Go Job Trends in Edinburgh

Go (Golang)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 81 86
Rank change year-on-year -26 +5 +24
Permanent jobs citing Go 2 15 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.20% 1.27% 2.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.45% 2.99% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 6
10th Percentile £76,500 - £51,250
25th Percentile £76,875 £70,097 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,780 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% +16.58% +4.00%
75th Percentile £84,375 £85,253 £91,154
90th Percentile £85,500 - £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £90,000 £75,780 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.76% +26.30% -

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 441 502 492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 43.07% 42.61% 48.19%
Number of salaries quoted 171 259 396
10th Percentile £26,250 £39,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £32,029 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% -11.54% +4.84%
75th Percentile £78,770 £75,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £88,750 £89,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year - -7.60% +3.52%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Go job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Go
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Go

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Fintech
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) CQRS
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PHP