Go Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Go (Golang)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Go skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Go 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 3.77% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £375 - -

All Programming Languages
Belfast

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 in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 49 56 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 30.82% 30.11% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 43 19
10th Percentile £359 £325 £318
25th Percentile £400 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £492 £475
Median % change year-on-year +32.11% +3.58% +5.56%
75th Percentile £694 £569 £619
90th Percentile - £606 £675
County Antrim median daily rate £650 £492 £475
% change year-on-year +32.11% +3.58% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.75 - -
Median hourly rate £26.50 £51.80 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.84% - -
75th Percentile £27.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £44.50 £51.80 £31.25
% change year-on-year -14.09% +65.76% -

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Go job vacancy trend in Belfast

Go
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Go.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Go

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google