Go Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

Go (Golang)
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Herefordshire requiring Go skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Go 24 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 36.92% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 68.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 24 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £656 - -
90th Percentile £728 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 - £490
% change year-on-year - - -2.00%

All Programming Languages
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 35 10 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 53.85% 27.03% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 9 6
10th Percentile £518 £600 £413
25th Percentile £525 - £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £612 £675
Median % change year-on-year -10.13% -9.33% +35.00%
75th Percentile £650 £635 £716
90th Percentile £720 - £731
West Midlands median daily rate £508 £498 £450
% change year-on-year +2.06% +10.56% -11.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £23.87 £18.50
% change year-on-year +109.47% +29.03% -15.91%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

Go job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

Go
Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Go

Go
Daily Rate Histogram in Herefordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in Herefordshire over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Go in Herefordshire

Go
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Ledbury - 20 £613 -
Hereford - 2 £575 -
Go
West Midlands

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (70.83%) GitHub
3 12 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (45.83%) Serverless
5 7 (29.17%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (29.17%) Azure Key Vault
5 7 (29.17%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
6 4 (16.67%) AWS
6 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (79.17%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (29.17%) Redis
4 4 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (16.67%) InfluxDB
4 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 12 (50.00%) Senior
1 12 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 8 (33.33%) Developer
3 7 (29.17%) Backend Developer
3 7 (29.17%) Python Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Site Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Developer
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) Kafka
1 12 (50.00%) Keycloak
2 7 (29.17%) FastAPI
2 7 (29.17%) Flask
2 7 (29.17%) GraphQL
2 7 (29.17%) gRPC
2 7 (29.17%) REST
2 7 (29.17%) WebSockets
3 4 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.17%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (29.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) Containerisation
2 20 (83.33%) DevOps
3 12 (50.00%) Batch Processing
3 12 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 12 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 12 (50.00%) DataOps
3 12 (50.00%) ETL
4 10 (41.67%) Data Architecture
5 8 (33.33%) Microservices
6 4 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 4 (16.67%) Observability
6 4 (16.67%) Service Management
6 4 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 4 (16.67%) Task Automation
7 2 (8.33%) Domain Models
7 2 (8.33%) Event-Driven
7 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (8.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) Python
2 12 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Java
3 4 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (95.83%) SC Cleared
3 12 (50.00%) Azure Certification
4 11 (45.83%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 20 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (91.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (45.83%) Grafana
2 11 (45.83%) Prometheus
3 4 (16.67%) Ansible
3 4 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 4 (16.67%) Terraform
4 2 (8.33%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft