Go Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Go (Golang)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Go skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Go 40 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 6.35% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 31 0 0
10th Percentile £388 - -
25th Percentile £444 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £537 - -
90th Percentile £675 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Programming Languages
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 280 149 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 44.44% 34.49% 28.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 103 69
10th Percentile £325 £400 £400
25th Percentile £400 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £534 £587
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% -9.10% +6.81%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £684
South Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £534 £561
% change year-on-year -8.71% -4.81% +2.00%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Go job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Go
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Go.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Go

Go
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in Sheffield over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Go in Sheffield

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 38 (95.00%) GCP
2 34 (85.00%) AWS
3 29 (72.50%) Serverless
4 8 (20.00%) AWS KMS
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (72.50%) NoSQL
2 15 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (82.50%) Jenkins
2 32 (80.00%) GitLab
3 29 (72.50%) Liquibase
4 1 (2.50%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 35 (87.50%) Finance
2 29 (72.50%) Banking
2 29 (72.50%) Social Skills
3 23 (57.50%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Software Engineer
2 16 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (37.50%) GCP Engineer
4 13 (32.50%) Senior
5 12 (30.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (27.50%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (22.50%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (17.50%) AWS Software Engineer
9 6 (15.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 6 (15.00%) Python Engineer
10 5 (12.50%) Developer
10 5 (12.50%) GCP Software Engineer
11 4 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 3 (7.50%) Senior DevOps
12 3 (7.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
13 2 (5.00%) GCP DevOps
13 2 (5.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
14 1 (2.50%) Python Software Engineer
14 1 (2.50%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (75.00%) REST
2 29 (72.50%) Elastic Stack
2 29 (72.50%) RESTful
3 2 (5.00%) React
4 1 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 31 (77.50%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (72.50%) Cloud Native
2 29 (72.50%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 30 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (95.00%) DevOps
2 37 (92.50%) CI/CD
3 34 (85.00%) Containerisation
4 32 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (72.50%) Computer Science
5 29 (72.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 27 (67.50%) Agile
6 27 (67.50%) Microservices
7 26 (65.00%) Cryptography
7 26 (65.00%) Software Engineering
8 25 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
8 25 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
8 25 (62.50%) Non-Functional Testing
9 24 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
10 23 (57.50%) Change Management
10 23 (57.50%) Cost Optimisation
10 23 (57.50%) Data Security
10 23 (57.50%) High Availability
11 19 (47.50%) Infrastructure Automation
12 17 (42.50%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 38 (95.00%) Python
2 11 (27.50%) Java
3 3 (7.50%) SQL
4 2 (5.00%) Bash
4 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 29 (72.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 29 (72.50%) Degree
1 29 (72.50%) Master's Degree
2 10 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 8 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 25 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (90.00%) Terraform
2 31 (77.50%) Kubernetes
3 30 (75.00%) Ansible
3 30 (75.00%) Grafana
3 30 (75.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (72.50%) Splunk
2 19 (47.50%) Google
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.50%) VMware