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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 178 115
Rank change year-on-year -144 -63 +34
Permanent jobs citing Go 866 2,211 4,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 2.11% 3.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.62% 4.86% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 599 1,090 2,447
10th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,375 £104,688 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,693 £109,250
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 33,106 45,516 82,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.77% 43.49% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 24,929 28,962 44,133
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%

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 27 April 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 27 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
England -168 655 £80,000 - 244
UK excluding London -154 467 £60,000 -20.00% 109
Work from Home -156 386 £75,000 -6.25% 161
London -89 318 £100,000 +11.11% 148
Scotland -19 134 £57,500 -17.20% 13
South East +2 114 £55,000 -18.52% 21
North of England -145 88 £65,000 -18.75% 36
North West -78 71 £65,000 -21.21% 29
Midlands -46 48 £77,000 +10.00% 9
South West -75 48 £70,576 -2.65% 17
West Midlands +8 40 £77,500 +10.71% 8
East of England -76 24 £85,000 +6.25% 7
Yorkshire -48 13 £67,500 -15.63% 3
East Midlands -52 8 £55,000 -45.00% 1
Northern Ireland -2 6 £70,000 +14.75% 4
Wales -8 5 £62,500 +38.89% 3
North East -41 4 £55,000 -37.14% 4

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 45 (5.20%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.85%) Apache
4 12 (1.39%) Confluence
5 7 (0.81%) nginx
6 3 (0.35%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.23%) CMS
7 2 (0.23%) IIS
7 2 (0.23%) Liferay
7 2 (0.23%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.12%) JBoss
8 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 390 (45.03%) AWS
2 187 (21.59%) Azure
3 160 (18.48%) GCP
4 156 (18.01%) Serverless
5 86 (9.93%) Amazon S3
6 82 (9.47%) AWS Lambda
7 76 (8.78%) GitHub
8 65 (7.51%) Amazon SQS
9 64 (7.39%) Amazon EC2
10 60 (6.93%) SaaS
11 55 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
12 54 (6.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 54 (6.24%) GitHub Actions
13 42 (4.85%) OpenShift
14 38 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
15 31 (3.58%) Snowflake
16 30 (3.46%) dbt
17 24 (2.77%) Slack
18 23 (2.66%) Google Docs
18 23 (2.66%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 68 (7.85%) Kerberos
2 21 (2.42%) Internet
3 9 (1.04%) Network Security
4 7 (0.81%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.69%) DNS
6 5 (0.58%) AMQP
7 4 (0.46%) Firewall
7 4 (0.46%) RS-232
7 4 (0.46%) RS-485
7 4 (0.46%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.35%) HTTP
8 3 (0.35%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.23%) Broadband
9 2 (0.23%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.12%) 3G
10 1 (0.12%) Anycast
10 1 (0.12%) BGP
10 1 (0.12%) DHCP
10 1 (0.12%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (16.86%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (10.74%) Relational Database
3 78 (9.01%) Big Data
4 67 (7.74%) Redis
5 65 (7.51%) Metadata
6 59 (6.81%) Amazon RDS
7 57 (6.58%) MySQL
8 55 (6.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 41 (4.73%) Elasticsearch
9 41 (4.73%) RDBMS
10 40 (4.62%) Data Lake
11 36 (4.16%) Oracle Database
12 34 (3.93%) Amazon Athena
13 32 (3.70%) Hadoop
14 30 (3.46%) Apache Arrow
14 30 (3.46%) Dremio
15 26 (3.00%) MongoDB
16 23 (2.66%) DynamoDB
16 23 (2.66%) Scylla
17 21 (2.42%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 220 (25.40%) Git
2 153 (17.67%) Jenkins
3 106 (12.24%) Artifactory
4 83 (9.58%) Bitbucket
5 36 (4.16%) JDeveloper
6 30 (3.46%) GitLab
7 26 (3.00%) JIRA
8 11 (1.27%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (0.69%) JUnit
11 6 (0.69%) Maven
11 6 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.69%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.58%) Appium
12 5 (0.58%) Selenium
13 4 (0.46%) Jasmine
14 3 (0.35%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 307 (35.45%) Finance
2 174 (20.09%) Social Skills
3 142 (16.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 112 (12.93%) Law
5 108 (12.47%) Marketing
6 40 (4.62%) Banking
7 39 (4.50%) Retail
8 36 (4.16%) Front Office
9 30 (3.46%) Public Sector
10 24 (2.77%) Legal
11 23 (2.66%) Analytical Skills
11 23 (2.66%) Publishing
12 22 (2.54%) Telecoms
13 20 (2.31%) Games
14 12 (1.39%) French Language
15 8 (0.92%) Electronics
15 8 (0.92%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.58%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.58%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 284 (32.79%) Software Engineer
2 205 (23.67%) Developer
3 203 (23.44%) Senior
4 140 (16.17%) Lead
5 117 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
6 88 (10.16%) Lead Software Engineer
7 85 (9.82%) AWS Engineer
8 79 (9.12%) Senior Software Engineer
8 79 (9.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 67 (7.74%) Cloud Engineer
10 57 (6.58%) Senior Developer
