Go Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Go (Golang)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Go skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 90 102
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 +32
Contract jobs citing Go 14 32 46
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.83% 1.53% 1.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.32% 4.37% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 25 19
10th Percentile £473 £441 £420
25th Percentile £513 £581 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £681 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +0.81% +3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £711 £725
90th Percentile £695 £805 £855
Central London median daily rate £625 £681 £675
% change year-on-year -8.16% +0.81% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £40.00 -

All Programming Languages
City of 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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 604 732 1,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.00% 34.97% 35.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 466 685
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £591 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -1.58% -
75th Percentile £688 £708 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £836
Central London median daily rate £575 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -0.86% -3.33% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 2
10th Percentile £23.90 £51.80 £15.65
25th Percentile £26.25 £74.38 £20.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £112.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.64% +273.33% -42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £39.75
90th Percentile £68.75 - £45.15
Central London median hourly rate £39.50 £41.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -4.82% +38.33% -42.86%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Go job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Go.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Go

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Go in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Go.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Go

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) GitHub
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (14.29%) SaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Legal
5 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Developer
1 3 (21.43%) Senior
1 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Backend Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Python Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Kafka
1 2 (14.29%) REST
1 2 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) boto
2 1 (7.14%) Django
2 1 (7.14%) Flake8
2 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.14%) LDAP
2 1 (7.14%) mypy
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (7.14%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Hedge funds
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
1 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (28.57%) Observability
3 4 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) AI
4 3 (21.43%) High Availability
4 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
5 2 (14.29%) Code Quality
5 2 (14.29%) LLM
5 2 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) PromQL
4 2 (14.29%) Bash
4 2 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (42.86%) Terraform
3 4 (28.57%) Grafana
4 2 (14.29%) Argo
4 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.14%) Ansible
5 1 (7.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian