gRPC
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring gRPC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 674 524 310
Rank change year-on-year -150 -214 +281
Permanent jobs citing gRPC 98 156 815
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.32% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.96% 1.76% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 41 124 796
10th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £75,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £110,000 £135,000 £143,750
90th Percentile £150,000 - £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £82,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.12% +43.48% -17.86%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,218 8,861 18,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.21% 18.01% 19.64%
Number of salaries quoted 7,644 5,854 13,720
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,375 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

gRPC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

gRPC job vacancy trend in the UK

gRPC
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing gRPC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing gRPC

gRPC
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing gRPC over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for gRPC in the UK

gRPC
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing gRPC within the UK over the 6 months to 21 July 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
England -110 94 £85,000 -22.73% 32
London -57 62 £100,000 -9.09% 27
Work from Home -78 57 £77,500 -29.55% 11
UK excluding London -88 32 £72,500 -12.12% 10
South East -47 14 £72,500 -12.12% 3
South West -52 8 £77,500 - 1
North West -6 5 £72,500 +26.09%
North of England -30 5 £72,500 +26.09%
Scotland +14 2 £72,500 +38.10% 3
East of England -10 2 - - 1
West Midlands -20 1 £72,500 -
Midlands -34 1 £72,500 +38.10%

gRPC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (5.10%) Apache
2 4 (4.08%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.04%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 75 (76.53%) AWS
2 58 (59.18%) GCP
3 21 (21.43%) Serverless
4 19 (19.39%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (18.37%) Azure
6 17 (17.35%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (16.33%) Datadog
8 14 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (13.27%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (13.27%) Amazon S3
9 13 (13.27%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (5.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (5.10%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (5.10%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (4.08%) OpenShift
13 3 (3.06%) Entra ID
14 2 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (45.92%) Broadband
2 13 (13.27%) TCP/IP
3 8 (8.16%) BGP
4 7 (7.14%) MQTT
4 7 (7.14%) OSPF
4 7 (7.14%) VLAN
5 6 (6.12%) IPFIX
5 6 (6.12%) SNMP
6 4 (4.08%) AMQP
7 3 (3.06%) Modbus
7 3 (3.06%) Network Security
8 2 (2.04%) HTTP
9 1 (1.02%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.39%) NoSQL
2 13 (13.27%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (13.27%) DynamoDB
3 9 (9.18%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (5.10%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.08%) Big Data
5 4 (4.08%) Cloudera CDH
5 4 (4.08%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.06%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.06%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.02%) Apache Arrow
7 1 (1.02%) Parquet
7 1 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (17.35%) Git
1 17 (17.35%) GitLab
2 14 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 13 (13.27%) CircleCI
4 3 (3.06%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.04%) Gradle
5 2 (2.04%) JUnit
5 2 (2.04%) Maven
5 2 (2.04%) Mockito
6 1 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.02%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.43%) Finance
3 18 (18.37%) Banking
4 7 (7.14%) Law
5 6 (6.12%) Telecoms
6 5 (5.10%) Aerospace
6 5 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.06%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.02%) Advertising
9 1 (1.02%) Automotive
9 1 (1.02%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 37 (37.76%) Developer
2 30 (30.61%) Scala Engineer
3 25 (25.51%) Software Engineer
4 15 (15.31%) Scala Developer
4 15 (15.31%) Scala Software Engineer
5 13 (13.27%) Senior
6 11 (11.22%) Senior Developer
7 10 (10.20%) Data Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Architect
9 6 (6.12%) Lead
10 5 (5.10%) .NET Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Backend Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Cloud Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Lead .NET Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Lead Developer
11 4 (4.08%) AWS Developer
11 4 (4.08%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Monitoring Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Network Monitoring Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (25.51%) Kafka
2 23 (23.47%) REST
3 22 (22.45%) RESTful
4 19 (19.39%) RabbitMQ
5 12 (12.24%) web3js
6 11 (11.22%) React
7 9 (9.18%) .NET
7 9 (9.18%) Protocol Buffers
8 8 (8.16%) .NET Core
8 8 (8.16%) Spring
8 8 (8.16%) Spring Boot
9 6 (6.12%) ASP.NET
9 6 (6.12%) OpenAPI
9 6 (6.12%) Swagger
10 5 (5.10%) Blazor
11 4 (4.08%) AngularJS
11 4 (4.08%) CSS
11 4 (4.08%) HTML
11 4 (4.08%) Material-UI
11 4 (4.08%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 48 (48.98%) Distributed Systems
2 45 (45.92%) Over-the-Top Content
2 45 (45.92%) Video\Live Streaming
3 24 (24.49%) Cloud Native
4 12 (12.24%) Blockchain
4 12 (12.24%) Web3
5 3 (3.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.06%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (2.04%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.04%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.04%) Robotics
6 2 (2.04%) Smartphone
6 2 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.02%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.02%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.16%) Linux
2 4 (4.08%) CentOS
2 4 (4.08%) Debian
2 4 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (4.08%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.04%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (79.59%) Microservices
2 75 (76.53%) CI/CD
2 75 (76.53%) Containerisation
2 75 (76.53%) Software Engineering
3 58 (59.18%) Continuous Delivery
4 57 (58.16%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (57.14%) Machine Learning
6 47 (47.96%) Clean Code
7 45 (45.92%) Coaching
7 45 (45.92%) Data Science
7 45 (45.92%) Personalization
8 27 (27.55%) Event-Driven
8 27 (27.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (26.53%) DevOps
9 26 (26.53%) Observability
10 23 (23.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 22 (22.45%) Analytics
11 22 (22.45%) Test Automation
12 20 (20.41%) AI
12 20 (20.41%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 64 (65.31%) Python
2 59 (60.20%) Go
3 45 (45.92%) Scala
4 13 (13.27%) JavaScript
5 12 (12.24%) Java
6 9 (9.18%) C#
7 7 (7.14%) SQL
7 7 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.10%) Rust
9 3 (3.06%) Bash
9 3 (3.06%) PHP
10 2 (2.04%) C++
10 2 (2.04%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.02%) C
11 1 (1.02%) Dart
11 1 (1.02%) Embedded C
11 1 (1.02%) Embedded C++
11 1 (1.02%) Groovy
11 1 (1.02%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.18%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.10%) Degree
4 4 (4.08%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) SLA
2 6 (6.12%) QA
3 2 (2.04%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 73 (74.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 26 (26.53%) Terraform
3 24 (24.49%) Prometheus
4 12 (12.24%) Grafana
5 8 (8.16%) Ansible
5 8 (8.16%) Puppet
6 7 (7.14%) Nagios
7 4 (4.08%) Podman
8 3 (3.06%) ZABBIX
9 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.02%) Cilium
10 1 (1.02%) Istio
Vendors
1 45 (45.92%) Typelevel
2 4 (4.08%) Google
2 4 (4.08%) NVIDIA
2 4 (4.08%) Red Hat
2 4 (4.08%) SaltStack
3 3 (3.06%) SolarWinds
3 3 (3.06%) Tenable
4 2 (2.04%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.04%) VMware