gRPC Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for gRPC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited gRPC over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 217 398 528
Rank change year-on-year +181 +130 -58
Contract jobs citing gRPC 128 68 101
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.87% 0.28% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.52% 1.10% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 58 70
10th Percentile £700 £438 £509
25th Percentile £750 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -7.69% +26.83%
75th Percentile £888 £788 £713
90th Percentile - £875 £750
UK median daily rate £800 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +33.33% -7.69% +23.81%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,634 6,192 13,030
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.57% 25.16% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,549 4,620 9,615
10th Percentile £342 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.24%
75th Percentile £650 £657 £648
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 75 122
10th Percentile £24.23 £22.35 £21.10
25th Percentile - £41.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £60.00 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +20.30% +10.83%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.15 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

gRPC
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing gRPC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

gRPC trend for jobs with a WFH option

gRPC
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing gRPC.

gRPC daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

gRPC
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing gRPC over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

gRPC daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

gRPC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 122 (95.31%) Apache Airflow
2 97 (75.78%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 125 (97.66%) AWS
2 109 (85.16%) dbt
3 90 (70.31%) Snowflake
4 68 (53.13%) GCP
5 12 (9.38%) Azure
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.78%) Cloud Run
6 1 (0.78%) Google App Engine
6 1 (0.78%) IaaS
6 1 (0.78%) PaaS
6 1 (0.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (85.16%) Amazon Athena
1 109 (85.16%) Apache Arrow
1 109 (85.16%) Dremio
2 97 (75.78%) Apache Ignite
3 90 (70.31%) Data Lake
4 16 (12.50%) Big Data
5 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.91%) Git
2 1 (0.78%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.78%) JIRA
2 1 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 124 (96.88%) Finance
2 107 (83.59%) Front Office
3 87 (67.97%) Banking
4 83 (64.84%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.78%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (60.94%) Software Engineer
2 54 (42.19%) AWS Engineer
3 51 (39.84%) Developer
4 49 (38.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 46 (35.94%) Python Engineer
5 46 (35.94%) Python Software Engineer
6 38 (29.69%) AWS Software Engineer
6 38 (29.69%) Lead
7 37 (28.91%) Senior
8 36 (28.13%) Senior Software Engineer
9 33 (25.78%) Java Engineer
9 33 (25.78%) Java Software Engineer
10 27 (21.09%) Python Developer
10 27 (21.09%) Software Developer
11 25 (19.53%) Team Leader
12 24 (18.75%) Lead Developer
12 24 (18.75%) Lead Software Developer
12 24 (18.75%) Lead Software Engineer
12 24 (18.75%) Software Team Leader
13 20 (15.63%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (96.09%) Protocol Buffers
2 96 (75.00%) Pandas
3 90 (70.31%) NumPy
3 90 (70.31%) SciPy
4 24 (18.75%) React
5 17 (13.28%) Redux
6 14 (10.94%) Node.js
7 13 (10.16%) AngularJS
7 13 (10.16%) Vue
8 6 (4.69%) Material-UI
9 4 (3.13%) .NET
10 3 (2.34%) ASP.NET
10 3 (2.34%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (2.34%) GraphQL
10 3 (2.34%) Kafka
10 3 (2.34%) RESTful
10 3 (2.34%) Swagger
11 2 (1.56%) JWT
11 2 (1.56%) OAuth
11 2 (1.56%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 103 (80.47%) Fixed Income
2 99 (77.34%) Hedge funds
3 89 (69.53%) Derivative
3 89 (69.53%) Equities
4 86 (67.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (12.50%) Clustering
6 10 (7.81%) Pricing Data
7 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (95.31%) Asset Management
2 108 (84.38%) Software Engineering
3 101 (78.91%) Agile
4 98 (76.56%) Investment Management
5 33 (25.78%) Line Management
6 31 (24.22%) Greeks
7 17 (13.28%) DevOps
8 16 (12.50%) Analytics
8 16 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 14 (10.94%) Fintech
9 14 (10.94%) Performance Attribution
10 9 (7.03%) Data Architecture
11 7 (5.47%) Credit Risk Analysis
11 7 (5.47%) Front End Development
11 7 (5.47%) Full Stack Development
11 7 (5.47%) User Experience
12 6 (4.69%) Mentoring
12 6 (4.69%) Product Management
13 4 (3.13%) TDD
14 3 (2.34%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 124 (96.88%) Python
2 123 (96.09%) JavaScript
3 107 (83.59%) TypeScript
4 101 (78.91%) Java
5 18 (14.06%) Go
6 7 (5.47%) Ruby
6 7 (5.47%) Scala
7 4 (3.13%) C#
8 2 (1.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (0.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (24.22%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.56%) GDPR
2 2 (1.56%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 16 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 16 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (1.56%) Google
2 1 (0.78%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft