Protocol Buffers Contracts

Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Protocol Buffers skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Protocol Buffers over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 416 658
Rank change year-on-year -53 +242 +70
Contract jobs citing Protocol Buffers 51 168 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.39% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.77% 1.88% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 168 47
10th Percentile £638 £538 £438
25th Percentile £647 £663 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +33.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £884 £859 £763
90th Percentile £888 £888 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% -3.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Protocol Buffers
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Protocol Buffers in the UK

Protocol Buffers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Protocol Buffers in the UK

Protocol Buffers
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Protocol Buffers over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Protocol Buffers in the UK

Protocol Buffers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Protocol Buffers in the UK

Protocol Buffers
Top 3 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 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 -60 50 £750 -6.25% 17
London -74 50 £750 -6.25% 9
Work from Home -20 42 £750 -6.25% 12

Protocol Buffers
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 42 (82.35%) Apache
2 40 (78.43%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 41 (80.39%) AWS
2 40 (78.43%) dbt
3 29 (56.86%) GCP
3 29 (56.86%) Snowflake
4 17 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 17 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 17 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (33.33%) Dagster
5 1 (1.96%) Azure
5 1 (1.96%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.96%) GitHub
5 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (78.43%) Amazon Athena
1 40 (78.43%) Apache Arrow
1 40 (78.43%) Apache Iceberg
1 40 (78.43%) Apache Ignite
1 40 (78.43%) Dremio
2 29 (56.86%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.92%) Big Data
3 2 (3.92%) Redis
4 1 (1.96%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.96%) Hazelcast
4 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.96%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Bitbucket
1 7 (13.73%) Git
1 7 (13.73%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.96%) JIRA
2 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (90.20%) Front Office
2 43 (84.31%) Finance
3 36 (70.59%) Banking
3 36 (70.59%) Investment Banking
4 7 (13.73%) Social Skills
5 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 41 (80.39%) Software Engineer
2 40 (78.43%) AWS Engineer
2 40 (78.43%) AWS Software Engineer
3 29 (56.86%) Python Engineer
3 29 (56.86%) Python Software Engineer
4 23 (45.10%) Java Engineer
4 23 (45.10%) Java Software Engineer
5 21 (41.18%) Senior
5 21 (41.18%) Senior Software Engineer
6 18 (35.29%) Senior Java Engineer
6 18 (35.29%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 15 (29.41%) Developer
8 12 (23.53%) Python Developer
9 11 (21.57%) AWS Developer
9 11 (21.57%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 2 (3.92%) Java Developer
11 1 (1.96%) .NET Developer
11 1 (1.96%) C# Developer
11 1 (1.96%) C++ Developer
11 1 (1.96%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (92.16%) gRPC
2 40 (78.43%) NumPy
2 40 (78.43%) Pandas
2 40 (78.43%) SciPy
3 17 (33.33%) Node.js
3 17 (33.33%) PySpark
3 17 (33.33%) React
4 11 (21.57%) AngularJS
4 11 (21.57%) Redux
4 11 (21.57%) Vue
5 7 (13.73%) Kafka
6 6 (11.76%) .NET
6 6 (11.76%) ASP.NET
6 6 (11.76%) ASP.NET Web API
6 6 (11.76%) CSS
6 6 (11.76%) HTML
6 6 (11.76%) HTML5
6 6 (11.76%) LESS
6 6 (11.76%) Sass
6 6 (11.76%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 40 (78.43%) Fixed Income
2 37 (72.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 30 (58.82%) Derivative
3 30 (58.82%) Equities
4 29 (56.86%) Hedge funds
5 12 (23.53%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.96%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (82.35%) Agile
2 41 (80.39%) Software Engineering
3 40 (78.43%) Asset Management
4 23 (45.10%) Investment Management
5 17 (33.33%) Migration
6 11 (21.57%) Credit Risk Analysis
6 11 (21.57%) Fintech
6 11 (21.57%) Performance Attribution
7 8 (15.69%) DevOps
8 7 (13.73%) OO
8 7 (13.73%) Scrum
9 6 (11.76%) Clean Code
9 6 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (11.76%) Microservices
9 6 (11.76%) OOP
9 6 (11.76%) Refactoring
9 6 (11.76%) Risk Management
9 6 (11.76%) SOA
10 2 (3.92%) CI/CD
10 2 (3.92%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 47 (92.16%) JavaScript
1 47 (92.16%) TypeScript
2 43 (84.31%) Python
3 39 (76.47%) Java
4 7 (13.73%) C++
5 6 (11.76%) C#
6 1 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (3.92%) Degree
2 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.96%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (1.96%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (3.92%) Google