Go Contracts in West Sussex

Go (Golang)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 31 45
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 +12
Contract jobs citing Go 7 9 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 4.90% 3.61% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.00% 9.68% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £277 £253 -
25th Percentile £294 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -30.00% -
75th Percentile £450 £355 -
90th Percentile £550 £374 -
South East median daily rate £325 £371 £550
% change year-on-year -12.40% -32.55% +25.71%

All Programming Languages
West 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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 50 93 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 34.97% 37.35% 35.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 71 88
10th Percentile £289 £285 £303
25th Percentile £345 £359 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £414
Median % change year-on-year +5.06% +2.66% -12.84%
75th Percentile £556 £488 £601
90th Percentile £629 £588 £678
South East median daily rate £503 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.55% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £23.18 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £23.81 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £25.75 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year +142.72% +16.20% -58.58%
75th Percentile £63.75 £27.81 £23.29
90th Percentile - £28.53 £25.33
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £60.87 £55.00
% change year-on-year -9.64% +10.67% +57.14%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in West Sussex

Go
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Go in West Sussex

Go
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Go in West Sussex over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Go in West Sussex

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Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Sussex region over the 6 months to 19 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
Burgess Hill +3 7 £300 -11.76% 1
Go
South East

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) Subversion
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Kafka
2 3 (42.86%) GraphQL
2 3 (42.86%) gRPC
2 3 (42.86%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (42.86%) REST
3 2 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (28.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) BDD
2 5 (71.43%) Kanban
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) Scrum
2 5 (71.43%) TDD
3 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
4 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (28.57%) Splunk