Go Contracts in the South West

Go (Golang)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 120 129
Rank change year-on-year +13 +9 +20
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Go 5 18 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.26% 0.65% 0.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.19% 2.68% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 13
10th Percentile £538 £501 £506
25th Percentile £556 £519 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -12.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £644 £575 £688
90th Percentile £666 £628 £738
England median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 South West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 420 672 933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 21.75% 24.23% 27.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 422 638
10th Percentile £313 £375 £371
25th Percentile £400 £430 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £528 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +2.93% -2.38%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £636
90th Percentile £649 £687 £713
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 91 75
10th Percentile £61.55 £65.00 £47.98
25th Percentile £65.00 £66.64 £60.83
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £70.30
90th Percentile £78.22 £78.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £62.17
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.55% +13.04%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in the South West

Go
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Go

Go
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucestershire +12 2 £625 +13.64% 12
Bristol -1 2 £638 +21.43% 8
Wiltshire - 1 £550 - 1
Go
England

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (40.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 2 (40.00%) Vue
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) LLM
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) C++
3 2 (40.00%) Bash
3 2 (40.00%) C
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Podman
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Argo