Go Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Go (Golang)
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Sussex requiring Go skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 19 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Go 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 5.80% 2.44% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.05% 5.88% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £400 £366 -
25th Percentile £459 £382 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £413 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.97% - -
75th Percentile £573 £442 -
90th Percentile - £457 -
South East median daily rate £375 £450 £560
% change year-on-year -16.67% -19.64% +6.67%

All Programming Languages
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21 34 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 30.43% 41.46% 39.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 24
10th Percentile £320 £330 £306
25th Percentile £450 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £500 £380
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% +31.58% -29.30%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £539
90th Percentile £632 £638 £556
South East median daily rate £490 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.67% -0.94%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Go job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Go
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Go.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Go

Go
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in East Sussex over the 6 months to 23 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Go in East Sussex

Go
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the East Sussex region over the 6 months to 23 February 2026. 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
Brighton - 4 £565 - 1
Go
South East

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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 4 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (100.00%) Couchbase
1 4 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
1 4 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Open Source
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Atlassian