Go Contracts in England

Go (Golang)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 257 251 223
Rank change year-on-year -6 -28 +26
Contract jobs citing Go 342 488 919
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.91% 1.04% 1.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.01% 3.02% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 345 701
10th Percentile £406 £463 £410
25th Percentile £486 £536 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £675
90th Percentile £795 £863 £763
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £587
% change year-on-year -8.00% +6.52% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £41.93 £66.85 -
25th Percentile £43.69 £69.25 £25.50
Median hourly rate £48.25 £74.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.80% +184.62% -
75th Percentile £53.69 £79.25 £26.50
90th Percentile £55.98 £81.95 -
UK median hourly rate £48.25 £74.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -34.80% +184.62% -

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,366 16,181 25,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.30% 34.40% 36.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,149 11,851 18,996
10th Percentile £350 £375 £388
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 398 445
10th Percentile £35.52 £29.13 £20.00
25th Percentile £49.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.65 £73.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

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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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in England over the 6 months to 12 June 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 12 June 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 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
London -4 237 £575 -8.73% 145
North of England +6 30 £538 -2.27% 28
North West +5 22 £550 - 26
South East +25 20 £394 -28.45% 20
South West +9 20 £550 +3.29% 10
Yorkshire +14 8 £520 +30.00% 2
West Midlands +13 2 £500 - 7
Midlands +12 2 £500 - 10
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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 24 (7.02%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (5.85%) Confluence
3 11 (3.22%) nginx
4 7 (2.05%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.46%) Apache
5 5 (1.46%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (1.17%) Cloud Foundry
6 4 (1.17%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.58%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.29%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 185 (54.09%) AWS
2 63 (18.42%) GCP
3 54 (15.79%) Azure
4 28 (8.19%) GitHub
5 24 (7.02%) Snowflake
6 23 (6.73%) dbt
6 23 (6.73%) Serverless
7 21 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (4.09%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.09%) OpenShift
11 13 (3.80%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (2.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (2.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.75%) Amazon ELB
14 6 (1.75%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.26%) Firewall
2 16 (4.68%) DNS
3 10 (2.92%) Network Security
4 9 (2.63%) AMQP
5 7 (2.05%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.75%) DHCP
7 4 (1.17%) VoIP
7 4 (1.17%) VPN
7 4 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.17%) Wireless
8 3 (0.88%) IPv4
9 2 (0.58%) BGP
9 2 (0.58%) BIG-IP
9 2 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.58%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.58%) HTTP
9 2 (0.58%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.29%) MQTT
10 1 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (17.54%) Apache Cassandra
2 34 (9.94%) NoSQL
3 25 (7.31%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (7.02%) Data Lake
5 23 (6.73%) MongoDB
6 20 (5.85%) Big Data
7 19 (5.56%) MySQL
8 18 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
8 18 (5.26%) Apache Arrow
8 18 (5.26%) Dremio
9 13 (3.80%) Relational Database
10 11 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (2.63%) BigQuery
11 9 (2.63%) Couchbase
11 9 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (2.05%) DynamoDB
12 7 (2.05%) InfluxDB
13 5 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (1.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 70 (20.47%) Jenkins
2 52 (15.20%) Git
3 31 (9.06%) GitLab
4 29 (8.48%) JIRA
5 6 (1.75%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.75%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.46%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.17%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (1.17%) Burp Suite
7 4 (1.17%) Snyk
8 3 (0.88%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.58%) Darcs
9 2 (0.58%) Mercurial
9 2 (0.58%) Mockito
9 2 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.58%) Subversion
10 1 (0.29%) JUnit
10 1 (0.29%) Maven
10 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 57 (16.67%) Finance
2 42 (12.28%) Social Skills
3 26 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.26%) Banking
5 13 (3.80%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.92%) Tech for Good
7 9 (2.63%) Retail
8 5 (1.46%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.17%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.88%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.58%) Front Office
11 2 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.58%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.58%) Marketing
12 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 80 (23.39%) Developer
2 75 (21.93%) Senior
3 66 (19.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 54 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 47 (13.74%) Software Engineer
6 44 (12.87%) Site Engineer
7 35 (10.23%) AWS Engineer
8 28 (8.19%) Senior Software Engineer
9 20 (5.85%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (5.26%) Big Data Engineer
11 15 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
11 15 (4.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 10 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (2.92%) Full Stack Developer
13 10 (2.92%) Lead
13 10 (2.92%) Senior Developer
14 9 (2.63%) DevOps Platform Engineer
14 9 (2.63%) Senior DevOps
14 9 (2.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (24.85%) Kafka
2 29 (8.48%) REST
3 27 (7.89%) gRPC
4 23 (6.73%) RabbitMQ
5 20 (5.85%) Node.js
5 20 (5.85%) Protocol Buffers
5 20 (5.85%) React
6 17 (4.97%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (4.09%) RESTful
8 10 (2.92%) .NET
8 10 (2.92%) GraphQL
8 10 (2.92%) HTML
9 7 (2.05%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.05%) CSS
10 6 (1.75%) Keycloak
10 6 (1.75%) LDAP
11 5 (1.46%) .NET Core
12 4 (1.17%) Blazor
12 4 (1.17%) TensorFlow
12 4 (1.17%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (6.43%) Clustering
3 19 (5.56%) Hedge funds
4 17 (4.97%) Algorithms
4 17 (4.97%) Cloud Native
5 16 (4.68%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (2.34%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.05%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.75%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.75%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.17%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.17%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.17%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.88%) PKI
12 3 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 65 (19.01%) Linux
2 10 (2.92%) Unix
3 9 (2.63%) Windows
4 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.29%) CentOS
5 1 (0.29%) VMS
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (49.12%) DevOps
2 125 (36.55%) CI/CD
3 108 (31.58%) Agile
4 103 (30.12%) Software Engineering
5 73 (21.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 67 (19.59%) Microservices
7 45 (13.16%) Fintech
8 43 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (11.99%) User Experience
10 40 (11.70%) UX Design
11 38 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (11.11%) User Research
11 38 (11.11%) UX Research
12 27 (7.89%) Containerisation
13 26 (7.60%) Continuous Integration
13 26 (7.60%) Test Automation
14 25 (7.31%) Full Stack Development
14 25 (7.31%) TDD
15 24 (7.02%) Configuration Management
16 23 (6.73%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 182 (53.22%) Python
2 119 (34.80%) Java
3 75 (21.93%) JavaScript
4 47 (13.74%) SQL
5 37 (10.82%) Bash
6 30 (8.77%) Ruby
7 27 (7.89%) C++
8 20 (5.85%) PowerShell
9 18 (5.26%) TypeScript
10 17 (4.97%) C
10 17 (4.97%) Shell Script
11 16 (4.68%) Rust
12 14 (4.09%) C#
12 14 (4.09%) Scala
13 11 (3.22%) Groovy
14 10 (2.92%) Kotlin
14 10 (2.92%) PHP
15 5 (1.46%) Perl
15 5 (1.46%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 35 (10.23%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.14%) Degree
4 19 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.58%) CCNP
6 2 (0.58%) CHECK Team Leader
6 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.58%) CREST Certified
6 2 (0.58%) GIAC
6 2 (0.58%) OSCP
7 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.29%) SANS
7 1 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.46%) NIST
2 4 (1.17%) QA
3 3 (0.88%) ISO 22301
3 3 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.58%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.58%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 133 (38.89%) Docker
2 12 (3.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 7 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.58%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.58%) PowerDNS
4 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.29%) Firmware
5 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 192 (56.14%) Kubernetes
2 121 (35.38%) Terraform
3 53 (15.50%) Ansible
4 50 (14.62%) Prometheus
5 38 (11.11%) Grafana
6 14 (4.09%) Consul
7 9 (2.63%) Progress Chef
7 9 (2.63%) Puppet
8 7 (2.05%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (1.75%) HP Fortify
9 6 (1.75%) Opsgenie
10 5 (1.46%) Packer
11 4 (1.17%) Istio
11 4 (1.17%) Rancher
12 2 (0.58%) Podman
13 1 (0.29%) Kiali
13 1 (0.29%) linkerd
13 1 (0.29%) rkt
13 1 (0.29%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 33 (9.65%) Splunk
2 20 (5.85%) Google
3 18 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.80%) Oracle
5 9 (2.63%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.63%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.63%) SaltStack
6 8 (2.34%) PagerDuty
6 8 (2.34%) VMware
7 7 (2.05%) New Relic
8 6 (1.75%) Adobe
8 6 (1.75%) SAP
9 5 (1.46%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.46%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.17%) Confluent
10 4 (1.17%) F5
10 4 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.88%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.88%) Cisco
12 2 (0.58%) Genesys