Go Contracts in the UK excluding London

Go (Golang)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 334 254
Rank change year-on-year +29 -80 +15
Contract jobs citing Go 81 123 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.52% 0.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.70% 1.80% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 87 202
10th Percentile £331 £414 £398
25th Percentile £406 £513 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £567 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -9.28% +8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
UK median hourly rate £48.25 £74.00 -
% change year-on-year -34.80% - -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,753 6,820 8,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.33% 29.02% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,190 4,850 6,148
10th Percentile £313 £350 £336
25th Percentile £400 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £655 £678 £646
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 338 330
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.76 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.94 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +22.49% +19.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.58 £65.03
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Go in the UK excluding London

Go
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Go in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Go in the UK excluding London

Go
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Go in the UK excluding London

Go
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Go in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Go in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
North of England +8 33 £510 -15.00% 25
North West +5 25 £450 -25.00% 21
South West -5 19 £544 -1.14% 18
South East +22 18 £353 -35.91% 26
Scotland +50 9 £650 +23.81% 7
Yorkshire +28 8 £520 +30.00% 3
Midlands +32 2 £500 -4.76% 7
West Midlands +24 2 £500 -4.76% 7
Go
UK

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (12.35%) Confluence
2 6 (7.41%) nginx
3 3 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.70%) Jupyter
4 2 (2.47%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 41 (50.62%) AWS
2 15 (18.52%) Azure
3 14 (17.28%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (17.28%) GCP
4 10 (12.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (12.35%) Serverless
5 9 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 9 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (9.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (9.88%) GitHub
7 7 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (7.41%) Amazon ELB
8 6 (7.41%) Snowflake
9 5 (6.17%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (6.17%) OpenShift
10 4 (4.94%) CloudBees
10 4 (4.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (1.23%) Apigee
12 1 (1.23%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.41%) Kerberos
1 6 (7.41%) Network Security
2 5 (6.17%) AMQP
3 4 (4.94%) DNS
4 3 (3.70%) Firewall
5 2 (2.47%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (17.28%) NoSQL
3 9 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
4 7 (8.64%) MongoDB
5 6 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (7.41%) Couchbase
5 6 (7.41%) Data Lake
5 6 (7.41%) DynamoDB
5 6 (7.41%) InfluxDB
5 6 (7.41%) MySQL
5 6 (7.41%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.70%) ClickHouse
7 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.23%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (46.91%) Jenkins
2 26 (32.10%) Git
3 17 (20.99%) GitLab
4 11 (13.58%) JIRA
5 8 (9.88%) Bitbucket
6 6 (7.41%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.70%) Subversion
8 1 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.23%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.23%) Gradle
8 1 (1.23%) gulp
8 1 (1.23%) Maven
8 1 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.23%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.23%) Travis CI
General
1 5 (6.17%) Finance
1 5 (6.17%) Social Skills
2 3 (3.70%) Banking
2 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
2 3 (3.70%) Retail
3 2 (2.47%) Tech for Good
4 1 (1.23%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (43.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (32.10%) Developer
3 14 (17.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 9 (11.11%) Senior
5 7 (8.64%) Site Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (4.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Operations Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (4.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 2 (2.47%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 2 (2.47%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.58%) REST
2 10 (12.35%) Kafka
2 10 (12.35%) RabbitMQ
3 8 (9.88%) RESTful
4 7 (8.64%) OpenID
5 6 (7.41%) JSON
5 6 (7.41%) LDAP
5 6 (7.41%) Web Services
5 6 (7.41%) XML
6 4 (4.94%) GraphQL
6 4 (4.94%) gRPC
6 4 (4.94%) Keycloak
7 3 (3.70%) Apache Beam
7 3 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.47%) cloud-init
8 2 (2.47%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (2.47%) SAML
9 1 (1.23%) CSS
9 1 (1.23%) HTML
9 1 (1.23%) JCE
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.64%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (7.41%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.17%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.94%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.47%) Clustering
6 2 (2.47%) PKI
7 1 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (25.93%) Linux
2 2 (2.47%) CentOS
2 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.23%) Android
3 1 (1.23%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (59.26%) DevOps
2 44 (54.32%) CI/CD
3 20 (24.69%) Continuous Integration
3 20 (24.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (23.46%) Agile
5 17 (20.99%) Configuration Management
5 17 (20.99%) Microservices
6 14 (17.28%) Containerisation
6 14 (17.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 12 (14.81%) Test Automation
8 11 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (12.35%) Event-Driven
9 10 (12.35%) Software Engineering
10 8 (9.88%) Open Source
11 7 (8.64%) Migration
11 7 (8.64%) Observability
11 7 (8.64%) OO
12 6 (7.41%) Continuous Delivery
12 6 (7.41%) Data Modelling
12 6 (7.41%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (50.62%) Python
2 26 (32.10%) Java
3 22 (27.16%) SQL
4 13 (16.05%) Bash
5 12 (14.81%) C
6 9 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 8 (9.88%) PowerShell
7 8 (9.88%) Ruby
8 6 (7.41%) Shell Script
9 5 (6.17%) Groovy
9 5 (6.17%) TypeScript
10 4 (4.94%) Scala
11 1 (1.23%) C#
11 1 (1.23%) C++
11 1 (1.23%) Elixir
11 1 (1.23%) Perl
11 1 (1.23%) PHP
11 1 (1.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 23 (28.40%) Security Cleared
2 16 (19.75%) DV Cleared
3 6 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.41%) Degree
3 6 (7.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.70%) ISO 22301
1 3 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.47%) NCSC
2 2 (2.47%) NIST
2 2 (2.47%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.47%) QA
3 1 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 42 (51.85%) Docker
2 6 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 41 (50.62%) Kubernetes
2 40 (49.38%) Terraform
3 32 (39.51%) Ansible
4 16 (19.75%) Grafana
4 16 (19.75%) Prometheus
5 8 (9.88%) Progress Chef
6 7 (8.64%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (7.41%) HP Fortify
8 4 (4.94%) Istio
9 3 (3.70%) Rancher
10 2 (2.47%) Consul
10 2 (2.47%) Graphite
10 2 (2.47%) HAProxy
10 2 (2.47%) linkerd
10 2 (2.47%) Packer
10 2 (2.47%) Podman
10 2 (2.47%) Puppet
10 2 (2.47%) ZABBIX
11 1 (1.23%) Kiali
11 1 (1.23%) rkt
Vendors
1 9 (11.11%) Splunk
2 7 (8.64%) VMware
3 6 (7.41%) Atlassian
3 6 (7.41%) Cadence
4 3 (3.70%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.47%) Google
5 2 (2.47%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.23%) Adobe
6 1 (1.23%) Confluent
6 1 (1.23%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.23%) IBM
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle
6 1 (1.23%) Teradata