gRPC Job Trends

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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 432 557
Rank change year-on-year -123 +125 +185
Permanent jobs citing gRPC 96 298 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.54% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.37% 2.52% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 82 266 147
10th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £64,500
25th Percentile £88,750 £81,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £102,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £138,750
90th Percentile £152,000 £148,750 £155,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £82,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -42.42% -2.94% +13.33%

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 7,011 11,847 12,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.85% 21.45% 25.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,218 7,037 10,585
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,900 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for gRPC in the UK

gRPC
Top 10 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 1 January 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 -103 94 £125,000 +20.48% 34
London -105 75 £125,000 +16.28% 15
Work from Home -88 73 £125,000 +19.05% 18
UK excluding London +6 16 £47,500 -42.42% 22
North of England +30 10 - - 5
North West +30 7 - - 1
South East -19 4 £47,500 -42.42% 12
Yorkshire -3 3 - - 4
Midlands - 2 £80,000 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £80,000 -

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 36 (37.50%) Apache
2 33 (34.38%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (5.21%) Apache Pulsar
4 3 (3.13%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.08%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Chatbot
1 3 (3.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 68 (70.83%) AWS
2 34 (35.42%) Snowflake
3 33 (34.38%) dbt
4 25 (26.04%) Azure
5 23 (23.96%) GCP
6 10 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (10.42%) Serverless
7 6 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (5.21%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (4.17%) OpenShift
9 4 (4.17%) SaaS
10 3 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.13%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (3.13%) Datadog
10 3 (3.13%) Figma
10 3 (3.13%) GitHub
11 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.25%) AMQP
2 4 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (34.38%) Amazon Athena
1 33 (34.38%) Apache Arrow
1 33 (34.38%) Apache Iceberg
1 33 (34.38%) Apache Ignite
1 33 (34.38%) Data Lake
1 33 (34.38%) Dremio
2 15 (15.63%) MongoDB
3 13 (13.54%) NoSQL
4 9 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.13%) Big Data
6 3 (3.13%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (3.13%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.13%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.08%) MySQL
7 2 (2.08%) Redis
7 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.21%) Git
3 4 (4.17%) JIRA
3 4 (4.17%) JUnit
4 3 (3.13%) CircleCI
4 3 (3.13%) GitLab
5 2 (2.08%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.08%) JConsole
5 2 (2.08%) Mocha
5 2 (2.08%) VisualVM
5 2 (2.08%) webpack
6 1 (1.04%) Gradle
6 1 (1.04%) Maven
General
1 48 (50.00%) Finance
2 38 (39.58%) Banking
3 36 (37.50%) Front Office
4 35 (36.46%) Investment Banking
5 17 (17.71%) Telecoms
6 12 (12.50%) Social Skills
7 5 (5.21%) Esports
8 3 (3.13%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.04%) Back Office
9 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 59 (61.46%) Senior
2 38 (39.58%) Software Engineer
3 36 (37.50%) Python Engineer
4 33 (34.38%) AWS Engineer
4 33 (34.38%) AWS Software Engineer
4 33 (34.38%) Java Engineer
4 33 (34.38%) Java Software Engineer
4 33 (34.38%) Python Software Engineer
5 32 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
6 31 (32.29%) Senior Java Engineer
6 31 (32.29%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 21 (21.88%) Developer
8 7 (7.29%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (7.29%) Lead
9 5 (5.21%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 5 (5.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) .NET Developer
10 4 (4.17%) Architect
10 4 (4.17%) ASP.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (35.42%) Protocol Buffers
2 33 (34.38%) NumPy
2 33 (34.38%) Pandas
2 33 (34.38%) SciPy
3 30 (31.25%) Kafka
4 27 (28.13%) REST
5 25 (26.04%) RESTful
6 16 (16.67%) WebSockets
7 15 (15.63%) GraphQL
7 15 (15.63%) React
8 13 (13.54%) RabbitMQ
9 12 (12.50%) Node.js
10 10 (10.42%) AngularJS
11 8 (8.33%) Spring
12 7 (7.29%) CSS
12 7 (7.29%) HTML
12 7 (7.29%) Next.js
12 7 (7.29%) OAuth
12 7 (7.29%) OAuth2
12 7 (7.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 34 (35.42%) Hedge funds
2 33 (34.38%) Derivative
2 33 (34.38%) Equities
2 33 (34.38%) Fixed Income
2 33 (34.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 33 (34.38%) Pricing Data
3 21 (21.88%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (15.63%) Cloud Native
5 12 (12.50%) AI Agents
6 11 (11.46%) Product Ownership
7 5 (5.21%) Virtual Team
8 4 (4.17%) Onboarding
9 3 (3.13%) Blockchain
9 3 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (3.13%) Legacy Code
9 3 (3.13%) Mobile App
9 3 (3.13%) Web3
10 2 (2.08%) Algorithms
10 2 (2.08%) Credit Risk
10 2 (2.08%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.50%) Android
2 3 (3.13%) CentOS
2 3 (3.13%) Debian
2 3 (3.13%) Linux
2 3 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (65.63%) Agile
2 51 (53.13%) Software Engineering
3 41 (42.71%) Microservices
4 38 (39.58%) CI/CD
5 36 (37.50%) Investment Management
6 35 (36.46%) AI
7 33 (34.38%) Asset Management
8 29 (30.21%) Containerisation
9 25 (26.04%) DevOps
10 23 (23.96%) User Experience
11 21 (21.88%) Computer Science
11 21 (21.88%) Machine Learning
12 19 (19.79%) Low Latency
13 16 (16.67%) Event-Driven
14 15 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
15 14 (14.58%) Zero Trust
16 13 (13.54%) Scrum
17 12 (12.50%) High Availability
17 12 (12.50%) LLM
17 12 (12.50%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 52 (54.17%) TypeScript
2 48 (50.00%) Python
3 45 (46.88%) Java
4 44 (45.83%) JavaScript
5 26 (27.08%) Go
6 7 (7.29%) C++
7 6 (6.25%) C#
8 5 (5.21%) SQL
9 4 (4.17%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.04%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (19.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 19 (19.79%) Degree
2 3 (3.13%) DV Cleared
2 3 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 3 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.46%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.17%) QA
3 3 (3.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (27.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (39.58%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.38%) Terraform
3 6 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.13%) Ansible
4 3 (3.13%) Puppet
5 2 (2.08%) logstash
6 1 (1.04%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (5.21%) Ericsson
1 5 (5.21%) Mavenir
1 5 (5.21%) Nokia
2 4 (4.17%) Google
2 4 (4.17%) Telerik
3 3 (3.13%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.13%) SaltStack
4 1 (1.04%) Databricks