The first table below looks at the demand for Protocol Buffers skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Protocol Buffers over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
Rank 823 877 878
Rank change year-on-year
+54 +1
Permanent jobs citing Protocol Buffers 39 22 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.036% 0.018% 0.002%
As % of the Application Development category 0.089% 0.044% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 37 19 3
Average salary £55,000 £50,000 £61,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% -18.69%
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 - -
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
43855 50279 49692
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.58% 41.66% 39.94%
Number of salaries quoted 38118 44664 43948
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

Protocol Buffers
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Protocol Buffers within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Protocol Buffers Jobs Demand Trend

Protocol Buffers
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Protocol Buffers within the UK.

Protocol Buffers Salary Trend

Protocol Buffers
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Protocol Buffers over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Protocol Buffers Salary Histogram

Protocol Buffers
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Protocol Buffers within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +42 39 £55,000 +10.00%
London +68 38 £55,000 +10.00%
City of London +4 4 £55,000 -6.38%
East of England - 1 £60,000 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 £60,000 -
Cambridge - 1 £60,000 -

Protocol Buffers
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Protocol Buffers also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Protocol Buffers.

1 76 (68.47%) OO
2 73 (65.77%) JSON
3 69 (62.16%) Google
4 65 (58.56%) Agile Software Development
5 64 (57.66%) Git (software)
6 63 (56.76%) Web Services
7 56 (50.45%) Java
8 55 (49.55%) Finance
9 50 (45.05%) Android
10 49 (44.14%) XML
11 48 (43.24%) Computer Science
12 47 (42.34%) Objective-C
13 44 (39.64%) C++
14 43 (38.74%) JavaScript
14 43 (38.74%) Subversion
15 42 (37.84%) C
15 42 (37.84%) Data Modelling
15 42 (37.84%) Legal
15 42 (37.84%) Apple iOS
16 41 (36.94%) Mobile App
17 35 (31.53%) XML Schema
18 34 (30.63%) Degree
19 32 (28.83%) Windows
19 32 (28.83%) Open Source
20 28 (25.23%) Memory Management
20 28 (25.23%) Windows Phone
20 28 (25.23%) UIKit
20 28 (25.23%) XSL
20 28 (25.23%) XPath
21 27 (24.32%) Multithreading

Protocol Buffers
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Protocol Buffers also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Protocol Buffers. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 73 (65.77%) JSON
2 63 (56.76%) Web Services
3 49 (44.14%) XML
4 35 (31.53%) XML Schema
5 28 (25.23%) UIKit
5 28 (25.23%) XSL
6 24 (21.62%) Servlets
7 21 (18.92%) JMS
8 16 (14.41%) .NET
8 16 (14.41%) jQuery
8 16 (14.41%) .NET Framework
9 15 (13.51%) Spring
9 15 (13.51%) REST
10 14 (12.61%) HTML5
10 14 (12.61%) CSS3
10 14 (12.61%) J2EE
10 14 (12.61%) CSS
10 14 (12.61%) JSP
10 14 (12.61%) Struts
10 14 (12.61%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 14 (12.61%) Amazon EC2
1 14 (12.61%) Amazon AWS
2 2 (1.802%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.901%) Oracle Coherence
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.61%) AMQP
2 2 (1.802%) HTTP
2 2 (1.802%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.32%) NoSQL
1 17 (15.32%) RDBMS
2 7 (6.306%) Big Data
2 7 (6.306%) Hadoop
2 7 (6.306%) GIS
3 4 (3.604%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.604%) OLTP
3 4 (3.604%) SAP HANA
4 3 (2.703%) SQLite
5 1 (0.901%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 64 (57.66%) Git (software)
2 43 (38.74%) Subversion
3 21 (18.92%) Maven
4 10 (9.009%) Eclipse
5 7 (6.306%) Hudson
5 7 (6.306%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (4.505%) Selenium
6 5 (4.505%) JIRA
7 3 (2.703%) JUnit
7 3 (2.703%) EasyMock
8 1 (0.901%) Mercurial
General
1 55 (49.55%) Finance
2 42 (37.84%) Legal
3 17 (15.32%) Games
4 11 (9.910%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 59 (53.15%) Developer
2 23 (20.72%) Software Engineer
3 22 (19.82%) Mobile Software Engineer
4 18 (16.22%) Mobile Developer
5 17 (15.32%) Android Developer
6 14 (12.61%) Web Developer
7 13 (11.71%) Senior Developer
8 12 (10.81%) Server Engineer
9 7 (6.306%) iPhone Applications Developer
9 7 (6.306%) Quantitative Developer
9 7 (6.306%) Java Developer
9 7 (6.306%) iPhone Developer
10 6 (5.405%) iOS Developer
11 5 (4.505%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (3.604%) WPF Developer
13 3 (2.703%) Software Developer
13 3 (2.703%) Senior Software Developer
14 2 (1.802%) Senior iOS Developer
15 1 (0.901%) C# .NET Developer
15 1 (0.901%) Java Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 48 (43.24%) Computer Science
2 41 (36.94%) Mobile App
3 32 (28.83%) Open Source
4 20 (18.02%) Social Network
5 14 (12.61%) iPhone
6 9 (8.108%) Social Media
7 7 (6.306%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (6.306%) iPad
7 7 (6.306%) Online Games
8 6 (5.405%) Smartphone
8 6 (5.405%) Mobile Games
8 6 (5.405%) Social Gaming
9 5 (4.505%) Derivative
9 5 (4.505%) Credit Derivative
9 5 (4.505%) Fixed Income
9 5 (4.505%) Mathematics
9 5 (4.505%) Physics
10 2 (1.802%) Smart Meter
10 2 (1.802%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 50 (45.05%) Android
2 42 (37.84%) Apple iOS
3 32 (28.83%) Windows
4 28 (25.23%) Windows Phone
5 14 (12.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (68.47%) OO
2 65 (58.56%) Agile Software Development
3 42 (37.84%) Data Modelling
4 28 (25.23%) Memory Management
5 27 (24.32%) Multithreading
6 16 (14.41%) Scrum
6 16 (14.41%) SOA
7 15 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (12.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 14 (12.61%) Web Development
9 10 (9.009%) Electronic Trading
10 9 (8.108%) MVVM
11 8 (7.207%) Automated Testing
11 8 (7.207%) Mobile Application Development
12 7 (6.306%) User Experience Design
13 5 (4.505%) Computer Architecture
13 5 (4.505%) OOP
13 5 (4.505%) TDD
14 2 (1.802%) Data Analysis
14 2 (1.802%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 56 (50.45%) Java
2 47 (42.34%) Objective-C
3 44 (39.64%) C++
4 43 (38.74%) JavaScript
5 42 (37.84%) C
6 28 (25.23%) XPath
7 18 (16.22%) C#
8 16 (14.41%) Erlang
8 16 (14.41%) Ruby
9 15 (13.51%) SQL
9 15 (13.51%) Scala
10 14 (12.61%) AspectJ
11 13 (11.71%) PHP
12 10 (9.009%) ActionScript
12 10 (9.009%) Python
13 7 (6.306%) MATLAB
14 5 (4.505%) Groovy
15 4 (3.604%) T-SQL
15 4 (3.604%) XAML
Qualifications
1 34 (30.63%) Degree
System Software
1 14 (12.61%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (6.306%) MOM
2 5 (4.505%) Puppet
Vendors
1 69 (62.16%) Google
2 10 (9.009%) Infragistics
2 10 (9.009%) 29West
3 7 (6.306%) Trapeze
4 5 (4.505%) Facebook
4 5 (4.505%) Twitter
4 5 (4.505%) StatPro
4 5 (4.505%) Oracle
5 4 (3.604%) SAP
5 4 (3.604%) Reuters
5 4 (3.604%) Bloomberg
London
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