Go Jobs in England

Go (Golang)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Go skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Go over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 181 125
Rank change year-on-year -168 -56 +17
Permanent jobs citing Go 655 1,912 4,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.77% 2.05% 3.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.38% 4.71% 5.82%
Number of salaries quoted 525 968 2,170
10th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £136,625 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%

All Programming Languages
England

Go is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,494 40,577 69,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.42% 43.53% 53.28%
Number of salaries quoted 22,411 25,963 39,542
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in England

Go
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Go in England

Go
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Go in England

Go
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London -89 318 £100,000 +11.11% 147
South East +2 114 £55,000 -18.52% 21
North of England -145 88 £65,000 -18.75% 36
North West -78 71 £65,000 -21.21% 29
Midlands -46 48 £77,000 +10.00% 9
South West -75 48 £70,576 -2.65% 17
West Midlands +8 40 £77,500 +10.71% 8
East of England -76 24 £85,000 +6.25% 7
Yorkshire -48 13 £67,500 -15.63% 3
East Midlands -52 8 £55,000 -45.00% 1
North East -41 4 £55,000 -37.14% 4
Go
UK

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 33 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.98%) Apache
4 11 (1.68%) Confluence
5 7 (1.07%) nginx
6 3 (0.46%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.46%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.31%) CMS
7 2 (0.31%) IIS
7 2 (0.31%) Liferay
7 2 (0.31%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 293 (44.73%) AWS
2 145 (22.14%) Azure
3 124 (18.93%) Serverless
4 101 (15.42%) GCP
5 75 (11.45%) AWS Lambda
6 63 (9.62%) GitHub
7 59 (9.01%) Amazon EC2
8 58 (8.85%) Amazon S3
9 53 (8.09%) Amazon ECS
10 52 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 42 (6.41%) Amazon SQS
11 42 (6.41%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (6.41%) OpenShift
12 36 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
13 31 (4.73%) Snowflake
14 30 (4.58%) dbt
15 25 (3.82%) SaaS
16 18 (2.75%) Azure AKS
16 18 (2.75%) IaaS
17 17 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.21%) Internet
2 9 (1.37%) Network Security
3 7 (1.07%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.76%) AMQP
4 5 (0.76%) DNS
5 4 (0.61%) Firewall
5 4 (0.61%) RS-232
5 4 (0.61%) RS-485
5 4 (0.61%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.46%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.31%) Broadband
7 2 (0.31%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.31%) HTTP
8 1 (0.15%) 3G
8 1 (0.15%) DHCP
8 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (20.61%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (8.55%) Amazon RDS
3 55 (8.40%) Amazon Redshift
4 53 (8.09%) Relational Database
5 51 (7.79%) Big Data
6 49 (7.48%) MySQL
7 38 (5.80%) Data Lake
8 34 (5.19%) Amazon Athena
8 34 (5.19%) Redis
9 30 (4.58%) Apache Arrow
9 30 (4.58%) Dremio
10 26 (3.97%) RDBMS
11 25 (3.82%) MongoDB
12 21 (3.21%) BigQuery
12 21 (3.21%) Oracle Database
13 18 (2.75%) NoSQL
14 17 (2.60%) DynamoDB
14 17 (2.60%) SQL Server
15 13 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (1.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 129 (19.69%) Git
2 81 (12.37%) Jenkins
3 41 (6.26%) Artifactory
4 28 (4.27%) GitLab
5 25 (3.82%) JIRA
6 21 (3.21%) JDeveloper
7 15 (2.29%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.68%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (0.92%) Maven
11 6 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.92%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.76%) Appium
12 5 (0.76%) JUnit
12 5 (0.76%) Selenium
13 4 (0.61%) Jasmine
14 3 (0.46%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 220 (33.59%) Finance
2 110 (16.79%) Social Skills
3 36 (5.50%) Front Office
4 35 (5.34%) Banking
5 34 (5.19%) Retail
6 31 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.97%) Law
7 26 (3.97%) Marketing
8 23 (3.51%) Publishing
9 21 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (1.98%) Legal
11 12 (1.83%) Games
11 12 (1.83%) Public Sector
12 11 (1.68%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.22%) Electronics
13 8 (1.22%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.76%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.61%) Aviation
16 3 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 164 (25.04%) Developer
2 153 (23.36%) Software Engineer
3 121 (18.47%) Senior
4 102 (15.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 84 (12.82%) AWS Engineer
6 77 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 64 (9.77%) Lead
8 62 (9.47%) Cloud Engineer
