Go Contracts in England

Go (Golang)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 260 236
Rank change year-on-year -7 -24 -7
Contract jobs citing Go 229 332 572
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.94% 0.89% 1.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.79% 3.04% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 256 424
10th Percentile £405 £398 £480
25th Percentile £509 £497 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £665 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +15.65% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £763 £675 £718
90th Percentile £838 £711 £863
UK median daily rate £650 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £39.65 - £66.85
25th Percentile £40.25 £52.50 £69.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £55.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% -25.68% -
75th Percentile £48.75 £57.50 £79.25
90th Percentile £49.35 - £81.95
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £55.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -19.09% -25.68% -

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Go in England

Go
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Go in England.

Daily rate trend for Go in England

Go
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Go in England

Go
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Go in England.

Hourly rate trend for Go in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +1 165 £675 +17.39% 371
North of England +8 25 £725 +38.76% 60
Yorkshire +15 16 £725 +38.76% 11
South East +33 9 £450 +21.29% 97
North West -3 7 £600 +20.00% 45
East of England - 6 £500 - 28
South West +29 2 £700 +28.74% 28
Midlands +22 2 £700 +40.00% 32
West Midlands +14 2 £700 +40.00% 27
North East - 2 £750 - 4
Go
UK

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 28 (12.23%) Apache
1 28 (12.23%) Apache Airflow
1 28 (12.23%) Apache Spark
2 12 (5.24%) nginx
2 12 (5.24%) Traefik
3 6 (2.62%) BizTalk Server
4 5 (2.18%) Confluence
5 1 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.44%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.44%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.44%) MetaMask
5 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 160 (69.87%) AWS
2 50 (21.83%) Amazon ECS
3 45 (19.65%) AWS Lambda
3 45 (19.65%) Serverless
4 44 (19.21%) OpenShift
5 37 (16.16%) GCP
6 35 (15.28%) Azure
7 34 (14.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (12.66%) dbt
9 18 (7.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (7.42%) GitHub
11 15 (6.55%) AWS Fargate
11 15 (6.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (6.11%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (6.11%) Entra ID
13 13 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (3.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 6 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (2.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 6 (2.62%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.30%) DNS
2 18 (7.86%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.75%) DHCP
3 4 (1.75%) DOCSIS
3 4 (1.75%) Firewall
3 4 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (1.75%) Wireless
4 3 (1.31%) HTTP
4 3 (1.31%) Network Security
5 2 (0.87%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.87%) 4G
5 2 (0.87%) 5G
5 2 (0.87%) VLAN
6 1 (0.44%) 802.11
6 1 (0.44%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.44%) Broadband
6 1 (0.44%) IPv4
6 1 (0.44%) IPv6
6 1 (0.44%) PPP
6 1 (0.44%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (16.16%) Apache Cassandra
2 28 (12.23%) Amazon Athena
2 28 (12.23%) Apache Arrow
2 28 (12.23%) Apache Iceberg
2 28 (12.23%) Apache Ignite
2 28 (12.23%) Dremio
3 25 (10.92%) MongoDB
4 16 (6.99%) NoSQL
5 13 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.18%) InfluxDB
9 4 (1.75%) Looker
10 3 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.87%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.87%) OLTP
11 2 (0.87%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 52 (22.71%) Jenkins
2 34 (14.85%) Artifactory
2 34 (14.85%) GitLab
3 22 (9.61%) Git
4 14 (6.11%) JIRA
5 7 (3.06%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.31%) JMeter
7 2 (0.87%) Postman
7 2 (0.87%) Selenium
8 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.44%) Gatling
8 1 (0.44%) Gerrit
8 1 (0.44%) Hardhat
8 1 (0.44%) Maven
8 1 (0.44%) MLflow
8 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.44%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 52 (22.71%) Finance
2 37 (16.16%) Front Office
3 26 (11.35%) Social Skills
4 11 (4.80%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.49%) Banking
6 6 (2.62%) Military
7 5 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.31%) Multimedia
8 3 (1.31%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.87%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Advertising
