Go Job Trends in Cambridge

Go (Golang)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge 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 51 54 27
Rank change year-on-year +3 -27 +46
Permanent jobs citing Go 1 5 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.20% 1.08% 7.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.72% 2.15% 17.51%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 38
10th Percentile - - £56,575
25th Percentile - £82,500 £74,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +54.55%
75th Percentile - £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary - £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - - +54.55%

All Programming Languages
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 138 233 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 26.95% 50.11% 45.02%
Number of salaries quoted 102 122 135
10th Percentile £38,819 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £90,625
90th Percentile £78,500 £85,000 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% -

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Go job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Go
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Go

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python