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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 269 239
Rank change year-on-year +7 -30 -22
Contract jobs citing Go 263 326 501
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.97% 0.90% 1.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.92% 2.91% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 250 351
10th Percentile £325 £406 £463
25th Percentile £449 £488 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £699 £675 £750
90th Percentile £845 £839 £863
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £625
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £40.05 £41.93 £68.45
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.69 £73.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £48.25 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -41.52% +217.31%
75th Percentile £54.38 £53.69 £84.38
90th Percentile £57.15 £55.98 £84.75
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £48.25 £82.50
% change year-on-year -7.77% -41.52% +217.31%

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 9,001 11,191 16,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.07% 30.94% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,202 8,063 11,698
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 438 414
10th Percentile £29.07 £35.37 £26.86
25th Percentile £39.25 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +4.00% +15.74%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £83.58 £75.00 £80.96
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +18.99%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in England over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Go in England

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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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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Go in England over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 17 July 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 -1 186 £602 +4.70% 281
South East +29 13 £300 -29.41% 43
North of England -4 13 £450 -18.18% 39
Yorkshire -7 9 £410 -21.53% 11
South West +36 5 £663 +20.45% 39
East of England - 4 £500 - 13
Midlands +4 3 £700 +40.00% 10
West Midlands 0 3 £700 +40.00% 8
North West -6 3 £450 -20.70% 26
North East - 2 £563 - 2
Go
UK

