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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 96 96
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 +30
Contract jobs citing Go 13 23 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.71% 1.24% 1.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.24% 3.45% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 17
10th Percentile £503 £559 £466
25th Percentile £513 £644 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £681 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +0.81% +5.88%
75th Percentile £638 £708 £825
90th Percentile £672 £711 £875
Central London median daily rate £625 £681 £665
% change year-on-year -8.16% +2.33% +2.31%
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 580 667 808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.52% 35.88% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 418 591
10th Percentile £359 £407 £413
25th Percentile £431 £478 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £795 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £26.33 £51.80 -
25th Percentile £26.44 £74.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £112.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.32% +135.79% -5.47%
75th Percentile £38.50 - £48.75
90th Percentile £43.90 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £76.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -59.61% +61.58% -5.47%

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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 20 January 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 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Jaeger
General
1 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Games
3 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Web Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Web Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Backend Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) WSE
2 2 (15.38%) Kafka
2 2 (15.38%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
3 1 (7.69%) Loki
3 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Media Streaming
2 1 (7.69%) Online Games
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Microservices
2 3 (23.08%) AI
2 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
2 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Information Security
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) LLM
3 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
3 2 (15.38%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (15.38%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) User Experience
3 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Argo
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Google
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) Splunk