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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 97 104
Rank change year-on-year -19 +7 +17
Contract jobs citing Go 15 19 24
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.70% 1.10% 1.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.35% 2.74% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 14
10th Percentile £534 £553 £415
25th Percentile £591 £663 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £680 £655
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% +3.82% +10.32%
75th Percentile £650 £696 £712
90th Percentile £684 £710 £843
Central London median daily rate £625 £680 £655
% change year-on-year -8.09% +3.82% +9.17%

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 637 693 769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 29.92% 40.06% 33.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 459 543
10th Percentile £350 £410 £404
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -6.35%
75th Percentile £638 £690 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -6.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £27.86 - £46.30
25th Percentile £29.90 - £46.38
Median hourly rate £38.53 - £48.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.52%
75th Percentile £50.56 - £49.88
90th Percentile £56.06 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £38.53 £29.07 £48.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -39.44% -16.52%

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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 27 March 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
3 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) Datadog
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Jaeger
General
1 1 (6.67%) Banking
1 1 (6.67%) Finance
1 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
1 1 (6.67%) Games
1 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
1 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
1 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Web Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Web Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Backend Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
4 1 (6.67%) PHP Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) WSE
2 2 (13.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (6.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (6.67%) Loki
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) Playwright
3 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Media Streaming
3 1 (6.67%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (33.33%) Microservices
1 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (26.67%) AI
2 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (26.67%) Observability
3 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 3 (20.00%) LLM
3 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Information Security
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Scrum
4 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) User Experience
4 2 (13.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Java
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Grafana
2 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) OpenAI