11 47 (5.43%) AWS DevOps
11 47 (5.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 47 (5.43%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 44 (5.08%) Full Stack Developer
13 41 (4.73%) Site Engineer
14 39 (4.50%) Software Developer
15 36 (4.16%) Ruby Engineer
16 31 (3.58%) Principal Engineer
17 30 (3.46%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (17.32%) Node.js
2 127 (14.67%) Web Services
3 123 (14.20%) Kafka
4 117 (13.51%) React
5 104 (12.01%) RESTful
6 103 (11.89%) gRPC
7 86 (9.93%) JSON
8 80 (9.24%) OpenID
9 74 (8.55%) XML
10 72 (8.31%) REST
11 69 (7.97%) GraphQL
12 68 (7.85%) LDAP
13 65 (7.51%) JSON-LD
13 65 (7.51%) SAML
14 51 (5.89%) HTML
15 50 (5.77%) CSS
16 49 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
17 37 (4.27%) .NET
18 36 (4.16%) J2EE
19 33 (3.81%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 83 (9.58%) Algorithms
2 80 (9.24%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (8.31%) Cloud Native
4 68 (7.85%) Enterprise Cloud
5 67 (7.74%) Management Information System
6 65 (7.51%) Reference Data
7 51 (5.89%) Data Structures
8 39 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
9 37 (4.27%) Blockchain
10 36 (4.16%) Legacy Code
10 36 (4.16%) Tandem
11 34 (3.93%) Hedge funds
12 31 (3.58%) Clustering
13 26 (3.00%) Onboarding
14 25 (2.89%) Public Cloud
15 17 (1.96%) Blog
15 17 (1.96%) Virtual Team
16 15 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
17 14 (1.62%) Product Ownership
18 12 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 137 (15.82%) Linux
2 28 (3.23%) Windows
3 14 (1.62%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.39%) Android
5 9 (1.04%) Unix
6 8 (0.92%) VMS
7 6 (0.69%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.35%) CentOS
9 3 (0.35%) SUSE
9 3 (0.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.23%) Debian
10 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (51.39%) Software Engineering
2 336 (38.80%) Agile
3 325 (37.53%) CI/CD
4 313 (36.14%) DevOps
5 156 (18.01%) Microservices
6 141 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
6 141 (16.28%) Test Automation
7 137 (15.82%) Continuous Integration
8 134 (15.47%) SDLC
9 130 (15.01%) Roadmaps
10 124 (14.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 124 (14.32%) Open Source
11 117 (13.51%) TDD
12 102 (11.78%) Continuous Delivery
13 99 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 98 (11.32%) Containerisation
15 93 (10.74%) Full Stack Development
16 89 (10.28%) Operational Stability
17 83 (9.58%) Community of Practice
18 81 (9.35%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 450 (51.96%) Python
2 364 (42.03%) Java
3 219 (25.29%) JavaScript
4 112 (12.93%) Bash
5 108 (12.47%) TypeScript
6 103 (11.89%) C#
7 95 (10.97%) Ruby
8 79 (9.12%) Rust
9 73 (8.43%) SQL
10 72 (8.31%) C++
11 65 (7.51%) Prolog
11 65 (7.51%) SPARQL
12 60 (6.93%) C
13 52 (6.00%) Scala
14 43 (4.97%) Kotlin
14 43 (4.97%) PowerShell
15 40 (4.62%) PHP
16 39 (4.50%) Perl
17 11 (1.27%) Groovy
18 9 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (9.47%) Degree
2 49 (5.66%) Security Cleared
3 41 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 38 (4.39%) SC Cleared
5 24 (2.77%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.04%) Azure Certification
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%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.12%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.12%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.24%) QA
2 20 (2.31%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.27%) GDPR
4 6 (0.69%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.46%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.12%) SEPA
6 1 (0.12%) SLA
6 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 261 (30.14%) Docker
2 69 (7.97%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.46%) KVM
5 3 (0.35%) Ceph
5 3 (0.35%) Gluster
5 3 (0.35%) oVirt
6 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.12%) LXC
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.12%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 353 (40.76%) Kubernetes
2 222 (25.64%) Terraform
3 74 (8.55%) Ansible
4 63 (7.27%) Prometheus
5 32 (3.70%) Progress Chef
6 31 (3.58%) Grafana
7 29 (3.35%) Puppet
8 14 (1.62%) Kibana
9 7 (0.81%) Argo
10 6 (0.69%) Rancher
10 6 (0.69%) Salt
11 5 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.46%) Istio
12 4 (0.46%) Packer
12 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.35%) Graylog
13 3 (0.35%) Observium
13 3 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.23%) Consul
14 2 (0.23%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 71 (8.20%) Google
2 53 (6.12%) Oracle
3 35 (4.04%) Microsoft
4 24 (2.77%) Dell
5 10 (1.15%) Apple
5 10 (1.15%) Splunk
6 9 (1.04%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.04%) New Relic
6 9 (1.04%) VMware
7 8 (0.92%) SaltStack
7 8 (0.92%) SAP
7 8 (0.92%) Teradata
8 6 (0.69%) PagerDuty
9 5 (0.58%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (0.46%) YouTube
11 3 (0.35%) Cadence
11 3 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.35%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.35%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.35%) OpenAI