Protocol Buffers Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Protocol Buffers skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Protocol Buffers 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.020% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.085% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £593 £800 £725
% change year-on-year -25.94% +10.34% +3.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,171 629 1,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 23.15% 18.92% 20.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 834 409 731
10th Percentile £355 £356 £363
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% -1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 8 40
10th Percentile £52.50 £40.28 £20.77
25th Percentile £53.13 £60.48 £43.82
Median hourly rate £60.00 £75.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -20.27% +62.95% -26.11%
75th Percentile £74.26 £97.98 £62.44
90th Percentile £78.90 £102.00 £74.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

Protocol Buffers
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Protocol Buffers job vacancy trend in the North of England

Protocol Buffers
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Protocol Buffers.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Protocol Buffers

Protocol Buffers
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 3 February 2026. 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
Yorkshire - 1 £375 - 1
Protocol Buffers
England

Protocol Buffers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk