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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 208 184
Rank change year-on-year +28 -24 +36
Contract jobs citing Go 178 287 669
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.22% 1.18% 1.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.56% 3.24% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 219 503
10th Percentile £405 £446 £400
25th Percentile £508 £536 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £775 £656
90th Percentile £850 £863 £729
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.75 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £41.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £42.25 - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £48.25 £74.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -34.80% +184.62% -

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 4,999 8,854 16,837
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.14% 36.52% 38.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,623 6,538 12,568
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +2.33% +8.26%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 184 183
10th Percentile £27.75 £32.03 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.20
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.12
% change year-on-year -0.80% +22.26% +14.88%

Go
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 2 June 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 19 (10.67%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.49%) Confluence
3 6 (3.37%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (1.69%) nginx
5 2 (1.12%) Apache
5 2 (1.12%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.12%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.12%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 122 (68.54%) AWS
2 35 (19.66%) GCP
3 29 (16.29%) Azure
4 19 (10.67%) Snowflake
5 18 (10.11%) dbt
6 14 (7.87%) GitHub
7 11 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (6.18%) Serverless
8 10 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.62%) OpenShift
9 8 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.93%) AWS Control Tower
11 6 (3.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.25%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.69%) Amazon MSK
13 3 (1.69%) Amazon S3
14 2 (1.12%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.49%) Firewall
2 6 (3.37%) DNS
3 5 (2.81%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.25%) HTTP
5 3 (1.69%) VPN
6 1 (0.56%) BGP
6 1 (0.56%) DHCP
6 1 (0.56%) IPv4
6 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.56%) MQTT
6 1 (0.56%) Network Security
6 1 (0.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (21.91%) Apache Cassandra
2 22 (12.36%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (11.24%) Big Data
4 18 (10.11%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (10.11%) Apache Arrow
4 18 (10.11%) Data Lake
4 18 (10.11%) Dremio
5 13 (7.30%) MySQL
6 12 (6.74%) MongoDB
7 10 (5.62%) NoSQL
8 8 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.81%) Couchbase
9 5 (2.81%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.25%) Redis
11 3 (1.69%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.69%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.69%) DataStax
11 3 (1.69%) MariaDB
12 2 (1.12%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 33 (18.54%) Jenkins
2 32 (17.98%) Git
3 22 (12.36%) GitLab
4 13 (7.30%) JIRA
5 8 (4.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.25%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.69%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.69%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.69%) Snyk
8 2 (1.12%) WebDriver
8 2 (1.12%) WebPageTest
9 1 (0.56%) Darcs
9 1 (0.56%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.56%) JUnit
9 1 (0.56%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.56%) Mockito
9 1 (0.56%) Subversion
9 1 (0.56%) Travis CI
General
1 39 (21.91%) Finance
2 32 (17.98%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.74%) Banking
5 7 (3.93%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.81%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.25%) Retail
8 3 (1.69%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.56%) Front Office
9 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 47 (26.40%) Developer
2 34 (19.10%) Senior
3 32 (17.98%) Software Engineer
4 30 (16.85%) AWS Engineer
4 30 (16.85%) Site Engineer
4 30 (16.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 27 (15.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (10.11%) Big Data Engineer
7 16 (8.99%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (6.18%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (5.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Python Engineer
11 6 (3.37%) Full Stack Developer
11 6 (3.37%) Lead
11 6 (3.37%) Security Engineer
12 5 (2.81%) Lead DevOps
12 5 (2.81%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 5 (2.81%) Senior Security Engineer
13 4 (2.25%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (26.40%) Kafka
2 20 (11.24%) gRPC
3 18 (10.11%) Protocol Buffers
4 16 (8.99%) REST
5 12 (6.74%) React
6 11 (6.18%) RESTful
7 10 (5.62%) Node.js
8 9 (5.06%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (3.93%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (3.37%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.81%) GraphQL
12 4 (2.25%) .NET
12 4 (2.25%) AWS SAM
12 4 (2.25%) Vue
13 3 (1.69%) CSS
13 3 (1.69%) HTML
13 3 (1.69%) JSON
13 3 (1.69%) SOAP
13 3 (1.69%) XML
13 3 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.67%) Hedge funds
2 18 (10.11%) Clustering
3 15 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (7.30%) Cloud Native
5 12 (6.74%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (5.62%) Algorithms
6 10 (5.62%) Data Structures
7 9 (5.06%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.25%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.69%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.12%) Blockchain
11 2 (1.12%) Life Science
11 2 (1.12%) PKI
12 1 (0.56%) CBDC
12 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.56%) Digital Currency
12 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.61%) Linux
2 8 (4.49%) Unix
3 2 (1.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (44.94%) DevOps
2 65 (36.52%) Agile
3 53 (29.78%) Software Engineering
4 49 (27.53%) CI/CD
5 41 (23.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 39 (21.91%) Microservices
7 34 (19.10%) Fintech
8 29 (16.29%) User Experience
9 28 (15.73%) User Research
9 28 (15.73%) UX Design
9 28 (15.73%) UX Research
10 24 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (10.67%) Asset Management
11 19 (10.67%) Investment Management
11 19 (10.67%) Task Automation
12 16 (8.99%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (8.43%) Computer Science
13 15 (8.43%) Full Stack Development
14 14 (7.87%) SDLC
14 14 (7.87%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 84 (47.19%) Python
2 49 (27.53%) Java
3 44 (24.72%) JavaScript
4 19 (10.67%) Bash
5 18 (10.11%) Ruby
6 14 (7.87%) C++
7 13 (7.30%) SQL
8 9 (5.06%) Shell Script
8 9 (5.06%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.93%) Perl
9 7 (3.93%) PHP
9 7 (3.93%) Rust
10 5 (2.81%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.25%) Scala
12 3 (1.69%) C#
12 3 (1.69%) Groovy
12 3 (1.69%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.12%) C
13 2 (1.12%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (9.55%) SC Cleared
1 17 (9.55%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.87%) Degree
3 12 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.12%) NIST
2 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 61 (34.27%) Docker
2 8 (4.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.69%) vCloud
3 3 (1.69%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.69%) vSphere
4 1 (0.56%) PowerDNS
4 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 115 (64.61%) Kubernetes
2 61 (34.27%) Terraform
3 30 (16.85%) Prometheus
4 18 (10.11%) Ansible
5 16 (8.99%) Grafana
6 9 (5.06%) Consul
6 9 (5.06%) Puppet
7 4 (2.25%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.69%) Autotask
9 1 (0.56%) CASB
9 1 (0.56%) Cilium
9 1 (0.56%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.56%) Kibana
9 1 (0.56%) logstash
9 1 (0.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (5.06%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.49%) SaltStack
3 7 (3.93%) Google
3 7 (3.93%) Splunk
4 4 (2.25%) Oracle
4 4 (2.25%) VMware
5 3 (1.69%) Arista
5 3 (1.69%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.69%) BMC
5 3 (1.69%) Confluent
5 3 (1.69%) Remedy
5 3 (1.69%) TOWER Software
6 2 (1.12%) Genesys
6 2 (1.12%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.12%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.56%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.56%) F5
7 1 (0.56%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.56%) SAP