Go Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Go (Golang)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Go skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 96 110
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 +9
Contract jobs citing Go 6 3 13
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.41% 0.22% 0.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.88% 0.79% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 10
10th Percentile £398 - £540
25th Percentile £406 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £450 £675
Median % change year-on-year +9.44% -33.33% +58.82%
75th Percentile £550 - £697
90th Percentile £564 - £700
South East median daily rate £493 £450 £580
% change year-on-year +9.44% -22.41% +10.48%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 319 381 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.92% 27.47% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 233 236
10th Percentile £337 £390 £350
25th Percentile £410 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +4.55% +1.29%
75th Percentile £569 £651 £628
90th Percentile £625 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £483 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -4.76% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 11
10th Percentile £39.25 £44.62 £48.40
25th Percentile £70.00 £55.87 £49.07
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.75 £56.06
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% +1.22% -10.30%
75th Percentile £82.00 £65.62 £63.95
90th Percentile £84.40 £69.32 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £58.25
% change year-on-year -3.08% -2.58% -2.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Go relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Go job vacancy trend in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Go.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Go

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in Berkshire over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Go in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. 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
Wokingham - 4 £478 - 1
Reading - 1 £500 - 4
Go
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Site Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Junior
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) High Availability
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (100.00%) Release Management
1 6 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Business Continuity
2 5 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (83.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft