Protocol Buffers Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in 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 133 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Protocol Buffers 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.051% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £705 £800 £725
% change year-on-year -11.88% +10.34% +3.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 477 178 399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.40% 18.88% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 108 277
10th Percentile £368 £422 £370
25th Percentile £445 £459 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £566 £623 £588
90th Percentile £675 £729 £660
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile £54.63 £87.75 £16.94
25th Percentile £55.75 £93.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £102.00 £24.64
Median % change year-on-year -44.61% +313.96% -64.80%
75th Percentile £60.69 - £53.20
90th Percentile £68.75 - £62.88
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

Protocol Buffers
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Protocol Buffers job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Protocol Buffers
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Protocol Buffers.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Protocol Buffers

Protocol Buffers
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
South Yorkshire - 1 £375 - 3
Protocol Buffers
England

Protocol Buffers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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