Protocol Buffers Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Protocol Buffers skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - 64
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Protocol Buffers 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.11% - 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.59% - 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £435
25th Percentile - - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £500
75th Percentile - - £550
90th Percentile - - £565
West Midlands median daily rate £520 - £500

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

Protocol Buffers falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 169 87 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.90% 16.67% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 64 88
10th Percentile £413 £379 £226
25th Percentile £461 £425 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £506 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% +6.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £648 £586
90th Percentile £600 £698 £683
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £24.48
25th Percentile £75.75 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.50 - £55.00
75th Percentile £77.25 - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £58.00 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +110.91% -31.25% -

Protocol Buffers
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Protocol Buffers relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Protocol Buffers job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Protocol Buffers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JSON Schema
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft