Go Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Go skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Go over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Go (Golang) UK
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	383	457	582
Rank change year-on-year	+74	+125
Contract jobs citing Go	229	194	59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.49%	0.37%	0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category	1.16%	0.94%	0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted	175	160	43
Median daily rate	£520	£510	£438
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+1.96%	+16.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£400	£425	£380
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£700	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£475	£588	£438
% change year-on-year	-19.14%	+34.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	1	0
Median hourly rate	-	£47.50	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	£47.50	-

Go is in the programming language skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills.

Contract Programming Language Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills	19721	20622	21293
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	41.95%	38.85%	38.07%
Number of daily rates quoted	13466	14153	14242
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£318	£300	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£575	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	387	449	434
Median hourly rate	£42.00	£37.50	£36.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+12.00%	+2.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£21.65	£15.00	£19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£51.53	£50.00	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£37.50	£37.00
% change year-on-year	+13.33%	+1.35%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Go as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Programming Languages category.

Go
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Go.

Contractor daily rate trend for Go in the UK

Go
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Go over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Go in the UK

Go
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Go in the UK

Go
Top 30 Contract Locations

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 over the 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+54	214	£525	+2.94%	76
London	+14	171	£550	+10.00%	47
City of London	-12	28	£625	+19.04%	7
South East	+27	20	£500	-28.57%	10
Milton Keynes	-4	16	£500	+8.10%	2
Buckinghamshire	-6	16	£500	+8.10%	2
Croydon	-	12	£525	-
Scotland	-	10	£450	-	1
Edinburgh	-	9	£450	-	1
East Midlands	-2	7	£475	-	1
North West	+23	5	£600	+33.33%	6
Manchester	+14	5	£600	+34.07%	5
Northamptonshire	-	5	£475	-
Northampton	-	5	£475	-
West Midlands	-	4	£320	-	1
South West	-	4	£400	-	3
Birmingham	-	4	£320	-	1
Wales	-2	3	£400	-11.11%
South Wales	-	3	£400	-
Dorset	-	3	£375	-
Surrey	+6	2	£351	-15.03%	1
Newport	-	2	£400	-
Reigate	-	2	£351	-
Midlands	-	2	-	-	2
Yorkshire	+9	1	£425	-27.65%	4
Wiltshire	-	1	£450	-	2
Gatwick	-	1	£375	-
Malmesbury	-	1	£450	-
Bournemouth	-	1	£375	-
Poole	-	1	£313	-

Go
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Go also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Go.

1	248 (63.10%)	Python
2	243 (61.83%)	Java
3	238 (60.56%)	Agile Software Development
4	222 (56.49%)	DevOps
5	181 (46.06%)	Ruby
6	174 (44.27%)	Amazon AWS
7	164 (41.73%)	Linux
8	162 (41.22%)	Docker
9	135 (34.35%)	Ansible
10	110 (27.99%)	Git (software)
11	109 (27.74%)	Kubernetes
12	106 (26.97%)	TDD
13	104 (26.46%)	Continuous Integration
14	103 (26.21%)	Puppet
15	87 (22.14%)	Node.js

16	83 (21.12%)	Jenkins
17	75 (19.08%)	Opscode Chef
17	75 (19.08%)	Bash Shell
17	75 (19.08%)	Configuration Management
18	72 (18.32%)	PostgreSQL
19	70 (17.81%)	PaaS
20	69 (17.56%)	Terraform
21	68 (17.30%)	Open Source
22	66 (16.79%)	Microservices
23	59 (15.01%)	Finance
24	57 (14.50%)	Cloud Foundry
25	56 (14.25%)	Spring
26	55 (13.99%)	JavaScript
27	53 (13.49%)	HTML
28	52 (13.23%)	Continuous Delivery

Go
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	57 (14.50%)	Cloud Foundry
2	47 (11.96%)	Elasticsearch
3	35 (8.91%)	nginx
4	29 (7.38%)	OpenStack
5	11 (2.80%)	Apache
5	11 (2.80%)	Hubot
5	11 (2.80%)	Tomcat
6	8 (2.04%)	Apache Spark
7	6 (1.53%)	Confluence
8	4 (1.02%)	WordPress
9	3 (0.76%)	CMS
9	3 (0.76%)	Hyperledger
10	2 (0.51%)	eris
10	2 (0.51%)	Ethereum
11	1 (0.25%)	Apache Solr
11	1 (0.25%)	GemFire

Applications
1	5 (1.27%)	Microsoft Excel
2	2 (0.51%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	8 (2.04%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Cloud Services
1	174 (44.27%)	Amazon AWS
2	70 (17.81%)	PaaS
3	50 (12.72%)	GitHub
4	41 (10.43%)	Microsoft Azure
5	23 (5.85%)	IaaS
6	17 (4.33%)	Bluemix
6	17 (4.33%)	IBM Cloud
7	15 (3.82%)	Datadog
7	15 (3.82%)	Google Cloud Platform
8	14 (3.56%)	Quay.io
9	13 (3.31%)	Amazon EC2
10	10 (2.54%)	Amazon S3
10	10 (2.54%)	OpenShift
11	7 (1.78%)	Amazon ELB
11	7 (1.78%)	SaaS
12	6 (1.53%)	AWS CloudFormation
12	6 (1.53%)	Virtual Private Cloud
13	5 (1.27%)	Amazon CloudWatch
13	5 (1.27%)	AWS Lambda
13	5 (1.27%)	Heroku

Communications & Networking
1	35 (8.91%)	HTTP
2	27 (6.87%)	TCP/IP
3	13 (3.31%)	SSL
4	11 (2.80%)	DNS
5	7 (1.78%)	Internet
6	5 (1.27%)	Kerberos
6	5 (1.27%)	VPN
7	4 (1.02%)	AMQP
7	4 (1.02%)	ICMP
7	4 (1.02%)	Software-Defined Networking
8	3 (0.76%)	OpenLDAP
9	2 (0.51%)	Firewall
9	2 (0.51%)	LDAP
9	2 (0.51%)	SSH
9	2 (0.51%)	Wireshark
10	1 (0.25%)	HTTPS
10	1 (0.25%)	LAN
10	1 (0.25%)	MQTT
10	1 (0.25%)	SNMP
10	1 (0.25%)	WAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	72 (18.32%)	PostgreSQL
2	51 (12.98%)	MongoDB
3	47 (11.96%)	MySQL
4	29 (7.38%)	Redis
5	28 (7.12%)	NoSQL
6	19 (4.83%)	SQL Server
7	18 (4.58%)	Relational Database
8	17 (4.33%)	Big Data
8	17 (4.33%)	Hadoop
9	16 (4.07%)	Apache Cassandra
10	8 (2.04%)	Neo4j
11	7 (1.78%)	Blockchain
12	4 (1.02%)	Amazon RDS
13	3 (0.76%)	MariaDB
13	3 (0.76%)	Riak
14	2 (0.51%)	Data Mining
14	2 (0.51%)	HBase
14	2 (0.51%)	InfluxDB
14	2 (0.51%)	Oracle Reports
15	1 (0.25%)	RDBMS

Development Applications
1	110 (27.99%)	Git (software)
2	83 (21.12%)	Jenkins
3	26 (6.62%)	Artifactory
4	25 (6.36%)	JIRA
5	22 (5.60%)	Maven
6	19 (4.83%)	GitLab
7	15 (3.82%)	Travis CI
7	15 (3.82%)	Vagrant
8	11 (2.80%)	Gradle
9	10 (2.54%)	JUnit
10	9 (2.29%)	Bitbucket
10	9 (2.29%)	Mockito
11	8 (2.04%)	Atlassian Bamboo
11	8 (2.04%)	Cucumber
12	7 (1.78%)	Selenium
12	7 (1.78%)	Subversion
12	7 (1.78%)	TeamCity
13	6 (1.53%)	RSpec
14	5 (1.27%)	DbUnit
14	5 (1.27%)	SonarQube

General
1	59 (15.01%)	Finance
2	18 (4.58%)	Banking
3	11 (2.80%)	Games
3	11 (2.80%)	Telecoms
4	10 (2.54%)	Marketing
5	8 (2.04%)	Electronics
5	8 (2.04%)	Manufacturing
6	5 (1.27%)	Retail
7	3 (0.76%)	Front Office
8	2 (0.51%)	Publishing
9	1 (0.25%)	Investment Banking

Job Titles
1	156 (39.69%)	Developer
2	115 (29.26%)	DevOps Engineer
3	73 (18.58%)	Java Developer
4	42 (10.69%)	AWS DevOps
5	41 (10.43%)	Python Developer
6	39 (9.92%)	AWS Engineer
7	34 (8.65%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
7	34 (8.65%)	Senior Developer
8	25 (6.36%)	Architect
9	24 (6.11%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
10	22 (5.60%)	Linux DevOps Engineer
10	22 (5.60%)	Linux Engineer
10	22 (5.60%)	Ruby Developer
11	21 (5.34%)	Cloud Architect
11	21 (5.34%)	Senior Java Developer
12	20 (5.09%)	Senior DevOps
13	19 (4.83%)	Cloud Engineer
13	19 (4.83%)	Senior DevOps Engineer
14	16 (4.07%)	Agile Developer
14	16 (4.07%)	Senior Python Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	87 (22.14%)	Node.js
2	56 (14.25%)	Spring
3	53 (13.49%)	HTML
4	52 (13.23%)	Elastic Stack
5	45 (11.45%)	REST
6	39 (9.92%)	Kafka
7	33 (8.40%)	AngularJS
8	31 (7.89%)	Spring Boot
9	29 (7.38%)	Web Services
10	27 (6.87%)	CSS
10	27 (6.87%)	HTML5
11	25 (6.36%)	RESTful
12	23 (5.85%)	RabbitMQ
13	22 (5.60%)	Hibernate
14	21 (5.34%)	J2EE
15	20 (5.09%)	Ruby on Rails
16	19 (4.83%)	JSON
17	18 (4.58%)	JMS
18	15 (3.82%)	JDBC
19	14 (3.56%)	JMX

Miscellaneous
1	27 (6.87%)	Cloud Native
1	27 (6.87%)	Greenfield Project
2	15 (3.82%)	Fintech
2	15 (3.82%)	User Experience
3	14 (3.56%)	Public Cloud
4	13 (3.31%)	Data Structures
5	12 (3.05%)	Mobile App
6	11 (2.80%)	Algorithms
7	9 (2.29%)	Private Cloud
8	8 (2.04%)	Computer Science
9	7 (1.78%)	Enterprise Software
9	7 (1.78%)	Virtual Team
10	6 (1.53%)	Blog
11	5 (1.27%)	Analytical Skills
11	5 (1.27%)	Linux Command Line
12	4 (1.02%)	Client/Server
12	4 (1.02%)	Data Centre
12	4 (1.02%)	Digital Media
13	3 (0.76%)	Device Driver
13	3 (0.76%)	Management Information System

Operating Systems
1	164 (41.73%)	Linux
2	43 (10.94%)	Unix
3	33 (8.40%)	CoreOS
4	24 (6.11%)	Ubuntu
5	19 (4.83%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	14 (3.56%)	Windows
7	11 (2.80%)	Android
7	11 (2.80%)	Apple iOS
7	11 (2.80%)	CentOS
8	9 (2.29%)	Mac OS
9	7 (1.78%)	Mac OS X
10	4 (1.02%)	RancherOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	238 (60.56%)	Agile Software Development
2	222 (56.49%)	DevOps
3	106 (26.97%)	TDD
4	104 (26.46%)	Continuous Integration
5	75 (19.08%)	Configuration Management
6	68 (17.30%)	Open Source
7	66 (16.79%)	Microservices
8	52 (13.23%)	Continuous Delivery
9	51 (12.98%)	Software Engineering
10	50 (12.72%)	Test Automation
11	47 (11.96%)	BDD
12	44 (11.20%)	Scrum
13	39 (9.92%)	Kanban
14	31 (7.89%)	High Availability
15	30 (7.63%)	Pair Programming
16	27 (6.87%)	Web Operations
17	24 (6.11%)	OO
17	24 (6.11%)	Software Delivery
18	20 (5.09%)	SOA
19	19 (4.83%)	E-Commerce

