Go Contracts in England

Go (Golang)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Go skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Go over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 241 225
Rank change year-on-year -14 -16 +10
Contract jobs citing Go 337 547 890
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.92% 1.12% 1.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.10% 3.17% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 403 672
10th Percentile £396 £476 £400
25th Percentile £477 £538 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.44% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £663
90th Percentile £710 £863 £750
UK median daily rate £565 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -9.60% +8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £41.93 £66.85 -
25th Percentile £43.69 £69.25 -
Median hourly rate £48.25 £74.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.80% - -
75th Percentile £53.69 £79.25 -
90th Percentile £55.98 £81.95 -
UK median hourly rate £48.25 £74.00 -
% change year-on-year -34.80% - -

All Programming Languages
England

Go is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,860 17,231 25,759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.52% 35.13% 36.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,900 12,582 19,009
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +2.60% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 441 421 444
10th Percentile £37.63 £26.08 £20.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
Median % change year-on-year - +24.13% +17.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £70.95
UK median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +14.94%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Go in England

Go
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Go in England.

Daily rate trend for Go in England

Go
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Go in England

Go
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Go in England.

Hourly rate trend for Go in England

Go
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Go in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Go in England

Go
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
London -19 223 £567 -10.36% 121
North of England +12 33 £510 -15.00% 23
North West -3 25 £450 -25.00% 19
South East +29 20 £371 -32.55% 20
South West -6 19 £544 -1.14% 19
Yorkshire +21 8 £520 +30.00% 3
Midlands +34 2 £500 -4.76% 7
West Midlands +21 2 £500 -4.76% 7
Go
UK

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 20 (5.93%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (5.34%) Confluence
3 16 (4.75%) nginx
4 10 (2.97%) Apache
5 9 (2.67%) BizTalk Server
5 9 (2.67%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.89%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.89%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.89%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.59%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 200 (59.35%) AWS
2 59 (17.51%) GCP
3 53 (15.73%) Azure
4 32 (9.50%) Serverless
5 30 (8.90%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (8.01%) GitHub
7 20 (5.93%) Snowflake
8 18 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (5.34%) dbt
9 14 (4.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (3.26%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (2.97%) Azure Functions
13 10 (2.97%) PaaS
14 9 (2.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (2.67%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.64%) Firewall
2 18 (5.34%) DNS
3 9 (2.67%) Network Security
4 8 (2.37%) DHCP
4 8 (2.37%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.78%) Wireless
6 5 (1.48%) AMQP
7 4 (1.19%) VPN
7 4 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.89%) IPv4
8 3 (0.89%) VoIP
9 2 (0.59%) BGP
9 2 (0.59%) BIG-IP
9 2 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.59%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (0.59%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.59%) HTTP
9 2 (0.59%) Internet
9 2 (0.59%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.30%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (18.40%) Apache Cassandra
2 38 (11.28%) NoSQL
3 33 (9.79%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (6.53%) MongoDB
5 21 (6.23%) Data Lake
5 21 (6.23%) MySQL
6 17 (5.04%) Big Data
7 14 (4.15%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (4.15%) Apache Arrow
7 14 (4.15%) Dremio
8 12 (3.56%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (3.56%) Couchbase
8 12 (3.56%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (2.08%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.78%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.78%) InfluxDB
11 6 (1.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 74 (21.96%) Jenkins
2 60 (17.80%) Git
3 29 (8.61%) GitLab
4 27 (8.01%) JIRA
5 6 (1.78%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.19%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (1.19%) Burp Suite
6 4 (1.19%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.19%) Snyk
7 3 (0.89%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.89%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.89%) Subversion
8 2 (0.59%) Darcs
8 2 (0.59%) Mercurial
8 2 (0.59%) Mockito
8 2 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.30%) Gradle
9 1 (0.30%) JUnit
9 1 (0.30%) Maven
General
1 48 (14.24%) Finance
2 44 (13.06%) Social Skills
3 20 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.45%) Banking
5 13 (3.86%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.26%) Retail
7 10 (2.97%) Tech for Good
8 8 (2.37%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.48%) Marketing
10 3 (0.89%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.89%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 85 (25.22%) Developer
2 78 (23.15%) Senior
3 62 (18.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 56 (16.62%) Software Engineer
5 52 (15.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 40 (11.87%) Site Engineer
7 35 (10.39%) Senior Software Engineer
8 30 (8.90%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (4.75%) Full Stack Developer
9 16 (4.75%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (4.15%) AWS DevOps
10 14 (4.15%) Big Data Engineer
11 13 (3.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (2.97%) Senior DevOps
13 9 (2.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 9 (2.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
13 9 (2.67%) Senior Developer
13 9 (2.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 8 (2.37%) Architect
15 7 (2.08%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (22.85%) Kafka
2 31 (9.20%) REST
3 22 (6.53%) React
4 19 (5.64%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (5.64%) gRPC
4 19 (5.64%) Node.js
4 19 (5.64%) RabbitMQ
5 16 (4.75%) Protocol Buffers
6 14 (4.15%) .NET
7 13 (3.86%) GraphQL
8 11 (3.26%) RESTful
9 9 (2.67%) .NET Core
9 9 (2.67%) CSS
10 8 (2.37%) AngularJS
10 8 (2.37%) Blazor
10 8 (2.37%) HTML
10 8 (2.37%) LDAP
11 6 (1.78%) Keycloak
12 5 (1.48%) LAPP Stack
13 4 (1.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.90%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 19 (5.64%) Clustering
4 15 (4.45%) Algorithms
4 15 (4.45%) Hedge funds
5 13 (3.86%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.86%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.37%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.37%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.78%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.78%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.19%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.19%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.19%) IoT
10 4 (1.19%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 69 (20.47%) Linux
2 16 (4.75%) Windows
3 11 (3.26%) Unix
4 7 (2.08%) CentOS
5 5 (1.48%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.48%) VMS
6 3 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (43.62%) DevOps
2 122 (36.20%) CI/CD
3 112 (33.23%) Agile
4 108 (32.05%) Software Engineering
5 69 (20.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 67 (19.88%) Microservices
7 52 (15.43%) Fintech
8 50 (14.84%) User Experience
9 46 (13.65%) UX Design
10 44 (13.06%) User Research
10 44 (13.06%) UX Research
11 43 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (11.57%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (10.09%) Configuration Management
14 31 (9.20%) Full Stack Development
15 27 (8.01%) Containerisation
16 26 (7.72%) Continuous Integration
17 25 (7.42%) SDLC
18 23 (6.82%) Computer Science
18 23 (6.82%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 176 (52.23%) Python
2 102 (30.27%) Java
3 68 (20.18%) JavaScript
4 51 (15.13%) SQL
5 39 (11.57%) Bash
6 30 (8.90%) Ruby
7 27 (8.01%) C++
8 25 (7.42%) TypeScript
9 18 (5.34%) C
9 18 (5.34%) PowerShell
10 15 (4.45%) C#
10 15 (4.45%) Rust
11 13 (3.86%) Shell Script
12 11 (3.26%) PHP
13 10 (2.97%) Scala
14 9 (2.67%) Kotlin
14 9 (2.67%) PL/SQL
14 9 (2.67%) T-SQL
15 6 (1.78%) Groovy
16 5 (1.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 53 (15.73%) Security Cleared
2 34 (10.09%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.82%) Degree
4 18 (5.34%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.19%) CHECK Team Leader
6 4 (1.19%) CREST Certified
6 4 (1.19%) GIAC
6 4 (1.19%) OSCP
7 2 (0.59%) CCNP
7 2 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.30%) SANS
8 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.08%) NIST
2 3 (0.89%) ISO 22301
2 3 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.89%) QA
3 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.59%) ISO 20022
3 2 (0.59%) NCSC
3 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 129 (38.28%) Docker
2 9 (2.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 7 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.59%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.59%) PowerDNS
5 1 (0.30%) Firmware
5 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 175 (51.93%) Kubernetes
2 121 (35.91%) Terraform
3 60 (17.80%) Ansible
4 48 (14.24%) Prometheus
5 37 (10.98%) Grafana
6 14 (4.15%) Consul
7 12 (3.56%) Progress Chef
8 11 (3.26%) Puppet
9 8 (2.37%) Packer
10 7 (2.08%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (2.08%) ZABBIX
11 6 (1.78%) HP Fortify
11 6 (1.78%) Opsgenie
12 5 (1.48%) Istio
13 3 (0.89%) Rancher
14 2 (0.59%) Graphite
14 2 (0.59%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.59%) linkerd
14 2 (0.59%) Podman
15 1 (0.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (7.42%) Splunk
2 16 (4.75%) Google
3 15 (4.45%) Oracle
4 13 (3.86%) Microsoft
5 11 (3.26%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.97%) PagerDuty
7 9 (2.67%) Dynatrace
7 9 (2.67%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.37%) Adobe
8 8 (2.37%) New Relic
8 8 (2.37%) SAP
8 8 (2.37%) VMware
9 6 (1.78%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.78%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.19%) F5
11 3 (0.89%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.89%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.89%) Cisco
11 3 (0.89%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.59%) Guidewire