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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 169 106
Rank change year-on-year -162 -63 +52
Permanent jobs citing Go 866 2,178 5,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 2.24% 3.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.58% 5.20% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 609 1,028 2,393
10th Percentile £48,750 £54,625 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £63,631 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £136,250 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £73,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -18.64% -1.67% +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 33,562 41,867 90,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.71% 43.01% 54.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25,071 26,942 43,619
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 £53,772 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.23% +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 28 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 28 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 -179 666 £80,000 - 250
UK excluding London -194 454 £60,000 -18.64% 101
Work from Home -165 397 £77,000 -3.75% 141
London -69 331 £100,000 +11.11% 151
South East -39 124 £55,000 -24.14% 24
Scotland -36 123 £56,250 -19.00% 3
North of England -158 86 £63,750 -15.00% 35
North West -91 71 £65,000 -13.33% 30
Midlands -65 47 £77,000 +10.00% 14
South West -119 47 £70,576 -2.65% 13
West Midlands -7 40 £77,500 +10.71% 10
East of England -103 18 £85,000 +6.25% 10
Yorkshire -74 11 £65,000 -13.33% 5
East Midlands -62 7 £55,000 -45.00% 4
Wales -25 5 £70,000 +33.33% 2
Northern Ireland -19 4 £70,000 -3.45% 1
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 (6.70%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (5.08%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.85%) Apache
4 13 (1.50%) Confluence
5 7 (0.81%) nginx
6 3 (0.35%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.35%) 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 (0.12%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 398 (45.96%) AWS
2 180 (20.79%) Azure
3 160 (18.48%) GCP
4 128 (14.78%) Serverless
5 74 (8.55%) GitHub
6 68 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
7 67 (7.74%) Amazon S3
8 55 (6.35%) dbt
8 55 (6.35%) Snowflake
9 51 (5.89%) SaaS
10 50 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
11 49 (5.66%) Amazon SQS
11 49 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
12 42 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
12 42 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 38 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
14 32 (3.70%) OpenShift
15 21 (2.42%) Azure AKS
16 18 (2.08%) Slack
17 17 (1.96%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 68 (7.85%) Kerberos
2 15 (1.73%) Internet
3 9 (1.04%) Network Security
4 7 (0.81%) DNS
4 7 (0.81%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.58%) AMQP
5 5 (0.58%) Firewall
6 4 (0.46%) RS-232
6 4 (0.46%) RS-485
6 4 (0.46%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.35%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.35%) HTTP
7 3 (0.35%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.23%) BGP
8 2 (0.23%) Broadband
9 1 (0.12%) IPsec
9 1 (0.12%) MPLS
9 1 (0.12%) OSPF
9 1 (0.12%) RSVP
9 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (16.51%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (10.97%) Big Data
3 87 (10.05%) Relational Database
4 65 (7.51%) Metadata
5 64 (7.39%) Data Lake
6 58 (6.70%) Amazon Athena
7 57 (6.58%) Redis
8 54 (6.24%) Apache Arrow
8 54 (6.24%) Dremio
8 54 (6.24%) MySQL
9 46 (5.31%) Amazon RDS
10 42 (4.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 34 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
12 30 (3.46%) RDBMS
13 26 (3.00%) MongoDB
14 25 (2.89%) Hadoop
14 25 (2.89%) NoSQL
15 24 (2.77%) Oracle Database
16 23 (2.66%) DynamoDB
17 22 (2.54%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 212 (24.48%) Git
2 136 (15.70%) Jenkins
3 93 (10.74%) Artifactory
4 87 (10.05%) Bitbucket
5 27 (3.12%) GitLab
6 24 (2.77%) JDeveloper
6 24 (2.77%) JIRA
7 8 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (0.69%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.69%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.46%) Appium
10 4 (0.46%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.46%) JUnit
10 4 (0.46%) Maven
10 4 (0.46%) Selenium
10 4 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.35%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.23%) Moq
General
1 325 (37.53%) Finance
2 172 (19.86%) Social Skills
3 142 (16.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 116 (13.39%) Law
5 107 (12.36%) Marketing
6 39 (4.50%) Retail
7 35 (4.04%) Banking
7 35 (4.04%) Legal
8 31 (3.58%) Public Sector
9 26 (3.00%) Front Office
10 22 (2.54%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.42%) Games
11 21 (2.42%) Publishing
12 20 (2.31%) Analytical Skills
13 11 (1.27%) French Language
14 8 (0.92%) Electronics
14 8 (0.92%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.58%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.58%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 283 (32.68%) Software Engineer
2 215 (24.83%) Developer
3 204 (23.56%) Senior
4 144 (16.63%) Lead
5 98 (11.32%) Lead Software Engineer
6 96 (11.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 95 (10.97%) AWS Engineer
8 93 (10.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 86 (9.93%) Senior Software Engineer
10 65 (7.51%) Site Engineer
11 64 (7.39%) Cloud Engineer
12 62 (7.16%) Senior Developer
13 54 (6.24%) Big Data Engineer
14 46 (5.31%) Full Stack Developer
15 37 (4.27%) Software Developer
16 34 (3.93%) Kubernetes Engineer
17 33 (3.81%) AWS DevOps
17 33 (3.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 32 (3.70%) Cloud Software Engineer
19 29 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (15.82%) Node.js
2 133 (15.36%) Web Services
3 123 (14.20%) gRPC
4 120 (13.86%) Kafka
5 106 (12.24%) RESTful
6 99 (11.43%) React
7 86 (9.93%) JSON
8 84 (9.70%) OpenID
9 76 (8.78%) REST
10 74 (8.55%) XML
11 68 (7.85%) LDAP
12 67 (7.74%) GraphQL
12 67 (7.74%) SAML
13 65 (7.51%) JSON-LD
14 57 (6.58%) Protocol Buffers
15 53 (6.12%) CSS
15 53 (6.12%) HTML
15 53 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
16 38 (4.39%) .NET
17 26 (3.00%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 87 (10.05%) Distributed Systems
2 74 (8.55%) Algorithms
3 71 (8.20%) Cloud Native
4 68 (7.85%) Enterprise Cloud
5 67 (7.74%) Management Information System
6 65 (7.51%) Reference Data
7 58 (6.70%) Hedge funds
8 55 (6.35%) Clustering
9 44 (5.08%) Data Structures
10 42 (4.85%) Greenfield Project
11 34 (3.93%) Blockchain
12 30 (3.46%) Legacy Code
13 29 (3.35%) Onboarding
14 26 (3.00%) Tandem
15 21 (2.42%) Public Cloud
16 16 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
16 16 (1.85%) Product Ownership
16 16 (1.85%) Virtual Team
17 15 (1.73%) Blog
18 12 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 127 (14.67%) Linux
2 28 (3.23%) Windows
3 14 (1.62%) Apple iOS
4 13 (1.50%) Android
5 7 (0.81%) Unix
5 7 (0.81%) VMS
6 4 (0.46%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.35%) SUSE
7 3 (0.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.23%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Debian
9 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (48.73%) Software Engineering
2 334 (38.57%) Agile
3 324 (37.41%) CI/CD
4 308 (35.57%) DevOps
5 146 (16.86%) Microservices
6 135 (15.59%) Test Automation
7 134 (15.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 134 (15.47%) Roadmaps
7 134 (15.47%) SDLC
8 132 (15.24%) TDD
9 126 (14.55%) Continuous Integration
10 124 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
11 113 (13.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 107 (12.36%) Open Source
13 104 (12.01%) Continuous Delivery
14 94 (10.85%) Operational Stability
15 89 (10.28%) Community of Practice
16 87 (10.05%) Full Stack Development
17 84 (9.70%) Asset Management
17 84 (9.70%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 435 (50.23%) Python
2 354 (40.88%) Java
3 223 (25.75%) JavaScript
4 100 (11.55%) TypeScript
5 98 (11.32%) C#
6 86 (9.93%) Bash
7 84 (9.70%) Rust
8 83 (9.58%) SQL
9 81 (9.35%) Ruby
10 79 (9.12%) C++
11 66 (7.62%) C
12 65 (7.51%) Prolog
12 65 (7.51%) SPARQL
13 47 (5.43%) PowerShell
14 46 (5.31%) PHP
15 44 (5.08%) Kotlin
16 42 (4.85%) Scala
17 27 (3.12%) Perl
18 10 (1.15%) Groovy
19 9 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 81 (9.35%) Degree
2 50 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 38 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (4.27%) SC Cleared
5 25 (2.89%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (2.08%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.04%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.81%) PhD
10 5 (0.58%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.58%) OSCP
11 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.12%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.12%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.85%) QA
2 22 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.27%) GDPR
4 9 (1.04%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.46%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.23%) NIST
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.12%) SEPA
8 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 247 (28.52%) Docker
2 70 (8.08%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.04%) Ceph
5 4 (0.46%) KVM
5 4 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.35%) Gluster
6 3 (0.35%) oVirt
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) LXC
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 350 (40.42%) Kubernetes
2 236 (27.25%) Terraform
3 84 (9.70%) Prometheus
4 74 (8.55%) Ansible
5 29 (3.35%) Grafana
6 24 (2.77%) Progress Chef
7 23 (2.66%) Puppet
8 14 (1.62%) Kibana
9 6 (0.69%) Knative
10 5 (0.58%) Argo
10 5 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.46%) Rancher
11 4 (0.46%) Salt
12 3 (0.35%) Graylog
12 3 (0.35%) Istio
12 3 (0.35%) Observium
12 3 (0.35%) Packer
12 3 (0.35%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.23%) Rundeck
13 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (8.31%) Google
2 42 (4.85%) Oracle
3 39 (4.50%) Microsoft
4 17 (1.96%) Dell
5 12 (1.39%) Atlassian
6 11 (1.27%) Splunk
7 10 (1.15%) Apple
8 9 (1.04%) New Relic
9 8 (0.92%) SaltStack
9 8 (0.92%) SAP
9 8 (0.92%) Teradata
9 8 (0.92%) VMware
10 6 (0.69%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.58%) LogicMonitor
12 4 (0.46%) YouTube
13 3 (0.35%) Cadence
13 3 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.35%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.35%) MuleSoft
14 2 (0.23%) OpenText