Go Contracts in the North West

Go (Golang)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 113 118 66
Rank change year-on-year +5 -52 +45
Contract jobs citing Go 22 32 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.79% 1.06% 3.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.27% 3.76% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 20 92
10th Percentile - £335 £401
25th Percentile £406 £399 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +29.63%
75th Percentile £576 £600 £634
90th Percentile £660 £650 £649
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 672 852 1,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.07% 28.29% 34.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 634 1,067
10th Percentile £326 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £614 £663 £675
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 17 38
10th Percentile £37.63 £25.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £37.75 £21.57
Median hourly rate £48.43 £46.18 £51.35
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% -10.07% +71.17%
75th Percentile £71.87 £56.40 £75.00
90th Percentile £79.90 £65.85 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Go in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Go in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +4 20 £550 - 24
Lancashire +3 1 £650 +8.33% 2
Cheshire -5 1 £568 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) nginx
2 1 (4.55%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (31.82%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (31.82%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (27.27%) Amazon ELB
3 6 (27.27%) Azure
3 6 (27.27%) Snowflake
4 4 (18.18%) GCP
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
5 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (13.64%) Serverless
6 2 (9.09%) GitHub
7 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Data Lake
1 6 (27.27%) DynamoDB
2 3 (13.64%) MySQL
2 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Git
2 6 (27.27%) SonarQube
3 3 (13.64%) GitLab
4 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 2 (9.09%) JIRA
5 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (13.64%) Retail
1 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Developer
3 6 (27.27%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) Senior
5 4 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Site Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Lead
8 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) SAML
2 1 (4.55%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Product Ownership
2 4 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Clustering
3 1 (4.55%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) CentOS
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
1 14 (63.64%) DevOps
2 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (22.73%) Migration
6 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 4 (18.18%) Data Migration
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (13.64%) Cloud Operations
7 3 (13.64%) Code Quality
7 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
7 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (13.64%) E-Commerce
7 3 (13.64%) Identity Management
7 3 (13.64%) IT Strategy
7 3 (13.64%) Microservices
7 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.64%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Python
2 9 (40.91%) SQL
3 7 (31.82%) Bash
4 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
5 2 (9.09%) Java
6 1 (4.55%) C++
6 1 (4.55%) Ruby
6 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) ISO 22301
1 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (9.09%) NIST
2 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
2 2 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (4.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (59.09%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (59.09%) Kubernetes
2 11 (50.00%) Terraform
3 9 (40.91%) Ansible
4 6 (27.27%) HP Fortify
5 1 (4.55%) Consul
5 1 (4.55%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (4.55%) Graphite
5 1 (4.55%) HAProxy
5 1 (4.55%) Istio
5 1 (4.55%) linkerd
5 1 (4.55%) Packer
5 1 (4.55%) Podman
5 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.55%) Puppet
5 1 (4.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Splunk
2 3 (13.64%) Atlassian
2 3 (13.64%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) PagerDuty
3 1 (4.55%) Tanium
3 1 (4.55%) VMware