Go Jobs in Edinburgh

Go (Golang)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Go skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Go over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 71 112
Rank change year-on-year -7 +41 -56
Permanent jobs citing Go 9 37 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.98% 2.49% 1.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.71% 6.40% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 10
10th Percentile £67,500 £38,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £68,798 £44,750 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £57,500 £74,540
Median % change year-on-year +25.20% -22.86% -5.35%
75th Percentile £82,751 £65,000 £108,941
90th Percentile £83,751 - £117,236
Scotland median annual salary £71,991 £57,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +25.20% -17.20% -7.40%

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 332 578 885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 36.24% 38.87% 44.03%
Number of salaries quoted 223 451 559
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,625 £75,000 £79,375
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £95,000
Scotland median annual salary £58,033 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.51% -8.33% +9.09%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Go in Edinburgh

Go
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Go in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Go in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) GCP
1 4 (44.44%) SaaS
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Apigee
3 2 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (11.11%) Datadog
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) HTTP
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) JUnit
1 2 (22.22%) Maven
1 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
1 2 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (11.11%) webpack
General
1 5 (55.56%) Banking
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Lead
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Developer
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps Developer
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Software Team Leader
4 2 (22.22%) Team Leader
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Lead Network Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) RESTful
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
4 1 (11.11%) CSS
4 1 (11.11%) HTML
4 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (11.11%) React
4 1 (11.11%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
3 5 (55.56%) Microservices
3 5 (55.56%) TDD
4 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Coaching
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
6 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
6 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (22.22%) Non-Blocking Code
6 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (22.22%) SOLID
6 2 (22.22%) Static Application Security Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) Elixir
3 2 (22.22%) F#
3 2 (22.22%) Ruby
3 2 (22.22%) Scala
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Istio
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Planview
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk