Protocol Buffers Job Trends in England

Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Protocol Buffers skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 725 562 276
Rank change year-on-year -163 -286 +319
Permanent jobs citing Protocol Buffers 9 93 722
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.010% 0.21% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.093% 1.23% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7 88 721
10th Percentile £70,750 - £85,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £105,000 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £97,500 £135,000 £148,750
90th Percentile - - £165,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +6.98%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Protocol Buffers falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,641 7,546 13,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.21% 17.27% 18.81%
Number of salaries quoted 7,196 5,023 10,180
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

Protocol Buffers
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Protocol Buffers job vacancy trend in England

Protocol Buffers
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Protocol Buffers.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Protocol Buffers

Protocol Buffers
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Protocol Buffers in England over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Protocol Buffers in England

Protocol Buffers
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Protocol Buffers within the England region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 6 £95,000 - 1
South West -73 2 £77,500 - 6
London -141 1 £80,000 -27.27% 34
Protocol Buffers
UK

Protocol Buffers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
1 6 (66.67%) GCP
2 4 (44.44%) Serverless
3 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) MQTT
2 3 (33.33%) Network Security
3 2 (22.22%) HTTP
3 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (11.11%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
2 4 (44.44%) GitLab
3 3 (33.33%) SonarQube
4 2 (22.22%) Gradle
4 2 (22.22%) JUnit
4 2 (22.22%) Mockito
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Android Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Android Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Optical Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) gRPC
2 5 (55.56%) Kafka
2 5 (55.56%) REST
2 5 (55.56%) RESTful
3 3 (33.33%) Keycloak
4 2 (22.22%) JSON
5 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 1 (11.11%) Apache Avro
5 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
5 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (11.11%) React
5 1 (11.11%) Spring
5 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 2 (22.22%) Smartphone
3 1 (11.11%) AI Agents
3 1 (11.11%) Blog
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 6 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) AI
3 5 (55.56%) API Design
3 5 (55.56%) Software Delivery
4 4 (44.44%) Edge Computing
4 4 (44.44%) Event-Driven
4 4 (44.44%) Microservices
4 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
5 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) High Availability
5 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 3 (33.33%) SDLC
5 3 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Rust
3 3 (33.33%) Kotlin
4 2 (22.22%) Java
5 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) Degree
4 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Ansible
2 4 (44.44%) Podman
2 4 (44.44%) Puppet
3 3 (33.33%) Grafana
3 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) NVIDIA
2 3 (33.33%) Tenable
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) VMware