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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 105 90
Rank change year-on-year -25 -15 +15
Contract jobs citing Go 7 18 31
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.30% 0.99% 1.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.04% 2.59% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 27
10th Percentile £488 £509 £426
25th Percentile £534 £525 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £618 £680
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -9.19% +13.33%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £718
90th Percentile £650 £691 £830
Central London median daily rate £625 £618 £680
% change year-on-year +1.17% -9.19% +13.33%

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 673 696 746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 28.74% 38.10% 36.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 480 510
10th Percentile £400 £392 £413
25th Percentile £456 £455 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £591
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.48% -2.91%
75th Percentile £669 £691 £708
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £577 £575
% change year-on-year -4.60% +0.26% -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 0
10th Percentile £25.14 £22.05 -
25th Percentile £31.71 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% - -
75th Percentile £49.68 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £63.75 £73.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £42.72 £41.50
% change year-on-year +5.33% +2.94% -10.27%

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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 22 August 2026.

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 (14.29%) Ethereum
1 1 (14.29%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (14.29%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Vite
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Backend Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Blockchain Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) gRPC
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) Smart Contracts
1 1 (14.29%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) AI Agents
2 1 (14.29%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (14.29%) Blockchain
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) AI
1 4 (57.14%) LLM
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) API Design
3 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow
4 1 (14.29%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) KYC
4 1 (14.29%) Low Latency
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Rapid Prototyping
4 1 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) DAML
2 1 (14.29%) Rust
2 1 (14.29%) Solidity
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) OpenAI