gRPC Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

gRPC
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 241 404
Rank change year-on-year -14 +163 +120
Contract jobs citing gRPC 46 103 67
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.46% 0.68% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.78% 2.82% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 103 57
10th Percentile - £700 £438
25th Percentile £638 £713 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +33.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £884 £888 £788
90th Percentile £888 - £823
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% +33.33% -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,580 3,647 6,489
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.07% 23.91% 25.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,881 2,547 4,823
10th Percentile £368 £331 £394
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.92%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £657
90th Percentile £825 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 81
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £43.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -31.20% +27.55%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +31.31%

gRPC
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing gRPC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

gRPC trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing gRPC.

gRPC daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

gRPC
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing gRPC over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

gRPC daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (91.30%) Apache
2 41 (89.13%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 43 (93.48%) AWS
2 41 (89.13%) dbt
3 31 (67.39%) Snowflake
4 27 (58.70%) GCP
5 18 (39.13%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (36.96%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (36.96%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (36.96%) Dagster
7 2 (4.35%) Azure
7 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.17%) GitHub
8 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (89.13%) Amazon Athena
1 41 (89.13%) Apache Arrow
1 41 (89.13%) Apache Iceberg
1 41 (89.13%) Apache Ignite
1 41 (89.13%) Dremio
2 31 (67.39%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.17%) Redis
4 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Git
1 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.17%) GitLab
2 1 (2.17%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) Subversion
General
1 42 (91.30%) Finance
1 42 (91.30%) Front Office
2 31 (67.39%) Banking
2 31 (67.39%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (91.30%) Software Engineer
2 41 (89.13%) AWS Engineer
2 41 (89.13%) AWS Software Engineer
3 30 (65.22%) Python Engineer
3 30 (65.22%) Python Software Engineer
4 25 (54.35%) Java Engineer
4 25 (54.35%) Java Software Engineer
5 24 (52.17%) Senior
6 23 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 20 (43.48%) Senior Java Engineer
7 20 (43.48%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 14 (30.43%) Developer
9 11 (23.91%) Python Developer
10 10 (21.74%) AWS Developer
10 10 (21.74%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 1 (2.17%) Angular Developer
11 1 (2.17%) Azure Developer
11 1 (2.17%) Full-Stack Developer
11 1 (2.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 1 (2.17%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (91.30%) Protocol Buffers
2 41 (89.13%) NumPy
2 41 (89.13%) Pandas
2 41 (89.13%) SciPy
3 17 (36.96%) PySpark
4 11 (23.91%) AngularJS
4 11 (23.91%) Node.js
5 10 (21.74%) React
5 10 (21.74%) Redux
5 10 (21.74%) Vue
6 4 (8.70%) Kafka
7 2 (4.35%) GraphQL
7 2 (4.35%) REST
7 2 (4.35%) WebSockets
8 1 (2.17%) .NET
8 1 (2.17%) Apache Avro
8 1 (2.17%) Gherkin
8 1 (2.17%) JSON
8 1 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 41 (89.13%) Fixed Income
2 31 (67.39%) Derivative
2 31 (67.39%) Equities
2 31 (67.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 31 (67.39%) Hedge funds
3 14 (30.43%) Pricing Data
4 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (95.65%) Agile
1 44 (95.65%) Software Engineering
2 41 (89.13%) Asset Management
3 24 (52.17%) Investment Management
4 17 (36.96%) Migration
5 10 (21.74%) Credit Risk Analysis
5 10 (21.74%) Fintech
5 10 (21.74%) Performance Attribution
6 4 (8.70%) Microservices
7 3 (6.52%) CI/CD
8 2 (4.35%) BDD
8 2 (4.35%) DevOps
8 2 (4.35%) Event-Driven
8 2 (4.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 2 (4.35%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (4.35%) Test Automation
9 1 (2.17%) Analytics
9 1 (2.17%) Mentoring
9 1 (2.17%) Performance Optimisation
9 1 (2.17%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 43 (93.48%) Python
2 42 (91.30%) JavaScript
2 42 (91.30%) TypeScript
3 33 (71.74%) Java
4 2 (4.35%) Go
5 1 (2.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.17%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Ansible
2 1 (2.17%) Istio
2 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (2.17%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (2.17%) Google