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

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 267 109
Rank change year-on-year +155 -158 -29
Permanent jobs citing Go 627 406 1,233
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.36% 1.20% 3.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.57% 2.94% 6.20%
Number of salaries quoted 162 295 564
10th Percentile £56,250 £48,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £74,870 £53,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £75,000 £82,250
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -8.81% +2.81%
75th Percentile £115,000 £100,967 £107,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £121,500 £120,000
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 7,318 13,808 19,903
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.21% 40.82% 49.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,753 11,388 14,641
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,694 £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 £82,751 £79,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £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 18 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 69 (11.00%) Apache Airflow
2 67 (10.69%) Apache
2 67 (10.69%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.16%) CMS
4 1 (0.16%) nginx
4 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 557 (88.84%) AWS
2 255 (40.67%) Azure
3 215 (34.29%) Pulumi
4 214 (34.13%) GCP
5 78 (12.44%) Serverless
6 74 (11.80%) AWS Lambda
6 74 (11.80%) OpenShift
7 71 (11.32%) Amazon ECS
8 69 (11.00%) dbt
9 58 (9.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 56 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (1.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (1.75%) Apigee
13 10 (1.59%) GitHub
14 7 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (0.96%) Amazon MSK
16 5 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
16 5 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
16 5 (0.80%) SaaS
16 5 (0.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 215 (34.29%) Broadband
2 4 (0.64%) Firewall
3 3 (0.48%) HTTP
3 3 (0.48%) Internet
4 1 (0.16%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.16%) 4G
4 1 (0.16%) 5G
4 1 (0.16%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (0.16%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.16%) SCTP
4 1 (0.16%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (36.52%) NoSQL
2 228 (36.36%) Relational Database
3 217 (34.61%) RDBMS
4 67 (10.69%) Amazon Athena
4 67 (10.69%) Apache Arrow
4 67 (10.69%) Apache Iceberg
4 67 (10.69%) Apache Ignite
4 67 (10.69%) Dremio
5 51 (8.13%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.12%) MySQL
8 4 (0.64%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.32%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (0.32%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.16%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.16%) Big Data
10 1 (0.16%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.16%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 215 (34.29%) Jaeger
2 67 (10.69%) Artifactory
3 27 (4.31%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.71%) Git
5 13 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (1.91%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.75%) JUnit
7 11 (1.75%) Maven
8 8 (1.28%) GitLab
9 5 (0.80%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.80%) JIRA
9 5 (0.80%) webpack
10 4 (0.64%) Selenium
10 4 (0.64%) Vite
11 3 (0.48%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.32%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.32%) Postman
12 2 (0.32%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.16%) Robot Framework
13 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 443 (70.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 106 (16.91%) Finance
3 67 (10.69%) Front Office
4 51 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (5.26%) Banking
6 24 (3.83%) Law
7 15 (2.39%) Social Skills
8 11 (1.75%) Games
9 4 (0.64%) Retail
10 3 (0.48%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.32%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.32%) Marketing
11 2 (0.32%) Retail Finance
12 1 (0.16%) Advertising
12 1 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 236 (37.64%) Lead
2 220 (35.09%) Senior
3 217 (34.61%) Team Leader
4 212 (33.81%) Software Engineer
5 195 (31.10%) Senior Software Engineer
6 87 (13.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 81 (12.92%) AWS Engineer
8 80 (12.76%) AWS DevOps
8 80 (12.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 71 (11.32%) Python Engineer
10 69 (11.00%) Data Engineer
11 66 (10.53%) Developer
12 55 (8.77%) Software Developer
13 11 (1.75%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (1.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 9 (1.44%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 8 (1.28%) Gen AI Engineer
16 7 (1.12%) Principal Engineer
16 7 (1.12%) Principal Software Engineer
16 7 (1.12%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (37.48%) Node.js
2 229 (36.52%) .NET
3 220 (35.09%) Elastic Stack
4 215 (34.29%) OpenTelemetry
5 75 (11.96%) Kafka
6 67 (10.69%) J2EE
6 67 (10.69%) PySpark
7 49 (7.81%) Pandas
8 21 (3.35%) React
9 17 (2.71%) RESTful
10 13 (2.07%) Spring
10 13 (2.07%) Spring Boot
10 13 (2.07%) Vue
11 11 (1.75%) Hibernate
12 8 (1.28%) Next.js
13 6 (0.96%) AWS CDK
14 5 (0.80%) Flutter
14 5 (0.80%) OpenAPI
14 5 (0.80%) Svelte
15 4 (0.64%) Parceljs
Miscellaneous
1 227 (36.20%) Cyberattack
2 178 (28.39%) Linux Command Line
2 178 (28.39%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (1.91%) Algorithms
4 11 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.28%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.12%) Product Ownership
7 4 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.48%) IoT
8 3 (0.48%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.32%) Blockchain
9 2 (0.32%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.16%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.16%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.16%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.16%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.16%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.16%) Over-the-Top Content
10 1 (0.16%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 469 (74.80%) Linux
2 230 (36.68%) Unix
3 50 (7.97%) Android
4 3 (0.48%) Windows
5 2 (0.32%) Debian
6 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 545 (86.92%) Agile
2 406 (64.75%) Mentoring
3 358 (57.10%) Software Engineering
4 335 (53.43%) DevOps
5 279 (44.50%) Containerisation
6 258 (41.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 247 (39.39%) Data Engineering
8 246 (39.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 228 (36.36%) Roadmaps
10 221 (35.25%) Continuous Integration
10 221 (35.25%) Microservices
11 219 (34.93%) High Availability
12 216 (34.45%) Performance Optimisation
13 215 (34.29%) Budget Control
13 215 (34.29%) Cost Optimisation
13 215 (34.29%) GitOps
13 215 (34.29%) Product Management
13 215 (34.29%) Resource Management
13 215 (34.29%) Task Automation
14 195 (31.10%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 590 (94.10%) Python
2 547 (87.24%) Java
3 473 (75.44%) JavaScript
4 242 (38.60%) Rust
5 240 (38.28%) C++
6 224 (35.73%) Bash
7 21 (3.35%) TypeScript
8 20 (3.19%) SQL
9 17 (2.71%) PHP
10 10 (1.59%) C
11 8 (1.28%) Ruby
12 5 (0.80%) Perl
12 5 (0.80%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.64%) C#
13 4 (0.64%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.64%) Scala
14 2 (0.32%) Elixir
14 2 (0.32%) F#
14 2 (0.32%) Solidity
15 1 (0.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 395 (63.00%) AWS Certification
2 232 (37.00%) Security Cleared
3 228 (36.36%) DV Cleared
4 178 (28.39%) AWS Certified Developer
4 178 (28.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (1.91%) Degree
6 6 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.64%) PhD
8 3 (0.48%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.39%) Accessibility
2 3 (0.48%) QA
3 2 (0.32%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.16%) NIST
4 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 373 (59.49%) Docker
2 6 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 396 (63.16%) Kubernetes
2 378 (60.29%) Terraform
3 275 (43.86%) Ansible
4 221 (35.25%) Prometheus
5 215 (34.29%) Argo
5 215 (34.29%) Kustomize
6 17 (2.71%) Istio
7 9 (1.44%) Grafana
8 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.16%) Kibana
8 1 (0.16%) Nagios
8 1 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 225 (35.89%) Google
2 6 (0.96%) Confluent
3 3 (0.48%) Dynatrace
3 3 (0.48%) Splunk
4 2 (0.32%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.32%) Databricks
4 2 (0.32%) New Relic
5 1 (0.16%) Commvault
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.16%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.16%) SaltStack
5 1 (0.16%) VMware
5 1 (0.16%) YouTube