Go Contracts in Birmingham

Go (Golang)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - 65
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Go 2 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.35% - 0.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.49% - 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £611 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 - £550
75th Percentile £633 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £575 - £490
% change year-on-year - - -2.00%

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 134 167 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 23.14% 23.69% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 114 147
10th Percentile £253 £316 £284
25th Percentile £368 £366 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £500 £634 £650
90th Percentile £604 £696 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - £44.85 £18.95
25th Percentile - £51.38 £22.81
Median hourly rate £36.00 £55.63 £29.32
Median % change year-on-year -35.28% +89.73% -
75th Percentile - £56.25 £64.69
90th Percentile - - £98.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +129.17% -58.62%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Go in Birmingham

Go
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Go

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jaeger
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware