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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 273 115
Rank change year-on-year +128 -158 -34
Permanent jobs citing Go 369 393 1,257
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.35% 1.16% 2.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.82% 2.86% 6.03%
Number of salaries quoted 175 283 584
10th Percentile £57,250 £48,750 £56,219
25th Percentile £74,870 £53,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £118,750 £119,250
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 6,342 13,749 20,831
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.37% 40.69% 49.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,863 11,389 15,324
10th Percentile £41,250 £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 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £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 6 May 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 73 (19.78%) Apache Airflow
1 73 (19.78%) Apache Spark
2 71 (19.24%) Apache
3 7 (1.90%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.27%) CMS
4 1 (0.27%) nginx
4 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 286 (77.51%) AWS
2 203 (55.01%) Azure
3 161 (43.63%) GCP
4 83 (22.49%) Serverless
5 79 (21.41%) AWS Lambda
6 78 (21.14%) OpenShift
7 74 (20.05%) Amazon ECS
8 73 (19.78%) dbt
9 58 (15.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 56 (15.18%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (3.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (2.98%) Apigee
13 9 (2.44%) GitHub
14 7 (1.90%) SaaS
15 6 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (1.63%) Amazon MSK
15 6 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
16 5 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
16 5 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.36%) HTTP
2 3 (0.81%) Firewall
2 3 (0.81%) Internet
3 1 (0.27%) 3GPP
3 1 (0.27%) 4G
3 1 (0.27%) 5G
3 1 (0.27%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.27%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.27%) SCTP
3 1 (0.27%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (19.24%) Amazon Athena
1 71 (19.24%) Apache Arrow
1 71 (19.24%) Apache Iceberg
1 71 (19.24%) Apache Ignite
1 71 (19.24%) Dremio
2 51 (13.82%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (4.07%) Relational Database
4 14 (3.79%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.90%) MySQL
7 4 (1.08%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.08%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.81%) Big Data
9 2 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.54%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.54%) Flink
9 2 (0.54%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.54%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.54%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 71 (19.24%) Artifactory
2 26 (7.05%) Jenkins
3 18 (4.88%) Git
4 13 (3.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 12 (3.25%) SonarQube
6 11 (2.98%) JUnit
6 11 (2.98%) Maven
7 10 (2.71%) webpack
8 8 (2.17%) GitLab
9 7 (1.90%) JIRA
10 6 (1.63%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.36%) Vite
12 4 (1.08%) Selenium
13 3 (0.81%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.54%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
14 2 (0.54%) Postman
14 2 (0.54%) SoapUI
15 1 (0.27%) Android Studio
15 1 (0.27%) Zephyr
General
1 165 (44.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 123 (33.33%) Finance
3 71 (19.24%) Front Office
4 51 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (12.20%) Banking
6 25 (6.78%) Law
7 17 (4.61%) Social Skills
8 12 (3.25%) Games
9 4 (1.08%) Retail
10 3 (0.81%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.54%) Legal
11 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.54%) Marketing
11 2 (0.54%) Retail Finance
12 1 (0.27%) Advertising
12 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 172 (46.61%) Senior
2 159 (43.09%) Software Engineer
3 141 (38.21%) Senior Software Engineer
4 92 (24.93%) DevOps Engineer
5 84 (22.76%) AWS Engineer
6 83 (22.49%) AWS DevOps
6 83 (22.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 75 (20.33%) Data Engineer
7 75 (20.33%) Python Engineer
8 68 (18.43%) Developer
9 55 (14.91%) Software Developer
10 21 (5.69%) Lead
11 11 (2.98%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (2.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (2.44%) Gen AI Engineer
12 9 (2.44%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 8 (2.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (2.17%) Principal Engineer
13 8 (2.17%) Principal Software Engineer
14 7 (1.90%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (46.88%) Node.js
2 166 (44.99%) .NET
3 81 (21.95%) Kafka
4 71 (19.24%) J2EE
4 71 (19.24%) PySpark
5 49 (13.28%) Pandas
6 25 (6.78%) React
7 21 (5.69%) Spring
7 21 (5.69%) Spring Boot
8 17 (4.61%) RESTful
9 14 (3.79%) Vue
10 11 (2.98%) Hibernate
11 9 (2.44%) Next.js
12 7 (1.90%) CSS
12 7 (1.90%) HTML
13 6 (1.63%) AWS CDK
13 6 (1.63%) Flutter
13 6 (1.63%) OpenAPI
13 6 (1.63%) Redux
13 6 (1.63%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 164 (44.44%) Cyberattack
2 115 (31.17%) Linux Command Line
2 115 (31.17%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (3.79%) Algorithms
4 12 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.90%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.90%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.08%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.81%) IoT
9 2 (0.54%) Blockchain
9 2 (0.54%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.27%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.27%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.27%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.27%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.27%) Over-the-Top Content
10 1 (0.27%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.27%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 192 (52.03%) Linux
2 50 (13.55%) Android
3 14 (3.79%) Unix
4 3 (0.81%) Windows
5 2 (0.54%) Debian
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (83.74%) Software Engineering
2 282 (76.42%) Agile
3 200 (54.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 189 (51.22%) Data Engineering
5 185 (50.14%) CI/CD
6 166 (44.99%) Microservices
7 136 (36.86%) DevOps
8 133 (36.04%) Mentoring
8 133 (36.04%) User Experience
9 131 (35.50%) Cloud Security
10 130 (35.23%) Machine Learning
11 121 (32.79%) Scrum
12 96 (26.02%) Open Source
13 71 (19.24%) Asset Management
14 69 (18.70%) Containerisation
15 62 (16.80%) Collaborative Working
16 60 (16.26%) OO
17 53 (14.36%) Mathematics
18 52 (14.09%) Design Patterns
19 51 (13.82%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 323 (87.53%) Python
2 285 (77.24%) Java
3 199 (53.93%) JavaScript
4 182 (49.32%) Rust
5 180 (48.78%) C++
6 26 (7.05%) SQL
7 21 (5.69%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.34%) PHP
9 13 (3.52%) C
10 9 (2.44%) Bash
10 9 (2.44%) Ruby
11 6 (1.63%) Perl
11 6 (1.63%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.63%) Scala
12 5 (1.36%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.08%) C#
14 2 (0.54%) Elixir
14 2 (0.54%) F#
14 2 (0.54%) Solidity
15 1 (0.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 168 (45.53%) Security Cleared
2 165 (44.72%) DV Cleared
3 117 (31.71%) AWS Certification
4 115 (31.17%) AWS Certified Developer
4 115 (31.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (3.79%) Degree
6 8 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.08%) PhD
8 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.34%) Accessibility
2 3 (0.81%) QA
3 2 (0.54%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.27%) NIST
4 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 169 (45.80%) Docker
2 6 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 194 (52.57%) Kubernetes
2 171 (46.34%) Terraform
3 60 (16.26%) Ansible
4 17 (4.61%) Istio
5 8 (2.17%) Grafana
6 6 (1.63%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.27%) Kibana
7 1 (0.27%) Nagios
7 1 (0.27%) Puppet
7 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (2.98%) Google
2 6 (1.63%) Confluent
3 3 (0.81%) Dynatrace
3 3 (0.81%) Splunk
4 2 (0.54%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.54%) Databricks
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.54%) New Relic
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle
4 2 (0.54%) Teradata
5 1 (0.27%) Commvault
5 1 (0.27%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.27%) SaltStack
5 1 (0.27%) VMware
5 1 (0.27%) YouTube