Programming Languages
1	248 (63.10%)	Python
2	243 (61.83%)	Java
3	181 (46.06%)	Ruby
4	75 (19.08%)	Bash Shell
5	55 (13.99%)	JavaScript
6	45 (11.45%)	Scala
7	29 (7.38%)	SQL
8	24 (6.11%)	C++
8	24 (6.11%)	Perl
9	23 (5.85%)	PHP
10	19 (4.83%)	C
10	19 (4.83%)	Clojure
11	11 (2.80%)	CoffeeScript
11	11 (2.80%)	Rust
12	10 (2.54%)	F#
13	9 (2.29%)	Shell Script
14	8 (2.04%)	C#
15	5 (1.27%)	Groovy
15	5 (1.27%)	Haskell
15	5 (1.27%)	R

Qualifications
1	42 (10.69%)	Security Cleared
2	31 (7.89%)	SC Cleared
3	15 (3.82%)	Degree
4	8 (2.04%)	Computer Science Degree
5	6 (1.53%)	BPSS Clearance
6	5 (1.27%)	DV Cleared
7	2 (0.51%)	CISA
7	2 (0.51%)	CISM
7	2 (0.51%)	CISSP
7	2 (0.51%)	GSEC
7	2 (0.51%)	Master's Degree
8	1 (0.25%)	BC Cleared
8	1 (0.25%)	CTC Cleared

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	9 (2.29%)	QA
2	3 (0.76%)	Disclosure Scotland
3	1 (0.25%)	GCP

System Software
1	162 (41.22%)	Docker
2	17 (4.33%)	etcd
2	17 (4.33%)	flannel
3	11 (2.80%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	10 (2.54%)	Ceph
4	10 (2.54%)	GlusterFS
4	10 (2.54%)	SkyDNS
5	7 (1.78%)	LXC
5	7 (1.78%)	vSphere
6	6 (1.53%)	Active Directory
6	6 (1.53%)	Apache ZooKeeper
7	3 (0.76%)	HDFS
7	3 (0.76%)	Squid
8	2 (0.51%)	KVM
8	2 (0.51%)	vCloud
8	2 (0.51%)	Xen
8	2 (0.51%)	zsh
9	1 (0.25%)	NFS
9	1 (0.25%)	Slurm Workload Manager
9	1 (0.25%)	VirtualBox

Systems Management
1	135 (34.35%)	Ansible
2	109 (27.74%)	Kubernetes
3	103 (26.21%)	Puppet
4	75 (19.08%)	Opscode Chef
5	69 (17.56%)	Terraform
6	33 (8.40%)	Salt
7	31 (7.89%)	Kibana
8	29 (7.38%)	logstash
9	27 (6.87%)	Prometheus
10	21 (5.34%)	Mesos
10	21 (5.34%)	rkt
11	19 (4.83%)	Consul
11	19 (4.83%)	Nagios
12	18 (4.58%)	Sysdig
13	17 (4.33%)	Host Intrusion Detection System
13	17 (4.33%)	Network Intrusion Detection System
14	16 (4.07%)	Grafana
14	16 (4.07%)	HAProxy
15	12 (3.05%)	Graphite
16	9 (2.29%)	Packer

Vendors
1	24 (6.11%)	Google
1	24 (6.11%)	VMware
2	16 (4.07%)	Microsoft
3	14 (3.56%)	Red Hat
4	11 (2.80%)	Oracle
5	10 (2.54%)	SaltStack
6	8 (2.04%)	SAP
7	7 (1.78%)	Apple
7	7 (1.78%)	Splunk
8	5 (1.27%)	Black Duck
8	5 (1.27%)	ForgeRock
9	3 (0.76%)	Cloudera
9	3 (0.76%)	EMC
9	3 (0.76%)	Hortonworks
9	3 (0.76%)	IBM
9	3 (0.76%)	New Relic
9	3 (0.76%)	Rackspace
10	2 (0.51%)	Atlassian
10	2 (0.51%)	Isilon
11	1 (0.25%)	F5