Go (Golang)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Go skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Go over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 167 108
Rank change year-on-year -152 -59 +50
Permanent jobs citing Go 881 2,178 5,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 2.21% 3.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.64% 5.11% 6.17%
Number of salaries quoted 620 1,034 2,388
10th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £136,250 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% - +25.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

Go is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,326 42,611 88,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.02% 43.26% 54.15%
Number of salaries quoted 24,946 27,225 43,437
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in the UK

Go
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Go.

Salary trend for Go in the UK

Go
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Go in the UK

Go
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -165 676 £80,000 - 319
UK excluding London -189 460 £60,000 -20.00% 188
Work from Home -169 399 £77,000 -3.75% 183
London -71 340 £100,000 +11.11% 218
Scotland -32 128 £56,250 -19.00% 4
South East -20 124 £55,000 -24.14% 107
North of England -155 87 £62,500 -16.67% 33
North West -89 72 £65,000 -15.93% 28
Midlands -68 47 £77,000 +10.00% 14
South West -110 46 £70,576 -2.65% 16
West Midlands -7 40 £77,500 +10.71% 10
East of England -93 20 £85,000 +6.25% 11
Yorkshire -66 11 £65,000 -13.33% 5
East Midlands -53 7 £55,000 -45.00% 4
Northern Ireland -13 4 £70,000 -3.45% 1
Wales -20 4 £62,500 +19.05% 3
North East -45 4 £55,000 -37.14%

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 58 (6.58%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (5.33%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.82%) Apache
4 13 (1.48%) Confluence
5 7 (0.79%) nginx
6 3 (0.34%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.34%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.23%) CMS
7 2 (0.23%) IIS
7 2 (0.23%) JBoss
7 2 (0.23%) Liferay
7 2 (0.23%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 405 (45.97%) AWS
2 185 (21.00%) Azure
3 163 (18.50%) GCP
4 132 (14.98%) Serverless
5 76 (8.63%) GitHub
6 74 (8.40%) Amazon S3
7 72 (8.17%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (6.24%) dbt
8 55 (6.24%) Snowflake
9 54 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
9 54 (6.13%) Amazon SQS
9 54 (6.13%) SaaS
10 51 (5.79%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 37 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
13 34 (3.86%) OpenShift
14 21 (2.38%) Slack
15 20 (2.27%) Google Docs
15 20 (2.27%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 68 (7.72%) Kerberos
2 17 (1.93%) Internet
3 9 (1.02%) Network Security
4 7 (0.79%) DNS
4 7 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.57%) AMQP
5 5 (0.57%) Firewall
6 4 (0.45%) RS-232
6 4 (0.45%) RS-485
6 4 (0.45%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.34%) HTTP
7 3 (0.34%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.23%) BGP
8 2 (0.23%) Broadband
9 1 (0.11%) Anycast
9 1 (0.11%) IGMP
9 1 (0.11%) IPsec
9 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.11%) RSVP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (16.57%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (11.12%) Big Data
3 86 (9.76%) Relational Database
4 65 (7.38%) Metadata
5 64 (7.26%) Data Lake
6 62 (7.04%) Redis
7 58 (6.58%) Amazon Athena
8 56 (6.36%) MySQL
9 54 (6.13%) Apache Arrow
9 54 (6.13%) Dremio
10 50 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
11 46 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
12 37 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
13 29 (3.29%) RDBMS
14 28 (3.18%) Hadoop
15 26 (2.95%) MongoDB
16 24 (2.72%) DynamoDB
16 24 (2.72%) NoSQL
16 24 (2.72%) Oracle Database
17 22 (2.50%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 213 (24.18%) Git
2 140 (15.89%) Jenkins
3 96 (10.90%) Artifactory
4 87 (9.88%) Bitbucket
5 27 (3.06%) GitLab
6 25 (2.84%) JIRA
7 24 (2.72%) JDeveloper
8 8 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
8 8 (0.91%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.68%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.57%) Selenium
10 5 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.45%) Appium
11 4 (0.45%) Jasmine
11 4 (0.45%) JUnit
11 4 (0.45%) Maven
11 4 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.34%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.23%) Moq
General
1 332 (37.68%) Finance
2 175 (19.86%) Social Skills
3 147 (16.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 118 (13.39%) Law
5 109 (12.37%) Marketing
6 39 (4.43%) Retail
7 36 (4.09%) Banking
8 34 (3.86%) Legal
9 31 (3.52%) Public Sector
10 28 (3.18%) Front Office
11 22 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
11 22 (2.50%) Telecoms
12 21 (2.38%) Publishing
13 20 (2.27%) Games
14 11 (1.25%) French Language
15 8 (0.91%) Electronics
15 8 (0.91%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.57%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 287 (32.58%) Software Engineer
2 213 (24.18%) Developer
3 206 (23.38%) Senior
4 147 (16.69%) Lead
5 100 (11.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 99 (11.24%) AWS Engineer
6 99 (11.24%) Lead Software Engineer
7 95 (10.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 86 (9.76%) Senior Software Engineer
9 71 (8.06%) Cloud Engineer
10 65 (7.38%) Site Engineer
11 60 (6.81%) Senior Developer
12 54 (6.13%) Big Data Engineer
13 46 (5.22%) Full Stack Developer
14 38 (4.31%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 38 (4.31%) Software Developer
15 37 (4.20%) AWS DevOps
15 37 (4.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 34 (3.86%) Cloud Software Engineer
17 30 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (15.78%) Node.js
2 133 (15.10%) Web Services
3 127 (14.42%) gRPC
4 123 (13.96%) Kafka
5 104 (11.80%) RESTful
6 101 (11.46%) React
7 86 (9.76%) JSON
8 84 (9.53%) OpenID
9 76 (8.63%) REST
10 74 (8.40%) XML
11 70 (7.95%) GraphQL
12 68 (7.72%) LDAP
13 67 (7.60%) SAML
14 65 (7.38%) JSON-LD
15 57 (6.47%) Protocol Buffers
16 53 (6.02%) CSS
16 53 (6.02%) HTML
16 53 (6.02%) RabbitMQ
17 37 (4.20%) .NET
18 28 (3.18%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.33%) Distributed Systems
2 78 (8.85%) Algorithms
3 76 (8.63%) Cloud Native
4 68 (7.72%) Enterprise Cloud
5 67 (7.60%) Management Information System
6 65 (7.38%) Reference Data
7 58 (6.58%) Hedge funds
8 55 (6.24%) Clustering
9 47 (5.33%) Data Structures
10 41 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
11 34 (3.86%) Blockchain
11 34 (3.86%) Legacy Code
12 29 (3.29%) Onboarding
13 28 (3.18%) Tandem
14 24 (2.72%) Public Cloud
15 17 (1.93%) Virtual Team
16 16 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
16 16 (1.82%) Product Ownership
17 15 (1.70%) Blog
18 12 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 132 (14.98%) Linux
2 27 (3.06%) Windows
3 14 (1.59%) Apple iOS
4 13 (1.48%) Android
5 7 (0.79%) Unix
6 6 (0.68%) VMS
7 4 (0.45%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.34%) SUSE
8 3 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.23%) CentOS
10 1 (0.11%) Debian
10 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (48.92%) Software Engineering
2 339 (38.48%) Agile
3 331 (37.57%) CI/CD
4 313 (35.53%) DevOps
5 146 (16.57%) Microservices
6 137 (15.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 137 (15.55%) Test Automation
7 136 (15.44%) Roadmaps
8 134 (15.21%) SDLC
9 132 (14.98%) TDD
10 128 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
11 125 (14.19%) Continuous Integration
12 115 (13.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 108 (12.26%) Open Source
14 103 (11.69%) Continuous Delivery
15 95 (10.78%) Operational Stability
16 89 (10.10%) Community of Practice
16 89 (10.10%) Full Stack Development
17 86 (9.76%) Asset Management
18 84 (9.53%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 445 (50.51%) Python
2 365 (41.43%) Java
3 228 (25.88%) JavaScript
4 103 (11.69%) TypeScript
5 101 (11.46%) C#
6 90 (10.22%) Bash
7 89 (10.10%) Rust
8 84 (9.53%) Ruby
9 82 (9.31%) C++
10 80 (9.08%) SQL
11 67 (7.60%) C
12 65 (7.38%) Prolog
12 65 (7.38%) SPARQL
13 46 (5.22%) PHP
13 46 (5.22%) PowerShell
14 45 (5.11%) Kotlin
14 45 (5.11%) Scala
15 27 (3.06%) Perl
16 10 (1.14%) Groovy
17 9 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 81 (9.19%) Degree
2 49 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 38 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (4.20%) SC Cleared
5 25 (2.84%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (2.04%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.79%) PhD
10 6 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.57%) CREST Certified
11 5 (0.57%) OSCP
12 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.11%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.11%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.77%) QA
2 22 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.25%) GDPR
4 9 (1.02%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.45%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.23%) NIST
8 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.11%) SEPA
8 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 253 (28.72%) Docker
2 70 (7.95%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.02%) Ceph
5 4 (0.45%) KVM
5 4 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.34%) Gluster
6 3 (0.34%) oVirt
7 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.11%) LXC
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 364 (41.32%) Kubernetes
2 241 (27.36%) Terraform
3 85 (9.65%) Prometheus
4 77 (8.74%) Ansible
5 30 (3.41%) Grafana
6 27 (3.06%) Progress Chef
7 25 (2.84%) Puppet
8 14 (1.59%) Kibana
9 6 (0.68%) Argo
9 6 (0.68%) Knative
10 5 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.57%) Salt
10 5 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.45%) Rancher
12 3 (0.34%) Graylog
12 3 (0.34%) Istio
12 3 (0.34%) Observium
12 3 (0.34%) Packer
12 3 (0.34%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.23%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 72 (8.17%) Google
2 42 (4.77%) Oracle
3 37 (4.20%) Microsoft
4 20 (2.27%) Dell
5 12 (1.36%) Atlassian
6 11 (1.25%) Splunk
7 10 (1.14%) Apple
8 9 (1.02%) New Relic
9 8 (0.91%) SaltStack
9 8 (0.91%) SAP
9 8 (0.91%) Teradata
9 8 (0.91%) VMware
10 6 (0.68%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.57%) LogicMonitor
12 4 (0.45%) YouTube
13 3 (0.34%) Cadence
13 3 (0.34%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.34%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.34%) MuleSoft
14 2 (0.23%) OpenText