Go Contracts in the City of London

Go (Golang)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Go skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Go over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 93 114
Rank change year-on-year -13 +21 +4
Contract jobs citing Go 14 30 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.79% 1.42% 1.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.00% 3.87% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 25 26
10th Percentile £536 £425 £456
25th Percentile £563 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £655 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +9.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £710 £681
90th Percentile £699 £833 £713
Central London median daily rate £618 £655 £600
% change year-on-year -5.73% +9.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £81.25
Median hourly rate - - £82.50
75th Percentile - - £83.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £82.50

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 699 776 1,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.65% 36.67% 40.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 541 901
10th Percentile £404 £406 £422
25th Percentile £463 £475 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £695 £738
90th Percentile £778 £813 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £19.28 - £23.95
25th Percentile £23.44 £46.75 £41.50
Median hourly rate £44.50 £48.50 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% -26.79% +26.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.25 £84.06
90th Percentile £81.25 - £84.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.26 £48.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year -17.00% -26.79% +26.19%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Go in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Go in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Go in the City of London

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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 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Go in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) GitHub
3 4 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (21.43%) Azure
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (14.29%) GCP
5 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 2 (14.29%) SaaS
5 2 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Principal Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Developer
4 1 (7.14%) C Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior C Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) GraphQL
1 2 (14.29%) Jest
1 2 (14.29%) Node.js
1 2 (14.29%) React
2 1 (7.14%) Django
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.14%) OpenAPI
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) Swagger
2 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 2 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) CUDA
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Hedge funds
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) High Availability
5 4 (28.57%) Observability
6 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (14.29%) API Development
7 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 2 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
7 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) Bash
4 2 (14.29%) Rust
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.14%) C
5 1 (7.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 7 (50.00%) Terraform
3 5 (35.71%) Grafana
4 3 (21.43%) Ansible
4 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft