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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 297 335
Rank change year-on-year -3 +38 -86
Contract jobs citing Go 38 81 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.40% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.02% 1.67% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 57 65
10th Percentile £300 £335 £400
25th Percentile £356 £406 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% -2.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £620 £575 £650
90th Percentile £700 £660 £683
UK median daily rate £634 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +10.22% -8.00% +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 £48.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year -7.77% -34.80% +184.62%

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 3,716 4,842 6,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.98% 23.77% 28.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,473 3,270 4,571
10th Percentile £322 £317 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £563 £588 £591
90th Percentile £638 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £518 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -1.62% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 419 326
10th Percentile £27.88 £37.55 £24.31
25th Percentile £44.76 £52.50 £50.01
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +23.10%

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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

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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 24 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 24 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 -8 12 £510 - 568
South East +36 11 £300 -19.14% 666
North West -9 6 £600 +33.33% 302
South West +28 5 £663 +21.84% 280
Yorkshire +7 5 £455 -12.50% 209
Scotland -1 5 £358 -40.33% 114
East of England - 4 £500 - 333
West Midlands +12 2 £700 +40.00% 259
Midlands +9 2 £700 +40.00% 444
North East - 1 £550 - 57
Wales - 1 - - 62
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 4 (10.53%) Confluence
2 3 (7.89%) nginx
3 1 (2.63%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 18 (47.37%) AWS
2 9 (23.68%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (18.42%) Azure
4 6 (15.79%) GCP
5 5 (13.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (7.89%) GitHub
6 3 (7.89%) PaaS
6 3 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.26%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.63%) CloudFront
8 1 (2.63%) dbt
8 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) 3GPP
2 2 (5.26%) 4G
2 2 (5.26%) 5G
2 2 (5.26%) DNS
2 2 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.26%) Wireless
3 1 (2.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (18.42%) NoSQL
3 6 (15.79%) MongoDB
4 3 (7.89%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (5.26%) InfluxDB
5 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.63%) Couchbase
6 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (31.58%) Jenkins
1 12 (31.58%) JIRA
2 9 (23.68%) Git
3 7 (18.42%) GitLab
4 3 (7.89%) Subversion
5 2 (5.26%) Gradle
5 2 (5.26%) JMeter
5 2 (5.26%) Maven
5 2 (5.26%) Postman
5 2 (5.26%) Selenium
General
1 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Finance
2 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.63%) Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Developer
2 10 (26.32%) Senior
3 9 (23.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Senior Developer
4 5 (13.16%) Senior DevOps
4 5 (13.16%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) DevOps Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Lead
7 1 (2.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (26.32%) Kafka
2 7 (18.42%) React
2 7 (18.42%) REST
3 6 (15.79%) RESTful
4 4 (10.53%) cloud-init
4 4 (10.53%) GraphQL
4 4 (10.53%) gRPC
4 4 (10.53%) Node.js
4 4 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (5.26%) Keycloak
5 2 (5.26%) OpenAPI
5 2 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (5.26%) POSIX
5 2 (5.26%) Swagger
6 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.26%) Device Driver
2 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.26%) PKI
2 2 (5.26%) Replication
3 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Linux
2 4 (10.53%) CentOS
2 4 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (10.53%) Unix
3 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) CI/CD
2 19 (50.00%) Agile
3 18 (47.37%) DevOps
4 13 (34.21%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (31.58%) Microservices
6 11 (28.95%) TDD
7 10 (26.32%) Software Engineering
8 9 (23.68%) Containerisation
8 9 (23.68%) SDLC
9 8 (21.05%) BDD
9 8 (21.05%) Test Automation
10 7 (18.42%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (15.79%) Computer Science
11 6 (15.79%) Kanban
11 6 (15.79%) Observability
11 6 (15.79%) Scrum
12 5 (13.16%) Code Quality
13 4 (10.53%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 16 (42.11%) Python
2 13 (34.21%) Java
3 7 (18.42%) Bash
4 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.79%) SQL
4 6 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 4 (10.53%) C++
6 3 (7.89%) C
6 3 (7.89%) Kotlin
7 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.63%) C#
8 1 (2.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 11 (28.95%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.79%) Degree
4 5 (13.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (10.53%) DV Cleared
6 3 (7.89%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) NCSC
2 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.63%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (44.74%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 14 (36.84%) Terraform
3 7 (18.42%) Grafana
4 5 (13.16%) Ansible
4 5 (13.16%) Prometheus
5 4 (10.53%) Packer
6 3 (7.89%) linkerd
6 3 (7.89%) Rancher
7 2 (5.26%) Consul
7 2 (5.26%) HAProxy
7 2 (5.26%) Istio
7 2 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (5.26%) ZABBIX
8 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (2.63%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) CA Agile Central
1 4 (10.53%) Splunk
2 3 (7.89%) AppDynamics
3 2 (5.26%) Okta
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) Apple
4 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco
4 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.63%) ESET
4 1 (2.63%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.63%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.63%) VMware