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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 101 102
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +38
Contract jobs citing Go 17 28 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.96% 1.35% 1.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.60% 3.78% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 24 30
10th Percentile £509 £425 £448
25th Percentile £525 £485 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £690 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% +15.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £673 £732 £713
90th Percentile £691 £834 £741
Central London median daily rate £618 £690 £600
% change year-on-year -10.51% +15.00% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £38.50 -

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 655 740 1,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.17% 35.59% 38.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 501 761
10th Percentile £385 £406 £413
25th Percentile £463 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £590 £609
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -3.12% +1.50%
75th Percentile £688 £710 £734
90th Percentile £775 £825 £826
Central London median daily rate £575 £576 £605
% change year-on-year -0.22% -4.75% +2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £22.05 - -
25th Percentile £26.00 £36.75 £12.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +208.00% -76.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £12.75
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.72 £40.00 £12.50
% change year-on-year +6.80% +220.00% -76.19%

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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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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 17 September 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 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) GitHub
3 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (17.65%) Azure
4 3 (17.65%) SaaS
5 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (11.76%) Serverless
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.88%) GCP
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
1 1 (5.88%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Python Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Site Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) GraphQL
2 2 (11.76%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) Node.js
2 2 (11.76%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) boto
3 1 (5.88%) Django
3 1 (5.88%) Flake8
3 1 (5.88%) Jest
3 1 (5.88%) LDAP
3 1 (5.88%) mypy
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.88%) OpenAPI
3 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.88%) pytest
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
1 2 (11.76%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.88%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Containerisation
1 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (41.18%) DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) Observability
4 5 (29.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) High Availability
5 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) Agile
6 3 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
6 3 (17.65%) Task Automation
6 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (17.65%) Visualisation
7 2 (11.76%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (11.76%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (11.76%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) PromQL
4 2 (11.76%) Bash
4 2 (11.76%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) SQL
5 1 (5.88%) Rust
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Kubernetes
2 8 (47.06%) Terraform
3 5 (29.41%) Grafana
4 2 (11.76%) Ansible
4 2 (11.76%) Argo
4 2 (11.76%) Podman
4 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Splunk
2 1 (5.88%) Atlassian