Go Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Go (Golang)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Go skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 34 31
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -
Contract jobs citing Go 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.44% 0.44% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.22% 3.13% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 £275 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £300 -
Median % change year-on-year +91.67% - -
75th Percentile £588 £325 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £588 £403 £325
% change year-on-year +45.96% +23.85% -35.00%

All Programming Languages
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 45 32 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 19.65% 14.10% 27.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 13 34
10th Percentile £281 £206 £233
25th Percentile £370 £275 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £469
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -14.67% -8.54%
75th Percentile £508 £448 £559
90th Percentile £616 £603 £563
North West median daily rate £430 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% -10.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.00% -
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £49.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +51.55% +6.11% -12.41%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Go job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Go
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Go

Go
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 9 November 2025. 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
Liverpool -2 1 £575 +91.67% 2
Go
North West

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform