Go Contracts in England

Go (Golang)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Go skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Go over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 243 229
Rank change year-on-year -8 -14 -1
Contract jobs citing Go 343 536 894
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.94% 1.11% 1.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.16% 3.18% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 389 680
10th Percentile £403 £475 £400
25th Percentile £481 £544 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £666
90th Percentile £730 £863 £750
UK median daily rate £567 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -9.28% +8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £41.93 £66.85 -
25th Percentile £43.69 £69.25 -
Median hourly rate £48.25 £74.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.80% - -
75th Percentile £53.69 £79.25 -
90th Percentile £55.98 £81.95 -
UK median hourly rate £48.25 £74.00 -
% change year-on-year -34.80% - -

All Programming Languages
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,846 16,845 25,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.81% 34.96% 36.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,871 12,314 19,084
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £772
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 408 456
10th Percentile £37.59 £26.11 £20.13
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.36 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Go in England

Go
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Go in England.

Daily rate trend for Go in England

Go
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Go in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Go in England.

Hourly rate trend for Go in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Go in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Go in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -8 229 £575 -10.08% 135
North of England +13 33 £510 -15.00% 28
North West +5 25 £450 -25.00% 24
South East +20 20 £371 -32.55% 24
South West -7 19 £544 -1.14% 22
Yorkshire +16 8 £520 +30.00% 4
Midlands +25 2 £500 - 8
West Midlands +24 2 £500 - 6
Go
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 22 (6.41%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.54%) Confluence
3 17 (4.96%) nginx
4 10 (2.92%) Apache
4 10 (2.92%) BizTalk Server
5 9 (2.62%) OpenStack
6 6 (1.75%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.17%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.87%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.58%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 204 (59.48%) AWS
2 60 (17.49%) GCP
3 57 (16.62%) Azure
4 32 (9.33%) Serverless
5 30 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (7.87%) GitHub
7 22 (6.41%) Snowflake
8 20 (5.83%) dbt
9 18 (5.25%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (3.79%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (3.21%) Azure Functions
14 10 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (2.92%) Amazon S3
14 10 (2.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 10 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (2.92%) Azure Storage
14 10 (2.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.54%) Firewall
2 18 (5.25%) DNS
3 9 (2.62%) Network Security
4 8 (2.33%) DHCP
4 8 (2.33%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.46%) AMQP
5 5 (1.46%) Wireless
6 4 (1.17%) VPN
6 4 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.87%) IPv4
7 3 (0.87%) VoIP
8 2 (0.58%) BGP
8 2 (0.58%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.58%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.58%) HTTP
8 2 (0.58%) Internet
8 2 (0.58%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.29%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (18.37%) Apache Cassandra
2 41 (11.95%) NoSQL
3 32 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (6.71%) Data Lake
4 23 (6.71%) MongoDB
5 22 (6.41%) MySQL
6 20 (5.83%) Big Data
7 16 (4.66%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (4.66%) Apache Arrow
7 16 (4.66%) Dremio
8 12 (3.50%) Couchbase
8 12 (3.50%) Relational Database
9 11 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (2.04%) BigQuery
11 7 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.04%) DynamoDB
11 7 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.75%) InfluxDB
12 6 (1.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 74 (21.57%) Jenkins
2 61 (17.78%) Git
3 31 (9.04%) GitLab
4 28 (8.16%) JIRA
5 6 (1.75%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.17%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.17%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (1.17%) Burp Suite
6 4 (1.17%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.17%) Snyk
7 3 (0.87%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.87%) Subversion
8 2 (0.58%) Darcs
8 2 (0.58%) Mercurial
8 2 (0.58%) Mockito
8 2 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.29%) Gradle
9 1 (0.29%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.29%) Travis CI
General
1 53 (15.45%) Finance
2 45 (13.12%) Social Skills
3 20 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (4.66%) Banking
5 13 (3.79%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.92%) Retail
6 10 (2.92%) Tech for Good
7 8 (2.33%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.46%) Marketing
9 3 (0.87%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.87%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 87 (25.36%) Developer
2 79 (23.03%) Senior
3 63 (18.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 56 (16.33%) Software Engineer
5 54 (15.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 42 (12.24%) Site Engineer
7 35 (10.20%) Senior Software Engineer
8 33 (9.62%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (4.66%) Big Data Engineer
9 16 (4.66%) Full Stack Developer
9 16 (4.66%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
11 14 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (2.92%) Senior Developer
12 10 (2.92%) Senior DevOps
13 9 (2.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 9 (2.62%) DevOps Platform Engineer
13 9 (2.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 8 (2.33%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (22.74%) Kafka
2 31 (9.04%) REST
3 21 (6.12%) gRPC
4 20 (5.83%) Elastic Stack
4 20 (5.83%) Node.js
4 20 (5.83%) React
5 19 (5.54%) RabbitMQ
6 18 (5.25%) Protocol Buffers
7 15 (4.37%) .NET
8 12 (3.50%) GraphQL
9 11 (3.21%) HTML
9 11 (3.21%) RESTful
10 10 (2.92%) .NET Core
11 9 (2.62%) Blazor
11 9 (2.62%) CSS
12 8 (2.33%) LDAP
13 7 (2.04%) AngularJS
14 6 (1.75%) Keycloak
15 5 (1.46%) LAPP Stack
16 4 (1.17%) AWS SAM
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.04%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (7.00%) Cloud Native
3 21 (6.12%) Clustering
4 17 (4.96%) Hedge funds
5 15 (4.37%) Algorithms
6 13 (3.79%) Data Structures
6 13 (3.79%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.33%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (2.04%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.75%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (1.75%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.17%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.17%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (1.17%) PKI
13 3 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 69 (20.12%) Linux
2 16 (4.66%) Windows
3 11 (3.21%) Unix
4 7 (2.04%) CentOS
5 5 (1.46%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.46%) VMS
6 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (44.90%) DevOps
2 126 (36.73%) CI/CD
3 116 (33.82%) Agile
4 108 (31.49%) Software Engineering
5 72 (20.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 68 (19.83%) Microservices
7 51 (14.87%) Fintech
8 50 (14.58%) User Experience
9 46 (13.41%) UX Design
10 44 (12.83%) User Research
10 44 (12.83%) UX Research
11 42 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (11.37%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (9.91%) Configuration Management
14 31 (9.04%) Full Stack Development
15 27 (7.87%) Containerisation
15 27 (7.87%) SDLC
16 26 (7.58%) Continuous Integration
17 24 (7.00%) Computer Science
17 24 (7.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 182 (53.06%) Python
2 108 (31.49%) Java
3 77 (22.45%) JavaScript
4 53 (15.45%) SQL
5 40 (11.66%) Bash
6 31 (9.04%) Ruby
7 28 (8.16%) C++
8 24 (7.00%) TypeScript
9 18 (5.25%) C
9 18 (5.25%) PowerShell
10 16 (4.66%) Rust
11 13 (3.79%) C#
11 13 (3.79%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.92%) PHP
12 10 (2.92%) PL/SQL
12 10 (2.92%) Scala
12 10 (2.92%) T-SQL
13 9 (2.62%) Kotlin
14 7 (2.04%) Groovy
15 5 (1.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 54 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 35 (10.20%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.71%) Degree
4 18 (5.25%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.87%) CHECK Team Leader
6 3 (0.87%) CREST Certified
6 3 (0.87%) GIAC
6 3 (0.87%) OSCP
7 2 (0.58%) CCNP
7 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.29%) SANS
8 1 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.75%) NIST
2 3 (0.87%) ISO 22301
2 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.87%) QA
3 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.58%) ISO 20022
3 2 (0.58%) NCSC
3 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 130 (37.90%) Docker
2 9 (2.62%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 7 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.58%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.58%) PowerDNS
5 1 (0.29%) Firmware
5 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 180 (52.48%) Kubernetes
2 124 (36.15%) Terraform
3 60 (17.49%) Ansible
4 50 (14.58%) Prometheus
5 40 (11.66%) Grafana
6 14 (4.08%) Consul
7 12 (3.50%) Progress Chef
7 12 (3.50%) Puppet
8 8 (2.33%) Packer
9 7 (2.04%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (2.04%) ZABBIX
10 6 (1.75%) HP Fortify
10 6 (1.75%) Opsgenie
11 5 (1.46%) Istio
12 3 (0.87%) Podman
12 3 (0.87%) Rancher
13 2 (0.58%) Graphite
13 2 (0.58%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.58%) linkerd
14 1 (0.29%) Kiali
Vendors
1 30 (8.75%) Splunk
2 17 (4.96%) Google
3 16 (4.66%) Oracle
4 13 (3.79%) Microsoft
5 11 (3.21%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.92%) MuleSoft
6 10 (2.92%) PagerDuty
7 9 (2.62%) Dynatrace
8 8 (2.33%) Adobe
8 8 (2.33%) New Relic
8 8 (2.33%) SAP
8 8 (2.33%) VMware
9 6 (1.75%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.75%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.17%) F5
11 3 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.87%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.87%) Cisco
11 3 (0.87%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.58%) AlgoSec