9 47 (7.18%) AWS DevOps
9 47 (7.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 47 (7.18%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 40 (6.11%) Senior Developer
11 39 (5.95%) Site Engineer
12 37 (5.65%) Software Developer
13 31 (4.73%) Senior Software Engineer
14 30 (4.58%) Big Data Engineer
14 30 (4.58%) Platform Engineer
15 21 (3.21%) Cloud Software Engineer
15 21 (3.21%) Lead Software Engineer
15 21 (3.21%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (15.27%) gRPC
2 96 (14.66%) React
3 95 (14.50%) Node.js
4 87 (13.28%) Kafka
5 63 (9.62%) REST
6 45 (6.87%) RabbitMQ
7 37 (5.65%) GraphQL
8 36 (5.50%) J2EE
9 35 (5.34%) Web Services
10 33 (5.04%) Protocol Buffers
11 32 (4.89%) HTML
12 31 (4.73%) CSS
13 30 (4.58%) .NET
14 25 (3.82%) AngularJS
15 24 (3.66%) Svelte
16 21 (3.21%) jQuery
17 18 (2.75%) React Native
18 17 (2.60%) JSON
19 16 (2.44%) HTML5
19 16 (2.44%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 66 (10.08%) Distributed Systems
2 65 (9.92%) Cloud Native
3 36 (5.50%) Legacy Code
3 36 (5.50%) Tandem
4 34 (5.19%) Hedge funds
5 32 (4.89%) Algorithms
5 32 (4.89%) Blockchain
6 31 (4.73%) Clustering
6 31 (4.73%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (3.36%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
9 14 (2.14%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.98%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.68%) Blog
13 10 (1.53%) Public Cloud
14 7 (1.07%) Data Centre
14 7 (1.07%) Mobile App
14 7 (1.07%) Onboarding
15 6 (0.92%) Digital Currency
Operating Systems
1 121 (18.47%) Linux
2 28 (4.27%) Windows
3 8 (1.22%) Apple iOS
3 8 (1.22%) Unix
3 8 (1.22%) VMS
4 6 (0.92%) Android
5 5 (0.76%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.46%) CentOS
7 3 (0.46%) SUSE
7 3 (0.46%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.31%) Debian
8 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (43.21%) Software Engineering
2 262 (40.00%) DevOps
3 219 (33.44%) Agile
4 208 (31.76%) CI/CD
5 134 (20.46%) Microservices
6 95 (14.50%) Continuous Integration
6 95 (14.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 95 (14.50%) Open Source
6 95 (14.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 82 (12.52%) TDD
8 80 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
9 73 (11.15%) Containerisation
10 71 (10.84%) Computer Science
11 70 (10.69%) Asset Management
12 67 (10.23%) Full Stack Development
13 64 (9.77%) Roadmaps
14 57 (8.70%) Configuration Management
15 54 (8.24%) Deployment Automation
16 53 (8.09%) Mentoring
16 53 (8.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 337 (51.45%) Python
2 258 (39.39%) Java
3 172 (26.26%) JavaScript
4 95 (14.50%) TypeScript
5 75 (11.45%) C#
6 69 (10.53%) Bash
7 68 (10.38%) Rust
8 65 (9.92%) Ruby
8 65 (9.92%) SQL
9 52 (7.94%) C
10 51 (7.79%) C++
11 42 (6.41%) PowerShell
12 40 (6.11%) Kotlin
13 33 (5.04%) PHP
14 28 (4.27%) Scala
15 24 (3.66%) Perl
16 11 (1.68%) Groovy
17 9 (1.37%) Bicep
17 9 (1.37%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 72 (10.99%) Degree
2 36 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (4.58%) Security Cleared
4 22 (3.36%) SC Cleared
5 19 (2.90%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.98%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.31%) PhD
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.15%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.95%) QA
2 6 (0.92%) PCI DSS
3 4 (0.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.15%) SEPA
4 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 241 (36.79%) Docker
2 7 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.61%) KVM
4 3 (0.46%) Ceph
4 3 (0.46%) Gluster
4 3 (0.46%) oVirt
5 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.15%) LXC
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.15%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 296 (45.19%) Kubernetes
2 192 (29.31%) Terraform
3 59 (9.01%) Prometheus
4 58 (8.85%) Ansible
5 27 (4.12%) Grafana
5 27 (4.12%) Progress Chef
6 26 (3.97%) Puppet
7 14 (2.14%) Kibana
8 6 (0.92%) Salt
9 5 (0.76%) Argo
9 5 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (0.76%) Rancher
10 4 (0.61%) Istio
10 4 (0.61%) Packer
11 3 (0.46%) Graylog
11 3 (0.46%) Observium
11 3 (0.46%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.31%) Consul
12 2 (0.31%) Rundeck
12 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (6.72%) Google
2 38 (5.80%) Oracle
3 34 (5.19%) Microsoft
4 10 (1.53%) Apple
5 9 (1.37%) Atlassian
5 9 (1.37%) New Relic
5 9 (1.37%) Splunk
6 8 (1.22%) SAP
6 8 (1.22%) Teradata
6 8 (1.22%) VMware
7 7 (1.07%) SaltStack
8 6 (0.92%) PagerDuty
9 5 (0.76%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (0.61%) YouTube
11 2 (0.31%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.31%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.31%) Okta
11 2 (0.31%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.31%) Sparx
11 2 (0.31%) Spotify