Hybrid/Remote Protocol Buffers Job Trends

Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Protocol Buffers skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 257 406
Rank change year-on-year -83 +149 +227
Permanent jobs citing Protocol Buffers 38 211 70
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.25% 1.23% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.40% 4.02% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 37 210 70
10th Percentile - £71,250 £87,500
25th Percentile £105,000 £85,000 £106,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £107,500 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% -14.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £143,750
90th Percentile - £148,750 £155,000
UK median annual salary £130,000 £107,500 £125,000
% change year-on-year +20.93% -14.00% +38.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,723 5,244 6,283
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.83% 30.54% 30.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,138 3,394 5,338
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,250 £50,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Protocol Buffers
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Protocol Buffers and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Protocol Buffers job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Protocol Buffers
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Protocol Buffers.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Protocol Buffers

Protocol Buffers
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Protocol Buffers over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Protocol Buffers salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Protocol Buffers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 37 (97.37%) Apache
1 37 (97.37%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 37 (97.37%) AWS
1 37 (97.37%) dbt
1 37 (97.37%) Snowflake
2 1 (2.63%) GCP
2 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (97.37%) Amazon Athena
1 37 (97.37%) Apache Arrow
1 37 (97.37%) Apache Iceberg
1 37 (97.37%) Apache Ignite
1 37 (97.37%) Data Lake
1 37 (97.37%) Dremio
2 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Git
1 1 (2.63%) Gradle
1 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.63%) Maven
General
1 38 (100.00%) Finance
2 37 (97.37%) Banking
2 37 (97.37%) Front Office
2 37 (97.37%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (97.37%) AWS Engineer
1 37 (97.37%) AWS Software Engineer
1 37 (97.37%) Java Engineer
1 37 (97.37%) Java Software Engineer
1 37 (97.37%) Python Engineer
1 37 (97.37%) Python Software Engineer
1 37 (97.37%) Software Engineer
2 35 (92.11%) Senior
2 35 (92.11%) Senior Java Engineer
2 35 (92.11%) Senior Java Software Engineer
2 35 (92.11%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (2.63%) Developer
3 1 (2.63%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (100.00%) gRPC
2 37 (97.37%) NumPy
2 37 (97.37%) Pandas
2 37 (97.37%) SciPy
3 1 (2.63%) CSS
3 1 (2.63%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.63%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.63%) HTML
3 1 (2.63%) JMS
3 1 (2.63%) JSON
3 1 (2.63%) Kafka
3 1 (2.63%) Node.js
3 1 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.63%) React
3 1 (2.63%) REST
3 1 (2.63%) Spring
3 1 (2.63%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 37 (97.37%) Derivative
1 37 (97.37%) Equities
1 37 (97.37%) Fixed Income
1 37 (97.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 37 (97.37%) Hedge funds
1 37 (97.37%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (97.37%) Agile
1 37 (97.37%) Asset Management
1 37 (97.37%) Investment Management
1 37 (97.37%) Software Engineering
2 1 (2.63%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 38 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (97.37%) JavaScript
2 37 (97.37%) Python
2 37 (97.37%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.63%) Kotlin
3 1 (2.63%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (2.63%) Google