gRPC Contracts

gRPC
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring gRPC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited gRPC over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 385 605
Rank change year-on-year -37 +220 +1
Contract jobs citing gRPC 96 201 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.47% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.44% 2.25% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 192 78
10th Percentile £554 £550 £493
25th Percentile £638 £663 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +33.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £875 £856 £769
90th Percentile £888 £888 £858
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £550 -
% change year-on-year -36.36% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,673 8,920 13,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.65% 20.74% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,582 6,180 9,816
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 244 155
10th Percentile £29.55 £21.25 £30.30
25th Percentile £50.27 £43.00 £50.03
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68.56 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.85 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.50
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.36% +25.24%

gRPC
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing gRPC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for gRPC in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing gRPC.

Daily rate trend for gRPC in the UK

gRPC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing gRPC over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for gRPC in the UK

gRPC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing gRPC.

Hourly rate trend for gRPC in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing gRPC within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 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
England -21 93 £750 -6.25% 75
London -74 71 £750 -6.25% 52
Work from Home -19 47 £750 -6.25% 42
UK excluding London +53 5 £350 -36.36% 41
South East +44 3 £288 -37.73% 21
North of England - 2 £709 - 5
Yorkshire - 2 £709 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 43 (44.79%) Apache
2 42 (43.75%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.04%) Confluence
3 1 (1.04%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 78 (81.25%) AWS
2 42 (43.75%) dbt
3 33 (34.38%) Snowflake
4 31 (32.29%) GCP
5 18 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (17.71%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (17.71%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (17.71%) Dagster
7 4 (4.17%) Azure
8 3 (3.13%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.13%) GitHub
9 2 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.04%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (1.04%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) BGP
1 1 (1.04%) Ethernet
1 1 (1.04%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (1.04%) Firewall
1 1 (1.04%) Junos
1 1 (1.04%) MPLS
1 1 (1.04%) Network Security
1 1 (1.04%) SNMP
1 1 (1.04%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (43.75%) Amazon Athena
1 42 (43.75%) Apache Arrow
1 42 (43.75%) Apache Iceberg
1 42 (43.75%) Apache Ignite
1 42 (43.75%) Dremio
2 33 (34.38%) Data Lake
3 32 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.08%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.08%) Hazelcast
6 2 (2.08%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.08%) OLTP
7 1 (1.04%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.04%) Redis
7 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (12.50%) Git
2 7 (7.29%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 6 (6.25%) TeamCity
4 5 (5.21%) JIRA
5 2 (2.08%) Jaeger
5 2 (2.08%) Subversion
6 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.04%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.04%) GitLab
6 1 (1.04%) Terragrunt
General
1 49 (51.04%) Front Office
2 47 (48.96%) Finance
3 44 (45.83%) Banking
4 40 (41.67%) Investment Banking
5 7 (7.29%) Social Skills
6 6 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 45 (46.88%) Software Engineer
2 42 (43.75%) AWS Engineer
2 42 (43.75%) AWS Software Engineer
2 42 (43.75%) Senior
3 33 (34.38%) Developer
4 31 (32.29%) Python Engineer
4 31 (32.29%) Python Software Engineer
5 27 (28.13%) Java Engineer
5 27 (28.13%) Java Software Engineer
6 25 (26.04%) Senior Software Engineer
7 22 (22.92%) Senior Java Engineer
7 22 (22.92%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 11 (11.46%) Python Developer
9 9 (9.38%) AWS Developer
9 9 (9.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 3 (3.13%) C# Developer
10 3 (3.13%) Senior Developer
11 2 (2.08%) Architect
11 2 (2.08%) Platform Architect
11 2 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (51.04%) Protocol Buffers
2 47 (48.96%) Kafka
3 42 (43.75%) NumPy
3 42 (43.75%) Pandas
3 42 (43.75%) SciPy
4 19 (19.79%) React
5 18 (18.75%) Node.js
6 17 (17.71%) PySpark
7 12 (12.50%) AngularJS
8 9 (9.38%) Redux
8 9 (9.38%) REST
8 9 (9.38%) Vue
9 8 (8.33%) .NET
9 8 (8.33%) GraphQL
10 6 (6.25%) ASP.NET
10 6 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
10 6 (6.25%) CSS
10 6 (6.25%) HTML
10 6 (6.25%) LESS
10 6 (6.25%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 42 (43.75%) Fixed Income
2 39 (40.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 34 (35.42%) Hedge funds
4 33 (34.38%) Derivative
4 33 (34.38%) Equities
5 31 (32.29%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (16.67%) Pricing Data
7 4 (4.17%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (1.04%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.04%) Data Fabric
9 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.25%) Windows
2 3 (3.13%) Linux
3 2 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (85.42%) Software Engineering
2 51 (53.13%) Agile
3 50 (52.08%) Microservices
4 42 (43.75%) Asset Management
5 32 (33.33%) Open Source
6 25 (26.04%) Investment Management
7 18 (18.75%) Migration
8 12 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 12 (12.50%) DevOps
9 11 (11.46%) Fintech
10 10 (10.42%) Refactoring
10 10 (10.42%) Scrum
11 9 (9.38%) Credit Risk Analysis
11 9 (9.38%) Performance Attribution
12 8 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
13 7 (7.29%) Test Automation
14 6 (6.25%) OO
14 6 (6.25%) OOP
14 6 (6.25%) Risk Management
14 6 (6.25%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 50 (52.08%) JavaScript
1 50 (52.08%) TypeScript
2 49 (51.04%) Python
3 45 (46.88%) Java
4 39 (40.63%) Go
5 10 (10.42%) C#
6 6 (6.25%) C++
7 4 (4.17%) SQL
8 2 (2.08%) Bash
8 2 (2.08%) Groovy
8 2 (2.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (1.04%) CCIE
2 1 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.04%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (43.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (38.54%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.13%) Ansible
2 3 (3.13%) Istio
2 3 (3.13%) Terraform
3 2 (2.08%) Control-M
3 2 (2.08%) Grafana
3 2 (2.08%) Kiali
Vendors
1 4 (4.17%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (2.08%) AppDynamics
2 2 (2.08%) Google
2 2 (2.08%) Splunk
2 2 (2.08%) xMatters
3 1 (1.04%) Databricks
3 1 (1.04%) Juniper
3 1 (1.04%) Mellanox
3 1 (1.04%) NVIDIA