Go Jobs with Work from Home Options

Go (Golang)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Go skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Go over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 177 71
Rank change year-on-year -110 -106 +31
Permanent jobs citing Go 285 642 3,870
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.02% 1.96% 4.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.66% 4.23% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 232 456 1,730
10th Percentile £48,750 £56,219 £51,700
25th Percentile £53,750 £66,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £122,250 £135,693 £101,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% - +14.29%

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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,703 15,175 45,514
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.31% 46.24% 57.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,410 12,366 24,728
10th Percentile £39,000 £40,500 £38,443
25th Percentile £46,923 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,918 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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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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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Go salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Go over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Go salary histogram 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 55 (19.30%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.16%) Apache
3 6 (2.11%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.40%) Confluence
5 3 (1.05%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.05%) CloudStack
5 3 (1.05%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.05%) nginx
6 2 (0.70%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 152 (53.33%) AWS
2 58 (20.35%) GCP
3 55 (19.30%) dbt
3 55 (19.30%) Snowflake
4 43 (15.09%) Azure
5 27 (9.47%) GitHub
6 26 (9.12%) Serverless
7 16 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.21%) Amazon S3
8 12 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (4.21%) SaaS
9 11 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.11%) Azure AKS
11 6 (2.11%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (1.75%) Slack
13 4 (1.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.75%) AMQP
1 5 (1.75%) Network Security
1 5 (1.75%) VPN
2 3 (1.05%) BGP
2 3 (1.05%) DNS
2 3 (1.05%) Firewall
2 3 (1.05%) iSCSI
2 3 (1.05%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.05%) VLAN
3 2 (0.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (22.46%) Big Data
2 60 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (19.65%) Data Lake
4 54 (18.95%) Amazon Athena
4 54 (18.95%) Apache Arrow
4 54 (18.95%) Dremio
5 35 (12.28%) Relational Database
6 23 (8.07%) Elasticsearch
7 20 (7.02%) MySQL
8 15 (5.26%) BigQuery
9 14 (4.91%) NoSQL
9 14 (4.91%) Redis
10 8 (2.81%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.81%) RDBMS
10 8 (2.81%) SQL Server
11 6 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.75%) InfluxDB
13 4 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.40%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 69 (24.21%) Git
2 13 (4.56%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.86%) GitLab
4 7 (2.46%) JIRA
5 3 (1.05%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.70%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.70%) Hardhat
6 2 (0.70%) JUnit
7 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.35%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.35%) JMeter
7 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.35%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.35%) Vagrant
General
1 127 (44.56%) Finance
2 90 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.67%) Banking
3 19 (6.67%) Retail
4 18 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (3.86%) Law
6 9 (3.16%) Legal
7 8 (2.81%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.46%) Marketing
8 7 (2.46%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.46%) Publishing
9 6 (2.11%) Games
10 5 (1.75%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.40%) Advertising
11 4 (1.40%) French Language
12 3 (1.05%) Back Office
12 3 (1.05%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.05%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.35%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 96 (33.68%) Developer
2 65 (22.81%) Senior
3 63 (22.11%) AWS Engineer
4 59 (20.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 58 (20.35%) Site Engineer
6 55 (19.30%) Big Data Engineer
7 50 (17.54%) Software Engineer
8 34 (11.93%) Senior Developer
9 18 (6.32%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (5.96%) Lead
11 15 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
11 15 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
11 15 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (4.56%) GCP Engineer
13 12 (4.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.21%) Software Developer
14 10 (3.51%) Full Stack Developer
15 9 (3.16%) PHP Developer
16 8 (2.81%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (35.44%) gRPC
2 68 (23.86%) Kafka
3 54 (18.95%) GraphQL
3 54 (18.95%) Protocol Buffers
4 47 (16.49%) REST
4 47 (16.49%) Web Services
5 46 (16.14%) RabbitMQ
6 34 (11.93%) Node.js
7 24 (8.42%) CSS
7 24 (8.42%) HTML
8 20 (7.02%) React
9 19 (6.67%) RESTful
10 12 (4.21%) jQuery
11 9 (3.16%) .NET
11 9 (3.16%) CSS3
11 9 (3.16%) HTML5
11 9 (3.16%) Laravel
11 9 (3.16%) Symfony
12 8 (2.81%) ASP.NET
12 8 (2.81%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 58 (20.35%) Hedge funds
2 54 (18.95%) Clustering
3 31 (10.88%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.96%) Algorithms
5 15 (5.26%) Data Structures
6 13 (4.56%) Data Centre
7 11 (3.86%) Blog
8 10 (3.51%) IoT
8 10 (3.51%) Onboarding
8 10 (3.51%) Virtual Team
9 9 (3.16%) Digital Currency
9 9 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (3.16%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.46%) Cloud Native
11 6 (2.11%) Blockchain
12 5 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (1.40%) Public Cloud
14 3 (1.05%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.77%) Linux
2 9 (3.16%) Windows
3 4 (1.40%) Android
4 3 (1.05%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.05%) SUSE
4 3 (1.05%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 3 (1.05%) VMS
5 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.35%) Unix
6 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (38.25%) DevOps
2 93 (32.63%) Software Engineering
3 82 (28.77%) CI/CD
4 80 (28.07%) Agile
5 67 (23.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 62 (21.75%) Microservices
7 59 (20.70%) TDD
8 58 (20.35%) Asset Management
9 57 (20.00%) Investment Management
10 56 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
11 50 (17.54%) Continuous Integration
12 42 (14.74%) Continuous Deployment
13 37 (12.98%) Regression Testing
14 30 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
15 24 (8.42%) Full Stack Development
16 23 (8.07%) Fintech
17 19 (6.67%) Code Quality
17 19 (6.67%) Computer Science
17 19 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
18 18 (6.32%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 165 (57.89%) Python
2 127 (44.56%) Java
3 102 (35.79%) JavaScript
4 46 (16.14%) SQL
5 28 (9.82%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.07%) C#
7 18 (6.32%) C++
8 17 (5.96%) PHP
9 16 (5.61%) Bash
9 16 (5.61%) Rust
10 14 (4.91%) C
11 10 (3.51%) PowerShell
12 8 (2.81%) Kotlin
12 8 (2.81%) Ruby
13 6 (2.11%) Scala
14 5 (1.75%) Shell Script
15 3 (1.05%) Haskell
15 3 (1.05%) Perl
16 2 (0.70%) Solidity
17 1 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 22 (7.72%) Security Cleared
2 18 (6.32%) Degree
3 17 (5.96%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.40%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.05%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.35%) MCP
8 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.56%) PCI DSS
2 12 (4.21%) QA
3 10 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.05%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.35%) NIST
6 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 111 (38.95%) Docker
2 3 (1.05%) Ceph
2 3 (1.05%) Gluster
2 3 (1.05%) KVM
2 3 (1.05%) oVirt
2 3 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 122 (42.81%) Kubernetes
2 90 (31.58%) Terraform
3 65 (22.81%) Prometheus
4 28 (9.82%) Ansible
5 10 (3.51%) Grafana
5 10 (3.51%) Progress Chef
6 9 (3.16%) Kibana
7 7 (2.46%) Puppet
8 5 (1.75%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.05%) Graylog
9 3 (1.05%) Observium
9 3 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.05%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.70%) Argo
10 2 (0.70%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.35%) Consul
11 1 (0.35%) Istio
11 1 (0.35%) Packer
11 1 (0.35%) Salt
11 1 (0.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (10.53%) Google
2 10 (3.51%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.75%) Oracle
3 5 (1.75%) Splunk
4 4 (1.40%) Dell
5 3 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (1.05%) PagerDuty
5 3 (1.05%) VMware
6 2 (0.70%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.70%) Citrix
6 2 (0.70%) Foundry
6 2 (0.70%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (0.70%) New Relic
6 2 (0.70%) Spotify
7 1 (0.35%) Ivanti
7 1 (0.35%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.35%) Rollbar
7 1 (0.35%) Sybase