Go Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Go (Golang)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Go skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 - 131
Rank change year-on-year - - +45
Contract jobs citing Go 35 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.21% - 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.77% - 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 0 4
10th Percentile £515 - £399
25th Percentile £525 - £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £490
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.00%
75th Percentile £675 - £509
90th Percentile £849 - £534
England median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 733 630 643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 25.25% 23.65% 23.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 396 469
10th Percentile £313 £320 £305
25th Percentile £400 £381 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +4.06% -10.00%
75th Percentile £549 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £627 £688
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 19
10th Percentile £32.99 £26.32 £17.43
25th Percentile £43.00 £33.93 £17.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +57.13% -13.77%
75th Percentile - £60.00 £54.00
90th Percentile - £69.00 £58.80
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.79%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Go job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Go
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Go.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Go

Go
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in the Midlands over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Go in the Midlands

Go
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
West Midlands - 35 £575 - 18
Go
England

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (2.86%) Confluence
1 1 (2.86%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 21 (60.00%) Serverless
2 18 (51.43%) GitHub
3 17 (48.57%) AWS
3 17 (48.57%) Azure
3 17 (48.57%) GCP
4 12 (34.29%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (22.86%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (17.14%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (14.29%) AWS KMS
9 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.86%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.86%) Datadog
10 1 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (2.86%) npm
10 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
10 1 (2.86%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DNS
1 1 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (65.71%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (42.86%) NoSQL
3 7 (20.00%) Redis
4 6 (17.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (54.29%) Jenkins
2 18 (51.43%) GitLab
3 10 (28.57%) Liquibase
4 2 (5.71%) Git
4 2 (5.71%) Jaeger
5 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.86%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.86%) Gradle
5 1 (2.86%) JIRA
5 1 (2.86%) JUnit
5 1 (2.86%) Maven
5 1 (2.86%) Postman
5 1 (2.86%) Selenium
5 1 (2.86%) Snyk
5 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.86%) webpack
General
1 18 (51.43%) Social Skills
2 14 (40.00%) Finance
3 11 (31.43%) Banking
4 10 (28.57%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (37.14%) Senior
2 12 (34.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (28.57%) Developer
3 10 (28.57%) GCP Engineer
4 9 (25.71%) Software Engineer
5 7 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (20.00%) Backend Developer
5 7 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (20.00%) Python Developer
5 7 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (17.14%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 6 (17.14%) Data Engineer
6 6 (17.14%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (14.29%) AWS Software Engineer
8 4 (11.43%) GCP Software Engineer
8 4 (11.43%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 4 (11.43%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (11.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) GCP DevOps
9 2 (5.71%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (68.57%) REST
2 15 (42.86%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (40.00%) RESTful
4 7 (20.00%) FastAPI
4 7 (20.00%) Flask
4 7 (20.00%) GraphQL
4 7 (20.00%) gRPC
4 7 (20.00%) WebSockets
5 6 (17.14%) Kafka
5 6 (17.14%) Keycloak
6 2 (5.71%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (2.86%) .NET
7 1 (2.86%) JSON
7 1 (2.86%) Web Services
7 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (51.43%) Cloud Native
2 14 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (40.00%) Public Cloud
3 7 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (48.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (82.86%) CI/CD
3 20 (57.14%) Microservices
4 18 (51.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (48.57%) Computer Science
6 16 (45.71%) Agile
6 16 (45.71%) Root Cause Analysis
7 14 (40.00%) Cryptography
8 12 (34.29%) Software Engineering
9 11 (31.43%) Cost Optimisation
9 11 (31.43%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
10 10 (28.57%) High Availability
10 10 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
11 9 (25.71%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (25.71%) Data Encryption
11 9 (25.71%) Data Security
12 8 (22.86%) Change Management
13 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (97.14%) Python
2 12 (34.29%) SQL
3 3 (8.57%) Bash
4 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.86%) Ruby
5 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (51.43%) Security Cleared
2 17 (48.57%) Degree
3 16 (45.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (40.00%) SC Cleared
5 13 (37.14%) Master's Degree
6 10 (28.57%) DV Cleared
7 6 (17.14%) Azure Certification
8 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
8 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 32 (91.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (88.57%) Kubernetes
2 24 (68.57%) Grafana
2 24 (68.57%) Prometheus
3 18 (51.43%) Terraform
4 15 (42.86%) Ansible
5 2 (5.71%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.71%) Puppet
6 1 (2.86%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (42.86%) Splunk
2 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
3 7 (20.00%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) VMware