Protocol Buffers Jobs

Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Protocol Buffers skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Protocol Buffers over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 635 442 755
Rank change year-on-year -193 +313 -100
Permanent jobs citing Protocol Buffers 76 568 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.52% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% 2.57% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 71 568 155
10th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £102,500 £97,188 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £150,625
90th Percentile - £165,000 £151,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.81% -3.57% -12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,713 22,074 26,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.35% 20.09% 29.07%
Number of salaries quoted 5,834 16,295 17,588
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,254 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £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%

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 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Protocol Buffers in the UK

Protocol Buffers
Top 7 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 13 June 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 -213 76 £110,000 -4.35% 28
London -194 73 £110,000 -13.73% 15
Work from Home -141 71 £110,000 -18.52% 8
UK excluding London +192 3 £77,500 +14.81% 16
North of England - 2 £77,500 - 3
North West - 2 £77,500 -
South West - 1 - - 1

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 69 (90.79%) Apache
1 69 (90.79%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 74 (97.37%) AWS
2 69 (90.79%) dbt
3 59 (77.63%) Snowflake
4 21 (27.63%) GCP
5 11 (14.47%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (14.47%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (14.47%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (14.47%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (90.79%) Amazon Athena
1 69 (90.79%) Apache Arrow
1 69 (90.79%) Apache Iceberg
1 69 (90.79%) Apache Ignite
1 69 (90.79%) Dremio
2 59 (77.63%) Data Lake
3 5 (6.58%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.58%) Redis
4 4 (5.26%) CockroachDB
5 1 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.32%) Parquet
5 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.26%) JUnit
1 4 (5.26%) Mockito
General
1 74 (97.37%) Finance
2 69 (90.79%) Front Office
3 64 (84.21%) Banking
4 59 (77.63%) Investment Banking
5 7 (9.21%) Law
6 5 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.26%) Social Skills
7 4 (5.26%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (97.37%) Software Engineer
2 69 (90.79%) AWS Engineer
2 69 (90.79%) AWS Software Engineer
3 64 (84.21%) Java Engineer
3 64 (84.21%) Java Software Engineer
4 58 (76.32%) Python Engineer
4 58 (76.32%) Python Software Engineer
5 57 (75.00%) Senior
5 57 (75.00%) Senior Java Engineer
5 57 (75.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 57 (75.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 12 (15.79%) Developer
7 10 (13.16%) AWS Developer
7 10 (13.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 10 (13.16%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Associate Engineer
9 1 (1.32%) Android Developer
9 1 (1.32%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (97.37%) gRPC
2 69 (90.79%) NumPy
2 69 (90.79%) Pandas
2 69 (90.79%) SciPy
3 14 (18.42%) React
4 11 (14.47%) PySpark
5 10 (13.16%) AngularJS
5 10 (13.16%) Node.js
5 10 (13.16%) Redux
5 10 (13.16%) Vue
6 5 (6.58%) Kafka
6 5 (6.58%) Spring
6 5 (6.58%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.63%) ZeroMQ
8 1 (1.32%) Android Jetpack
8 1 (1.32%) Apache Avro
8 1 (1.32%) Jetpack Compose
8 1 (1.32%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 69 (90.79%) Fixed Income
2 59 (77.63%) Derivative
2 59 (77.63%) Equities
2 59 (77.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 59 (77.63%) Hedge funds
3 48 (63.16%) Pricing Data
4 5 (6.58%) Data Structures
4 5 (6.58%) Public Cloud
5 4 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (1.32%) Android
2 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (98.68%) Software Engineering
2 74 (97.37%) Agile
3 69 (90.79%) Asset Management
4 58 (76.32%) Investment Management
5 11 (14.47%) Migration
6 10 (13.16%) Credit Risk Analysis
6 10 (13.16%) Fintech
6 10 (13.16%) Performance Attribution
7 5 (6.58%) Community of Practice
7 5 (6.58%) Event-Driven
7 5 (6.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (6.58%) OO
7 5 (6.58%) Operational Stability
7 5 (6.58%) SDLC
7 5 (6.58%) Test Automation
8 4 (5.26%) Epics
8 4 (5.26%) Low Latency
8 4 (5.26%) Multithreading
8 4 (5.26%) Technical Analysis
8 4 (5.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 69 (90.79%) JavaScript
1 69 (90.79%) Python
1 69 (90.79%) TypeScript
2 64 (84.21%) Java
3 7 (9.21%) C++
4 5 (6.58%) Go
4 5 (6.58%) Rust
4 5 (6.58%) SQL
5 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.32%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (5.26%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (1.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.58%) Google
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle