Go Contracts in the North of England

Go (Golang)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 161 111
Rank change year-on-year +6 -50 +42
Contract jobs citing Go 30 41 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.62% 0.75% 2.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.41% 2.68% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 23 104
10th Percentile £406 £342 £407
25th Percentile £411 £400 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +5.77% +28.40%
75th Percentile £576 £600 £634
90th Percentile £650 £648 £650
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
England median hourly rate £48.25 £74.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -34.80% +184.62% -

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,244 1,529 2,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.68% 28.10% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 1,113 1,688
10th Percentile £319 £351 £325
25th Percentile £403 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £625 £699 £663
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 25 49
10th Percentile £37.55 £28.26 £14.25
25th Percentile £42.41 £37.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £47.75 £47.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% +11.76% +63.46%
75th Percentile £68.75 £57.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.90 £65.90 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Go in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Go in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Go in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Go in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
North West +5 22 £550 - 27
Yorkshire +14 8 £520 +30.00% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (16.67%) nginx
2 4 (13.33%) Confluence
3 3 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (10.00%) Jupyter
4 1 (3.33%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 17 (56.67%) AWS
2 9 (30.00%) Azure
2 9 (30.00%) GCP
3 7 (23.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (23.33%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (23.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
4 6 (20.00%) Snowflake
5 4 (13.33%) CloudBees
5 4 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub
6 3 (10.00%) Serverless
7 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.33%) Anthos
8 1 (3.33%) Datadog
8 1 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) DNS
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 6 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 6 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (13.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.00%) ClickHouse
3 3 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Git
2 7 (23.33%) Jenkins
3 6 (20.00%) SonarQube
4 5 (16.67%) GitLab
5 2 (6.67%) Bitbucket
5 2 (6.67%) JIRA
6 1 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 3 (10.00%) Retail
1 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Finance
2 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) Developer
3 7 (23.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 6 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 6 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Senior
6 4 (13.33%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (13.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Site Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) Cassandra Developer
9 1 (3.33%) Cassandra Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) Apache Beam
1 3 (10.00%) Kafka
1 3 (10.00%) Keycloak
2 2 (6.67%) SAML
3 1 (3.33%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.33%) Clustering
3 1 (3.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) CentOS
2 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (73.33%) DevOps
2 21 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 15 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (23.33%) Configuration Management
5 7 (23.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (20.00%) Agile
6 6 (20.00%) Migration
6 6 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
7 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (10.00%) Identity Management
8 3 (10.00%) Open Source
8 3 (10.00%) Performance Analysis
8 3 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) Python
2 10 (33.33%) Bash
3 9 (30.00%) SQL
4 7 (23.33%) Java
5 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 5 (16.67%) Ruby
6 4 (13.33%) Groovy
6 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 4 (13.33%) Scala
7 1 (3.33%) C++
7 1 (3.33%) Perl
7 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) ISO 22301
1 3 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (6.67%) NIST
2 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (56.67%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (53.33%) Kubernetes
2 15 (50.00%) Terraform
3 13 (43.33%) Ansible
4 6 (20.00%) HP Fortify
5 3 (10.00%) Grafana
6 2 (6.67%) Istio
6 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
7 1 (3.33%) Consul
7 1 (3.33%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (3.33%) Graphite
7 1 (3.33%) HAProxy
7 1 (3.33%) Kiali
7 1 (3.33%) linkerd
7 1 (3.33%) Packer
7 1 (3.33%) Podman
7 1 (3.33%) Puppet
7 1 (3.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Splunk
2 3 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.67%) VMware
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) PagerDuty
4 1 (3.33%) Tanium