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DevSecOps Engineer - Python OR Scala OR Typescript OR Golang
Posted 1 week ago by Gravitas Recruitment Group Ltd
The role of DevSecOps Engineer requires a seasoned professional with extensive experience in security engineering and so...
- Rate £625 per day
- Category Inside
- Work type Undetermined
- Location London, UK
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About Our Golang Contract Roles in London
What does a golang contractor do?
Golang (Go) contractors are engaged to build high-performance, scalable back-end services, infrastructure tooling, and cloud-native applications using the Go programming language, which has established a strong position in the UK contracting market particularly within fintech, cloud infrastructure, DevOps tooling, and microservices development. Go's combination of simplicity, performance, and excellent concurrency support makes it particularly well-suited to building APIs and services that must handle high request volumes reliably, and to developing the kind of infrastructure tooling and system software where performance and resource efficiency matter most. Contract engagements typically involve building microservices or APIs, developing internal tooling or platform components, or contributing to open-source or cloud-native infrastructure projects.
Golang contractors are expected to have strong language proficiency including a thorough understanding of Go's concurrency model with goroutines and channels, effective error handling idioms, and the standard library. Experience building RESTful or gRPC APIs, working with common Go frameworks and libraries such as Gin, Echo, or the standard net/http package, and interfacing with databases including PostgreSQL is expected across most back-end Go roles. For cloud infrastructure and DevOps-adjacent roles, experience building tools that interact with Kubernetes, cloud provider APIs, or system-level resources is additionally valuable. Strong software engineering practices including test-driven development using Go's built-in testing package, code review, and CI/CD integration are expected as standard across the Go contracting market.
What is the market like for golang contractors?
Contract Golang work sits within a growing and well-paying specialist segment within the broader back-end development market. Go has achieved strong adoption in fintech, cloud infrastructure tooling, and microservices-heavy architectures, and the UK contracting market for Go expertise has grown considerably over the past five years. The language's use as the implementation language for major cloud-native tools including Docker and Kubernetes has given it strong credibility in the DevOps and platform engineering community, creating a natural overlap between Golang contracting and the broader platform engineering market. Rates for experienced Go contractors sit at or above those for equivalent Python and Java back-end developers, reflecting the more limited supply of Go expertise relative to those mainstream languages.
What is the contracting market like in London?
London dominates the UK contractor market by volume, depth, and rate levels. The capital concentrates the headquarters and major offices of most FTSE 100 companies, the largest global banks, the Big Four professional services firms, and the central government departments that collectively generate the majority of UK contract demand. Every contracting discipline covered on this site has active demand in London, from niche specialisms like threat intelligence and LLM engineering through to high-volume disciplines like project management and business analysis. The sheer density of employers means contractors in London typically have more choice of engagement at any given time than anywhere else in the UK. Day rates carry a premium of 15 to 25 per cent over the national average across most disciplines, reflecting both the concentration of complex, high-value programmes and the cost of operating in the capital.
How much do golang contractors usually earn in London?
Contract rates for golang roles in London typically range from £605 to £1045 per day, depending on the scope of the role, required expertise, and the delivery expectations of the engagement.
How many golang vacancies in London are there on Quality Contracts?
Over the past twelve months, we have tracked over 150 golang contract roles across the site, with London accounting for roughly one in three of those. Data reviewed up to June 2026.