Go Contracts in the North West

Go (Golang)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Go skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Go over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 118 51
Rank change year-on-year +7 -67 +53
Contract jobs citing Go 25 45 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.93% 1.42% 4.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.71% 4.84% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 33 114
10th Percentile £306 £383 £400
25th Percentile £406 £426 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +17.07% +26.54%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £625
90th Percentile £655 - £644
England median daily rate £567 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -9.28% +8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
England median hourly rate £48.25 £74.00 -
% change year-on-year -34.80% - -

All Programming Languages
North West

Go is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 674 930 1,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.97% 29.32% 34.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 695 1,078
10th Percentile £325 £325 £318
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +22.32%
75th Percentile £538 £589 £588
90th Percentile £612 £658 £663
England median daily rate £541 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.92% +2.33% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 30
10th Percentile £38.68 £24.76 £14.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £37.80 £16.83
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.80 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% +27.75% +11.67%
75th Percentile £71.87 £53.84 £55.63
90th Percentile £80.82 £65.88 £60.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £50.10
% change year-on-year +4.17% +19.76% +15.17%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Go in the North West

Go
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Go in the North West

Go
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in the North West over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Go in the North West

Go
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the North West region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
Manchester +10 24 £431 -29.59% 20
Lancashire 0 1 £650 +8.33% 1
Go
England

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (16.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) nginx
2 2 (8.00%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 18 (72.00%) AWS
2 8 (32.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (32.00%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (32.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (24.00%) Amazon ELB
3 6 (24.00%) Snowflake
4 5 (20.00%) Azure
4 5 (20.00%) GCP
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (12.00%) Serverless
6 2 (8.00%) GitHub
6 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) DNS
2 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Data Lake
1 6 (24.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (12.00%) MySQL
2 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Git
2 6 (24.00%) SonarQube
3 4 (16.00%) GitLab
4 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (12.00%) Retail
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Developer
2 10 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Senior
5 4 (16.00%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Site Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Lead
8 1 (4.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) cloud-init
1 2 (8.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (12.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (8.00%) Clustering
4 2 (8.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) CentOS
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 15 (60.00%) DevOps
2 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (24.00%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (24.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (20.00%) Migration
5 4 (16.00%) Configuration Management
5 4 (16.00%) Data Migration
5 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 4 (16.00%) Microservices
6 3 (12.00%) Agile
6 3 (12.00%) Code Quality
6 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (12.00%) E-Commerce
6 3 (12.00%) Identity Management
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (12.00%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (12.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Python
2 9 (36.00%) SQL
3 8 (32.00%) Bash
4 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (16.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.00%) Ruby
6 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) ISO 22301
1 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (8.00%) NCSC
2 2 (8.00%) NIST
2 2 (8.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (8.00%) QA
System Software
1 14 (56.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (52.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (48.00%) Terraform
3 10 (40.00%) Ansible
4 6 (24.00%) HP Fortify
5 2 (8.00%) Consul
5 2 (8.00%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (8.00%) Graphite
5 2 (8.00%) HAProxy
5 2 (8.00%) Istio
5 2 (8.00%) linkerd
5 2 (8.00%) Packer
5 2 (8.00%) Podman
5 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (8.00%) Puppet
5 2 (8.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Splunk
2 3 (12.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (12.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (8.00%) PagerDuty
3 2 (8.00%) VMware