Go Jobs with Work from Home Options

Go (Golang)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Go skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Go over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 115 84
Rank change year-on-year -156 -31 +34
Permanent jobs citing Go 386 1,268 2,857
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.14% 2.94% 4.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.81% 5.97% 7.30%
Number of salaries quoted 277 584 1,751
10th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £51,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £97,500 £104,063 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £117,236 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Go is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,739 21,246 39,163
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.72% 49.24% 58.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,385 15,601 23,937
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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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 27 April 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 37 (9.59%) Apache Spark
2 30 (7.77%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.85%) Apache
4 8 (2.07%) Confluence
5 6 (1.55%) nginx
6 3 (0.78%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.78%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.26%) JBoss
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 193 (50.00%) AWS
2 109 (28.24%) GCP
3 85 (22.02%) Azure
4 82 (21.24%) Serverless
5 52 (13.47%) GitHub
6 41 (10.62%) SaaS
7 31 (8.03%) Amazon S3
7 31 (8.03%) Snowflake
8 30 (7.77%) dbt
8 30 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (6.48%) Amazon SQS
9 25 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (6.22%) Slack
11 23 (5.96%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (5.96%) Google Docs
11 23 (5.96%) Lucidchart
11 23 (5.96%) Miro
12 11 (2.85%) Azure AKS
13 10 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.30%) AMQP
1 5 (1.30%) Network Security
2 3 (0.78%) iSCSI
3 2 (0.52%) Broadband
3 2 (0.52%) HTTP
3 2 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.26%) Anycast
4 1 (0.26%) BGP
4 1 (0.26%) DNS
4 1 (0.26%) Firewall
4 1 (0.26%) Internet
4 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (22.02%) Relational Database
2 71 (18.39%) PostgreSQL
3 68 (17.62%) Big Data
4 44 (11.40%) Redis
5 41 (10.62%) RDBMS
6 40 (10.36%) Elasticsearch
7 38 (9.84%) Data Lake
8 36 (9.33%) Oracle Database
9 34 (8.81%) Amazon Athena
10 33 (8.55%) MySQL
11 30 (7.77%) Apache Arrow
11 30 (7.77%) Dremio
11 30 (7.77%) Hadoop
12 23 (5.96%) Scylla
13 16 (4.15%) BigQuery
14 12 (3.11%) NoSQL
14 12 (3.11%) SQL Server
15 11 (2.85%) Azure SQL Database
16 10 (2.59%) Flink
16 10 (2.59%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 108 (27.98%) Git
2 36 (9.33%) JDeveloper
3 27 (6.99%) Jenkins
4 15 (3.89%) GitLab
5 10 (2.59%) JIRA
6 7 (1.81%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (1.55%) Maven
7 6 (1.55%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (1.30%) Selenium
8 5 (1.30%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.04%) JUnit
10 2 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.52%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.26%) Gatling
11 1 (0.26%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.26%) Vagrant
General
1 111 (28.76%) Social Skills
2 109 (28.24%) Finance
3 33 (8.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (5.96%) Retail
5 22 (5.70%) Banking
6 17 (4.40%) Marketing
7 13 (3.37%) Games
8 12 (3.11%) French Language
8 12 (3.11%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (2.33%) Law
10 8 (2.07%) Legal
11 7 (1.81%) Publishing
12 5 (1.30%) Tech for Good
13 4 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.78%) Advertising
14 3 (0.78%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.26%) iGaming
15 1 (0.26%) Spanish Language
15 1 (0.26%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 127 (32.90%) Developer
2 112 (29.02%) Software Engineer
3 80 (20.73%) Senior
4 46 (11.92%) Senior Developer
5 39 (10.10%) AWS Engineer
6 36 (9.33%) Ruby Engineer
6 36 (9.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 35 (9.07%) DevOps Engineer
7 35 (9.07%) Site Engineer
8 31 (8.03%) Lead
9 30 (7.77%) Big Data Engineer
9 30 (7.77%) Principal Engineer
10 25 (6.48%) Full Stack Developer
11 24 (6.22%) Principal Software Engineer
12 19 (4.92%) Software Developer
13 18 (4.66%) Senior Software Engineer
14 16 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
14 16 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
14 16 (4.15%) Senior Full Stack Developer
15 15 (3.89%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (23.32%) Kafka
2 86 (22.28%) Node.js
3 69 (17.88%) React
4 68 (17.62%) gRPC
5 60 (15.54%) GraphQL
6 53 (13.73%) Web Services
7 41 (10.62%) RabbitMQ
8 39 (10.10%) REST
9 35 (9.07%) CSS
9 35 (9.07%) HTML
10 30 (7.77%) Protocol Buffers
11 27 (6.99%) RESTful
12 14 (3.63%) .NET
13 12 (3.11%) CSS3
13 12 (3.11%) HTML5
13 12 (3.11%) jQuery
13 12 (3.11%) Laravel
13 12 (3.11%) Symfony
14 11 (2.85%) OAuth
15 10 (2.59%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.40%) Data Structures
2 42 (10.88%) Algorithms
3 33 (8.55%) Hedge funds
4 31 (8.03%) Clustering
5 24 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (6.22%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (5.18%) Onboarding
7 17 (4.40%) Cloud Native
8 14 (3.63%) Product Ownership
9 13 (3.37%) Virtual Team
10 12 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (3.11%) Linux Command Line
11 11 (2.85%) Blog
11 11 (2.85%) Public Cloud
12 10 (2.59%) Blockchain
13 7 (1.81%) Data Centre
14 6 (1.55%) Digital Currency
14 6 (1.55%) IoT
15 5 (1.30%) Cyberattack
15 5 (1.30%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.14%) Linux
2 13 (3.37%) Windows
3 7 (1.81%) Android
4 5 (1.30%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.30%) Mac OS
4 5 (1.30%) Unix
4 5 (1.30%) VMS
5 4 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.78%) CentOS
6 3 (0.78%) SUSE
6 3 (0.78%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.26%) Debian
8 1 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (44.82%) Software Engineering
2 160 (41.45%) DevOps
3 118 (30.57%) CI/CD
3 118 (30.57%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (29.02%) Microservices
5 111 (28.76%) Agile
5 111 (28.76%) Continuous Integration
6 73 (18.91%) TDD
7 71 (18.39%) Code Quality
8 66 (17.10%) Open Source
9 57 (14.77%) Containerisation
10 50 (12.95%) Design Patterns
11 47 (12.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 44 (11.40%) Infrastructure as Code
13 43 (11.14%) Full Stack Development
13 43 (11.14%) Unit Testing
14 41 (10.62%) High Availability
15 40 (10.36%) Clean Code
16 36 (9.33%) Actionable Insight
16 36 (9.33%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 237 (61.40%) Python
2 202 (52.33%) Java
3 159 (41.19%) JavaScript
4 89 (23.06%) Bash
5 57 (14.77%) Ruby
6 48 (12.44%) TypeScript
7 44 (11.40%) C#
8 39 (10.10%) Perl
9 38 (9.84%) Scala
10 33 (8.55%) SQL
11 26 (6.74%) PHP
12 24 (6.22%) Rust
13 19 (4.92%) PowerShell
14 16 (4.15%) C
15 10 (2.59%) Groovy
15 10 (2.59%) Kotlin
16 7 (1.81%) C++
17 5 (1.30%) Shell Script
18 4 (1.04%) Lua
19 3 (0.78%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 41 (10.62%) Security Cleared
2 32 (8.29%) Degree
3 31 (8.03%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.52%) PhD
9 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.26%) MCP
9 1 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (13.47%) QA
2 20 (5.18%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.55%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.26%) SEPA
4 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 136 (35.23%) Docker
2 7 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.78%) Ceph
3 3 (0.78%) Gluster
3 3 (0.78%) KVM
3 3 (0.78%) oVirt
4 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 150 (38.86%) Kubernetes
2 91 (23.58%) Terraform
3 54 (13.99%) Prometheus
4 43 (11.14%) Ansible
5 24 (6.22%) Progress Chef
6 23 (5.96%) Grafana
7 20 (5.18%) Puppet
8 14 (3.63%) Kibana
9 7 (1.81%) Argo
10 6 (1.55%) Rancher
11 5 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.78%) Graylog
13 3 (0.78%) Observium
13 3 (0.78%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.52%) Istio
14 2 (0.52%) Rundeck
15 1 (0.26%) Consul
15 1 (0.26%) Packer
15 1 (0.26%) Salt
Vendors
1 47 (12.18%) Oracle
2 44 (11.40%) Google
3 24 (6.22%) Dell
4 12 (3.11%) Microsoft
5 9 (2.33%) New Relic
6 8 (2.07%) SaltStack
6 8 (2.07%) Splunk
6 8 (2.07%) VMware
7 6 (1.55%) Teradata
8 4 (1.04%) YouTube
9 3 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.52%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.52%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.52%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.52%) Spotify
11 1 (0.26%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.26%) Ivanti
11 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.26%) StreamSets
11 1 (0.26%) Sybase