Go Jobs in Scotland

Go (Golang)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 142 107
Rank change year-on-year -17 -35 +46
Permanent jobs citing Go 134 85 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.00% 1.78% 2.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.54% 4.11% 5.96%
Number of salaries quoted 19 19 123
10th Percentile £38,250 £49,750 £46,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £69,447 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% +4.43% +2.31%
75th Percentile £65,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile - £117,236 £95,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +14.29%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,782 2,070 2,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 56.40% 43.31% 45.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,148 1,171 1,551
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in Scotland

Go
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Go in Scotland

Go
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in Scotland over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Go in Scotland

Go
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Glasgow -32 95 £50,000 -23.08% 2
Edinburgh +33 38 £57,500 -22.86% 5
Go
UK

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 24 (17.91%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 46 (34.33%) AWS
2 33 (24.63%) SaaS
3 28 (20.90%) GCP
4 26 (19.40%) Amazon S3
5 23 (17.16%) Amazon SQS
5 23 (17.16%) Google Docs
5 23 (17.16%) Lucidchart
5 23 (17.16%) Miro
5 23 (17.16%) Slack
6 12 (8.96%) Serverless
7 5 (3.73%) Azure
7 5 (3.73%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.24%) ChatGPT
9 2 (1.49%) Datadog
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.75%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (50.75%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (48.51%) Metadata
2 25 (18.66%) Big Data
3 24 (17.91%) Hadoop
3 24 (17.91%) Redis
4 23 (17.16%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (17.16%) Scylla
5 12 (8.96%) Relational Database
6 7 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (4.48%) Oracle Database
7 6 (4.48%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.75%) Apache Accumulo
9 1 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.75%) Flink
9 1 (0.75%) GIS
9 1 (0.75%) HBase
9 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 77 (57.46%) Git
2 68 (50.75%) Bitbucket
2 68 (50.75%) Jenkins
3 65 (48.51%) Artifactory
4 6 (4.48%) JDeveloper
5 1 (0.75%) JUnit
General
1 105 (78.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 82 (61.19%) Finance
3 81 (60.45%) Law
3 81 (60.45%) Marketing
4 32 (23.88%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.73%) Games
5 5 (3.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 118 (88.06%) Software Engineer
2 67 (50.00%) Lead
2 67 (50.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 45 (33.58%) Senior
4 44 (32.84%) Senior Software Engineer
5 24 (17.91%) Principal Engineer
5 24 (17.91%) Principal Software Engineer
6 10 (7.46%) Developer
7 6 (4.48%) Backend Developer
7 6 (4.48%) Ruby Engineer
8 3 (2.24%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (2.24%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 1 (0.75%) Blockchain Engineer
9 1 (0.75%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 1 (0.75%) Python Engineer
9 1 (0.75%) Python Software Engineer
9 1 (0.75%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 1 (0.75%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (51.49%) RESTful
1 69 (51.49%) Web Services
2 68 (50.75%) JSON
2 68 (50.75%) LDAP
2 68 (50.75%) OpenID
2 68 (50.75%) XML
3 65 (48.51%) JSON-LD
3 65 (48.51%) SAML
4 24 (17.91%) Kafka
5 23 (17.16%) GraphQL
6 6 (4.48%) Node.js
6 6 (4.48%) React
6 6 (4.48%) REST
7 2 (1.49%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.75%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.75%) Django
8 1 (0.75%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 68 (50.75%) Enterprise Cloud
2 65 (48.51%) Management Information System
2 65 (48.51%) Reference Data
3 46 (34.33%) Algorithms
4 28 (20.90%) Data Structures
5 14 (10.45%) Public Cloud
6 8 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.73%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.24%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.75%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (89.55%) Software Engineering
2 90 (67.16%) Agile
3 84 (62.69%) CI/CD
4 82 (61.19%) Test Automation
5 81 (60.45%) Operational Stability
6 80 (59.70%) Community of Practice
6 80 (59.70%) SDLC
7 69 (51.49%) Data Modelling
8 66 (49.25%) Architectural Design
8 66 (49.25%) Information Architecture
8 66 (49.25%) Roadmaps
9 65 (48.51%) Continuous Delivery
9 65 (48.51%) Data Pipeline
9 65 (48.51%) Data Transformation
9 65 (48.51%) Identity Access Management
9 65 (48.51%) Ontologies
9 65 (48.51%) RDF
9 65 (48.51%) Use Case
10 30 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (17.91%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 65 (48.51%) Prolog
1 65 (48.51%) SPARQL
2 63 (47.01%) Java
3 58 (43.28%) Python
4 30 (22.39%) Bash
5 24 (17.91%) Scala
6 17 (12.69%) C++
7 12 (8.96%) JavaScript
8 8 (5.97%) C
8 8 (5.97%) Rust
9 6 (4.48%) Perl
9 6 (4.48%) Ruby
9 6 (4.48%) SQL
10 5 (3.73%) C#
10 5 (3.73%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (5.97%) Degree
2 5 (3.73%) Master's Degree
2 5 (3.73%) PhD
3 3 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.48%) QA
System Software
1 68 (50.75%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (22.39%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.45%) Terraform
3 2 (1.49%) Grafana
3 2 (1.49%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.75%) Rancher
Vendors
1 27 (20.15%) Google
2 24 (17.91%) Dell
3 6 (4.48%) Oracle
4 3 (2.24%) Cadence
4 3 (2.24%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.75%) Splunk
5 1 (0.75%) StreamSets