Go Contracts in the Thames Valley

Go (Golang)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Go skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Go over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 141 162
Rank change year-on-year +9 +21 -61
Contract jobs citing Go 5 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.19% 0.21% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.92% 0.93% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 7
10th Percentile - £513 £387
25th Percentile - £541 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £663 £405
Median % change year-on-year -39.62% +63.58% -10.00%
75th Percentile - £688 £439
90th Percentile - £694 £531
South East median daily rate £394 £550 £463
% change year-on-year -28.45% +18.92% -7.50%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Go falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 543 648 785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.25% 22.52% 22.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 470 580
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 5
10th Percentile £33.94 £25.64 £61.45
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £62.50
Median hourly rate £58.40 £56.88 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -15.57% +68.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.40
90th Percentile £67.63 £79.41 £81.66
South East median hourly rate £62.00 £56.47 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.79% +61.34% -18.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Go in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Go in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Go in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Berkshire -9 4 £400 -40.74% 4
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Release Management
3 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C++
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Groovy
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 2 (40.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (40.00%) VMware