Go Contracts in Manchester

Go (Golang)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Go skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Go over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 71 84
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 -55
Contract jobs citing Go 6 25 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.65% 1.65% 1.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.98% 5.56% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 27
10th Percentile - £306 £371
25th Percentile £425 £406 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -28.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £750 £575 £650
90th Percentile - £655 £660
North West median daily rate £600 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +17.07%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 303 450 570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 32.72% 29.66% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 355 442
10th Percentile £375 £343 £339
25th Percentile £400 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £600
90th Percentile £622 £620 £675
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 5
10th Percentile £68.38 - £39.10
25th Percentile £69.69 £52.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.25 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% +55.56% +192.87%
75th Percentile £84.69 £81.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £87.13 £82.90 £59.10
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Go in Manchester

Go
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Go in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Go in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Go in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
1 4 (66.67%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) cloud-init
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) CentOS
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Mob Programming
3 2 (33.33%) Pair Programming
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Secrets Management
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Packer
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Consul
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Istio
2 1 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) linkerd
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Rancher
2 1 (16.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Okta
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk