Go Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Go (Golang)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Go skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 25 28
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 +13
Contract jobs citing Go 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.48% 0.62% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.12% 1.54% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £500 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -29.29%
75th Percentile - £600 £518
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate - £550 £495
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -29.29%

All Programming Languages
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 89 65 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 42.79% 40.12% 37.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 42 39
10th Percentile £253 £300 £413
25th Percentile £400 £340 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £507
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -16.09% +1.30%
75th Percentile £573 £519 £560
90th Percentile £631 £578 £592
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £463 £450 £507
% change year-on-year +2.78% -11.15% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 10
10th Percentile £32.75 - £15.52
25th Percentile £35.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £70.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -21.71% +100.71%
75th Percentile £44.75 £57.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.41 - £78.63
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £37.50 £48.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -15.22% +36.90%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Go job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Go
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Go

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Research Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Research Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CUDA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R