Go Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Go (Golang)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Go skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 47 41
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 +14
Contract jobs citing Go 21 2 12
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 5.45% 0.55% 2.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.67% 1.42% 7.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 1 3
10th Percentile - - £533
25th Percentile £525 £578 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £605 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% -3.20% +6.38%
75th Percentile £675 £633 £688
90th Percentile £750 - -
South West median daily rate £588 £603 £525
% change year-on-year -2.49% +14.76% -4.55%

All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 126 141 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 32.73% 38.74% 37.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 80 114
10th Percentile £355 £413 £425
25th Percentile £450 £463 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £676 £700
90th Percentile £675 £726 £775
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £548
% change year-on-year - -4.11% +2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 6
10th Percentile £49.46 £43.00 £72.50
25th Percentile £61.21 £62.50 £75.75
Median hourly rate £68.00 £67.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% -13.46% +48.57%
75th Percentile £69.36 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £78.03 £69.50 £81.50
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Go relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Go job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Go
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Go.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Go

Go
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Go in Gloucestershire

Go
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Gloucester - 19 £650 - 1
Cheltenham +17 8 £650 - 3
Cirencester - 1 £575 -
Go
South West

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 20 (95.24%) Azure
2 17 (80.95%) GitHub
3 12 (57.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 7 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (33.33%) Serverless
5 1 (4.76%) AWS
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (95.24%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (57.14%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (33.33%) Redis
4 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Senior
2 12 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 12 (57.14%) Senior Data Engineer
3 9 (42.86%) Developer
4 8 (38.10%) Backend Developer
5 7 (33.33%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (57.14%) Kafka
1 12 (57.14%) Keycloak
2 7 (33.33%) FastAPI
2 7 (33.33%) Flask
2 7 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 7 (33.33%) gRPC
2 7 (33.33%) REST
2 7 (33.33%) WebSockets
3 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.76%) JSON
3 1 (4.76%) JSON Schema
3 1 (4.76%) Node.js
3 1 (4.76%) React
3 1 (4.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) DevOps
2 18 (85.71%) Containerisation
3 12 (57.14%) Batch Processing
3 12 (57.14%) Data Engineering
3 12 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
3 12 (57.14%) DataOps
3 12 (57.14%) ETL
4 10 (47.62%) Data Architecture
5 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 7 (33.33%) Microservices
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (4.76%) Agile
7 1 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (4.76%) Domain-Driven Design
7 1 (4.76%) ERD
7 1 (4.76%) Mentoring
7 1 (4.76%) Open Source
7 1 (4.76%) Product Backlog
7 1 (4.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 20 (95.24%) Python
2 7 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) C
3 1 (4.76%) C++
3 1 (4.76%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (95.24%) SC Cleared
3 12 (57.14%) Azure Certification
4 8 (38.10%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 18 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 7 (33.33%) Grafana
2 7 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Podman
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft