Go Contracts in the South East

Go (Golang)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 150 183 207
Rank change year-on-year +33 +24 +6
Contract jobs citing Go 9 22 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.30% 0.40% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.14% 1.83% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 9
10th Percentile £300 £301 £513
25th Percentile £313 £341 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £371 £550
Median % change year-on-year +21.29% -32.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £475 £688
90th Percentile - £565 £690
England median daily rate £665 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +15.65% -8.00% +8.70%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 792 1,205 1,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.31% 21.68% 27.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 831 1,136
10th Percentile £353 £325 £328
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £679 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 73 91
10th Percentile £40.05 £35.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £48.99 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%
75th Percentile £64.52 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.19 £74.75 £75.00
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 the South East

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Go in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Go in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Go in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Go in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Go in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Go in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the South East 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 Sussex +6 6 £350 -1.41% 3
Hampshire +24 2 £550 +10.00% 5
Surrey - 1 - - 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (44.44%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (11.11%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (22.22%) GitLab
3 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Kafka
2 3 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (22.22%) REST
3 2 (22.22%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
4 1 (11.11%) gRPC
4 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
4 4 (44.44%) BDD
4 4 (44.44%) Microservices
4 4 (44.44%) TDD
5 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (33.33%) Kanban
5 3 (33.33%) Load Balancing
5 3 (33.33%) Scrum
5 3 (33.33%) Software Delivery
5 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
6 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (22.22%) SDLC
6 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 1 (11.11%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Grafana
2 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Rancher
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) VMware