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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 601 840 674
Rank change year-on-year +239 -166 +142
Permanent jobs citing Protocol Buffers 311 150 603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.14% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.48% 0.47% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 311 133 191
10th Percentile £85,000 £65,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £102,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £127,500 £107,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.60% +7.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £143,750 £142,500 £128,125
90th Percentile £165,000 £151,250 £133,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% -12.50% -

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 21,055 31,925 61,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.45% 30.36% 40.24%
Number of salaries quoted 15,740 19,553 30,311
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,227 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Protocol Buffers in the UK

Protocol Buffers
Top 8 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 25 April 2024. 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 +262 311 £127,500 +18.60% 12
London +256 304 £127,500 +18.60% 11
Work from Home +200 236 £135,000 +25.58% 7
UK excluding London +7 7 £67,500 -3.57% 1
West Midlands - 3 £72,500 -
East of England - 3 £67,500 -
Midlands - 3 £72,500 -
South West -24 1 £78,000 +11.43% 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
1 304 (97.75%) Apache Airflow
2 249 (80.06%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 307 (98.71%) AWS
2 209 (67.20%) dbt
3 206 (66.24%) GCP
4 162 (52.09%) Snowflake
5 100 (32.15%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (80.06%) Apache Ignite
2 209 (67.20%) Amazon Athena
2 209 (67.20%) Apache Arrow
2 209 (67.20%) Dremio
3 162 (52.09%) Data Lake
4 75 (24.12%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (9.65%) Big Data
6 3 (0.96%) Redis
7 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (13.18%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.32%) Git
2 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.32%) JUnit
2 1 (0.32%) Maven
General
1 308 (99.04%) Finance
2 274 (88.10%) Front Office
3 238 (76.53%) Banking
4 160 (51.45%) Investment Banking
5 3 (0.96%) Electronics
6 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 201 (64.63%) Software Engineer
2 164 (52.73%) Developer
3 161 (51.77%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 149 (47.91%) Python Engineer
4 149 (47.91%) Python Software Engineer
5 126 (40.51%) Python Developer
6 96 (30.87%) AWS Engineer
7 77 (24.76%) React Developer
8 67 (21.54%) Lead
9 66 (21.22%) AWS Software Engineer
10 56 (18.01%) Senior
11 54 (17.36%) Senior Software Engineer
11 54 (17.36%) Software Developer
12 49 (15.76%) Java Engineer
12 49 (15.76%) Java Software Engineer
13 40 (12.86%) Architect
14 39 (12.54%) Solutions Architect
14 39 (12.54%) Team Leader
15 36 (11.58%) Lead Developer
15 36 (11.58%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (99.04%) gRPC
2 186 (59.81%) Pandas
3 170 (54.66%) NumPy
3 170 (54.66%) SciPy
4 117 (37.62%) React
5 98 (31.51%) Redux
6 85 (27.33%) Material-UI
7 27 (8.68%) AngularJS
8 26 (8.36%) Vue
9 20 (6.43%) Node.js
10 9 (2.89%) .NET
10 9 (2.89%) ASP.NET
10 9 (2.89%) ASP.NET Core
11 3 (0.96%) CSS
11 3 (0.96%) Django
11 3 (0.96%) HTML
11 3 (0.96%) JSON
12 1 (0.32%) JPA
12 1 (0.32%) Kafka
12 1 (0.32%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 264 (84.89%) Fixed Income
2 252 (81.03%) Hedge funds
3 197 (63.34%) Equities
4 169 (54.34%) Derivative
5 160 (51.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 30 (9.65%) Clustering
7 12 (3.86%) Pricing Data
8 1 (0.32%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (97.75%) Asset Management
2 280 (90.03%) Software Engineering
3 258 (82.96%) Agile
4 256 (82.32%) Investment Management
5 79 (25.40%) Full Stack Development
6 69 (22.19%) Artificial Intelligence
6 69 (22.19%) Automated Trading
6 69 (22.19%) Machine Learning
7 64 (20.58%) Line Management
8 56 (18.01%) Greeks
9 44 (14.15%) Analytics
10 30 (9.65%) DevOps
10 30 (9.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 22 (7.07%) Data Architecture
12 21 (6.75%) Fintech
13 20 (6.43%) Performance Attribution
14 12 (3.86%) Mentoring
14 12 (3.86%) Product Management
15 11 (3.54%) User Experience
16 10 (3.22%) Credit Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 308 (99.04%) Python
2 271 (87.14%) TypeScript
3 232 (74.60%) JavaScript
4 186 (59.81%) Java
5 33 (10.61%) Go
5 33 (10.61%) SQL
6 17 (5.47%) Ruby
6 17 (5.47%) Scala
7 9 (2.89%) C#
8 3 (0.96%) Cython
8 3 (0.96%) Rust
8 3 (0.96%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (0.96%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (18.01%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (1.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (10.93%) Kubernetes
2 30 (9.65%) Prometheus
2 30 (9.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 69 (22.19%) Google