Go Contracts in Scotland

Go (Golang)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 117 160
Rank change year-on-year +6 +43 +14
Contract jobs citing Go 5 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.31% 0.33% 0.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.77% 1.17% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £320 - -
25th Percentile £350 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -40.33% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £525 £625 £538
90th Percentile £533 - -
UK median daily rate £638 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +10.87% -8.00% +8.70%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 646 598 905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.53% 28.45% 33.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 397 642
10th Percentile £310 £353 £406
25th Percentile £411 £413 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £475 £491
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% -3.31% +2.34%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £555
90th Percentile £575 £638 £660
UK median daily rate £520 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -1.14% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 12
10th Percentile £19.82 £29.60 £48.08
25th Percentile £21.00 £41.31 £55.00
Median hourly rate £22.88 £57.50 £59.79
Median % change year-on-year -60.22% -3.83% +34.36%
75th Percentile £34.29 £60.75 £67.81
90th Percentile £62.00 £62.50 £69.88
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year -0.80% +2.97% +20.56%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in Scotland

Go
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Go in Scotland

Go
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in Scotland over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Go in Scotland

Go
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 22 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
Glasgow -5 4 £354 - 10
Edinburgh +10 1 £500 -16.67% 19
Go
UK

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (60.00%) PaaS
4 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) CloudFront
5 1 (20.00%) GCP
5 1 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Gradle
2 2 (40.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Fintech
4 1 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) RBAC
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) HAProxy
3 1 (20.00%) linkerd
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft