Go Contracts in the UK excluding London

Go (Golang)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 323 343 247
Rank change year-on-year +20 -96 +42
Contract jobs citing Go 78 87 293
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.38% 0.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.55% 1.38% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 52 213
10th Percentile £392 £379 £400
25th Percentile £416 £500 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £634
90th Percentile £665 £675 £685
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £587
% change year-on-year -8.00% +6.52% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
UK median hourly rate £48.25 £74.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -34.80% +184.62% -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,046 6,305 8,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.66% 27.78% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,329 4,405 6,152
10th Percentile £320 £338 £340
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £578 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 323 327
10th Percentile £37.55 £27.68 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £31.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +24.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.90 £78.00 £67.70
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Go in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Go in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Go in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Go in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Go in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Go in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland +50 6 - - 2
West Midlands +13 2 £500 - 7
Midlands +12 2 £500 - 10
Go
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (12.82%) Confluence
2 5 (6.41%) nginx
3 3 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.85%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.28%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 38 (48.72%) AWS
2 15 (19.23%) Azure
3 14 (17.95%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (16.67%) GCP
5 11 (14.10%) Serverless
6 10 (12.82%) Amazon S3
6 10 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (8.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (8.97%) GitHub
10 6 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
10 6 (7.69%) OpenShift
10 6 (7.69%) Snowflake
11 4 (5.13%) CloudBees
11 4 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (1.28%) Datadog
12 1 (1.28%) IaaS
12 1 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.97%) Network Security
2 6 (7.69%) AMQP
2 6 (7.69%) Kerberos
3 3 (3.85%) DNS
3 3 (3.85%) Firewall
4 1 (1.28%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 9 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.26%) Apache Cassandra
4 7 (8.97%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (8.97%) InfluxDB
4 7 (8.97%) Relational Database
5 6 (7.69%) Data Lake
5 6 (7.69%) DynamoDB
6 5 (6.41%) Couchbase
7 4 (5.13%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.85%) ClickHouse
8 3 (3.85%) MySQL
9 2 (2.56%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 35 (44.87%) Jenkins
2 22 (28.21%) Git
3 16 (20.51%) GitLab
4 10 (12.82%) JIRA
5 8 (10.26%) Bitbucket
6 6 (7.69%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.56%) Subversion
8 1 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 4 (5.13%) Social Skills
2 3 (3.85%) Retail
3 2 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.56%) Finance
3 2 (2.56%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.56%) Tech for Good
4 1 (1.28%) Banking
4 1 (1.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (42.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (30.77%) Developer
3 15 (19.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 8 (10.26%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (10.26%) Senior
4 8 (10.26%) Site Engineer
5 6 (7.69%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (5.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Operations Engineer
9 2 (2.56%) GCP Engineer
9 2 (2.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.10%) REST
2 10 (12.82%) Kafka
2 10 (12.82%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (11.54%) OpenID
4 7 (8.97%) RESTful
5 6 (7.69%) JSON
5 6 (7.69%) Keycloak
5 6 (7.69%) LDAP
5 6 (7.69%) Web Services
5 6 (7.69%) XML
6 4 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.85%) Apache Beam
7 3 (3.85%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.85%) gRPC
8 2 (2.56%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (2.56%) SAML
9 1 (1.28%) cloud-init
9 1 (1.28%) JCE
9 1 (1.28%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.41%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.28%) Clustering
5 1 (1.28%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (32.05%) Linux
2 1 (1.28%) CentOS
2 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.28%) Unix
2 1 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (60.26%) DevOps
2 44 (56.41%) CI/CD
3 22 (28.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (23.08%) Configuration Management
4 18 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 16 (20.51%) Agile
6 15 (19.23%) Containerisation
6 15 (19.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 14 (17.95%) Microservices
8 13 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 11 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (11.54%) Event-Driven
11 8 (10.26%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (10.26%) Software Engineering
12 7 (8.97%) Continuous Delivery
12 7 (8.97%) Observability
12 7 (8.97%) OO
12 7 (8.97%) Open Source
12 7 (8.97%) Service Management
13 6 (7.69%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 44 (56.41%) Python
2 28 (35.90%) Java
3 21 (26.92%) SQL
4 12 (15.38%) Bash
4 12 (15.38%) C
5 10 (12.82%) PowerShell
6 7 (8.97%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.97%) Shell Script
7 6 (7.69%) Groovy
7 6 (7.69%) Scala
8 5 (6.41%) Ruby
9 4 (5.13%) C++
10 1 (1.28%) Perl
10 1 (1.28%) Rust
10 1 (1.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 17 (21.79%) DV Cleared
3 7 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.41%) Degree
5 4 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) ISO 22301
1 3 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.56%) NIST
2 2 (2.56%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.56%) QA
3 1 (1.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (48.72%) Docker
2 6 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 44 (56.41%) Kubernetes
2 41 (52.56%) Terraform
3 34 (43.59%) Ansible
4 16 (20.51%) Grafana
5 15 (19.23%) Prometheus
6 8 (10.26%) Progress Chef
7 7 (8.97%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (7.69%) HP Fortify
9 4 (5.13%) Rancher
10 2 (2.56%) Istio
11 1 (1.28%) Consul
11 1 (1.28%) Graphite
11 1 (1.28%) HAProxy
11 1 (1.28%) Kiali
11 1 (1.28%) linkerd
11 1 (1.28%) Packer
11 1 (1.28%) Podman
11 1 (1.28%) Puppet
11 1 (1.28%) rkt
11 1 (1.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (10.26%) Splunk
2 6 (7.69%) Cadence
2 6 (7.69%) VMware
3 5 (6.41%) Atlassian
4 4 (5.13%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.56%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.56%) Google
6 2 (2.56%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.28%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.28%) Tanium