Protocol Buffers Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Protocol Buffers skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Protocol Buffers over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 400 567
Rank change year-on-year +216 +167 -66
Contract jobs citing Protocol Buffers 166 57 56
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.13% 0.24% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.46% 0.95% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 54 37
10th Percentile £700 £438 £470
25th Percentile £750 £500 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -11.11% +35.00%
75th Percentile £888 £738 £838
90th Percentile - £788 -
UK median daily rate £800 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +33.33% -7.69% +8.33%

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 contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,723 5,975 13,044
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.23% 25.03% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,616 4,481 9,688
10th Percentile £350 £388 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £825 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 79 111
10th Percentile £23.88 £25.10 £22.50
25th Percentile - £48.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +21.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.50 £73.75 £67.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.05 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

Protocol Buffers
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Protocol Buffers trend for jobs with a WFH option

Protocol Buffers
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 Protocol Buffers.

Protocol Buffers daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Protocol Buffers
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Protocol Buffers over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Protocol Buffers daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Protocol Buffers
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
1 165 (99.40%) Apache Airflow
2 138 (83.13%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 165 (99.40%) AWS
2 149 (89.76%) dbt
3 130 (78.31%) Snowflake
4 89 (53.61%) GCP
5 9 (5.42%) Azure
6 8 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.60%) Cloud Run
7 1 (0.60%) Google App Engine
7 1 (0.60%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (89.76%) Amazon Athena
1 149 (89.76%) Apache Arrow
1 149 (89.76%) Dremio
2 138 (83.13%) Apache Ignite
3 130 (78.31%) Data Lake
4 18 (10.84%) Big Data
General
1 165 (99.40%) Finance
2 147 (88.55%) Front Office
3 121 (72.89%) Banking
4 118 (71.08%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 106 (63.86%) Software Engineer
2 74 (44.58%) AWS Engineer
3 64 (38.55%) Developer
3 64 (38.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 64 (38.55%) Python Engineer
3 64 (38.55%) Python Software Engineer
4 56 (33.73%) AWS Software Engineer
5 54 (32.53%) Lead
6 50 (30.12%) Senior
6 50 (30.12%) Senior Software Engineer
7 48 (28.92%) Java Engineer
7 48 (28.92%) Java Software Engineer
8 38 (22.89%) Software Developer
9 37 (22.29%) Team Leader
10 36 (21.69%) Lead Developer
10 36 (21.69%) Lead Software Developer
10 36 (21.69%) Lead Software Engineer
10 36 (21.69%) Software Team Leader
11 35 (21.08%) Python Developer
12 30 (18.07%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (100.00%) gRPC
2 134 (80.72%) Pandas
3 128 (77.11%) NumPy
3 128 (77.11%) SciPy
4 29 (17.47%) React
5 23 (13.86%) Redux
6 20 (12.05%) Node.js
7 16 (9.64%) AngularJS
7 16 (9.64%) Vue
8 6 (3.61%) Material-UI
8 6 (3.61%) PySpark
9 3 (1.81%) .NET
9 3 (1.81%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.81%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 147 (88.55%) Fixed Income
2 139 (83.73%) Hedge funds
3 127 (76.51%) Derivative
3 127 (76.51%) Equities
4 124 (74.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (10.84%) Clustering
6 16 (9.64%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (99.40%) Asset Management
2 147 (88.55%) Software Engineering
3 141 (84.94%) Agile
4 124 (74.70%) Investment Management
5 53 (31.93%) Line Management
6 43 (25.90%) Greeks
7 20 (12.05%) Fintech
7 20 (12.05%) Performance Attribution
8 18 (10.84%) DevOps
8 18 (10.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 12 (7.23%) Analytics
10 10 (6.02%) Credit Risk Analysis
10 10 (6.02%) Front End Development
10 10 (6.02%) Full Stack Development
10 10 (6.02%) User Experience
11 8 (4.82%) Migration
12 6 (3.61%) Data Architecture
12 6 (3.61%) Mentoring
12 6 (3.61%) Product Management
13 3 (1.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 166 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 165 (99.40%) Python
3 147 (88.55%) TypeScript
4 136 (81.93%) Java
5 18 (10.84%) Go
6 8 (4.82%) SQL
7 6 (3.61%) Ruby
7 6 (3.61%) Scala
8 3 (1.81%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (25.90%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 18 (10.84%) Kubernetes
1 18 (10.84%) Prometheus
1 18 (10.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (4.82%) Bloomberg
1 8 (4.82%) Reuters