10 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 77 (33.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 62 (27.07%) Senior
3 46 (20.09%) Developer
4 41 (17.90%) AWS Engineer
5 40 (17.47%) AWS DevOps
5 40 (17.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 31 (13.54%) Python Engineer
7 28 (12.23%) Data Engineer
7 28 (12.23%) Senior DevOps
8 23 (10.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 21 (9.17%) Software Engineer
10 12 (5.24%) Lead
10 12 (5.24%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (4.37%) Senior Developer
12 7 (3.06%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 7 (3.06%) Technical Leader
13 6 (2.62%) Site Engineer
14 5 (2.18%) Architect
14 5 (2.18%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (40.17%) Kafka
2 36 (15.72%) gRPC
3 33 (14.41%) J2EE
4 28 (12.23%) PySpark
5 22 (9.61%) cloud-init
6 16 (6.99%) React
7 14 (6.11%) Keycloak
8 12 (5.24%) REST
9 10 (4.37%) Node.js
10 9 (3.93%) RESTful
11 8 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (3.49%) GraphQL
12 7 (3.06%) .NET
12 7 (3.06%) .NET Core
13 6 (2.62%) Blazor
13 6 (2.62%) OpenTelemetry
14 5 (2.18%) AWS CDK
14 5 (2.18%) OpenAPI
14 5 (2.18%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (2.18%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 43 (18.78%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (6.99%) Cloud Native
3 14 (6.11%) PKI
4 12 (5.24%) Public Cloud
5 10 (4.37%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.62%) Social Media
7 5 (2.18%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.18%) Tandem
7 5 (2.18%) TWAP
7 5 (2.18%) VWAP
8 4 (1.75%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (1.75%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.75%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.31%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.31%) Podcast
9 3 (1.31%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.87%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 51 (22.27%) Linux
2 26 (11.35%) Unix
3 25 (10.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (10.48%) CentOS
5 8 (3.49%) Windows
6 2 (0.87%) Debian
6 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (58.95%) CI/CD
2 122 (53.28%) DevOps
3 103 (44.98%) Software Engineering
4 76 (33.19%) Agile
5 73 (31.88%) Open Source
6 65 (28.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 58 (25.33%) Microservices
8 43 (18.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 34 (14.85%) Asset Management
9 34 (14.85%) Continuous Integration
9 34 (14.85%) Observability
10 31 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (13.10%) Test Automation
12 29 (12.66%) Containerisation
12 29 (12.66%) Data Engineering
13 22 (9.61%) Configuration Management
14 18 (7.86%) Secrets Management
15 16 (6.99%) Platform Engineering
16 15 (6.55%) Cloud Security
16 15 (6.55%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 156 (68.12%) Python
2 91 (39.74%) Java
3 36 (15.72%) Bash
4 25 (10.92%) JavaScript
4 25 (10.92%) SQL
5 16 (6.99%) C++
6 14 (6.11%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.80%) C#
8 8 (3.49%) C
9 7 (3.06%) Scala
10 6 (2.62%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.62%) Rust
10 6 (2.62%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.18%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.75%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.31%) PHP
13 3 (1.31%) Ruby
14 2 (0.87%) Groovy
14 2 (0.87%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.44%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 45 (19.65%) Security Cleared
2 34 (14.85%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.42%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.11%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.93%) Degree
6 6 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.11%) NCSC
2 6 (2.62%) QA
3 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.44%) GDPR
4 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 101 (44.10%) Docker
2 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 160 (69.87%) Kubernetes
2 105 (45.85%) Terraform
3 44 (19.21%) Grafana
4 33 (14.41%) Prometheus
5 29 (12.66%) Ansible
6 25 (10.92%) Packer
7 15 (6.55%) Consul
7 15 (6.55%) Rancher
7 15 (6.55%) ZABBIX
8 14 (6.11%) Istio
8 14 (6.11%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (6.11%) linkerd
9 12 (5.24%) HAProxy
10 6 (2.62%) Kibana
10 6 (2.62%) Podman
11 2 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.87%) logstash
12 1 (0.44%) Argo
12 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (10.04%) Splunk
2 14 (6.11%) Okta
3 12 (5.24%) Apple
3 12 (5.24%) ESET
4 10 (4.37%) Oracle
5 9 (3.93%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.62%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.18%) Google
8 2 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.87%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.44%) Cisco
9 1 (0.44%) F5
9 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.44%) VMware