Go Contracts in the South West

Go (Golang)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 130 160
Rank change year-on-year -1 +30 -29
Contract jobs citing Go 19 43 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.60% 1.18% 0.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.04% 4.04% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 33 11
10th Percentile £479 £508 £450
25th Percentile £519 - £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -6.38% +39.88%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £630
90th Percentile £688 £695 £800
England median daily rate £571 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -8.64% +8.70% +9.52%

All Programming Languages
South 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 South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 625 1,065 1,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 19.60% 29.15% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 763 776
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £628
England median daily rate £540 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -4.26% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 98 69
10th Percentile £40.00 £49.90 £46.62
25th Percentile £53.13 £57.33 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.14 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% +4.00% +37.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.70 £75.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +14.94%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in the South West

Go
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Go in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in the South West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Go in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Gloucestershire +5 14 £550 -4.35% 2
Bristol +15 4 £494 -19.39% 12
Somerset - 1 £350 - 1
Go
England

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon S3
2 6 (31.58%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (31.58%) Serverless
3 5 (26.32%) OpenShift
4 3 (15.79%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.26%) Azure
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) Network Security
2 5 (26.32%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (31.58%) InfluxDB
1 6 (31.58%) Relational Database
2 4 (21.05%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (73.68%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) GitLab
General
1 2 (10.53%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Site Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.26%) gRPC
2 1 (5.26%) JCE
2 1 (5.26%) Next.js
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) DevOps
2 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 7 (36.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (31.58%) Configuration Management
4 6 (31.58%) Event-Driven
4 6 (31.58%) Observability
4 6 (31.58%) Service Management
5 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Full Stack Development
6 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (15.79%) Microservices
7 2 (10.53%) BDD
7 2 (10.53%) TDD
7 2 (10.53%) Technical Debt
8 1 (5.26%) Architectural Design
8 1 (5.26%) Containerisation
8 1 (5.26%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) Java
2 14 (73.68%) Python
3 10 (52.63%) SQL
4 5 (26.32%) C
4 5 (26.32%) Shell Script
5 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (73.68%) DV Cleared
1 14 (73.68%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (89.47%) Terraform
2 14 (73.68%) Kubernetes
3 11 (57.89%) Ansible
3 11 (57.89%) Grafana
3 11 (57.89%) Prometheus
4 7 (36.84%) Progress Chef
5 5 (26.32%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (5.26%) rkt