Go Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Go (Golang)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Go skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Go over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 194 200
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -10
Contract jobs citing Go 112 161 312
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.13% 1.06% 1.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.00% 3.15% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 135 238
10th Percentile £463 £406 £428
25th Percentile £538 £506 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £838 £675 £750
90th Percentile - £850 £863
UK median daily rate £650 £567 £625
% change year-on-year +14.64% -9.28% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £41.50 -
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £48.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year -7.77% -34.80% -

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Go falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,730 5,108 9,566
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.68% 33.53% 37.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,655 3,698 6,998
10th Percentile £363 £350 £389
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £660
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 143 208
10th Percentile £24.93 £26.75 £33.73
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +25.94%
75th Percentile £68.13 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 £88.00 £77.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year +1.46% +2.67% +20.00%

Go
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Go trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Go over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Go daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Go
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 28 (25.00%) Apache
1 28 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 28 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.46%) nginx
2 5 (4.46%) Traefik
3 1 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.89%) Confluence
3 1 (0.89%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.89%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.89%) MetaMask
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 75 (66.96%) AWS
2 38 (33.93%) Amazon ECS
3 35 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
3 35 (31.25%) Serverless
4 29 (25.89%) dbt
4 29 (25.89%) OpenShift
5 19 (16.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (11.61%) Azure
7 11 (9.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (7.14%) GCP
8 8 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
9 7 (6.25%) Entra ID
10 6 (5.36%) GitHub
11 5 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.57%) Datadog
13 3 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 2 (1.79%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.04%) DNS
1 9 (8.04%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.68%) HTTP
2 3 (2.68%) Network Security
2 3 (2.68%) Wireless
3 2 (1.79%) 3GPP
3 2 (1.79%) 4G
3 2 (1.79%) 5G
3 2 (1.79%) DHCP
3 2 (1.79%) DOCSIS
3 2 (1.79%) Firewall
3 2 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.89%) MQTT
4 1 (0.89%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (25.00%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (25.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 28 (25.00%) Apache Ignite
1 28 (25.00%) Dremio
2 11 (9.82%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.68%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.79%) Looker
6 2 (1.79%) MySQL
6 2 (1.79%) Redis
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.89%) Big Data
7 1 (0.89%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.89%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.89%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 29 (25.89%) Artifactory
2 23 (20.54%) Jenkins
3 16 (14.29%) GitLab
4 5 (4.46%) Git
5 3 (2.68%) JIRA
6 2 (1.79%) JMeter
7 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.89%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.89%) Gatling
7 1 (0.89%) Hardhat
7 1 (0.89%) Maven
7 1 (0.89%) MLflow
7 1 (0.89%) Postman
7 1 (0.89%) Selenium
7 1 (0.89%) Subversion
7 1 (0.89%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.89%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.89%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.89%) Vagrant
General
1 35 (31.25%) Finance
2 28 (25.00%) Front Office
3 5 (4.46%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.57%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.68%) Banking
5 3 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.68%) Retail
6 2 (1.79%) Games
6 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.89%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.89%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.89%) Portuguese Language
7 1 (0.89%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 50 (44.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (33.93%) AWS Engineer
3 37 (33.04%) AWS DevOps
3 37 (33.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 35 (31.25%) Developer
5 30 (26.79%) Python Engineer
6 28 (25.00%) Data Engineer
7 23 (20.54%) Senior
8 18 (16.07%) Senior DevOps
9 15 (13.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 7 (6.25%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
11 6 (5.36%) Backend Developer
11 6 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (4.46%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 5 (4.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 5 (4.46%) Software Engineer
13 4 (3.57%) DevOps Platform Engineer
13 4 (3.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 3 (2.68%) C/C++ Software Engineer
14 3 (2.68%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (36.61%) Kafka
2 28 (25.00%) J2EE
2 28 (25.00%) PySpark
3 11 (9.82%) cloud-init
4 7 (6.25%) Keycloak
4 7 (6.25%) REST
5 6 (5.36%) AWS CDK
5 6 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (4.46%) OpenAPI
6 5 (4.46%) Swagger
7 4 (3.57%) Node.js
7 4 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (3.57%) RESTful
8 3 (2.68%) OAuth
8 3 (2.68%) OAuth2
8 3 (2.68%) React
9 2 (1.79%) AWS SAM
9 2 (1.79%) gRPC
9 2 (1.79%) Vue
10 1 (0.89%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.25%) PKI
2 5 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.68%) Blockchain
4 3 (2.68%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.68%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.68%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.79%) IoT
5 2 (1.79%) NHS
6 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.89%) MPEG
6 1 (0.89%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.89%) Replication
6 1 (0.89%) TWAP
6 1 (0.89%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.89%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 20 (17.86%) Linux
2 13 (11.61%) Unix
3 11 (9.82%) CentOS
3 11 (9.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (60.71%) CI/CD
2 64 (57.14%) DevOps
3 45 (40.18%) Agile
4 37 (33.04%) Software Engineering
5 33 (29.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 30 (26.79%) Open Source
7 29 (25.89%) Asset Management
8 28 (25.00%) Data Engineering
9 25 (22.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (14.29%) Observability
11 15 (13.39%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (10.71%) Microservices
13 11 (9.82%) Containerisation
13 11 (9.82%) Test Automation
14 10 (8.93%) Fintech
15 9 (8.04%) Platform Engineering
16 8 (7.14%) Cloud Security
16 8 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (7.14%) Secrets Management
17 7 (6.25%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 75 (66.96%) Python
2 48 (42.86%) Java
3 18 (16.07%) Bash
4 9 (8.04%) C++
5 8 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.36%) C
6 6 (5.36%) SQL
7 3 (2.68%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.79%) Rust
8 2 (1.79%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.79%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.89%) C#
9 1 (0.89%) Elixir
9 1 (0.89%) Groovy
9 1 (0.89%) Haskell
9 1 (0.89%) Perl
9 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.89%) Ruby
9 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.04%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.68%) Degree
5 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.25%) NCSC
2 3 (2.68%) QA
3 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.89%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (41.96%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 59 (52.68%) Terraform
3 20 (17.86%) Grafana
4 15 (13.39%) Prometheus
5 12 (10.71%) Packer
6 11 (9.82%) Istio
7 9 (8.04%) Consul
8 8 (7.14%) linkerd
8 8 (7.14%) Rancher
9 7 (6.25%) Ansible
9 7 (6.25%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (6.25%) ZABBIX
10 5 (4.46%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.79%) Argo
12 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (8.93%) Splunk
2 7 (6.25%) Okta
3 5 (4.46%) Apple
3 5 (4.46%) ESET
4 4 (3.57%) Oracle
5 3 (2.68%) Hitachi
6 2 (1.79%) Google
7 1 (0.89%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.89%) Databricks
7 1 (0.89%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.89%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.89%) New Relic
7 1 (0.89%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.89%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.89%) VMware