Go Contracts in the UK excluding London

Go (Golang)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 311 322
Rank change year-on-year +19 +11 -66
Contract jobs citing Go 47 88 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.42% 0.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.28% 1.81% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 60 91
10th Percentile £357 £346 £419
25th Percentile £416 £406 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +5.77%
75th Percentile £734 £575 £650
90th Percentile £750 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £650 £567 £625
% change year-on-year +14.64% -9.28% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £55.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -19.09% -25.68% -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,664 4,867 6,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.64% 23.45% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,419 3,280 4,978
10th Percentile £325 £319 £339
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 397 341
10th Percentile £22.43 £37.63 £24.00
25th Percentile £42.50 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £61.18
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +2.17% +23.54%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.31% +0.83% +20.00%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Go in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Go in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Go in the UK excluding London

Go
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Go in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Go in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Go in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +12 25 £725 +38.76% 124
Yorkshire +14 16 £725 +38.76% 20
South East +33 9 £450 +21.29% 127
North West -6 7 £600 +20.00% 98
East of England - 6 £500 - 41
Scotland +8 4 £513 -21.15% 26
South West +26 2 £700 +28.74% 39
Midlands +19 2 £700 +40.00% 51
West Midlands +15 2 £700 +40.00% 38
North East - 2 £750 - 6
Wales - 1 - - 7
Go
UK

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (17.02%) nginx
2 7 (14.89%) Traefik
3 3 (6.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 31 (65.96%) AWS
2 20 (42.55%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (21.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 10 (21.28%) Amazon ECS
3 10 (21.28%) AWS Fargate
3 10 (21.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (19.15%) Entra ID
5 8 (17.02%) Azure
5 8 (17.02%) GCP
6 4 (8.51%) GitHub
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.13%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.13%) CloudFront
7 1 (2.13%) dbt
7 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.13%) PaaS
7 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.15%) DNS
1 9 (19.15%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.26%) 3GPP
2 2 (4.26%) 4G
2 2 (4.26%) 5G
2 2 (4.26%) Firewall
2 2 (4.26%) Wireless
3 1 (2.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.66%) MongoDB
2 7 (14.89%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (12.77%) NoSQL
4 4 (8.51%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (4.26%) InfluxDB
6 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.13%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 21 (44.68%) Jenkins
2 20 (42.55%) GitLab
3 8 (17.02%) JIRA
4 5 (10.64%) Git
5 2 (4.26%) JMeter
5 2 (4.26%) Postman
5 2 (4.26%) Selenium
6 1 (2.13%) Gradle
6 1 (2.13%) Maven
General
1 10 (21.28%) Public Sector
2 5 (10.64%) Finance
3 4 (8.51%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Military
5 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.13%) Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (44.68%) Senior
2 19 (40.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (31.91%) Senior DevOps
4 13 (27.66%) Developer
5 11 (23.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Senior Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Software Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Lead
9 2 (4.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Software Engineer
10 1 (2.13%) Architect
10 1 (2.13%) C Developer
10 1 (2.13%) Java Developer
10 1 (2.13%) Lead Developer
10 1 (2.13%) Network Engineer
10 1 (2.13%) Senior Architect
10 1 (2.13%) Senior Java Developer
10 1 (2.13%) Senior Software Engineer
10 1 (2.13%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (38.30%) Kafka
2 17 (36.17%) cloud-init
3 9 (19.15%) Keycloak
4 6 (12.77%) RESTful
5 4 (8.51%) React
5 4 (8.51%) REST
6 3 (6.38%) Node.js
6 3 (6.38%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (4.26%) OpenAPI
7 2 (4.26%) POSIX
7 2 (4.26%) Swagger
8 1 (2.13%) GraphQL
8 1 (2.13%) gRPC
8 1 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) PKI
2 5 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.26%) Device Driver
4 2 (4.26%) Replication
5 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (51.06%) Linux
2 18 (38.30%) CentOS
2 18 (38.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 18 (38.30%) Unix
3 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (76.60%) CI/CD
2 32 (68.09%) DevOps
3 24 (51.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (38.30%) Continuous Integration
5 17 (36.17%) Agile
6 11 (23.40%) Containerisation
6 11 (23.40%) Observability
7 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (21.28%) Secrets Management
8 9 (19.15%) Cloud Security
8 9 (19.15%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 9 (19.15%) Identity Management
8 9 (19.15%) Microservices
8 9 (19.15%) Static Application Security Testing
9 7 (14.89%) Mobile Device Management
9 7 (14.89%) Test Automation
10 6 (12.77%) TDD
11 5 (10.64%) BDD
11 5 (10.64%) Computer Science
11 5 (10.64%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 29 (61.70%) Python
2 19 (40.43%) Bash
3 12 (25.53%) Java
4 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.64%) SQL
5 4 (8.51%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.38%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.26%) C
7 2 (4.26%) C++
8 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (44.68%) Security Cleared
2 19 (40.43%) SC Cleared
3 10 (21.28%) AWS Certification
4 5 (10.64%) Degree
5 4 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (6.38%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.15%) NCSC
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.13%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (27.66%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (57.45%) Kubernetes
2 24 (51.06%) Terraform
3 18 (38.30%) Packer
4 16 (34.04%) Grafana
4 16 (34.04%) Prometheus
5 10 (21.28%) linkerd
5 10 (21.28%) Rancher
6 9 (19.15%) Consul
6 9 (19.15%) Istio
6 9 (19.15%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (19.15%) ZABBIX
7 8 (17.02%) HAProxy
8 3 (6.38%) Ansible
9 2 (4.26%) logstash
10 1 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 12 (25.53%) Splunk
2 9 (19.15%) Okta
3 7 (14.89%) Apple
3 7 (14.89%) ESET
4 3 (6.38%) Google
5 2 (4.26%) Oracle
6 1 (2.13%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.13%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (2.13%) Cisco
6 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.13%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.13%) VMware