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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 16 (6.08%) Apache
2 15 (5.70%) Apache Spark
3 11 (4.18%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.90%) Confluence
5 3 (1.14%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.38%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.38%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.38%) MetaMask
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 182 (69.20%) AWS
2 55 (20.91%) GCP
3 49 (18.63%) Azure
4 38 (14.45%) GitHub
5 29 (11.03%) GitHub Actions
5 29 (11.03%) Serverless
6 24 (9.13%) OpenShift
7 19 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (6.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (5.70%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (4.18%) dbt
11 10 (3.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (2.66%) SaaS
13 5 (1.90%) Azure AKS
14 4 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
15 3 (1.14%) Amazon S3
15 3 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 3 (1.14%) Azure Logic Apps
15 3 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.66%) DNS
2 6 (2.28%) HTTP
3 5 (1.90%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.52%) Firewall
5 2 (0.76%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.76%) 4G
5 2 (0.76%) 5G
5 2 (0.76%) VPN
5 2 (0.76%) Wireless
6 1 (0.38%) DHCP
6 1 (0.38%) LAN
6 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (19.77%) Apache Cassandra
2 29 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (6.08%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.18%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (4.18%) Apache Arrow
4 11 (4.18%) Apache Iceberg
4 11 (4.18%) Apache Ignite
4 11 (4.18%) Dremio
5 9 (3.42%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.14%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.14%) Flink
7 2 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.76%) MySQL
7 2 (0.76%) OLTP
8 1 (0.38%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.38%) Power BI
8 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (16.73%) Git
2 42 (15.97%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.22%) GitLab
4 18 (6.84%) Artifactory
4 18 (6.84%) JIRA
5 13 (4.94%) Liquibase
6 9 (3.42%) Subversion
7 7 (2.66%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.14%) Hardhat
9 2 (0.76%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.38%) JMeter
10 1 (0.38%) Postman
10 1 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 55 (20.91%) Finance
2 47 (17.87%) Social Skills
3 25 (9.51%) Front Office
4 18 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.84%) Banking
5 9 (3.42%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.90%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.90%) Marketing
8 4 (1.52%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.14%) Multimedia
9 3 (1.14%) Publishing
10 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.76%) Electronics
10 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.76%) Retail
11 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 82 (31.18%) Developer
2 55 (20.91%) Senior
3 41 (15.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (12.17%) Software Engineer
5 27 (10.27%) Python Engineer
6 26 (9.89%) AWS Engineer
7 22 (8.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 21 (7.98%) Lead
9 18 (6.84%) Site Engineer
10 17 (6.46%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
12 14 (5.32%) Architect
12 14 (5.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 12 (4.56%) Senior Developer
14 11 (4.18%) Data Engineer
14 11 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
15 9 (3.42%) Lead Developer
15 9 (3.42%) Lead Software Engineer
16 8 (3.04%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (38.02%) Kafka
2 60 (22.81%) gRPC
3 33 (12.55%) GraphQL
4 32 (12.17%) React
5 28 (10.65%) Node.js
6 27 (10.27%) REST
7 20 (7.60%) RESTful
8 12 (4.56%) Redux
9 11 (4.18%) J2EE
9 11 (4.18%) PySpark
10 9 (3.42%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (3.04%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (2.66%) OAuth
13 5 (1.90%) OpenAPI
13 5 (1.90%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (1.90%) Swagger
14 4 (1.52%) AngularJS
14 4 (1.52%) AWS CDK
14 4 (1.52%) JWT
14 4 (1.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 63 (23.95%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (11.41%) Cloud Native
3 23 (8.75%) Public Cloud
4 12 (4.56%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (4.56%) Fixed Income
5 7 (2.66%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.52%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.52%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.52%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.52%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.14%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.14%) Blog
8 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.14%) Podcast
8 3 (1.14%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.14%) TWAP
8 3 (1.14%) VWAP
9 2 (0.76%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 33 (12.55%) Linux
2 4 (1.52%) Unix
3 3 (1.14%) CentOS
3 3 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.14%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.76%) Debian
4 2 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (49.43%) CI/CD
2 123 (46.77%) Software Engineering
3 105 (39.92%) DevOps
4 91 (34.60%) Microservices
5 83 (31.56%) Agile
6 70 (26.62%) Open Source
7 68 (25.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 48 (18.25%) Containerisation
9 40 (15.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 38 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (12.55%) Continuous Integration
12 32 (12.17%) Observability
13 29 (11.03%) Test Automation
14 26 (9.89%) Configuration Management
15 25 (9.51%) Scrum
15 25 (9.51%) TDD
16 23 (8.75%) Mentoring
17 22 (8.37%) Full-Stack Development
18 20 (7.60%) Artificial Intelligence
18 20 (7.60%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 154 (58.56%) Python
2 83 (31.56%) Java
3 44 (16.73%) JavaScript
4 41 (15.59%) Bash
5 29 (11.03%) SQL
6 26 (9.89%) TypeScript
7 17 (6.46%) C++
8 12 (4.56%) C#
9 11 (4.18%) Perl
10 10 (3.80%) PowerShell
11 8 (3.04%) Groovy
12 7 (2.66%) Rust
13 6 (2.28%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.90%) C
14 5 (1.90%) Scala
15 4 (1.52%) PHP
16 3 (1.14%) PL/SQL
16 3 (1.14%) Ruby
16 3 (1.14%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.76%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 35 (13.31%) Security Cleared
2 24 (9.13%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.98%) Degree
4 15 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (5.70%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.28%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.90%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.52%) CCNP
7 4 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.14%) CCNA
9 2 (0.76%) OCA
9 2 (0.76%) OCP
9 2 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.38%) PhD
10 1 (0.38%) RHCE
10 1 (0.38%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.14%) Accessibility
1 3 (1.14%) GDPR
1 3 (1.14%) QA
2 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.76%) NCSC
2 2 (0.76%) SLA
3 1 (0.38%) NIST
System Software
1 127 (48.29%) Docker
2 4 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 178 (67.68%) Kubernetes
2 91 (34.60%) Terraform
3 48 (18.25%) Ansible
4 43 (16.35%) Grafana
5 40 (15.21%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.56%) Puppet
7 7 (2.66%) Podman
8 5 (1.90%) Kibana
9 3 (1.14%) Packer
9 3 (1.14%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.38%) Argo
11 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.38%) Graphite
11 1 (0.38%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.38%) logstash
11 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.38%) Rancher
Vendors
1 24 (9.13%) Splunk
2 15 (5.70%) Google
3 8 (3.04%) Oracle
4 7 (2.66%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (2.28%) Microsoft
6 4 (1.52%) VMware
7 3 (1.14%) Cisco
7 3 (1.14%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.14%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.76%) Foundry
8 2 (0.76%) Monzo
8 2 (0.76%) Okta
8 2 (0.76%) SAP
9 1 (0.38%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.38%) Tenable