Go Contracts in Scotland

Go (Golang)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 160 162
Rank change year-on-year +38 +2 -13
Contract jobs citing Go 9 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.41% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.34% 0.40% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £588 - £581
25th Percentile £606 £513 £596
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £645
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -18.60% +22.86%
75th Percentile £681 £538 £696
90th Percentile £693 - £714
UK median daily rate £567 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -9.28% +8.70% +9.52%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 670 993 955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 30.36% 34.79% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 723 647
10th Percentile £369 £406 £363
25th Percentile £415 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +3.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £655 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 21
10th Percentile £29.60 £49.14 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.55 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% +28.83% +4.44%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.50 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in Scotland

Go
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Go in Scotland

Go
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Glasgow +6 7 £700 - 3
Edinburgh +43 2 £600 +14.29% 6
Go
UK

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Apigee
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 2 (22.22%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (11.11%) MariaDB
3 1 (11.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Jenkins
2 6 (66.67%) Bitbucket
2 6 (66.67%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) CircleCI
3 1 (11.11%) Gradle
3 1 (11.11%) gulp
3 1 (11.11%) Maven
3 1 (11.11%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
3 1 (11.11%) Travis CI
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) RESTful
2 6 (66.67%) JSON
2 6 (66.67%) LDAP
2 6 (66.67%) OpenID
2 6 (66.67%) Web Services
2 6 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 6 (66.67%) OO
1 6 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
3 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (11.11%) GitOps
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Log Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Microservices
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile First
3 1 (11.11%) Personalization
3 1 (11.11%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) C
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) Ruby
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Elixir
4 1 (11.11%) Groovy
4 1 (11.11%) PHP
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Docker
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Istio
2 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Cadence
2 2 (22.22%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Adobe
3 1 (11.11%) Confluent
3 1 (11.11%) ForgeRock
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Teradata
3 1 (11.11%) VMware