Go Contracts in the North of England

Go (Golang)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Go skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Go over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 166 83
Rank change year-on-year +26 -83 +66
Contract jobs citing Go 38 52 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.79% 0.89% 2.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.15% 3.02% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 40 132
10th Percentile £376 £398 £400
25th Percentile £406 £426 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +17.07% +26.54%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £625
90th Percentile £650 - £644
England median daily rate £571 £625 £570
% change year-on-year -8.64% +9.65% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
England median hourly rate - £74.00 -

All Programming Languages
North of England

Go is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,205 1,721 2,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.17% 29.42% 31.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,287 1,756
10th Percentile £319 £338 £325
25th Percentile £400 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £498
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +3.02% +17.06%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 29 44
10th Percentile £37.63 £29.48 £14.25
25th Percentile £43.57 £37.80 £19.66
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year - +19.56% +52.80%
75th Percentile £66.25 £63.75 £50.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £59.63
England median hourly rate £62.43 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -0.12% +25.00% +16.46%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Go in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Go in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Go in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Go in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the North of England region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
North West -2 28 £550 -8.33% 32
Yorkshire +34 10 £525 +31.25% 6
Go
England

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (15.79%) nginx
2 4 (10.53%) Confluence
3 3 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (7.89%) Jupyter
4 2 (5.26%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 22 (57.89%) AWS
2 10 (26.32%) GCP
3 9 (23.68%) Azure
4 8 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (15.79%) Amazon ELB
5 6 (15.79%) Snowflake
6 4 (10.53%) CloudBees
6 4 (10.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
7 3 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (7.89%) GitHub
7 3 (7.89%) Serverless
8 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.26%) OpenShift
8 2 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.63%) Anthos
9 1 (2.63%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) DNS
2 3 (7.89%) Firewall
3 2 (5.26%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.63%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) Data Lake
1 6 (15.79%) DynamoDB
1 6 (15.79%) NoSQL
2 4 (10.53%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 3 (7.89%) ClickHouse
3 3 (7.89%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (34.21%) Git
2 9 (23.68%) Jenkins
3 7 (18.42%) GitLab
4 6 (15.79%) SonarQube
5 3 (7.89%) JIRA
6 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 4 (10.53%) Finance
1 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (34.21%) Developer
3 7 (18.42%) Senior
3 7 (18.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (13.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Site Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) Apache Beam
1 3 (7.89%) Kafka
1 3 (7.89%) Keycloak
2 2 (5.26%) cloud-init
2 2 (5.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.26%) Clustering
4 2 (5.26%) PKI
4 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.05%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Unix
3 2 (5.26%) CentOS
3 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (68.42%) DevOps
2 25 (65.79%) CI/CD
3 16 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (28.95%) Containerisation
5 10 (26.32%) Agile
5 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (21.05%) Configuration Management
7 7 (18.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (15.79%) Migration
8 6 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (10.53%) Cloud Operations
10 4 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (10.53%) Data Migration
10 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Management
10 4 (10.53%) Microservices
10 4 (10.53%) Open Source
11 3 (7.89%) Code Quality
11 3 (7.89%) Design Patterns
11 3 (7.89%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 26 (68.42%) Python
2 11 (28.95%) Bash
3 9 (23.68%) Java
3 9 (23.68%) SQL
4 8 (21.05%) Ruby
5 5 (13.16%) JavaScript
5 5 (13.16%) PowerShell
6 4 (10.53%) Groovy
6 4 (10.53%) Scala
6 4 (10.53%) TypeScript
7 3 (7.89%) C++
7 3 (7.89%) Perl
8 1 (2.63%) C
8 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) ISO 22301
1 3 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.26%) NCSC
2 2 (5.26%) NIST
2 2 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 20 (52.63%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 18 (47.37%) Terraform
3 16 (42.11%) Ansible
4 6 (15.79%) HP Fortify
5 3 (7.89%) Grafana
5 3 (7.89%) Istio
5 3 (7.89%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.26%) Consul
6 2 (5.26%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (5.26%) Graphite
6 2 (5.26%) HAProxy
6 2 (5.26%) linkerd
6 2 (5.26%) Packer
6 2 (5.26%) Podman
6 2 (5.26%) Puppet
6 2 (5.26%) ZABBIX
7 1 (2.63%) Kiali
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) Splunk
2 3 (7.89%) Atlassian
2 3 (7.89%) Salesforce
2 3 (7.89%) VMware
3 2 (5.26%) PagerDuty
3 2 (5.26%) Red Hat