Go Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Go (Golang)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Go skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 34 27
Rank change year-on-year -10 -7 -
Contract jobs citing Go 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.53% 1.01% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.62% 3.23% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.67% - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £695 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £520 £750 -
% change year-on-year -30.67% - -

All Programming Languages
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 89 62 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 27.30% 31.31% 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 37 20
10th Percentile £390 £320 £219
25th Percentile £400 £358 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £474
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.01% -15.78%
75th Percentile £565 £550 £533
90th Percentile £575 £638 £621
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £440 £473
% change year-on-year +7.95% -6.88% -14.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £39.40 - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £52.50 - -

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Go job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Go
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Go.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Go

Go
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Go in Newcastle upon Tyne

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 4 (80.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) Git
3 2 (40.00%) GitLab
4 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (60.00%) TDD
4 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (20.00%) AI
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (20.00%) QA Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
5 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Validation
5 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Bash
3 3 (60.00%) Perl
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (60.00%) Ansible
4 2 (40.00%) Grafana
4 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Blue Prism
1 1 (20.00%) UiPath