Go Contracts in Yorkshire

Go (Golang)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 76 91 123
Rank change year-on-year +15 +32 +11
Contract jobs citing Go 16 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.57% 0.53% 0.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.00% 2.04% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 2
10th Percentile £398 £488 -
25th Percentile £505 £503 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £523 £400
Median % change year-on-year +38.76% +30.63% -20.00%
75th Percentile £738 £538 -
90th Percentile £750 £594 -
England median daily rate £665 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +15.65% -8.00% +8.70%

All Programming Languages
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 320 442 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 31.47% 26.17% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 319 423
10th Percentile £350 £300 £395
25th Percentile £405 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 11
10th Percentile £31.62 - £42.67
25th Percentile £44.87 £61.25 £47.40
Median hourly rate £91.05 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.68% - +126.98%
75th Percentile £101.14 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 - -
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Go in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Go in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire +26 12 £725 +45.00% 8
South Yorkshire +6 4 £400 -23.08% 1
Go
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (31.25%) nginx
1 5 (31.25%) Traefik
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) AWS
1 12 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (43.75%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (43.75%) AWS Fargate
3 6 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 6 (37.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) DNS
1 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) MongoDB
2 2 (12.50%) InfluxDB
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (75.00%) GitLab
1 12 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) JMeter
2 2 (12.50%) Postman
2 2 (12.50%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Military
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (56.25%) Senior
2 9 (56.25%) Senior DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) cloud-init
2 7 (43.75%) Kafka
3 6 (37.50%) Keycloak
4 1 (6.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) PKI
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) CentOS
1 12 (75.00%) Linux
1 12 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 12 (75.00%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) CI/CD
2 14 (87.50%) DevOps
3 12 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (43.75%) Secrets Management
6 6 (37.50%) Cloud Security
6 6 (37.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 6 (37.50%) Identity Management
6 6 (37.50%) Observability
6 6 (37.50%) Static Application Security Testing
7 5 (31.25%) Agile
7 5 (31.25%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
8 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (12.50%) API Testing
9 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
9 2 (12.50%) Functional Testing
9 2 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
9 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
9 2 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Python
2 12 (75.00%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) SC Cleared
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) NCSC
2 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (75.00%) Packer
1 12 (75.00%) Terraform
2 9 (56.25%) Grafana
3 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 7 (43.75%) Prometheus
5 6 (37.50%) Consul
5 6 (37.50%) Istio
5 6 (37.50%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (37.50%) linkerd
5 6 (37.50%) Rancher
5 6 (37.50%) ZABBIX
6 5 (31.25%) HAProxy
7 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Okta
1 6 (37.50%) Splunk
2 5 (31.25%) Apple
2 5 (31.25%) ESET
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) Google