Protocol Buffers Job Trends in the South East

Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Protocol Buffers skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 - 336
Rank change year-on-year - - -51
Permanent jobs citing Protocol Buffers 6 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.033% - 0.008%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.32% - 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £74,125 - -
25th Percentile £85,938 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 - -
75th Percentile £97,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £130,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -38.46% +13.04% +6.98%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,867 1,029 2,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 10.42% 11.47% 19.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,541 698 1,795
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,854 £36,783
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £90,000 £83,498
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

Protocol Buffers
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Protocol Buffers job vacancy trend in the South East

Protocol Buffers
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Protocol Buffers.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Protocol Buffers

Protocol Buffers
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Protocol Buffers in the South East over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Protocol Buffers in the South East

Protocol Buffers
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Protocol Buffers within the South East region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
Hampshire - 4 £95,000 -
Thames Valley - 2 - - 2
Oxfordshire - 2 - - 2
Protocol Buffers
England

Protocol Buffers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (33.33%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) Serverless
3 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) MQTT
2 3 (50.00%) Network Security
3 2 (33.33%) HTTP
3 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
2 3 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Optical Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) gRPC
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Kafka
3 3 (50.00%) Keycloak
3 3 (50.00%) REST
3 3 (50.00%) RESTful
4 2 (33.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (16.67%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) API Design
3 4 (66.67%) AI
3 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
3 4 (66.67%) Edge Computing
3 4 (66.67%) Microservices
4 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven
4 3 (50.00%) High Availability
4 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (50.00%) MLOps
4 3 (50.00%) Observability
4 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Software Delivery
4 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Rust
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) Podman
2 4 (66.67%) Puppet
3 3 (50.00%) Grafana
3 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) NVIDIA
2 3 (50.00%) Tenable