Go Contract Job Trends in London

Go (Golang)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Go skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 209 175
Rank change year-on-year -75 -34 +2
Contract jobs citing Go 145 141 242
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 1.15% 1.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.45% 2.90% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 86 189
10th Percentile £504 £406 £411
25th Percentile £548 £500 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £631 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +9.78% -10.78%
75th Percentile £800 £816 £675
90th Percentile - £838 £850
England median daily rate £560 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -2.61% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £39.65 £41.93
25th Percentile £56.75 £40.25 £43.69
Median hourly rate £58.50 £44.50 £48.25
Median % change year-on-year +31.46% -7.77% -41.52%
75th Percentile £60.25 £48.75 £53.69
90th Percentile - £49.35 £55.98
England median hourly rate £58.50 £44.50 £48.25
% change year-on-year +31.46% -7.77% -34.80%

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 5,928 4,868 6,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.43% 39.55% 37.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,951 3,419 5,071
10th Percentile £375 £375 £375
25th Percentile £438 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £513 £521 £538
% change year-on-year -1.54% -3.25% -4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 42 52
10th Percentile £32.93 £29.01 £23.80
25th Percentile £37.00 £33.25 £38.83
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.25 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.34% -20.30% -15.83%
75th Percentile £74.50 £57.81 £62.50
90th Percentile £89.13 £85.63 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Go job vacancy trend in London

Go
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Go

Go
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Go in London

Go
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Go.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Go

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 14 June 2026. 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 -20 8 £637 +4.47% 8
East London -1 3 £540 -18.80% 1
Go
England

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (2.76%) Apache
1 4 (2.76%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.38%) Camunda
3 1 (0.69%) nginx
3 1 (0.69%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 87 (60.00%) AWS
2 30 (20.69%) GCP
3 13 (8.97%) Azure
4 11 (7.59%) GitHub
4 11 (7.59%) Serverless
5 9 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (4.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (2.76%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.76%) Cloud Run
8 4 (2.76%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.07%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.07%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (2.07%) Cloud Functions
9 3 (2.07%) Google Compute Engine
9 3 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.38%) DNS
1 2 (1.38%) SSH
1 2 (1.38%) X.509
2 1 (0.69%) DHCP
2 1 (0.69%) Firewall
2 1 (0.69%) ICMP
2 1 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.69%) VPN
2 1 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.03%) Apache Cassandra
2 12 (8.28%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (7.59%) BigQuery
4 10 (6.90%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.76%) MySQL
5 4 (2.76%) Redis
6 3 (2.07%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.38%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.69%) Flink
8 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 13 (8.97%) GitLab
3 9 (6.21%) Git
4 3 (2.07%) JUnit
4 3 (2.07%) Mockito
4 3 (2.07%) Vite
5 2 (1.38%) Ant
5 2 (1.38%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.38%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.38%) Gradle
5 2 (1.38%) Jaeger
5 2 (1.38%) Maven
6 1 (0.69%) CircleCI
General
1 46 (31.72%) Finance
2 32 (22.07%) Front Office
3 8 (5.52%) Banking
4 7 (4.83%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.83%) Social Skills
5 4 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.69%) Billing
7 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.69%) Games
7 1 (0.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 67 (46.21%) Developer
2 46 (31.72%) Software Engineer
3 36 (24.83%) Senior
4 34 (23.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 21 (14.48%) Senior Developer
6 20 (13.79%) Lead
6 20 (13.79%) Lead Developer
6 20 (13.79%) Lead Software Developer
6 20 (13.79%) Lead Software Engineer
7 19 (13.10%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (6.21%) Java Developer
8 9 (6.21%) Java Engineer
8 9 (6.21%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (5.52%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (5.52%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 8 (5.52%) Java Software Developer
9 8 (5.52%) React Developer
10 5 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (42.07%) Kafka
2 40 (27.59%) React
3 38 (26.21%) Node.js
4 36 (24.83%) GraphQL
5 35 (24.14%) Redux
6 16 (11.03%) gRPC
7 10 (6.90%) AngularJS
7 10 (6.90%) Vue
8 8 (5.52%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (4.83%) OAuth
10 6 (4.14%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (3.45%) Apache Beam
12 4 (2.76%) JWT
12 4 (2.76%) Loki
12 4 (2.76%) OpenID
12 4 (2.76%) REST
12 4 (2.76%) SAML
13 3 (2.07%) JSON
13 3 (2.07%) RESTful
13 3 (2.07%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 42 (28.97%) Distributed Systems
2 32 (22.07%) Fixed Income
3 25 (17.24%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.07%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.07%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.38%) PKI
7 1 (0.69%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.69%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.21%) Linux
2 3 (2.07%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.69%) Debian
4 1 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (50.34%) Software Engineering
2 48 (33.10%) Agile
3 41 (28.28%) CI/CD
4 38 (26.21%) DevOps
5 36 (24.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (24.14%) Microservices
7 32 (22.07%) Investment Management
7 32 (22.07%) Order Management
7 32 (22.07%) Portfolio Management
8 29 (20.00%) Observability
9 28 (19.31%) Containerisation
10 25 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (11.03%) Open Source
11 16 (11.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (9.66%) Fintech
13 12 (8.28%) Event-Driven
13 12 (8.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 11 (7.59%) Platform Engineering
14 11 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (7.59%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 78 (53.79%) Python
2 55 (37.93%) Java
3 39 (26.90%) JavaScript
4 37 (25.52%) TypeScript
5 17 (11.72%) Bash
6 12 (8.28%) SQL
7 8 (5.52%) PHP
8 6 (4.14%) Rust
9 4 (2.76%) C++
9 4 (2.76%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.07%) C#
11 2 (1.38%) Cypher
11 2 (1.38%) Haskell
11 2 (1.38%) Scala
12 1 (0.69%) Bicep
12 1 (0.69%) Groovy
12 1 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (8.97%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.28%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.07%) Degree
3 3 (2.07%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.69%) CISM
4 1 (0.69%) CISSP
4 1 (0.69%) CRISC
4 1 (0.69%) CSSLP
4 1 (0.69%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.38%) NCSC
1 2 (1.38%) NIST
2 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.69%) GDPR
2 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (28.28%) Docker
2 2 (1.38%) OpenSSH
3 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 66 (45.52%) Kubernetes
2 43 (29.66%) Terraform
3 14 (9.66%) Prometheus
4 13 (8.97%) Grafana
5 9 (6.21%) Ansible
6 3 (2.07%) Istio
7 2 (1.38%) Argo
7 2 (1.38%) Cilium
8 1 (0.69%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.69%) Kibana
8 1 (0.69%) linkerd
8 1 (0.69%) logstash
8 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (7.59%) Google
2 6 (4.14%) Dynatrace
2 6 (4.14%) Splunk
3 3 (2.07%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.69%) Okta
4 1 (0.69%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.69%) Salesforce