Protocol Buffers Contract Job Trends in the South East

Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Protocol Buffers skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Protocol Buffers 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.028% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £750 £800 £650
% change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 594 697 867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.64% 16.13% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 450 555
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £372 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £561 £625 £625
90th Percentile £625 £663 £680
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 26 44
10th Percentile £18.97 £41.19 £50.00
25th Percentile £47.19 £61.60 £54.89
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £55.00 - £77.85
England median hourly rate £54.35 £65.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year -16.38% +12.07% -10.77%

Protocol Buffers
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Protocol Buffers job vacancy trend in the South East

Protocol Buffers
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Protocol Buffers
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 Protocol Buffers within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Hampshire - 1 £500 - 2
Protocol Buffers
England

Protocol Buffers
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) WebSockets
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes