Go Contracts in West Yorkshire

Go (Golang)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 50 76 104
Rank change year-on-year +26 +28 +14
Contract jobs citing Go 12 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.19% 0.10% 0.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.45% 0.38% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £694 - -
25th Percentile £713 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% +25.00% -40.74%
75th Percentile £747 £525 -
90th Percentile £750 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £725 £523 £400
% change year-on-year +38.76% +30.63% -20.00%

All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 186 263 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 33.94% 26.33% 28.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 196 335
10th Percentile £325 £300 £403
25th Percentile £405 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £31.62 - £57.55
25th Percentile £44.87 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £91.05 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +169.23%
75th Percentile £101.14 - -
90th Percentile £102.00 - £74.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.05 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +45.68% - +126.98%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Go in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds - 12 £725 - 7
Go
Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (41.67%) nginx
1 5 (41.67%) Traefik
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (58.33%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (58.33%) AWS Fargate
3 6 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 6 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) DNS
1 6 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (100.00%) GitLab
1 12 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (75.00%) Senior
2 9 (75.00%) Senior DevOps
3 7 (58.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) cloud-init
2 7 (58.33%) Kafka
3 6 (50.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) CentOS
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
1 12 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 12 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
1 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (58.33%) Secrets Management
4 6 (50.00%) Cloud Security
4 6 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 6 (50.00%) Identity Management
4 6 (50.00%) Observability
4 6 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 5 (41.67%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (25.00%) Agile
7 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
8 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
8 1 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
8 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Bash
1 12 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) SC Cleared
1 11 (91.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Packer
1 12 (100.00%) Terraform
2 7 (58.33%) Grafana
2 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (58.33%) Prometheus
3 6 (50.00%) Consul
3 6 (50.00%) Istio
3 6 (50.00%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (50.00%) linkerd
3 6 (50.00%) Rancher
3 6 (50.00%) ZABBIX
4 5 (41.67%) HAProxy
5 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Okta
1 6 (50.00%) Splunk
2 5 (41.67%) Apple
2 5 (41.67%) ESET