Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Protocol Buffers skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Protocol Buffers over the 6 months to 5 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 620 833 954
Rank change year-on-year +213 +121 -244
Permanent jobs citing Protocol Buffers 116 242 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.82% 0.60% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 83 191 46
10th Percentile £87,500 £65,000 £72,500
25th Percentile £106,250 £76,250 £84,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £90,000 £96,250
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -6.49% +6.94%
75th Percentile £143,750 £130,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £155,000 £136,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.43% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Protocol Buffers is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14,069 40,224 49,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.33% 32.39% 38.61%
Number of salaries quoted 11,019 24,402 31,736
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,289 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%

Protocol Buffers
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Protocol Buffers in the UK

Protocol Buffers
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Protocol Buffers.

Salary trend for Protocol Buffers in the UK

Protocol Buffers
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Protocol Buffers over the 6 months to 5 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Protocol Buffers in the UK

Protocol Buffers
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Protocol Buffers within the UK over the 6 months to 5 December 2023. 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 +231 116 £125,000 +38.89% 12
London +145 78 £125,000 +31.58% 6
Work from Home +211 73 £125,000 +47.06% 10
UK excluding London +227 38 £78,000 +11.43% 8
South East +155 29 - - 2
Midlands - 6 £53,750 -
West Midlands - 4 £53,750 -
South West +77 3 £92,778 +32.54% 5
East Midlands - 2 - -

Protocol Buffers
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 76 (65.52%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (63.79%) Apache
3 2 (1.72%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 80 (68.97%) AWS
1 80 (68.97%) GCP
2 52 (44.83%) dbt
3 18 (15.52%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 33 (28.45%) HTTP
1 33 (28.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (60.34%) Apache Ignite
2 62 (53.45%) Amazon Athena
3 52 (44.83%) Apache Arrow
3 52 (44.83%) Dremio
4 24 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (10.34%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.59%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.72%) Big Data
7 2 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.72%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.72%) Parquet
8 1 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.86%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.86%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.86%) Git
2 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.86%) JUnit
2 1 (0.86%) Maven
General
1 83 (71.55%) Finance
2 78 (67.24%) Front Office
3 62 (53.45%) Banking
4 52 (44.83%) Investment Banking
5 33 (28.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (16.38%) Electronics
7 2 (1.72%) Retail
7 2 (1.72%) Social Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 111 (95.69%) Software Engineer
2 78 (67.24%) Developer
2 78 (67.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 52 (44.83%) AWS Developer
3 52 (44.83%) AWS Engineer
3 52 (44.83%) AWS Software Engineer
4 42 (36.21%) Python Developer
4 42 (36.21%) Python Engineer
4 42 (36.21%) Python Software Engineer
5 33 (28.45%) Embedded Engineer
5 33 (28.45%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 19 (16.38%) Java Developer
6 19 (16.38%) Java Engineer
6 19 (16.38%) Java Software Developer
6 19 (16.38%) Java Software Engineer
7 17 (14.66%) Data Engineer
7 17 (14.66%) Software Developer
8 14 (12.07%) Graduate
8 14 (12.07%) Graduate Embedded Software Engineer
8 14 (12.07%) Junior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (69.83%) gRPC
2 58 (50.00%) Pandas
3 52 (44.83%) NumPy
3 52 (44.83%) SciPy
4 26 (22.41%) React
5 14 (12.07%) Material-UI
6 12 (10.34%) Node.js
7 9 (7.76%) AngularJS
8 8 (6.90%) Redux
9 6 (5.17%) Vue
10 2 (1.72%) Apache Avro
10 2 (1.72%) Dropwizard
10 2 (1.72%) JSON
11 1 (0.86%) Hibernate
11 1 (0.86%) Java SE
11 1 (0.86%) JPA
11 1 (0.86%) Kafka
11 1 (0.86%) REST
11 1 (0.86%) Spring
11 1 (0.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.41%) Derivative
2 14 (12.07%) Fixed Income
3 6 (5.17%) Equities
3 6 (5.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.59%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 33 (28.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (99.14%) Software Engineering
2 78 (67.24%) Asset Management
3 74 (63.79%) Agile
4 60 (51.72%) Analytics
5 50 (43.10%) Data Architecture
6 34 (29.31%) Unit Testing
7 33 (28.45%) Digital Signal Processing
7 33 (28.45%) Functional Testing
7 33 (28.45%) Project Planning
7 33 (28.45%) Signal Processing
7 33 (28.45%) Software Testing
8 12 (10.34%) Portfolio Management
9 10 (8.62%) Machine Learning
10 8 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (6.90%) Automated Trading
10 8 (6.90%) Full Stack Development
10 8 (6.90%) Investment Management
11 4 (3.45%) Mentoring
12 3 (2.59%) Coaching
12 3 (2.59%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 80 (68.97%) Python
2 78 (67.24%) TypeScript
3 68 (58.62%) JavaScript
4 55 (47.41%) Java
5 33 (28.45%) C
6 27 (23.28%) SQL
7 19 (16.38%) Scala
8 17 (14.66%) Ruby
9 2 (1.72%) Go
Qualifications
1 33 (28.45%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (6.90%) Google