Go Contracts in London

Go (Golang)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 192 193 170
Rank change year-on-year +1 -23 +43
Contract jobs citing Go 165 211 416
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.31% 1.18% 1.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.33% 3.28% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 161 307
10th Percentile £434 £400 £513
25th Percentile £513 £500 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £575 £644
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -10.71% +7.33%
75th Percentile £838 £675 £743
90th Percentile - £850 £863
England median daily rate £665 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +15.65% -8.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £39.65 - -
25th Percentile £40.25 £52.50 £81.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £55.00 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £48.75 £57.50 £83.75
90th Percentile £49.35 - -
England median hourly rate £44.50 £55.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -19.09% -25.68% -

All Programming Languages
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,959 6,430 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.52% 36.06% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 4,906 8,206
10th Percentile £380 £380 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £712 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 57 85
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.55
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £61.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £70.75 £83.45
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in London

Go
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Go in London

Go
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Go in London

Go
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Go in London

Go
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the London 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
Central London -3 17 £680 +3.82% 26
East London +16 2 £620 - 2
South London +2 1 £550 -3.00% 1
Go
England

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 28 (16.97%) Apache
1 28 (16.97%) Apache Airflow
1 28 (16.97%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.64%) BizTalk Server
3 5 (3.03%) nginx
3 5 (3.03%) Traefik
4 2 (1.21%) Confluence
5 1 (0.61%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.61%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.61%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.61%) MetaMask
5 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 113 (68.48%) AWS
2 45 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
2 45 (27.27%) Serverless
3 44 (26.67%) OpenShift
4 40 (24.24%) Amazon ECS
5 31 (18.79%) GCP
6 29 (17.58%) dbt
7 27 (16.36%) Azure
8 15 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (7.88%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (6.67%) GitHub
11 10 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (4.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (4.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (3.03%) AWS Fargate
14 5 (3.03%) Azure Functions
14 5 (3.03%) Azure Storage
14 5 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.06%) DNS
2 9 (5.45%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.42%) DHCP
3 4 (2.42%) DOCSIS
3 4 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.82%) Firewall
5 2 (1.21%) HTTP
5 2 (1.21%) Network Security
5 2 (1.21%) VLAN
5 2 (1.21%) Wireless
6 1 (0.61%) 802.11
6 1 (0.61%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.61%) Broadband
6 1 (0.61%) DSL
6 1 (0.61%) GPON
6 1 (0.61%) IPv4
6 1 (0.61%) IPv6
6 1 (0.61%) PPP
6 1 (0.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.97%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (16.97%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (16.97%) Apache Iceberg
1 28 (16.97%) Apache Ignite
1 28 (16.97%) Dremio
2 16 (9.70%) Apache Cassandra
3 13 (7.88%) MongoDB
4 10 (6.06%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.42%) Looker
9 3 (1.82%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.21%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.21%) OLTP
11 1 (0.61%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 34 (20.61%) Artifactory
2 31 (18.79%) Jenkins
3 16 (9.70%) Git
4 14 (8.48%) GitLab
5 7 (4.24%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.03%) JIRA
7 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.61%) Gatling
7 1 (0.61%) Gerrit
7 1 (0.61%) Hardhat
7 1 (0.61%) JMeter
7 1 (0.61%) Maven
7 1 (0.61%) MLflow
7 1 (0.61%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.61%) TestDirector
General
1 49 (29.70%) Finance
2 37 (22.42%) Front Office
3 21 (12.73%) Social Skills
4 7 (4.24%) Banking
5 6 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.82%) Military
7 3 (1.82%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.21%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.21%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.61%) Advertising
9 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (35.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (24.85%) AWS Engineer
3 40 (24.24%) AWS DevOps
3 40 (24.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 33 (20.00%) Developer
5 31 (18.79%) Python Engineer
6 29 (17.58%) Senior
7 28 (16.97%) Data Engineer
8 19 (11.52%) Software Engineer
9 13 (7.88%) Senior DevOps
10 12 (7.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 11 (6.67%) Lead
11 11 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 7 (4.24%) Technical Leader
14 6 (3.64%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 6 (3.64%) Senior Developer
15 5 (3.03%) Architect
15 5 (3.03%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 4 (2.42%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (33.33%) Kafka
2 33 (20.00%) J2EE
3 28 (16.97%) PySpark
4 18 (10.91%) gRPC
5 12 (7.27%) React
6 7 (4.24%) .NET
6 7 (4.24%) .NET Core
6 7 (4.24%) GraphQL
6 7 (4.24%) Node.js
7 6 (3.64%) Blazor
7 6 (3.64%) REST
8 5 (3.03%) AWS CDK
8 5 (3.03%) cloud-init
8 5 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (3.03%) Keycloak
9 4 (2.42%) Vue
10 3 (1.82%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.82%) Material-UI
10 3 (1.82%) OAuth
10 3 (1.82%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.94%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (9.70%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 9 (5.45%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.64%) Social Media
6 5 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.03%) PKI
6 5 (3.03%) Tandem
6 5 (3.03%) TWAP
6 5 (3.03%) VWAP
7 4 (2.42%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (2.42%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.82%) Podcast
8 3 (1.82%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (1.21%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.21%) IoT
9 2 (1.21%) NHS
9 2 (1.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (16.36%) Linux
2 8 (4.85%) Unix
3 7 (4.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.24%) Windows
4 6 (3.64%) CentOS
5 2 (1.21%) Debian
5 2 (1.21%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 89 (53.94%) DevOps
3 83 (50.30%) Software Engineering
4 58 (35.15%) Agile
5 56 (33.94%) Open Source
6 43 (26.06%) Infrastructure as Code
7 40 (24.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 34 (20.61%) Asset Management
9 32 (19.39%) Microservices
10 29 (17.58%) Data Engineering
11 23 (13.94%) Test Automation
12 22 (13.33%) Observability
13 21 (12.73%) Configuration Management
14 19 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (9.70%) Containerisation
16 15 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
17 14 (8.48%) Platform Engineering
18 11 (6.67%) SDLC
19 10 (6.06%) Mentoring
19 10 (6.06%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 125 (75.76%) Python
2 80 (48.48%) Java
3 19 (11.52%) JavaScript
3 19 (11.52%) SQL
4 16 (9.70%) Bash
5 14 (8.48%) C++
6 11 (6.67%) C#
6 11 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.24%) Scala
8 6 (3.64%) C
8 6 (3.64%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.64%) Rust
8 6 (3.64%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.42%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.82%) PHP
10 3 (1.82%) Ruby
11 2 (1.21%) Groovy
11 2 (1.21%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.61%) Haskell
12 1 (0.61%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 22 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.88%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.06%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.85%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.42%) Degree
6 2 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.64%) QA
2 5 (3.03%) NCSC
3 2 (1.21%) Accessibility
System Software
1 71 (43.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 115 (69.70%) Kubernetes
2 81 (49.09%) Terraform
3 26 (15.76%) Ansible
3 26 (15.76%) Grafana
4 16 (9.70%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.64%) Kibana
5 6 (3.64%) Packer
5 6 (3.64%) Podman
5 6 (3.64%) ZABBIX
6 5 (3.03%) Consul
6 5 (3.03%) HAProxy
6 5 (3.03%) Istio
6 5 (3.03%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (3.03%) linkerd
6 5 (3.03%) Rancher
7 1 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.61%) Argo
7 1 (0.61%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (6.67%) Splunk
2 9 (5.45%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.85%) Oracle
4 6 (3.64%) MuleSoft
5 5 (3.03%) Apple
5 5 (3.03%) ESET
5 5 (3.03%) Okta
6 2 (1.21%) Google
6 2 (1.21%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.61%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.61%) F5