Protocol Buffers Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Protocol Buffers skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Protocol Buffers 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.12% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £375 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 258 48 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 30.35% 17.91% 26.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 37 74
10th Percentile £372 £464 £388
25th Percentile £450 £513 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £583 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.16% +29.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £546 £638 £548
90th Percentile £675 £660 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £14.35
25th Percentile - - £16.94
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £102.00 £24.64
% change year-on-year -44.61% +313.96% -64.80%

Protocol Buffers
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Sheffield - 1 £375 - 2
Protocol Buffers
Yorkshire

Protocol Buffers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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