Protocol Buffers Contracts in London

Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 229 449
Rank change year-on-year -74 +220 +70
Contract jobs citing Protocol Buffers 50 165 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.40% 0.93% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.53% 3.70% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 165 39
10th Percentile £638 £538 £438
25th Percentile £675 £663 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% +17.39%
75th Percentile £888 £888 £788
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £750 £800 £675
% change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% +17.39%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Protocol Buffers
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Protocol Buffers in London

Protocol Buffers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Protocol Buffers in London

Protocol Buffers
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Protocol Buffers in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Protocol Buffers in London

Protocol Buffers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Protocol Buffers in London

Protocol Buffers
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London - 1 - -
Protocol Buffers
England

Protocol Buffers
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 41 (82.00%) Apache
2 40 (80.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 40 (80.00%) AWS
1 40 (80.00%) dbt
2 29 (58.00%) GCP
2 29 (58.00%) Snowflake
3 17 (34.00%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (34.00%) Amazon ECS
3 17 (34.00%) Amazon EKS
3 17 (34.00%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (80.00%) Amazon Athena
1 40 (80.00%) Apache Arrow
1 40 (80.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 40 (80.00%) Apache Ignite
1 40 (80.00%) Dremio
2 29 (58.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.00%) Big Data
4 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.00%) Hazelcast
4 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.00%) Parquet
4 1 (2.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Bitbucket
1 7 (14.00%) Git
1 7 (14.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (92.00%) Front Office
2 43 (86.00%) Finance
3 36 (72.00%) Banking
3 36 (72.00%) Investment Banking
4 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
5 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 40 (80.00%) AWS Engineer
1 40 (80.00%) AWS Software Engineer
1 40 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 29 (58.00%) Python Engineer
2 29 (58.00%) Python Software Engineer
3 23 (46.00%) Java Engineer
3 23 (46.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 21 (42.00%) Senior
4 21 (42.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 18 (36.00%) Senior Java Engineer
5 18 (36.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 15 (30.00%) Developer
7 12 (24.00%) Python Developer
8 11 (22.00%) AWS Developer
8 11 (22.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Java Developer
10 1 (2.00%) .NET Developer
10 1 (2.00%) C# Developer
10 1 (2.00%) C++ Developer
10 1 (2.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (92.00%) gRPC
2 40 (80.00%) NumPy
2 40 (80.00%) Pandas
2 40 (80.00%) SciPy
3 17 (34.00%) Node.js
3 17 (34.00%) PySpark
3 17 (34.00%) React
4 11 (22.00%) AngularJS
4 11 (22.00%) Redux
4 11 (22.00%) Vue
5 6 (12.00%) .NET
5 6 (12.00%) ASP.NET
5 6 (12.00%) ASP.NET Web API
5 6 (12.00%) CSS
5 6 (12.00%) HTML
5 6 (12.00%) HTML5
5 6 (12.00%) Kafka
5 6 (12.00%) LESS
5 6 (12.00%) Sass
5 6 (12.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 40 (80.00%) Fixed Income
2 37 (74.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 30 (60.00%) Derivative
3 30 (60.00%) Equities
4 29 (58.00%) Hedge funds
5 12 (24.00%) Pricing Data
6 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.00%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (82.00%) Agile
2 40 (80.00%) Asset Management
2 40 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 23 (46.00%) Investment Management
4 17 (34.00%) Migration
5 11 (22.00%) Credit Risk Analysis
5 11 (22.00%) Fintech
5 11 (22.00%) Performance Attribution
6 7 (14.00%) DevOps
6 7 (14.00%) OO
6 7 (14.00%) Scrum
7 6 (12.00%) Clean Code
7 6 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (12.00%) Microservices
7 6 (12.00%) OOP
7 6 (12.00%) Refactoring
7 6 (12.00%) Risk Management
7 6 (12.00%) SOA
8 2 (4.00%) Low Latency
8 2 (4.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 46 (92.00%) JavaScript
1 46 (92.00%) TypeScript
2 42 (84.00%) Python
3 38 (76.00%) Java
4 7 (14.00%) C++
5 6 (12.00%) C#
6 1 (2.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.00%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (2.00%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (2.00%) Google