Go Contracts with Work from Home Options

Go (Golang)
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 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 182 204 195
Rank change year-on-year +22 -9 +14
Contract jobs citing Go 165 302 627
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.09% 1.20% 1.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.27% 3.22% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 230 463
10th Percentile £405 £428 £400
25th Percentile £506 £525 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% +7.32%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £650
90th Percentile £850 £863 £729
UK median daily rate £565 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -9.60% +8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.75 - -
Median hourly rate £41.50 - -
75th Percentile £42.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £48.25 £74.00 -
% change year-on-year -34.80% - -

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,048 9,374 16,677
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.49% 37.36% 38.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,662 6,862 12,375
10th Percentile £350 £390 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 203 185
10th Percentile £34.38 £31.60 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.63% +10.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.38 £82.00 £66.60
UK median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +14.94%

Go
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Go trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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 Go.

Go daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Go over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Go daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Go hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 15 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.03%) Cloud Foundry
2 5 (3.03%) Confluence
3 4 (2.42%) nginx
3 4 (2.42%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.82%) Apache
5 2 (1.21%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 118 (71.52%) AWS
2 32 (19.39%) GCP
3 28 (16.97%) Azure
4 15 (9.09%) Serverless
4 15 (9.09%) Snowflake
5 14 (8.48%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (8.48%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (8.48%) dbt
5 14 (8.48%) GitHub
6 10 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (4.24%) OpenShift
9 6 (3.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.42%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.82%) Amazon MSK
12 3 (1.82%) AWS Control Tower
12 3 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.85%) Firewall
2 6 (3.64%) DNS
3 5 (3.03%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.42%) HTTP
5 3 (1.82%) VPN
6 1 (0.61%) BGP
6 1 (0.61%) DHCP
6 1 (0.61%) IPv4
6 1 (0.61%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.61%) MQTT
6 1 (0.61%) Network Security
6 1 (0.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (22.42%) Apache Cassandra
2 23 (13.94%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (10.30%) Big Data
4 14 (8.48%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (8.48%) Apache Arrow
4 14 (8.48%) Data Lake
4 14 (8.48%) Dremio
5 13 (7.88%) MySQL
6 12 (7.27%) NoSQL
7 11 (6.67%) MongoDB
8 7 (4.24%) Couchbase
9 6 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.42%) MariaDB
10 4 (2.42%) Redis
10 4 (2.42%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.82%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.21%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 35 (21.21%) Jenkins
2 33 (20.00%) Git
3 21 (12.73%) GitLab
4 10 (6.06%) JIRA
5 8 (4.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.42%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.82%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.82%) Snyk
8 2 (1.21%) Travis CI
8 2 (1.21%) WebDriver
8 2 (1.21%) WebPageTest
9 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.61%) Darcs
9 1 (0.61%) Gradle
9 1 (0.61%) gulp
9 1 (0.61%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.61%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.61%) Mockito
9 1 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (20.00%) Finance
2 28 (16.97%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.85%) Banking
5 5 (3.03%) Retail
5 5 (3.03%) Tech for Good
6 4 (2.42%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.82%) Marketing
7 3 (1.82%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.61%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.61%) Front Office
8 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (29.09%) Developer
2 33 (20.00%) Senior
2 33 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 25 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (15.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 24 (14.55%) AWS Engineer
4 24 (14.55%) Site Engineer
5 17 (10.30%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (8.48%) Big Data Engineer
7 9 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (4.85%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (4.85%) Full Stack Developer
9 7 (4.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (4.24%) Python Engineer
10 6 (3.64%) Security Engineer
11 5 (3.03%) Architect
11 5 (3.03%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.03%) Senior Security Engineer
12 4 (2.42%) React Developer
13 3 (1.82%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (25.45%) Kafka
2 16 (9.70%) gRPC
2 16 (9.70%) REST
3 14 (8.48%) Protocol Buffers
4 11 (6.67%) React
5 9 (5.45%) Node.js
5 9 (5.45%) RESTful
6 7 (4.24%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (3.64%) AngularJS
7 6 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (3.03%) CSS
8 5 (3.03%) GraphQL
9 4 (2.42%) .NET
9 4 (2.42%) AWS SAM
9 4 (2.42%) HTML
9 4 (2.42%) Vue
10 3 (1.82%) JSON
10 3 (1.82%) SOAP
10 3 (1.82%) XML
10 3 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.09%) Hedge funds
2 14 (8.48%) Clustering
3 12 (7.27%) Cloud Native
3 12 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (4.85%) Algorithms
6 8 (4.85%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.42%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.82%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.21%) Blockchain
10 2 (1.21%) Life Science
10 2 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.21%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (1.21%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.21%) PKI
11 1 (0.61%) Digital Currency
11 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.15%) Linux
2 8 (4.85%) Unix
3 3 (1.82%) Windows
4 2 (1.21%) CentOS
4 2 (1.21%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (38.79%) DevOps
2 60 (36.36%) Agile
3 51 (30.91%) Software Engineering
4 49 (29.70%) CI/CD
5 37 (22.42%) Microservices
6 35 (21.21%) Fintech
7 34 (20.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 30 (18.18%) User Experience
9 29 (17.58%) User Research
9 29 (17.58%) UX Design
9 29 (17.58%) UX Research
10 23 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (10.30%) Task Automation
13 16 (9.70%) Full Stack Development
14 15 (9.09%) Asset Management
14 15 (9.09%) Investment Management
15 14 (8.48%) Computer Science
15 14 (8.48%) SDLC
16 13 (7.88%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 75 (45.45%) Python
2 38 (23.03%) Java
3 36 (21.82%) JavaScript
4 19 (11.52%) Bash
5 14 (8.48%) Ruby
6 12 (7.27%) C++
6 12 (7.27%) SQL
7 10 (6.06%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.85%) PHP
9 7 (4.24%) Perl
9 7 (4.24%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.64%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.64%) Rust
11 4 (2.42%) C#
12 3 (1.82%) Scala
13 2 (1.21%) C
13 2 (1.21%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.21%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.61%) Groovy
14 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 14 (8.48%) Degree
2 12 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (7.27%) SC Cleared
2 12 (7.27%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.61%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.21%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.21%) NIST
2 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.61%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (34.55%) Docker
2 6 (3.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.82%) vCloud
3 3 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.82%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.82%) vSphere
4 1 (0.61%) PowerDNS
4 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 105 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 57 (34.55%) Terraform
3 27 (16.36%) Prometheus
4 20 (12.12%) Ansible
5 16 (9.70%) Grafana
6 9 (5.45%) Consul
7 8 (4.85%) Puppet
8 7 (4.24%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.82%) Autotask
9 3 (1.82%) Packer
10 2 (1.21%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.61%) CASB
11 1 (0.61%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.61%) Kibana
11 1 (0.61%) logstash
Vendors
1 7 (4.24%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.64%) Google
2 6 (3.64%) SaltStack
3 4 (2.42%) VMware
4 3 (1.82%) Arista
4 3 (1.82%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.82%) BMC
4 3 (1.82%) Oracle
4 3 (1.82%) Remedy
4 3 (1.82%) TOWER Software
5 2 (1.21%) Genesys
5 2 (1.21%) Guidewire
5 2 (1.21%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.21%) Splunk
6 1 (0.61%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.61%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.61%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.61%) F5
6 1 (0.61%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.61%) SAP