Go Jobs with Work from Home Options

Go (Golang)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Go skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Go over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 106 80
Rank change year-on-year -147 -26 +41
Permanent jobs citing Go 409 1,264 3,167
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.21% 3.11% 4.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.96% 6.33% 7.52%
Number of salaries quoted 300 578 1,783
10th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £81,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +1.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £103,813 £106,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £120,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £77,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.75% - +14.29%

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 permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,825 19,960 42,087
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.89% 49.19% 59.06%
Number of salaries quoted 11,368 14,681 24,008
10th Percentile £38,694 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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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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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Go over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

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 54 (13.20%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (8.56%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.69%) Apache
4 7 (1.71%) Confluence
5 6 (1.47%) nginx
6 3 (0.73%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.73%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.24%) JBoss
7 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 212 (51.83%) AWS
2 105 (25.67%) GCP
3 81 (19.80%) Azure
4 79 (19.32%) Serverless
5 55 (13.45%) Snowflake
6 54 (13.20%) dbt
7 51 (12.47%) GitHub
8 38 (9.29%) SaaS
9 31 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (7.33%) Amazon S3
11 24 (5.87%) Amazon SQS
12 23 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
12 23 (5.62%) Slack
13 22 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (5.38%) Google Docs
13 22 (5.38%) Lucidchart
13 22 (5.38%) Miro
14 12 (2.93%) Azure AKS
15 10 (2.44%) Datadog
16 9 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.22%) AMQP
1 5 (1.22%) Network Security
2 3 (0.73%) iSCSI
3 2 (0.49%) Broadband
3 2 (0.49%) HTTP
3 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.24%) Anycast
4 1 (0.24%) BGP
4 1 (0.24%) DNS
4 1 (0.24%) Firewall
4 1 (0.24%) Internet
4 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (22.00%) Big Data
2 87 (21.27%) Relational Database
3 75 (18.34%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (15.16%) Data Lake
5 58 (14.18%) Amazon Athena
6 54 (13.20%) Apache Arrow
6 54 (13.20%) Dremio
7 43 (10.51%) Redis
8 41 (10.02%) RDBMS
9 38 (9.29%) Elasticsearch
10 36 (8.80%) Oracle Database
11 32 (7.82%) MySQL
12 28 (6.85%) Hadoop
13 22 (5.38%) Scylla
14 17 (4.16%) BigQuery
15 14 (3.42%) NoSQL
16 12 (2.93%) SQL Server
17 11 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
18 10 (2.44%) MongoDB
19 8 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 110 (26.89%) Git
2 36 (8.80%) JDeveloper
3 26 (6.36%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.93%) GitLab
5 9 (2.20%) JIRA
6 7 (1.71%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (1.47%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (1.22%) Maven
8 5 (1.22%) Selenium
8 5 (1.22%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.73%) JUnit
10 2 (0.49%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.24%) Gatling
11 1 (0.24%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.24%) JMeter
11 1 (0.24%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.24%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 138 (33.74%) Finance
2 112 (27.38%) Social Skills
3 30 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (5.62%) Retail
5 21 (5.13%) Banking
6 17 (4.16%) Marketing
7 13 (3.18%) Games
8 10 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.44%) French Language
8 10 (2.44%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.20%) Law
9 9 (2.20%) Legal
10 7 (1.71%) Publishing
11 5 (1.22%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.73%) Advertising
13 3 (0.73%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.24%) Esports
14 1 (0.24%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.24%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 129 (31.54%) Developer
2 109 (26.65%) Software Engineer
3 80 (19.56%) Senior
4 63 (15.40%) AWS Engineer
5 60 (14.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 59 (14.43%) Site Engineer
7 54 (13.20%) Big Data Engineer
8 45 (11.00%) Senior Developer
9 37 (9.05%) Ruby Engineer
10 32 (7.82%) DevOps Engineer
11 31 (7.58%) Lead
12 30 (7.33%) Principal Engineer
13 25 (6.11%) Full Stack Developer
14 22 (5.38%) Principal Software Engineer
15 19 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
16 17 (4.16%) Software Developer
17 16 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
17 16 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
18 15 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
18 15 (3.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (23.72%) gRPC
2 93 (22.74%) Kafka
3 88 (21.52%) Node.js
4 71 (17.36%) React
5 64 (15.65%) GraphQL
6 57 (13.94%) Web Services
7 54 (13.20%) Protocol Buffers
8 46 (11.25%) RabbitMQ
9 44 (10.76%) REST
10 35 (8.56%) CSS
10 35 (8.56%) HTML
11 26 (6.36%) RESTful
12 15 (3.67%) .NET
13 13 (3.18%) jQuery
13 13 (3.18%) OAuth
14 12 (2.93%) CSS3
14 12 (2.93%) HTML5
14 12 (2.93%) Laravel
14 12 (2.93%) Symfony
15 10 (2.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 57 (13.94%) Hedge funds
2 55 (13.45%) Clustering
3 42 (10.27%) Data Structures
4 40 (9.78%) Algorithms
5 25 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
6 23 (5.62%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (4.89%) Onboarding
8 15 (3.67%) Cloud Native
9 14 (3.42%) Product Ownership
9 14 (3.42%) Virtual Team
10 12 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (2.93%) Linux Command Line
11 11 (2.69%) Public Cloud
12 9 (2.20%) Blog
13 8 (1.96%) Blockchain
14 7 (1.71%) Data Centre
14 7 (1.71%) IoT
15 6 (1.47%) Digital Currency
16 5 (1.22%) Cyberattack
16 5 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.05%) Linux
2 11 (2.69%) Windows
3 7 (1.71%) Android
4 5 (1.22%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.98%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.73%) SUSE
6 3 (0.73%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 3 (0.73%) Unix
6 3 (0.73%) VMS
7 2 (0.49%) CentOS
7 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (44.01%) DevOps
2 167 (40.83%) Software Engineering
3 118 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
4 117 (28.61%) CI/CD
5 116 (28.36%) Microservices
6 114 (27.87%) Agile
7 111 (27.14%) Continuous Integration
8 80 (19.56%) TDD
9 71 (17.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 70 (17.11%) Code Quality
11 63 (15.40%) Open Source
12 58 (14.18%) Asset Management
13 57 (13.94%) Investment Management
14 56 (13.69%) Containerisation
15 50 (12.22%) Design Patterns
16 44 (10.76%) Infrastructure as Code
17 43 (10.51%) Full Stack Development
18 42 (10.27%) Continuous Deployment
18 42 (10.27%) Unit Testing
19 41 (10.02%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 254 (62.10%) Python
2 221 (54.03%) Java
3 181 (44.25%) JavaScript
4 85 (20.78%) Bash
5 56 (13.69%) Ruby
6 48 (11.74%) TypeScript
7 42 (10.27%) C#
8 39 (9.54%) Perl
9 37 (9.05%) SQL
10 34 (8.31%) Scala
11 27 (6.60%) PHP
12 24 (5.87%) Rust
13 16 (3.91%) PowerShell
14 15 (3.67%) C
15 10 (2.44%) Groovy
16 9 (2.20%) Kotlin
17 7 (1.71%) C++
18 5 (1.22%) Shell Script
19 4 (0.98%) Lua
20 2 (0.49%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 38 (9.29%) Security Cleared
2 33 (8.07%) Degree
3 29 (7.09%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.20%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.71%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.49%) PhD
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.24%) MCP
10 1 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (12.71%) QA
2 20 (4.89%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.47%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.24%) SEPA
4 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 136 (33.25%) Docker
2 5 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.73%) Ceph
3 3 (0.73%) Gluster
3 3 (0.73%) KVM
3 3 (0.73%) oVirt
4 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 167 (40.83%) Kubernetes
2 109 (26.65%) Terraform
3 77 (18.83%) Prometheus
4 43 (10.51%) Ansible
5 23 (5.62%) Progress Chef
6 22 (5.38%) Grafana
7 20 (4.89%) Puppet
8 13 (3.18%) Kibana
9 7 (1.71%) Argo
10 5 (1.22%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.98%) Rancher
11 4 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.73%) Graylog
12 3 (0.73%) Observium
12 3 (0.73%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.49%) Istio
13 2 (0.49%) Rundeck
14 1 (0.24%) Consul
14 1 (0.24%) Packer
14 1 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 47 (11.49%) Oracle
2 42 (10.27%) Google
3 22 (5.38%) Dell
4 10 (2.44%) Microsoft
5 9 (2.20%) New Relic
6 8 (1.96%) SaltStack
7 7 (1.71%) Splunk
7 7 (1.71%) VMware
8 6 (1.47%) Teradata
9 4 (0.98%) YouTube
10 3 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.73%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.49%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.49%) Spotify
12 1 (0.24%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.24%) Ivanti
12 1 (0.24%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.24%) Rollbar
12 1 (0.24%) Sybase