Go Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Go (Golang)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Go skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 56 73
Rank change year-on-year -19 +17 +30
Contract jobs citing Go 2 12 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.28% 1.86% 0.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.74% 5.19% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - £694 £299
25th Percentile - £713 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +61.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile - £747 £541
90th Percentile - £750 £591
West Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £725 £450
% change year-on-year -20.69% +61.11% -10.00%

All Programming Languages
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 270 231 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 37.29% 35.76% 25.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 157 180
10th Percentile £366 £345 £374
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £620
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - £35.25 £20.00
25th Percentile - £48.75 £20.84
Median hourly rate - £90.42 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +324.28% -69.56%
75th Percentile - £102.00 £31.98
90th Percentile - - £49.99
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £52.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year - +146.36% -69.56%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Go job vacancy trend in Leeds

Go
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Go

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) OCP
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible