Protocol Buffers Contract Job Trends in London

Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Protocol Buffers skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 322 143
Rank change year-on-year -93 -179 +292
Contract jobs citing Protocol Buffers 9 49 298
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.045% 0.36% 1.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% 1.39% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 48 295
10th Percentile £402 - £563
25th Percentile £403 £675 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% -6.25% +33.33%
75th Percentile £438 £825 £888
90th Percentile £498 £875 -
England median daily rate £475 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -36.67% -6.25% +33.33%

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 4,522 3,527 4,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.77% 26.08% 27.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,998 2,452 3,469
10th Percentile £384 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £718
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 26
10th Percentile £24.63 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.06 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £70.69 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £91.88 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -10.31%

Protocol Buffers
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Protocol Buffers job vacancy trend in London

Protocol Buffers
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Protocol Buffers.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Protocol Buffers

Protocol Buffers
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Protocol Buffers.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Protocol Buffers

Protocol Buffers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (33.33%) Apache
2 2 (22.22%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon MSK
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 3 (33.33%) Apigee
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Serverless
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Run
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Flink
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (33.33%) Apache Iceberg
2 3 (33.33%) Data Vault
2 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 3 (33.33%) OLTP
2 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (33.33%) Star Schema
2 3 (33.33%) Tableau
3 1 (11.11%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Architect
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Data Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) Kafka
2 7 (77.78%) Apache Avro
3 4 (44.44%) JSON
4 1 (11.11%) gRPC
4 1 (11.11%) JNI
4 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Distributed Applications
1 3 (33.33%) PACS
1 3 (33.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Data Modelling
1 7 (77.78%) Event-Driven
2 6 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (55.56%) Observability
4 4 (44.44%) Analytics
4 4 (44.44%) Dashboard Development
4 4 (44.44%) Decision-Making
4 4 (44.44%) Microservices
5 3 (33.33%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) API Design
5 3 (33.33%) CQRS
5 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
5 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
5 3 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
5 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Scala
3 2 (22.22%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (22.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Confluent
2 1 (11.11%) Murex
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) Sophis
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk