Go Contracts in the North West

Go (Golang)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 113 110 111
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -62
Contract jobs citing Go 7 27 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.98% 1.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.30% 3.92% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 20 35
10th Percentile - £306 £389
25th Percentile £425 £406 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +17.07%
75th Percentile £750 £575 £650
90th Percentile - £653 -
England median daily rate £665 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +15.65% -8.00% +8.70%
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 £44.50 £55.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -19.09% -25.68% -

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 537 689 929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.29% 25.01% 29.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 516 700
10th Percentile £359 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £540 £544 £594
90th Percentile £625 £613 £651
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 32 14
10th Percentile £55.75 £41.25 £20.46
25th Percentile £65.25 £44.72 £37.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%
75th Percentile £86.00 £69.53 £51.93
90th Percentile £87.10 £80.15 £62.95
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Go in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Go in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Manchester -2 6 £600 +33.33% 81
Go
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) GitLab
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
1 4 (57.14%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) cloud-init
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) CentOS
2 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Mob Programming
4 2 (28.57%) Pair Programming
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 1 (14.29%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (14.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
5 1 (14.29%) Observability
5 1 (14.29%) Secrets Management
5 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Service-Level Objective
5 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Bash
3 3 (42.86%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) Kotlin
5 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Packer
3 2 (28.57%) Grafana
3 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (14.29%) Consul
4 1 (14.29%) Istio
4 1 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (14.29%) linkerd
4 1 (14.29%) Rancher
4 1 (14.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Okta
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk