Go Job Trends in the East Midlands

Go (Golang)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 132 178
Rank change year-on-year -22 +46 -53
Permanent jobs citing Go 10 4 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.22% 0.21% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.33% 0.81% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 4
10th Percentile £48,500 £35,000 -
25th Percentile - £38,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -45.00%
75th Percentile - £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile - £60,000 -
England median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 752 496 1,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.41% 25.98% 27.05%
Number of salaries quoted 445 352 942
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,592 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.06% -4.82% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Go job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Go
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Go

Go
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Derbyshire +3 10 £50,000 - 5
Go
England

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jaeger
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (10.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (10.00%) Agile
1 1 (10.00%) Budget Control
1 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (10.00%) DevOps
1 1 (10.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (10.00%) GitOps
1 1 (10.00%) High Availability
1 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (10.00%) Product Management
1 1 (10.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Argo
2 1 (10.00%) Kustomize
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google