Go Contract Job Trends in Basildon

Go (Golang)
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basildon requiring Go skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Go 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 3.85% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Essex median daily rate £500 £400 -
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

All Programming Languages
Basildon

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 Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11 10 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 42.31% 76.92% 41.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 11
10th Percentile - - £500
25th Percentile £300 £315 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £317 £600
Median % change year-on-year +57.98% -47.25% +19.07%
75th Percentile £515 £320 £604
90th Percentile - £321 £675
Essex median daily rate £375 £318 £465
% change year-on-year +17.76% -31.52% -7.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £52.38 - -
25th Percentile £54.06 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £30.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -45.45% -20.58%
75th Percentile £66.25 - £57.50
90th Percentile £68.50 - £68.00
Essex median hourly rate £60.00 £117.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -48.94% +113.64% +21.55%

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (100.00%) Google