Go Contracts in the Thames Valley

Go (Golang)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 146 151
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -62
Contract jobs citing Go 3 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.11% 0.20% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.56% 0.84% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 11
10th Percentile - £513 £388
25th Percentile - £541 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £663 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +51.43% -2.78%
75th Percentile - £688 £556
90th Percentile - £694 £575
South East median daily rate £371 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -32.55% +4.76% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 535 713 790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.88% 24.27% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 530 580
10th Percentile £358 £336 £342
25th Percentile £425 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +15.94%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £575
90th Percentile £668 £680 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 5
10th Percentile £33.94 £25.64 £31.30
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £62.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £56.88 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -13.17% +63.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.40
90th Percentile £67.63 £79.41 £84.66
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £44.73
% change year-on-year +9.09% +22.97% +8.42%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Go in the Thames Valley

Go
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Go in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Go in the Thames Valley

Go
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 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
Berkshire -9 2 - - 5
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Go
South East

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
1 2 (66.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Release Management
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Kibana
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
1 2 (66.67%) VMware