Go Contracts in the North of England

Go (Golang)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 30 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 151 151
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -32
Contract jobs citing Go 19 20 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.49% 0.47% 0.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.79% 1.88% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 28
10th Percentile £384 £500 £323
25th Percentile £420 £510 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £568 £510
Median % change year-on-year -20.70% +11.27% -2.39%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £638
90th Percentile £600 £675 £658
England median daily rate £550 £578 £625
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.25 £48.25 £82.50
% change year-on-year +4.15% -41.52% +217.31%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,064 1,066 1,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.23% 24.91% 26.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 763 758 1,028
10th Percentile £313 £325 £363
25th Percentile £375 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £485 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.50% +2.65%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £625
90th Percentile £600 £638 £688
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 34 35
10th Percentile £29.28 £37.50 £28.26
25th Percentile £36.82 £42.41 £37.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £53.75 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +30.23% +16.39% +26.87%
75th Percentile £87.69 £71.78 £51.19
90th Percentile £95.36 £81.85 £64.50
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%

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

Go
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

Go
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 30 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Go in the North of England

Go
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 30 July 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
Yorkshire 0 14 £450 -13.88% 12
North West -5 3 £450 -30.77% 37
North East - 2 £563 - 4
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 3 (15.79%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) AWS
2 12 (63.16%) GCP
3 8 (42.11%) Serverless
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) Liquibase
2 7 (36.84%) GitLab
2 7 (36.84%) Jenkins
3 4 (21.05%) Git
3 4 (21.05%) JIRA
General
1 12 (63.16%) Finance
2 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
3 7 (36.84%) Banking
4 6 (31.58%) Financial Institution
5 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Senior
3 4 (21.05%) Python Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Software Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (10.53%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) GCP Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Python Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) Elastic Stack
1 8 (42.11%) RESTful
2 7 (36.84%) REST
3 2 (10.53%) React
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) Cloud Native
2 8 (42.11%) Public Cloud
3 6 (31.58%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) DevOps
2 14 (73.68%) CI/CD
3 10 (52.63%) Software Engineering
4 9 (47.37%) Agile
4 9 (47.37%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure Automation
5 8 (42.11%) Containerisation
5 8 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (42.11%) Microservices
6 6 (31.58%) Change Management
6 6 (31.58%) Computer Science
6 6 (31.58%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (31.58%) Cost Optimisation
6 6 (31.58%) Data Security
6 6 (31.58%) High Availability
6 6 (31.58%) Non-Functional Testing
6 6 (31.58%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (26.32%) Cryptography
8 3 (15.79%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) Python
2 10 (52.63%) Java
3 4 (21.05%) Bash
3 4 (21.05%) Kotlin
3 4 (21.05%) Perl
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (31.58%) Degree
1 6 (31.58%) Master's Degree
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) AWS Certification
2 5 (26.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (78.95%) Terraform
2 13 (68.42%) Ansible
2 13 (68.42%) Kubernetes
3 8 (42.11%) Grafana
3 8 (42.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Splunk
2 6 (31.58%) Google
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft