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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 93 104
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 +31
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Go 18 29 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.00% 1.40% 1.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.63% 3.91% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 26 30
10th Percentile £509 £426 £424
25th Percentile £525 £470 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £690 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% +15.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £673 £722 £688
90th Percentile £691 £831 £713
Central London median daily rate £618 £690 £600
% change year-on-year -10.51% +15.00% -4.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 685 741 1,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.91% 35.78% 39.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 507 812
10th Percentile £390 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £481 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -1.29% +0.04%
75th Percentile £690 £710 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £22.05 - £18.53
25th Percentile £26.00 - £27.94
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £46.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.90%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £66.94
90th Percentile £73.75 - £77.78
Central London median hourly rate £42.72 £41.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year +2.94% -10.27% -11.90%

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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 28 August 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 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) GitHub
3 5 (27.78%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (22.22%) SaaS
5 3 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (16.67%) Azure
5 3 (16.67%) Serverless
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.56%) GCP
7 1 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
1 1 (5.56%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Principal Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Python Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) GraphQL
1 3 (16.67%) Node.js
1 3 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) Jest
2 2 (11.11%) Kafka
2 2 (11.11%) React
2 2 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) boto
3 1 (5.56%) Django
3 1 (5.56%) Flake8
3 1 (5.56%) LDAP
3 1 (5.56%) mypy
3 1 (5.56%) OAuth
3 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.56%) OpenAPI
3 1 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.56%) pytest
3 1 (5.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 2 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (11.11%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 7 (38.89%) DevOps
4 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 5 (27.78%) Observability
5 5 (27.78%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Agile
6 4 (22.22%) High Availability
6 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (16.67%) Code Quality
7 3 (16.67%) Task Automation
7 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (16.67%) Visualisation
8 2 (11.11%) Data Integration
8 2 (11.11%) Problem Management
8 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (16.67%) PromQL
4 2 (11.11%) Bash
4 2 (11.11%) C#
4 2 (11.11%) Rust
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 9 (50.00%) Terraform
3 5 (27.78%) Grafana
4 2 (11.11%) Ansible
4 2 (11.11%) Argo
4 2 (11.11%) Podman
4 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) Splunk
2 1 (5.56%) Atlassian