Go Contract Job Trends

Go (Golang)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Go skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 271 271
Rank change year-on-year -35 0 -30
Contract jobs citing Go 349 285 373
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.97% 0.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.71% 2.85% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 198 287
10th Percentile £369 £422 £403
25th Percentile £489 £513 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £650 £567
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +14.64% -9.28%
75th Percentile £697 £738 £675
90th Percentile £800 £838 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £32.65 £39.65 -
25th Percentile £35.88 £40.25 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £44.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% - -
75th Percentile £52.00 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £56.95 £49.35 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,864 9,995 12,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 27.53% 34.04% 29.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,524 6,772 9,114
10th Percentile £352 £359 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £767 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £487
% change year-on-year -0.70% -1.82% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 247 487
10th Percentile £41.94 £22.49 £31.25
25th Percentile £54.55 £33.91 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £79.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -

Go
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Go relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Go job vacancy trend in the UK

Go
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Go

Go
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Go in the UK

Go
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Go.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Go

Go
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Go over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Go in the UK

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Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 April 2026. 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
England -31 312 £550 -17.14% 121
London -70 163 £625 -7.41% 65
Work from Home -15 122 £688 +1.85% 196
UK excluding London -15 118 £500 -9.09% 64
South East -27 46 £385 -14.44% 19
North of England -61 32 £500 -31.03% 20
South West -9 23 £550 -21.43% 12
West Midlands -38 21 £550 -21.43% 3
Midlands -38 21 £550 -21.43% 7
Yorkshire -58 18 £460 -36.55% 8
North West -30 12 £508 -15.33% 11
Scotland +10 5 £358 -30.15%
East of England -37 3 £500 - 3
North East -18 2 £581 -22.50% 1

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.15%) nginx
1 4 (1.15%) OpenStack
2 3 (0.86%) Apache
3 2 (0.57%) Camunda
4 1 (0.29%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 206 (59.03%) AWS
2 82 (23.50%) Azure
3 77 (22.06%) GCP
4 58 (16.62%) GitHub
5 39 (11.17%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (7.16%) Serverless
7 18 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (4.30%) OpenShift
9 14 (4.01%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (4.01%) Amazon S3
9 14 (4.01%) SaaS
10 13 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.72%) CloudFront
10 13 (3.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 12 (3.44%) Datadog
12 11 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.15%) DNS
2 9 (2.58%) Network Security
3 6 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.72%) VPN
4 4 (1.15%) Firewall
5 3 (0.86%) HTTP
5 3 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.57%) SSH
6 2 (0.57%) X.509
7 1 (0.29%) DHCP
7 1 (0.29%) ICMP
7 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.29%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.29%) SSL
7 1 (0.29%) VLAN
7 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.04%) Apache Cassandra
2 32 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (3.72%) NoSQL
5 12 (3.44%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (2.87%) MySQL
6 10 (2.87%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.29%) Redis
8 5 (1.43%) InfluxDB
9 4 (1.15%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.86%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.86%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.57%) Flink
11 2 (0.57%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.57%) Weaviate
12 1 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 51 (14.61%) Jenkins
2 43 (12.32%) Git
3 41 (11.75%) GitLab
4 11 (3.15%) JIRA
5 10 (2.87%) CircleCI
6 7 (2.01%) Jaeger
6 7 (2.01%) JUnit
6 7 (2.01%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.15%) Liquibase
7 4 (1.15%) Mockito
7 4 (1.15%) Vite
8 3 (0.86%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.86%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.86%) JMeter
8 3 (0.86%) Postman
8 3 (0.86%) Selenium
9 2 (0.57%) Ant
9 2 (0.57%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.57%) Gradle
9 2 (0.57%) Maven
General
1 67 (19.20%) Finance
2 44 (12.61%) Social Skills
3 34 (9.74%) Front Office
4 29 (8.31%) Banking
5 24 (6.88%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.72%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.86%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.86%) Law
9 2 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.57%) Electronics
9 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.57%) Games
9 2 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.29%) Automotive
10 1 (0.29%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 126 (36.10%) Developer
2 93 (26.65%) Senior
3 92 (26.36%) Software Engineer
4 43 (12.32%) Senior Developer
5 41 (11.75%) DevOps Engineer
6 37 (10.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 36 (10.32%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 35 (10.03%) Lead
9 29 (8.31%) Site Engineer
10 21 (6.02%) Java Developer
10 21 (6.02%) Lead Developer
11 20 (5.73%) Lead Software Developer
11 20 (5.73%) Lead Software Engineer
12 19 (5.44%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (4.87%) Python Developer
14 13 (3.72%) GCP Engineer
14 13 (3.72%) Java Engineer
14 13 (3.72%) Senior Software Engineer
15 12 (3.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 12 (3.44%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (33.81%) Kafka
2 60 (17.19%) gRPC
3 57 (16.33%) Node.js
4 49 (14.04%) React
5 43 (12.32%) GraphQL
6 35 (10.03%) Redux
7 27 (7.74%) REST
8 24 (6.88%) RESTful
9 22 (6.30%) .NET
10 19 (5.44%) Spring Boot
11 18 (5.16%) OpenTelemetry
11 18 (5.16%) Spring
12 14 (4.01%) AngularJS
12 14 (4.01%) OAuth
12 14 (4.01%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (3.44%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (3.15%) Vue
15 10 (2.87%) SAML
16 9 (2.58%) OpenID
17 8 (2.29%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 109 (31.23%) Distributed Systems
2 58 (16.62%) Cloud Native
3 32 (9.17%) Fixed Income
4 14 (4.01%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.01%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.72%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.72%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.72%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.43%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.86%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.86%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.86%) PKI
9 3 (0.86%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (12.03%) Linux
2 14 (4.01%) Windows
3 8 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.29%) Unix
4 7 (2.01%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.43%) Debian
6 4 (1.15%) VMS
7 3 (0.86%) Rocky
8 1 (0.29%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (45.56%) Software Engineering
2 154 (44.13%) CI/CD
3 109 (31.23%) DevOps
3 109 (31.23%) Microservices
4 83 (23.78%) Agile
4 83 (23.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 80 (22.92%) Containerisation
6 78 (22.35%) Observability
7 68 (19.48%) Open Source
8 60 (17.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 53 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (9.74%) Investment Management
11 32 (9.17%) Order Management
11 32 (9.17%) Portfolio Management
12 30 (8.60%) Full-Stack Development
12 30 (8.60%) Platform Engineering
13 26 (7.45%) High Availability
14 25 (7.16%) Event-Driven
15 24 (6.88%) AI
16 22 (6.30%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 202 (57.88%) Python
2 134 (38.40%) Java
3 54 (15.47%) JavaScript
4 51 (14.61%) TypeScript
5 40 (11.46%) Bash
6 30 (8.60%) SQL
7 22 (6.30%) PowerShell
8 19 (5.44%) C#
9 10 (2.87%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.72%) Scala
11 5 (1.43%) Ruby
12 4 (1.15%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.15%) PHP
13 3 (0.86%) Rust
14 2 (0.57%) Bicep
14 2 (0.57%) C-shell
14 2 (0.57%) Cypher
14 2 (0.57%) Groovy
14 2 (0.57%) Haskell
14 2 (0.57%) Korn
Qualifications
1 76 (21.78%) Security Cleared
2 66 (18.91%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.30%) DV Cleared
4 14 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (4.01%) Degree
5 11 (3.15%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.15%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.86%) CREST Certified
8 3 (0.86%) GPEN
8 3 (0.86%) OSCE
8 3 (0.86%) OSCP
9 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.57%) GWAPT
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.29%) CRISC
10 1 (0.29%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.29%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.87%) QA
2 7 (2.01%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.72%) GDPR
4 4 (1.15%) GRC
4 4 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.15%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.86%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.86%) SLA
6 2 (0.57%) NCSC
6 2 (0.57%) NIST
7 1 (0.29%) DICOM
7 1 (0.29%) HL7
System Software
1 134 (38.40%) Docker
2 3 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.57%) Ceph
3 2 (0.57%) OpenSSH
3 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) KVM
Systems Management
1 186 (53.30%) Kubernetes
2 103 (29.51%) Terraform
3 68 (19.48%) Grafana
4 64 (18.34%) Prometheus
5 38 (10.89%) Ansible
6 12 (3.44%) Argo
6 12 (3.44%) Istio
7 6 (1.72%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.72%) Rancher
8 4 (1.15%) Puppet
9 3 (0.86%) linkerd
10 2 (0.57%) Consul
10 2 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.57%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.57%) Kibana
10 2 (0.57%) logstash
10 2 (0.57%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.29%) Control-M
11 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (6.02%) Google
2 20 (5.73%) Splunk
3 8 (2.29%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.01%) Dynatrace
4 7 (2.01%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.43%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.15%) Okta
6 4 (1.15%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.15%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.15%) SAP
7 3 (0.86%) AppDynamics
7 3 (0.86%) Checkmarx
7 3 (0.86%) Oracle
7 3 (0.86%) VMware
8 2 (0.57%) Blue Prism
8 2 (0.57%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.57%) Qualys
8 2 (0.57%) UiPath
9 1 (0.29%) Black Duck
9 1 (0.29%) CA Agile Central