Protocol Buffers Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Protocol Buffers skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Protocol Buffers 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.018% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median annual salary £95,000 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 542 462 1,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.58% 13.61% 16.28%
Number of salaries quoted 438 301 937
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,563 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £91,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

Protocol Buffers
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Protocol Buffers job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Protocol Buffers
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Protocol Buffers.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Protocol Buffers

Protocol Buffers
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Protocol Buffers within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 1
Protocol Buffers
South East

Protocol Buffers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (100.00%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) MQTT
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Optical Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) SysML
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform