Go Job Trends in Bristol

Go (Golang)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 91 102
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 +13
Permanent jobs citing Go 3 13 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.15% 0.91% 1.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.13% 2.74% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 30
10th Percentile £85,500 - £61,180
25th Percentile £86,250 £66,250 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% +2.73% +12.92%
75th Percentile £102,500 £81,875 £96,539
90th Percentile - £83,750 £117,236
South West median annual salary £85,000 £72,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year +17.24% +2.73% +12.92%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 266 475 741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 13.19% 33.24% 43.95%
Number of salaries quoted 220 311 658
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,125
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +3.95% +4.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,125 £87,500 £91,934
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Go job vacancy trend in Bristol

Go
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Go

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 3 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) InfluxDB
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Docker Swarm
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform