gRPC Job Trends in the South West

gRPC
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring gRPC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 159 266
Rank change year-on-year -39 +107 -8
Permanent jobs citing gRPC 7 1 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.092% 0.037% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.16% 0.21% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73,750 - £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £81,250 - £77,625
90th Percentile - - £77,850
England median annual salary £125,000 £105,000 £111,250
% change year-on-year +19.05% -5.62% +4.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

gRPC 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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 602 486 1,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.95% 18.11% 21.30%
Number of salaries quoted 436 383 1,537
10th Percentile £34,375 £37,500 £31,950
25th Percentile £42,500 £49,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,387 £80,000
England median annual salary £66,646 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.56% +10.46% -11.11%

gRPC
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing gRPC relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

gRPC job vacancy trend in the South West

gRPC
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing gRPC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing gRPC

gRPC
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing gRPC within the South West region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Cornwall - 3 - -
Gloucestershire - 3 £77,500 - 1
Devon - 1 - -
gRPC
England

gRPC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Broadband
2 1 (14.29%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Cloudera CDH
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Gradle
1 2 (28.57%) JUnit
1 2 (28.57%) Mockito
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Scala Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Android Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Android Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) Protocol Buffers
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 1 (14.29%) Material-UI
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
3 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Over-the-Top Content
1 4 (57.14%) Video\Live Streaming
2 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
2 2 (28.57%) Smartphone
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Android
2 1 (14.29%) CentOS
2 1 (14.29%) Debian
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Clean Code
3 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
3 5 (71.43%) Microservices
4 4 (57.14%) Coaching
4 4 (57.14%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (57.14%) Data Science
4 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
4 4 (57.14%) Personalization
4 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (42.86%) Agile
6 2 (28.57%) Android Development
6 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
6 2 (28.57%) Mobile Development
6 2 (28.57%) Mobile Device Management
6 2 (28.57%) MVVM
6 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
6 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Go
2 4 (57.14%) Scala
3 2 (28.57%) Kotlin
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Typelevel
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) SaltStack