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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 94 96
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 +30
Contract jobs citing Go 16 27 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.87% 1.33% 1.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.66% 3.78% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 20 18
10th Percentile £513 £577 £486
25th Percentile £556 £646 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £681 £665
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +2.33% +4.31%
75th Percentile £672 £710 £803
90th Percentile £688 £755 £875
Central London median daily rate £625 £681 £655
% change year-on-year -8.16% +3.89% +0.77%
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 601 715 824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 32.70% 35.29% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 455 595
10th Percentile £356 £406 £400
25th Percentile £431 £477 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £595
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -1.68% -0.83%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £829
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £26.35 £51.80 -
25th Percentile £26.50 £74.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £112.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.64% +135.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £47.50 - £48.75
90th Percentile £57.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £41.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -18.07% -12.63% -17.39%

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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 30 December 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 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) GitHub
2 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (12.50%) SaaS
2 2 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (6.25%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jaeger
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Games
3 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Consultant
3 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Web Consultant
3 3 (18.75%) Web Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Backend Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Monitoring Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Network Monitoring Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) WSE
2 2 (12.50%) Kafka
2 2 (12.50%) Node.js
2 2 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) boto
3 1 (6.25%) Flake8
3 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
3 1 (6.25%) LDAP
3 1 (6.25%) Loki
3 1 (6.25%) mypy
3 1 (6.25%) pytest
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 2 (12.50%) Replication
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Hedge funds
2 1 (6.25%) Media Streaming
2 1 (6.25%) Online Games
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Microservices
2 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) AI
4 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
4 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
5 2 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (12.50%) Data Science
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) LLM
5 2 (12.50%) Observability
5 2 (12.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 2 (12.50%) Systems Thinking
5 2 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) C#
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.25%) PHP
4 1 (6.25%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Argo
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
4 1 (6.25%) Ansible
4 1 (6.25%) Podman
4 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
1 1 (6.25%) Google
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.25%) Splunk