Protocol Buffers Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Protocol Buffers skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Protocol Buffers 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 0.60% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £488 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 16 16 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 9.52% 14.95% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 4
10th Percentile £478 £367 £413
25th Percentile £506 £432 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -11.76%
75th Percentile £674 £606 £506
90th Percentile £729 £663 £563
Hampshire median daily rate £578 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +12.52% -2.24% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £66.50
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +88.68%
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - £79.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 £56.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year -15.56% -19.64% +7.69%

Protocol Buffers
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Protocol Buffers job vacancy trend in Southampton

Protocol Buffers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
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
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes