gRPC Contract Job Trends in the South East

gRPC
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring gRPC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 161 183
Rank change year-on-year -28 +22 -
Contract jobs citing gRPC 5 5 20
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.11% 0.14% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.72% 0.85% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 11
10th Percentile £286 £234 £523
25th Percentile £304 £276 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £348 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% -39.04% -
75th Percentile £541 £357 £687
90th Percentile £659 £362 £850
England median daily rate £700 £800 £725
% change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +17.12% -27.48% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

gRPC 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 690 591 797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.59% 16.02% 15.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 379 451
10th Percentile £275 £300 £308
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £611
90th Percentile £648 £675 £680
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 33
10th Percentile £40.00 £51.94 £45.93
25th Percentile £46.25 £59.94 £55.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.44 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.49 £78.00
England median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -7.20% +20.45% -20.17%

gRPC
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing gRPC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

gRPC job vacancy trend in the South East

gRPC
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing gRPC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing gRPC

gRPC
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing gRPC in the South East over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for gRPC in the South East

gRPC
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing gRPC within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
West Sussex -7 3 £309 +45.29% 1
Surrey -5 1 - - 4
Hampshire - 1 £725 - 6
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England

gRPC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) Subversion
4 1 (20.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
1 4 (80.00%) REST
2 3 (60.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (60.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) Next.js
3 1 (20.00%) NgRx
3 1 (20.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) Redux
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) BDD
3 3 (60.00%) Kanban
3 3 (60.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
5 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (20.00%) GitOps
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Rust
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Podman
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) CA Agile Central