Go Job Trends in Berkshire

Go (Golang)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 101 139
Rank change year-on-year -16 +38 +13
Permanent jobs citing Go 10 19 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.51% 1.16% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.83% 3.25% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4 15 5
10th Percentile - £94,500 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £97,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £105,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -45.24% +82.61% +27.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £112,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £115,000 £73,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -17.86% +21.74% -4.17%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

Go falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 261 584 808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.33% 35.76% 38.94%
Number of salaries quoted 182 343 566
10th Percentile £40,002 £43,800 £38,130
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,188 £48,035
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +14.41% -7.63%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,375 £95,000 £91,875
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Go relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Go job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Go
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Go

Go
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in Berkshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Go in Berkshire

Go
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Reading +12 4 £57,500 -45.24% 2
Slough - 2 - - 26
Windsor - 2 - -
Maidenhead - 2 - -
Go
South East

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (30.00%) Postman
1 3 (30.00%) Selenium
1 3 (30.00%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (60.00%) Law
1 6 (60.00%) Marketing
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Architect
1 6 (60.00%) GCP Architect
1 6 (60.00%) Platform Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) pytest
1 3 (30.00%) SOAP
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Analytics
1 6 (60.00%) Architectural Design
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Security
1 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (60.00%) Cost Management
1 6 (60.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 6 (60.00%) Data Science
1 6 (60.00%) Mentoring
1 6 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 6 (60.00%) Roadmaps
1 6 (60.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 3 (30.00%) Batch Processing
2 3 (30.00%) Fintech
2 3 (30.00%) QA Automation
2 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (10.00%) AI
3 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) PHP
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Google