Go Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Go (Golang)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Go skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Go 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 2.73% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 64 61 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 29.09% 30.96% 22.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 48 20
10th Percentile £350 £325 £330
25th Percentile £377 £408 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -13.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile £680 £575 £656
90th Percentile £694 £607 £675
UK median daily rate £510 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -0.20% -2.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £30.50 - -
25th Percentile £37.56 - £30.63
Median hourly rate £44.50 £51.80 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% +65.76% -
75th Percentile - - £37.19
90th Percentile - - £40.38
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +1.46%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Go relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Go job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Go
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Go.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Go

Go
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 27 June 2026. 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
County Antrim - 6 £375 - 12
Go
UK

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google