Go Contracts

Go (Golang)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 243 251
Rank change year-on-year -19 +8 -35
Contract jobs citing Go 313 415 581
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 0.96% 1.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.93% 3.12% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 322 400
10th Percentile £350 £406 £463
25th Percentile £463 £482 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £750
90th Percentile £838 £750 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £538 £570
% change year-on-year -16.28% -5.70% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £40.05 £41.93 £66.85
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.69 £69.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £48.25 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -34.80% +184.62%
75th Percentile £54.38 £53.69 £79.25
90th Percentile £57.15 £55.98 £81.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.50

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 10,685 13,291 19,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.55% 30.69% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,205 9,335 13,640
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 537 458
10th Percentile £27.00 £31.25 £30.53
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £78.34 £75.00 £79.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.25 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -4.23% +4.00% +16.82%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in the UK

Go
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Go in the UK

Go
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Go in the UK

Go
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Go.

Hourly rate trend for Go in the UK

Go
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Go over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Go in the UK

Go
Top 15 Contract 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 6 July 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
England -13 253 £550 -4.35% 1,722
London -7 180 £625 +8.70% 1,188
Work from Home -12 124 £650 +8.33% 910
UK excluding London +17 44 £450 -16.28% 631
South East +33 13 £300 -25.00% 143
Scotland +10 10 £429 - 73
North of England -14 10 £450 -18.18% 196
Yorkshire +2 6 £410 -21.53% 46
South West +25 5 £663 +20.45% 79
East of England - 4 £500 - 52
Midlands +15 3 £700 +40.00% 57
West Midlands +9 3 £700 +40.00% 37
North West -7 3 £450 -18.18% 146
North East - 1 £550 - 4
Wales - 1 - - 10

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (6.07%) Apache
2 18 (5.75%) Apache Spark
3 14 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.60%) Confluence
5 3 (0.96%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.64%) nginx
7 1 (0.32%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.32%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.32%) MetaMask
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 198 (63.26%) AWS
2 57 (18.21%) GCP
3 50 (15.97%) Azure
4 36 (11.50%) GitHub
5 35 (11.18%) Serverless
6 30 (9.58%) OpenShift
7 27 (8.63%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (8.63%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (8.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (6.07%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (4.79%) dbt
11 15 (4.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (2.56%) SaaS
13 5 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.60%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (1.28%) Datadog
14 4 (1.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.56%) Firewall
1 8 (2.56%) HTTP
2 7 (2.24%) DNS
3 6 (1.92%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.96%) VPN
5 2 (0.64%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.64%) 4G
5 2 (0.64%) 5G
5 2 (0.64%) MQTT
5 2 (0.64%) Wireless
6 1 (0.32%) DHCP
6 1 (0.32%) LAN
6 1 (0.32%) Network Security
6 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (16.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 28 (8.95%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (4.79%) NoSQL
4 14 (4.47%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (4.47%) Apache Arrow
4 14 (4.47%) Apache Iceberg
4 14 (4.47%) Apache Ignite
4 14 (4.47%) Dremio
5 9 (2.88%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.96%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.96%) Flink
7 3 (0.96%) MySQL
8 2 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.64%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.64%) OLTP
8 2 (0.64%) Redis
8 2 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 46 (14.70%) Jenkins
2 42 (13.42%) Git
3 23 (7.35%) GitLab
4 21 (6.71%) Artifactory
5 18 (5.75%) JIRA
6 9 (2.88%) Liquibase
7 8 (2.56%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.56%) Subversion
8 3 (0.96%) Hardhat
9 2 (0.64%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.64%) Gradle
9 2 (0.64%) JMeter
9 2 (0.64%) Maven
9 2 (0.64%) Mercurial
9 2 (0.64%) Postman
9 2 (0.64%) Selenium
10 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.32%) Snyk
10 1 (0.32%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.32%) Vagrant
General
1 60 (19.17%) Finance
2 53 (16.93%) Social Skills
3 28 (8.95%) Front Office
4 16 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.15%) Banking
6 9 (2.88%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.60%) Marketing
8 5 (1.60%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.28%) Retail
10 3 (0.96%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.96%) Multimedia
10 3 (0.96%) Publishing
11 2 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.64%) Electronics
11 2 (0.64%) Games
11 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 108 (34.50%) Developer
2 57 (18.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 57 (18.21%) Senior
3 41 (13.10%) Software Engineer
4 35 (11.18%) AWS Engineer
5 28 (8.95%) Python Engineer
6 25 (7.99%) AWS DevOps
7 23 (7.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 21 (6.71%) Lead
9 18 (5.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 16 (5.11%) Architect
10 16 (5.11%) Site Engineer
11 14 (4.47%) Backend Developer
11 14 (4.47%) Data Engineer
12 13 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.15%) Senior Developer
13 12 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.83%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 10 (3.19%) Lead Developer
15 8 (2.56%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (33.23%) Kafka
2 58 (18.53%) gRPC
3 32 (10.22%) React
4 31 (9.90%) Node.js
5 29 (9.27%) GraphQL
6 23 (7.35%) REST
7 17 (5.43%) RESTful
8 14 (4.47%) J2EE
8 14 (4.47%) PySpark
9 12 (3.83%) Redux
10 11 (3.51%) OAuth
11 10 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (2.88%) AWS CDK
12 9 (2.88%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (2.24%) OAuth2
13 7 (2.24%) OpenAPI
13 7 (2.24%) Swagger
14 4 (1.28%) AngularJS
14 4 (1.28%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 62 (19.81%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (10.86%) Cloud Native
3 20 (6.39%) Public Cloud
4 14 (4.47%) Fixed Income
5 10 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.92%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.92%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.60%) Blockchain
8 5 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.28%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (1.28%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.96%) Blog
10 3 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.96%) Podcast
10 3 (0.96%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.96%) TWAP
10 3 (0.96%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.90%) Linux
2 4 (1.28%) Unix
3 3 (0.96%) CentOS
3 3 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.96%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.64%) Debian
4 2 (0.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (45.37%) CI/CD
2 133 (42.49%) Software Engineering
3 119 (38.02%) DevOps
4 96 (30.67%) Microservices
5 91 (29.07%) Agile
6 76 (24.28%) Infrastructure as Code
7 75 (23.96%) Open Source
8 49 (15.65%) Containerisation
9 41 (13.10%) Observability
9 41 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (12.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 36 (11.50%) Test Automation
12 33 (10.54%) Continuous Integration
13 28 (8.95%) Configuration Management
14 26 (8.31%) Mentoring
14 26 (8.31%) TDD
15 25 (7.99%) Full-Stack Development
15 25 (7.99%) Scrum
16 21 (6.71%) SDLC
17 20 (6.39%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 175 (55.91%) Python
2 102 (32.59%) Java
3 47 (15.02%) JavaScript
4 44 (14.06%) Bash
5 28 (8.95%) SQL
5 28 (8.95%) TypeScript
6 25 (7.99%) C++
7 13 (4.15%) C#
8 12 (3.83%) PowerShell
9 11 (3.51%) C
10 10 (3.19%) Kotlin
11 9 (2.88%) Perl
12 8 (2.56%) Groovy
13 7 (2.24%) Rust
14 5 (1.60%) PHP
14 5 (1.60%) Scala
15 3 (0.96%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.96%) Ruby
15 3 (0.96%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.64%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 39 (12.46%) Security Cleared
2 27 (8.63%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.75%) Degree
4 17 (5.43%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.28%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.28%) CCNP
6 4 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.96%) CCNA
8 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.64%) CSSLP
8 2 (0.64%) GIAC
8 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.64%) OCA
8 2 (0.64%) OCP
8 2 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.32%) GPEN
9 1 (0.32%) GWAPT
9 1 (0.32%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.92%) GDPR
2 4 (1.28%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.64%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.64%) QA
3 2 (0.64%) SLA
3 2 (0.64%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.32%) GRC
4 1 (0.32%) NCSC
4 1 (0.32%) NIST
4 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 130 (41.53%) Docker
2 4 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 191 (61.02%) Kubernetes
2 107 (34.19%) Terraform
3 48 (15.34%) Ansible
4 43 (13.74%) Grafana
5 38 (12.14%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.83%) Puppet
7 8 (2.56%) Podman
8 7 (2.24%) Istio
9 5 (1.60%) Kibana
10 4 (1.28%) Packer
11 3 (0.96%) Argo
11 3 (0.96%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.64%) Consul
12 2 (0.64%) linkerd
13 1 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.32%) Graphite
13 1 (0.32%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.32%) logstash
13 1 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (6.07%) Splunk
2 16 (5.11%) Google
3 9 (2.88%) Oracle
4 6 (1.92%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (1.92%) Hitachi
5 4 (1.28%) VMware
6 3 (0.96%) AppDynamics
6 3 (0.96%) Cisco
6 3 (0.96%) Microsoft
6 3 (0.96%) MuleSoft
6 3 (0.96%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.64%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.64%) Foundry
7 2 (0.64%) Monzo
7 2 (0.64%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.64%) SAP
8 1 (0.32%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.32%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.32%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.32%) Tenable