Go Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Go (Golang)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Go skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 59 86
Rank change year-on-year -20 +27 +29
Contract jobs citing Go 2 11 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.22% 1.46% 0.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.66% 4.42% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £690 £299
25th Percentile - £713 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +61.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile - £750 £541
90th Percentile - - £591
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £725 £563
% change year-on-year -31.03% +28.89% +12.50%

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 303 249 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 33.48% 33.02% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 171 194
10th Percentile £363 £350 £336
25th Percentile £413 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £574 £567 £609
90th Percentile £675 £713 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 6
10th Percentile - £26.25 £17.38
25th Percentile - £28.75 £19.91
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +146.36% -69.56%
75th Percentile - £99.32 £25.58
90th Percentile - £102.00 £44.39
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -64.48%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Go job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Go
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Go

Go
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 5 December 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 -21 2 £575 -20.69% 1
Go
Yorkshire

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) OCP
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible