 119 (43.12%) Python Developer
6 82 (29.71%) AWS Engineer
7 70 (25.36%) React Developer
8 58 (21.01%) AWS Software Engineer
9 57 (20.65%) Lead
10 50 (18.12%) Software Developer
11 45 (16.30%) Senior
12 43 (15.58%) Senior Software Engineer
13 40 (14.49%) Java Engineer
13 40 (14.49%) Java Software Engineer
14 36 (13.04%) Architect
15 35 (12.68%) Solutions Architect
15 35 (12.68%) Team Leader
16 32 (11.59%) Lead Developer
16 32 (11.59%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 273 (98.91%) gRPC
2 164 (59.42%) Pandas
3 148 (53.62%) NumPy
3 148 (53.62%) SciPy
4 110 (39.86%) React
5 91 (32.97%) Redux
6 78 (28.26%) Material-UI
7 27 (9.78%) AngularJS
8 26 (9.42%) Vue
9 20 (7.25%) Node.js
10 9 (3.26%) .NET
10 9 (3.26%) ASP.NET
10 9 (3.26%) ASP.NET Core
11 3 (1.09%) CSS
11 3 (1.09%) Django
11 3 (1.09%) HTML
11 3 (1.09%) JSON
12 1 (0.36%) JPA
12 1 (0.36%) Kafka
12 1 (0.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 231 (83.70%) Fixed Income
2 213 (77.17%) Hedge funds
3 167 (60.51%) Equities
4 143 (51.81%) Derivative
5 134 (48.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 24 (8.70%) Clustering
7 6 (2.17%) Pricing Data
8 1 (0.36%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (97.46%) Asset Management
2 251 (90.94%) Software Engineering
3 229 (82.97%) Agile
4 224 (81.16%) Investment Management
5 72 (26.09%) Full Stack Development
6 62 (22.46%) Artificial Intelligence
6 62 (22.46%) Automated Trading
6 62 (22.46%) Machine Learning
7 56 (20.29%) Line Management
8 48 (17.39%) Analytics
9 44 (15.94%) Greeks
10 26 (9.42%) Data Architecture
11 24 (8.70%) DevOps
11 24 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 21 (7.61%) Fintech
13 20 (7.25%) Performance Attribution
14 12 (4.35%) Mentoring
14 12 (4.35%) Product Management
15 11 (3.99%) User Experience
16 10 (3.62%) Credit Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 273 (98.91%) Python
2 242 (87.68%) TypeScript
3 204 (73.91%) JavaScript
4 158 (57.25%) Java
5 29 (10.51%) SQL
6 27 (9.78%) Go
7 17 (6.16%) Ruby
7 17 (6.16%) Scala
8 9 (3.26%) C#
9 3 (1.09%) Cython
9 3 (1.09%) Rust
9 3 (1.09%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (1.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (15.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (10.14%) Kubernetes
2 24 (8.70%) Prometheus
2 24 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 62 (22.46%) Google