gRPC
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring gRPC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited gRPC over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 488 703
Rank change year-on-year -16 +215 -77
Permanent jobs citing gRPC 183 454 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.46% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.15% 2.16% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 151 425 201
10th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £112,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £122,500 £142,500 £137,500
90th Percentile £147,500 £165,000 £151,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +26.92% -7.14% -6.67%

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 8,493 21,046 31,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 21.40% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,474 15,738 19,371
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £50,509 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,900 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

gRPC
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing gRPC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for gRPC in the UK

gRPC
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing gRPC.

Salary trend for gRPC in the UK

gRPC
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing gRPC over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for gRPC in the UK

gRPC
Top 14 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 30 April 2025. 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 -32 177 £105,000 -6.67% 62
Work from Home +38 130 £105,000 -17.65% 50
London -69 120 £107,500 -6.52% 30
UK excluding London +173 62 £82,500 +26.92% 42
South East +113 40 £82,500 +43.48% 9
North of England +73 7 - - 5
East of England +49 6 - - 7
North West +22 5 - - 3
Scotland - 3 £52,500 - 10
South West +100 2 - - 5
Yorkshire +70 2 - - 1
Midlands +57 2 - - 3
West Midlands +47 2 - -
Wales - 2 - - 2

gRPC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 100 (54.64%) Apache
1 100 (54.64%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 118 (64.48%) AWS
2 95 (51.91%) dbt
3 73 (39.89%) Snowflake
4 62 (33.88%) GCP
5 44 (24.04%) Amazon EC2
6 39 (21.31%) Amazon ECS
7 38 (20.77%) Azure
8 36 (19.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 36 (19.67%) Azure Service Bus
9 35 (19.13%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (19.13%) SonarCloud
10 34 (18.58%) Amazon EKS
10 34 (18.58%) Dagster
11 12 (6.56%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (5.46%) Amazon S3
13 6 (3.28%) Serverless
14 5 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (2.73%) Datadog
14 5 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.83%) MQTT
2 6 (3.28%) HTTP
3 5 (2.73%) SMS
3 5 (2.73%) VPN
4 2 (1.09%) 3GPP
4 2 (1.09%) 5G
4 2 (1.09%) WAN
5 1 (0.55%) 4G
5 1 (0.55%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.55%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (54.64%) Apache Ignite
2 95 (51.91%) Amazon Athena
2 95 (51.91%) Apache Arrow
2 95 (51.91%) Apache Iceberg
2 95 (51.91%) Dremio
3 73 (39.89%) Data Lake
4 35 (19.13%) Elasticsearch
5 24 (13.11%) MongoDB
6 12 (6.56%) Big Data
7 10 (5.46%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (5.46%) NoSQL
8 9 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (4.37%) MySQL
10 7 (3.83%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.64%) SQL Server
12 2 (1.09%) Redis
13 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 41 (22.40%) Git
2 35 (19.13%) MSBuild
2 35 (19.13%) Octopus Deploy
2 35 (19.13%) Team Foundation Server
2 35 (19.13%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.83%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.28%) GitLab
5 5 (2.73%) CircleCI
6 4 (2.19%) JIRA
7 3 (1.64%) JUnit
8 2 (1.09%) Appium
8 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.09%) Selenium
8 2 (1.09%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.55%) NUnit
9 1 (0.55%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 114 (62.30%) Finance
2 100 (54.64%) Front Office
3 92 (50.27%) Banking
4 73 (39.89%) Investment Banking
5 24 (13.11%) Retail
6 19 (10.38%) Social Skills
7 9 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.83%) Marketing
9 6 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.09%) Advertising
11 1 (0.55%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 121 (66.12%) Software Engineer
2 99 (54.10%) AWS Engineer
2 99 (54.10%) AWS Software Engineer
3 72 (39.34%) Python Engineer
3 72 (39.34%) Python Software Engineer
4 64 (34.97%) Java Engineer
5 62 (33.88%) Java Software Engineer
5 62 (33.88%) Senior
6 59 (32.24%) Senior Software Engineer
7 53 (28.96%) Senior Java Engineer
8 51 (27.87%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 41 (22.40%) Developer
10 36 (19.67%) Architect
11 35 (19.13%) Technical Architect
12 27 (14.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 23 (12.57%) AWS Developer
14 22 (12.02%) Python Developer
15 12 (6.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 10 (5.46%) React Developer
17 7 (3.83%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (54.64%) Protocol Buffers
2 95 (51.91%) NumPy
2 95 (51.91%) Pandas
2 95 (51.91%) SciPy
3 44 (24.04%) REST
4 40 (21.86%) React
5 39 (21.31%) CSS
5 39 (21.31%) HTML
6 38 (20.77%) .NET
7 35 (19.13%) ASP.NET
7 35 (19.13%) Bootstrap
7 35 (19.13%) JSON
7 35 (19.13%) XML
8 34 (18.58%) PySpark
9 33 (18.03%) Node.js
10 32 (17.49%) AngularJS
11 30 (16.39%) Vue
12 27 (14.75%) Redux
13 24 (13.11%) Kafka
14 16 (8.74%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 100 (54.64%) Fixed Income
2 77 (42.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 75 (40.98%) Derivative
4 73 (39.89%) Equities
4 73 (39.89%) Hedge funds
5 39 (21.31%) Pricing Data
6 19 (10.38%) Data Structures
7 16 (8.74%) Cloud Native
8 15 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (7.10%) Public Cloud
10 12 (6.56%) Reference Data
10 12 (6.56%) Replication
11 9 (4.92%) Algorithms
12 7 (3.83%) Virtual Team
13 5 (2.73%) Blockchain
13 5 (2.73%) Web3
14 4 (2.19%) Market Risk
15 3 (1.64%) IoT
15 3 (1.64%) Product Ownership
16 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.37%) Linux
2 1 (0.55%) Debian
2 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (67.76%) Software Engineering
2 108 (59.02%) Agile
3 100 (54.64%) Asset Management
4 71 (38.80%) Investment Management
5 70 (38.25%) Microservices
6 54 (29.51%) Code Quality
7 47 (25.68%) Event-Driven
8 43 (23.50%) Design Patterns
8 43 (23.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 42 (22.95%) DevOps
9 42 (22.95%) Performance Optimisation
10 35 (19.13%) API Integration
10 35 (19.13%) Data Encryption
10 35 (19.13%) MVC
10 35 (19.13%) Performance Testing
11 34 (18.58%) Migration
12 27 (14.75%) Fintech
12 27 (14.75%) Performance Attribution
13 25 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (13.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 144 (78.69%) JavaScript
2 116 (63.39%) TypeScript
3 109 (59.56%) Python
4 94 (51.37%) Java
5 50 (27.32%) C#
6 36 (19.67%) SQL
7 10 (5.46%) Go
8 6 (3.28%) Rust
9 4 (2.19%) C++
10 2 (1.09%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 14 (7.65%) Degree
2 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (19.67%) GDPR
2 9 (4.92%) QA
3 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 54 (29.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (12.57%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.29%) Terraform
3 5 (2.73%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (3.83%) ANSYS
2 5 (2.73%) Google
3 3 (1.64%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.55%) CA Agile Central