Go Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Go (Golang)
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim 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 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Go 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 3.28% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £375 - -

All Programming Languages
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 56 56 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 30.60% 26.54% 24.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 43 19
10th Percentile £341 £325 £318
25th Percentile £373 £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
Northern Ireland median daily rate £650 £492 £538
% change year-on-year +32.11% -8.47% +19.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £30.50 - -
25th Percentile £37.56 - £30.63
Median hourly rate £44.50 £51.80 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% +65.76% -
75th Percentile - - £31.88
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £44.50 £51.80 £31.25
% change year-on-year -14.09% +65.76% -

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Go job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Go
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Go.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Go

Go
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 21 July 2026. 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
Belfast - 6 £375 - 3
Go
Northern Ireland

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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