Protocol Buffers Contracts

Google Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Protocol Buffers skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Protocol Buffers over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 613 722
Rank change year-on-year +254 +109 -31
Contract jobs citing Protocol Buffers 226 69 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.50% 0.54% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 59 96
10th Percentile £550 £438 £475
25th Percentile £663 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £888 £738 £713
90th Percentile - £788 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +44.44%

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 contract job vacancies with 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 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Protocol Buffers in the UK

Protocol Buffers
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Protocol Buffers over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Protocol Buffers in the UK

Protocol Buffers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Protocol Buffers in the UK

Protocol Buffers
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Protocol Buffers within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +256 226 £800 +33.33% 18
London +250 223 £800 +33.33% 13
Work from Home +193 142 £800 +33.33% 14
UK excluding London +35 3 £550 -12.00% 2
Midlands - 2 £500 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £500 - 1
South East - 1 £575 -

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
1 222 (98.23%) Apache Airflow
2 195 (86.28%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 223 (98.67%) AWS
2 154 (68.14%) GCP
3 142 (62.83%) dbt
4 121 (53.54%) Snowflake
5 77 (34.07%) Azure
6 1 (0.44%) Cloud Run
6 1 (0.44%) Firebase
6 1 (0.44%) Google App Engine
6 1 (0.44%) SaaS
6 1 (0.44%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (86.28%) Apache Ignite
2 142 (62.83%) Amazon Athena
2 142 (62.83%) Apache Arrow
2 142 (62.83%) Dremio
3 121 (53.54%) Data Lake
4 65 (28.76%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (7.96%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 47 (20.80%) Cypress.io
2 2 (0.88%) Git
3 1 (0.44%) Xcode
General
1 222 (98.23%) Finance
2 204 (90.27%) Front Office
3 180 (79.65%) Banking
4 112 (49.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 158 (69.91%) Software Engineer
2 124 (54.87%) Developer
3 123 (54.42%) Python Engineer
3 123 (54.42%) Python Software Engineer
4 122 (53.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 98 (43.36%) Python Developer
6 73 (32.30%) React Developer
7 66 (29.20%) AWS Engineer
8 48 (21.24%) AWS Software Engineer
9 45 (19.91%) Lead
10 44 (19.47%) Senior
10 44 (19.47%) Senior Software Engineer
11 40 (17.70%) Java Engineer
11 40 (17.70%) Java Software Engineer
12 34 (15.04%) Full Stack Developer
13 33 (14.60%) Full Stack Engineer
13 33 (14.60%) Full Stack Python Developer
13 33 (14.60%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 33 (14.60%) Software Developer
14 29 (12.83%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (98.67%) gRPC
2 127 (56.19%) Pandas
3 121 (53.54%) NumPy
3 121 (53.54%) SciPy
4 92 (40.71%) React
5 86 (38.05%) Redux
6 71 (31.42%) Material-UI
7 18 (7.96%) Node.js
8 15 (6.64%) AngularJS
8 15 (6.64%) Vue
9 3 (1.33%) .NET
9 3 (1.33%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.33%) ASP.NET Core
10 1 (0.44%) AVFoundation
10 1 (0.44%) iOS SDK
10 1 (0.44%) OpenAPI
10 1 (0.44%) Spring
10 1 (0.44%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.44%) Swagger
10 1 (0.44%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 204 (90.27%) Fixed Income
2 195 (86.28%) Hedge funds
3 152 (67.26%) Equities
4 118 (52.21%) Derivative
5 115 (50.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (7.96%) Clustering
7 14 (6.19%) Pricing Data
8 1 (0.44%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.44%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (98.23%) Asset Management
2 204 (90.27%) Software Engineering
3 198 (87.61%) Agile
4 186 (82.30%) Investment Management
5 75 (33.19%) Full Stack Development
6 65 (28.76%) Artificial Intelligence
6 65 (28.76%) Automated Trading
6 65 (28.76%) Machine Learning
7 52 (23.01%) Line Management
8 37 (16.37%) Greeks
9 19 (8.41%) DevOps
10 18 (7.96%) Fintech
10 18 (7.96%) Performance Attribution
10 18 (7.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 15 (6.64%) Analytics
12 9 (3.98%) Credit Risk Analysis
12 9 (3.98%) Front End Development
12 9 (3.98%) User Experience
13 6 (2.65%) Mentoring
13 6 (2.65%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 222 (98.23%) Python
2 201 (88.94%) TypeScript
3 155 (68.58%) JavaScript
4 128 (56.64%) Java
5 20 (8.85%) Go
6 19 (8.41%) SQL
7 6 (2.65%) Ruby
7 6 (2.65%) Scala
8 3 (1.33%) C#
9 1 (0.44%) C
9 1 (0.44%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.44%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (0.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (16.37%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (0.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (7.96%) Kubernetes
1 18 (7.96%) Prometheus
1 18 (7.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 65 (28.76%) Google