Protocol Buffers Contracts in England

Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Protocol Buffers skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Protocol Buffers over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 253 558
Rank change year-on-year -201 +305 +150
Contract jobs citing Protocol Buffers 58 310 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.93% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 4.22% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 307 55
10th Percentile - £563 £438
25th Percentile £675 £663 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +33.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £825 £888 £738
90th Percentile £838 - £788
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% +33.33% -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,126 7,339 9,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.20% 21.90% 22.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,223 5,082 7,403
10th Percentile £350 £360 £378
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £813 £788
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 231 141
10th Percentile £31.25 £24.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.35%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.22 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.88 £53.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.09% -10.42% +4.93%

Protocol Buffers
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Protocol Buffers as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Protocol Buffers in England

Protocol Buffers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Protocol Buffers in England

Protocol Buffers
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Protocol Buffers in England over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Protocol Buffers in England

Protocol Buffers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Protocol Buffers in England

Protocol Buffers
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 4 August 2025. 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
London -188 58 £750 -6.25% 18
Protocol Buffers
UK

Protocol Buffers
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 48 (82.76%) Apache
2 47 (81.03%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 47 (81.03%) AWS
1 47 (81.03%) dbt
1 47 (81.03%) Snowflake
2 6 (10.34%) GCP
3 5 (8.62%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (8.62%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (8.62%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (8.62%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (81.03%) Amazon Athena
1 47 (81.03%) Apache Arrow
1 47 (81.03%) Apache Iceberg
1 47 (81.03%) Apache Ignite
1 47 (81.03%) Data Lake
1 47 (81.03%) Dremio
2 2 (3.45%) Big Data
2 2 (3.45%) Hazelcast
2 2 (3.45%) Redis
3 1 (1.72%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.72%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.72%) Parquet
3 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Bitbucket
1 7 (12.07%) Git
1 7 (12.07%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 53 (91.38%) Banking
1 53 (91.38%) Front Office
1 53 (91.38%) Investment Banking
2 49 (84.48%) Finance
3 7 (12.07%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.72%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 47 (81.03%) AWS Engineer
1 47 (81.03%) AWS Software Engineer
1 47 (81.03%) Java Engineer
1 47 (81.03%) Java Software Engineer
1 47 (81.03%) Software Engineer
2 46 (79.31%) Senior
3 45 (77.59%) Senior Java Engineer
3 45 (77.59%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 45 (77.59%) Senior Software Engineer
4 42 (72.41%) Python Engineer
4 42 (72.41%) Python Software Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Java Developer
7 1 (1.72%) .NET Developer
7 1 (1.72%) Architect
7 1 (1.72%) C# Developer
7 1 (1.72%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 1 (1.72%) GCP Architect
7 1 (1.72%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.72%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (93.10%) gRPC
2 47 (81.03%) NumPy
2 47 (81.03%) Pandas
2 47 (81.03%) SciPy
3 7 (12.07%) Node.js
3 7 (12.07%) React
4 6 (10.34%) .NET
4 6 (10.34%) ASP.NET
4 6 (10.34%) ASP.NET Web API
4 6 (10.34%) CSS
4 6 (10.34%) HTML
4 6 (10.34%) HTML5
4 6 (10.34%) Kafka
4 6 (10.34%) LESS
4 6 (10.34%) Sass
4 6 (10.34%) Tailwind CSS
5 5 (8.62%) PySpark
6 3 (5.17%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (1.72%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.72%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 56 (96.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 47 (81.03%) Derivative
2 47 (81.03%) Equities
2 47 (81.03%) Fixed Income
2 47 (81.03%) Hedge funds
3 42 (72.41%) Pricing Data
4 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (82.76%) Agile
2 47 (81.03%) Asset Management
2 47 (81.03%) Software Engineering
3 42 (72.41%) Investment Management
4 7 (12.07%) DevOps
4 7 (12.07%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (12.07%) OO
4 7 (12.07%) Scrum
5 6 (10.34%) Clean Code
5 6 (10.34%) Microservices
5 6 (10.34%) OOP
5 6 (10.34%) Refactoring
5 6 (10.34%) Risk Management
5 6 (10.34%) SOA
6 5 (8.62%) Migration
7 3 (5.17%) Electronic Trading
7 3 (5.17%) Low Latency
7 3 (5.17%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (3.45%) Garbage Collection
8 2 (3.45%) Market Making
Programming Languages
1 57 (98.28%) Java
2 54 (93.10%) TypeScript
3 53 (91.38%) JavaScript
4 48 (82.76%) Python
5 6 (10.34%) C#
5 6 (10.34%) C++
6 1 (1.72%) Go
6 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.72%) Degree
1 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
1 1 (1.72%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes