Go Job Trends in the East of England

Go (Golang)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 154 195
Rank change year-on-year -19 +41 -75
Permanent jobs citing Go 8 21 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.13% 0.70% 0.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.03% 2.49% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 22
10th Percentile £77,000 - £62,500
25th Percentile - £46,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £50,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -41.18% +6.25%
75th Percentile - - £92,500
90th Percentile - £52,250 £93,625
England median annual salary £90,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.70% +15.63% -

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 779 844 1,749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 12.32% 28.12% 28.58%
Number of salaries quoted 509 665 1,458
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
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 of England

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

Go job vacancy trend in the East of England

Go
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Go

Go
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the East of England region over the 6 months to 10 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
Cambridgeshire -22 5 £80,000 +60.00%
Hertfordshire -26 1 - -
Essex -31 1 - - 1
Suffolk - 1 - -
Go
England

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (12.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) C++ Developer
2 2 (25.00%) C++ Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Scala Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Scala Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) gRPC
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Video\Live Streaming
2 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (25.00%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (12.50%) Low-Code
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (25.00%) Coaching
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Data Science
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Personalization
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) AIOps
4 1 (12.50%) API Design
4 1 (12.50%) API Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Application Performance Management
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C++
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Typelevel