Go Contracts with Work from Home Options

Go (Golang)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 184 211 194
Rank change year-on-year +27 -17 +25
Contract jobs citing Go 171 300 636
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.16% 1.22% 1.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.42% 3.27% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 229 473
10th Percentile £405 £428 £400
25th Percentile £506 £525 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £554
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +12.82% +10.69%
75th Percentile £675 £775 £650
90th Percentile £850 £863 £725
UK median daily rate £567 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -9.28% +8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.75 - -
Median hourly rate £41.50 - -
75th Percentile £42.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £48.25 £74.00 -
% change year-on-year -34.80% - -

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,002 9,174 16,719
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.80% 37.22% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,628 6,731 12,427
10th Percentile £356 £390 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 195 194
10th Percentile £33.13 £32.45 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £63.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +26.00% +11.73%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Go trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Go.

Go daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Go over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Go daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Go.

Go hourly rate 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 17 (9.94%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.51%) Confluence
3 5 (2.92%) Cloud Foundry
3 5 (2.92%) nginx
4 4 (2.34%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.75%) Apache
6 2 (1.17%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.17%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 3 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 122 (71.35%) AWS
2 33 (19.30%) GCP
3 28 (16.37%) Azure
4 17 (9.94%) Snowflake
5 16 (9.36%) dbt
6 14 (8.19%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (8.19%) GitHub
6 14 (8.19%) Serverless
7 13 (7.60%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (4.68%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (4.68%) OpenShift
10 6 (3.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (2.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (2.92%) AWS Control Tower
12 4 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.34%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (1.75%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.68%) Firewall
2 6 (3.51%) DNS
3 5 (2.92%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.34%) HTTP
5 3 (1.75%) VPN
6 1 (0.58%) BGP
6 1 (0.58%) DHCP
6 1 (0.58%) IPv4
6 1 (0.58%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.58%) MQTT
6 1 (0.58%) Network Security
6 1 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (22.22%) Apache Cassandra
2 23 (13.45%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (11.70%) Big Data
4 16 (9.36%) Amazon Athena
4 16 (9.36%) Apache Arrow
4 16 (9.36%) Data Lake
4 16 (9.36%) Dremio
5 14 (8.19%) MySQL
6 12 (7.02%) NoSQL
7 11 (6.43%) MongoDB
8 7 (4.09%) Couchbase
9 5 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.34%) MariaDB
10 4 (2.34%) Redis
10 4 (2.34%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.75%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.75%) BigQuery
12 2 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 35 (20.47%) Jenkins
2 34 (19.88%) Git
3 20 (11.70%) GitLab
4 11 (6.43%) JIRA
5 8 (4.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.34%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.75%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.75%) Snyk
8 2 (1.17%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.17%) Travis CI
8 2 (1.17%) WebDriver
8 2 (1.17%) WebPageTest
9 1 (0.58%) Darcs
9 1 (0.58%) Gradle
9 1 (0.58%) gulp
9 1 (0.58%) JUnit
9 1 (0.58%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.58%) Mockito
9 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (21.05%) Finance
2 31 (18.13%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.26%) Banking
5 5 (2.92%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.92%) Tech for Good
6 4 (2.34%) Retail
7 3 (1.75%) Marketing
7 3 (1.75%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.58%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.58%) Front Office
8 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (29.24%) Developer
2 34 (19.88%) Senior
3 33 (19.30%) Software Engineer
4 27 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
4 27 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 26 (15.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (15.20%) Site Engineer
6 17 (9.94%) Senior Software Engineer
7 16 (9.36%) Big Data Engineer
8 9 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (4.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.68%) Full Stack Developer
10 7 (4.09%) Python Engineer
11 6 (3.51%) Security Engineer
12 5 (2.92%) Architect
12 5 (2.92%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 5 (2.92%) Senior Security Engineer
13 4 (2.34%) Lead
13 4 (2.34%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (25.15%) Kafka
2 18 (10.53%) gRPC
3 16 (9.36%) Protocol Buffers
3 16 (9.36%) REST
4 11 (6.43%) React
5 10 (5.85%) Node.js
6 9 (5.26%) RESTful
7 7 (4.09%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (4.09%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (3.51%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.92%) CSS
9 5 (2.92%) GraphQL
10 4 (2.34%) .NET
10 4 (2.34%) AWS SAM
10 4 (2.34%) HTML
10 4 (2.34%) Vue
11 3 (1.75%) JSON
11 3 (1.75%) SOAP
11 3 (1.75%) XML
11 3 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.94%) Hedge funds
2 16 (9.36%) Clustering
3 13 (7.60%) Cloud Native
3 13 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.43%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.68%) Algorithms
5 8 (4.68%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.68%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.34%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.75%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.17%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.17%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.17%) PKI
10 1 (0.58%) CBDC
10 1 (0.58%) Digital Currency
10 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.79%) Linux
2 8 (4.68%) Unix
3 3 (1.75%) Windows
4 2 (1.17%) CentOS
4 2 (1.17%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (40.94%) DevOps
2 62 (36.26%) Agile
3 52 (30.41%) Software Engineering
4 49 (28.65%) CI/CD
5 37 (21.64%) Microservices
5 37 (21.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 34 (19.88%) Fintech
7 30 (17.54%) User Experience
8 29 (16.96%) User Research
8 29 (16.96%) UX Design
8 29 (16.96%) UX Research
9 22 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (11.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (9.94%) Asset Management
11 17 (9.94%) Investment Management
11 17 (9.94%) Task Automation
12 16 (9.36%) Full Stack Development
13 15 (8.77%) Computer Science
13 15 (8.77%) SDLC
14 13 (7.60%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 80 (46.78%) Python
2 42 (24.56%) Java
2 42 (24.56%) JavaScript
3 20 (11.70%) Bash
4 16 (9.36%) Ruby
5 13 (7.60%) SQL
6 12 (7.02%) C++
7 11 (6.43%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.68%) PHP
9 7 (4.09%) Perl
9 7 (4.09%) Rust
9 7 (4.09%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.51%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.34%) C#
12 3 (1.75%) Scala
13 2 (1.17%) C
13 2 (1.17%) Groovy
13 2 (1.17%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.17%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (8.19%) Degree
1 14 (8.19%) SC Cleared
1 14 (8.19%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.58%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.17%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.17%) NIST
2 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.58%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (33.33%) Docker
2 6 (3.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.75%) vCloud
3 3 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.75%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.75%) vSphere
4 1 (0.58%) PowerDNS
4 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 107 (62.57%) Kubernetes
2 60 (35.09%) Terraform
3 29 (16.96%) Prometheus
4 20 (11.70%) Ansible
5 16 (9.36%) Grafana
6 9 (5.26%) Consul
6 9 (5.26%) Puppet
7 7 (4.09%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.75%) Autotask
8 3 (1.75%) Packer
9 2 (1.17%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.58%) CASB
10 1 (0.58%) Cilium
10 1 (0.58%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.58%) Kibana
10 1 (0.58%) logstash
Vendors
1 7 (4.09%) Google
1 7 (4.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.51%) SaltStack
3 4 (2.34%) Splunk
3 4 (2.34%) VMware
4 3 (1.75%) Arista
4 3 (1.75%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.75%) BMC
4 3 (1.75%) Oracle
4 3 (1.75%) Remedy
4 3 (1.75%) TOWER Software
5 2 (1.17%) Genesys
5 2 (1.17%) Guidewire
5 2 (1.17%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.58%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.58%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.58%) F5
6 1 (0.58%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.58%) SAP