Go Contract Job Trends in the North West

Go (Golang)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Go skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 111 104
Rank change year-on-year -13 -7 -16
Contract jobs citing Go 6 6 44
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.28% 0.25% 1.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.05% 1.17% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 35
10th Percentile £338 £286 -
25th Percentile £506 £303 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £325
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +53.85% -37.80%
75th Percentile £606 £576 £515
90th Percentile £618 £636 £641
England median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%

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 574 514 786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.38% 21.65% 27.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 326 577
10th Percentile £313 £327 £325
25th Percentile £360 £376 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £588
90th Percentile £612 £613 £675
England median daily rate £515 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.50% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 40
10th Percentile £28.56 £37.55 £45.07
25th Percentile £41.94 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £49.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% +6.11% -20.00%
75th Percentile £84.50 £73.00 £59.06
90th Percentile £95.45 £90.00 £74.33
England median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year -13.46% +1.56% +6.67%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Go.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Go

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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 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Go in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Go.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Go

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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 October 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 -3 6 £600 +4.35% 16
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 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Datadog
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (33.33%) Pulumi
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) GitLab
2 3 (50.00%) Git
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CDK
2 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) React
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (16.67%) Open Source
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 3 (50.00%) Perl
3 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Packer
3 2 (33.33%) Grafana
3 2 (33.33%) Prometheus