Go Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH 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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 283 177
Rank change year-on-year +166 -106 -103
Permanent jobs citing Go 592 380 729
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.02% 1.06% 1.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.40% 2.64% 4.15%
Number of salaries quoted 138 308 513
10th Percentile £52,125 £48,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £69,063 £53,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £77,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.38% -3.75% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £101,513 £107,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £135,000 £135,693
UK median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% -

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 7,049 14,408 17,584
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.97% 40.27% 47.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,388 11,681 13,598
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £41,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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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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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Go over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

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 50 (8.45%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (8.11%) Apache
2 48 (8.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.34%) Confluence
4 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.17%) CMS
4 1 (0.17%) nginx
4 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 539 (91.05%) AWS
2 255 (43.07%) Azure
3 215 (36.32%) Pulumi
4 211 (35.64%) GCP
5 60 (10.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 59 (9.97%) Serverless
7 55 (9.29%) Amazon EKS
7 55 (9.29%) OpenShift
8 53 (8.95%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (8.61%) Amazon ECS
10 50 (8.45%) dbt
11 12 (2.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (1.86%) Apigee
13 8 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.18%) GitHub
15 6 (1.01%) Amazon MSK
15 6 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
16 5 (0.84%) Amazon EC2
16 5 (0.84%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 5 (0.84%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 215 (36.32%) Broadband
2 5 (0.84%) Firewall
3 3 (0.51%) Internet
4 1 (0.17%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.17%) 4G
4 1 (0.17%) 5G
4 1 (0.17%) BGP
4 1 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.17%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (0.17%) HTTP
4 1 (0.17%) IOS XR
4 1 (0.17%) NX-OS
4 1 (0.17%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.17%) SCTP
4 1 (0.17%) SSH
4 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (38.68%) NoSQL
2 225 (38.01%) Relational Database
3 217 (36.66%) RDBMS
4 51 (8.61%) Elasticsearch
5 48 (8.11%) Amazon Athena
5 48 (8.11%) Apache Arrow
5 48 (8.11%) Apache Iceberg
5 48 (8.11%) Apache Ignite
5 48 (8.11%) Dremio
6 7 (1.18%) MySQL
6 7 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.68%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.34%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.34%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (0.34%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.17%) Big Data
9 1 (0.17%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 215 (36.32%) Jaeger
2 48 (8.11%) Artifactory
3 29 (4.90%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
5 14 (2.36%) Git
6 12 (2.03%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.86%) JUnit
7 11 (1.86%) Maven
8 10 (1.69%) GitLab
9 4 (0.68%) Selenium
10 3 (0.51%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.51%) Postman
10 3 (0.51%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.34%) JIRA
12 1 (0.17%) Android Studio
12 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.17%) Xcode
12 1 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 442 (74.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 89 (15.03%) Finance
3 50 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (8.11%) Front Office
5 26 (4.39%) Banking
6 13 (2.20%) Law
6 13 (2.20%) Social Skills
7 4 (0.68%) Games
7 4 (0.68%) Retail
7 4 (0.68%) Tech for Good
8 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.34%) Retail Finance
8 2 (0.34%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.17%) Advertising
9 1 (0.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 233 (39.36%) Lead
2 217 (36.66%) Team Leader
3 213 (35.98%) Senior
4 207 (34.97%) Software Engineer
5 193 (32.60%) Senior Software Engineer
6 70 (11.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 62 (10.47%) AWS DevOps
7 62 (10.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 62 (10.47%) AWS Engineer
8 59 (9.97%) Developer
9 51 (8.61%) Python Engineer
10 50 (8.45%) Data Engineer
10 50 (8.45%) Software Developer
11 10 (1.69%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (1.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (1.52%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 8 (1.35%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
14 6 (1.01%) Security Engineer
15 5 (0.84%) Lead Software Engineer
15 5 (0.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (38.68%) .NET
2 228 (38.51%) Node.js
3 222 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
4 215 (36.32%) OpenTelemetry
5 56 (9.46%) Kafka
6 49 (8.28%) Pandas
7 48 (8.11%) J2EE
7 48 (8.11%) PySpark
8 16 (2.70%) RESTful
9 12 (2.03%) Spring
9 12 (2.03%) Spring Boot
10 11 (1.86%) Hibernate
11 9 (1.52%) Vue
12 8 (1.35%) React
13 4 (0.68%) pytest
13 4 (0.68%) React Native
14 3 (0.51%) AWS CDK
14 3 (0.51%) SOAP
15 2 (0.34%) AWS SAM
15 2 (0.34%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 227 (38.34%) Cyberattack
2 178 (30.07%) Linux Command Line
2 178 (30.07%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (1.01%) Cloud Native
5 5 (0.84%) Algorithms
5 5 (0.84%) Public Cloud
6 3 (0.51%) Data Centre
6 3 (0.51%) IoT
6 3 (0.51%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.34%) Blockchain
7 2 (0.34%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.17%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.17%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.17%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.17%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.17%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.17%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.17%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 471 (79.56%) Linux
2 231 (39.02%) Unix
3 50 (8.45%) Android
4 4 (0.68%) Windows
5 2 (0.34%) Debian
5 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (87.33%) Agile
2 404 (68.24%) Mentoring
3 325 (54.90%) Software Engineering
4 312 (52.70%) DevOps
5 277 (46.79%) Containerisation
6 248 (41.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 240 (40.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 228 (38.51%) Data Engineering
9 223 (37.67%) Roadmaps
10 222 (37.50%) High Availability
11 218 (36.82%) Continuous Integration
12 216 (36.49%) Performance Optimisation
13 215 (36.32%) Budget Control
13 215 (36.32%) Cost Optimisation
13 215 (36.32%) GitOps
13 215 (36.32%) Microservices
13 215 (36.32%) Product Management
13 215 (36.32%) Resource Management
13 215 (36.32%) Task Automation
14 189 (31.93%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 557 (94.09%) Python
2 524 (88.51%) Java
3 468 (79.05%) JavaScript
4 236 (39.86%) C++
5 235 (39.70%) Rust
6 228 (38.51%) Bash
7 22 (3.72%) SQL
8 17 (2.87%) PHP
9 11 (1.86%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.01%) PowerShell
11 5 (0.84%) C
12 4 (0.68%) C#
12 4 (0.68%) Scala
13 3 (0.51%) Groovy
14 2 (0.34%) Elixir
14 2 (0.34%) F#
14 2 (0.34%) Ruby
14 2 (0.34%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 397 (67.06%) AWS Certification
2 234 (39.53%) Security Cleared
3 229 (38.68%) DV Cleared
4 178 (30.07%) AWS Certified Developer
4 178 (30.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (1.69%) Degree
6 5 (0.84%) SC Cleared
7 4 (0.68%) PhD
8 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.34%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.17%) CCNP
9 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.01%) QA
2 4 (0.68%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.34%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.34%) GDPR
3 2 (0.34%) NIST
System Software
1 348 (58.78%) Docker
2 6 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 360 (60.81%) Kubernetes
2 353 (59.63%) Terraform
3 276 (46.62%) Ansible
4 224 (37.84%) Prometheus
5 215 (36.32%) Argo
5 215 (36.32%) Kustomize
6 17 (2.87%) Istio
7 13 (2.20%) Grafana
8 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.34%) Kibana
8 2 (0.34%) Nagios
9 1 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 224 (37.84%) Google
2 6 (1.01%) Confluent
3 4 (0.68%) Microsoft
3 4 (0.68%) Splunk
4 3 (0.51%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.34%) Commvault
5 2 (0.34%) Databricks
5 2 (0.34%) New Relic
5 2 (0.34%) Rapid7
5 2 (0.34%) VMware
6 1 (0.17%) Arista
6 1 (0.17%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.17%) Cisco
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.17%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.17%) YouTube