Go Contracts in South Wales

Go (Golang)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - 55
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing Go 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.42% - 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.69% - 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £300
25th Percentile - - £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £400
75th Percentile - - £500
90th Percentile - - £560
Wales median daily rate - - £485

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 59 96 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 24.58% 28.74% 26.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 76 103
10th Percentile £216 £338 £331
25th Percentile £322 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £551 £625
90th Percentile £588 £600 £663
Wales median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 2
10th Percentile £20.12 £15.51 £17.18
25th Percentile £21.06 £16.98 £17.48
Median hourly rate £23.00 £21.49 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +7.05% +14.19% -9.33%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.96 £19.81
90th Percentile £48.50 £39.56 £19.91
Wales median hourly rate £26.13 £21.49 £18.82
% change year-on-year +21.60% +14.19% -9.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in South Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Go in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 4 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
Cardiff - 1 - - 5
Go
Wales

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG