Go Job Trends in England

Go (Golang)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 141 342
Rank change year-on-year -174 +201 -107
Permanent jobs citing Go 455 993 679
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 2.52% 0.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.05% 7.89% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 283 270 546
10th Percentile £49,000 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -
75th Percentile £121,250 £115,000 £104,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -6.25%

All Programming Languages
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14,920 12,582 28,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.08% 31.88% 30.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,666 8,492 22,900
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Go job vacancy trend in England

Go
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Go

Go
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

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 8 June 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
London -1 298 £100,000 -9.09% 169
North of England -247 56 £75,000 -3.23% 30
South East -42 39 £62,500 -7.41% 46
North West -184 34 £85,000 +9.68% 22
South West -44 27 £60,000 -24.44% 22
Midlands -23 22 £50,000 -13.04% 12
East Midlands -21 15 £50,000 -4.76% 5
Yorkshire -46 12 £71,250 +1.79% 4
North East - 10 £47,500 - 4
East of England -40 8 £80,000 +60.00% 9
West Midlands -32 7 £67,500 +17.39% 7
Go
UK

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (0.88%) Ethereum
2 3 (0.66%) Apache
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 315 (69.23%) AWS
2 153 (33.63%) GCP
3 89 (19.56%) Azure
4 55 (12.09%) GitHub
5 49 (10.77%) GitHub Actions
6 47 (10.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (9.23%) Serverless
8 35 (7.69%) Pulumi
9 33 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
10 31 (6.81%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (5.93%) Datadog
12 26 (5.71%) SaaS
13 24 (5.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (4.62%) Amazon S3
14 21 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
15 20 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
16 13 (2.86%) OpenShift
17 11 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 87 (19.12%) Broadband
2 23 (5.05%) Firewall
3 19 (4.18%) TCP/IP
4 17 (3.74%) DNS
5 15 (3.30%) HTTP
6 13 (2.86%) DSL
6 13 (2.86%) Network Security
7 11 (2.42%) VPN
8 7 (1.54%) Internet
9 4 (0.88%) BGP
10 3 (0.66%) VLAN
11 2 (0.44%) SSL
12 1 (0.22%) 4G
12 1 (0.22%) 5G
12 1 (0.22%) Diameter Protocol
12 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
12 1 (0.22%) RTP
12 1 (0.22%) SS7
12 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (13.63%) NoSQL
2 45 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (7.47%) MongoDB
4 21 (4.62%) DynamoDB
4 21 (4.62%) Relational Database
5 20 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (3.96%) RDBMS
7 11 (2.42%) MySQL
8 8 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.66%) Redis
10 2 (0.44%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.44%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.44%) Flink
11 1 (0.22%) Big Data
11 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.22%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.22%) Metadata
11 1 (0.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 66 (14.51%) Jenkins
2 52 (11.43%) GitLab
3 48 (10.55%) Git
4 24 (5.27%) CircleCI
5 20 (4.40%) Jaeger
6 9 (1.98%) Subversion
7 8 (1.76%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.10%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.66%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.66%) JIRA
9 3 (0.66%) JUnit
9 3 (0.66%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.44%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.44%) JMeter
11 1 (0.22%) Balsamiq
11 1 (0.22%) CMake
11 1 (0.22%) NUnit
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.22%) Valgrind
General
1 108 (23.74%) Finance
2 76 (16.70%) Social Skills
3 69 (15.16%) Banking
4 36 (7.91%) Retail
5 35 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (7.47%) Front Office
7 31 (6.81%) Games
7 31 (6.81%) Law
8 21 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
9 20 (4.40%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.20%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.32%) Advertising
11 6 (1.32%) Back Office
11 6 (1.32%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.66%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.66%) Digital Healthcare
14 2 (0.44%) Electronics
14 2 (0.44%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 143 (31.43%) Software Engineer
2 117 (25.71%) Developer
3 106 (23.30%) Senior
4 74 (16.26%) Lead
5 47 (10.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 33 (7.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 33 (7.25%) Lead Software Engineer
7 32 (7.03%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (7.03%) Senior Developer
8 30 (6.59%) Scala Engineer
9 28 (6.15%) AWS Engineer
10 25 (5.49%) Lead Developer
11 22 (4.84%) Architect
11 22 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (4.40%) Lead Software Developer
13 18 (3.96%) Java Engineer
14 16 (3.52%) Head of Engineering
15 15 (3.30%) AWS DevOps
15 15 (3.30%) Scala Developer
15 15 (3.30%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (17.14%) Kafka
2 71 (15.60%) React
3 65 (14.29%) gRPC
4 50 (10.99%) RESTful
5 49 (10.77%) Node.js
6 44 (9.67%) Elastic Stack
7 34 (7.47%) Redux
8 33 (7.25%) GraphQL
9 21 (4.62%) web3js
10 20 (4.40%) OpenTelemetry
11 18 (3.96%) RabbitMQ
12 17 (3.74%) REST
13 15 (3.30%) AWS CDK
14 14 (3.08%) Vue
15 13 (2.86%) Spring
16 12 (2.64%) AngularJS
17 9 (1.98%) .NET
18 8 (1.76%) eBPF
18 8 (1.76%) Spring Boot
19 7 (1.54%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 109 (23.96%) Distributed Systems
2 102 (22.42%) Cloud Native
3 67 (14.73%) Video\Live Streaming
4 45 (9.89%) Over-the-Top Content
5 32 (7.03%) Fixed Income
6 23 (5.05%) Blockchain
7 22 (4.84%) Low-Code
8 21 (4.62%) Web3
9 17 (3.74%) Algorithms
10 14 (3.08%) Product Ownership
11 12 (2.64%) Security Posture
12 10 (2.20%) Data Structures
12 10 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (2.20%) PKI
12 10 (2.20%) Public Cloud
12 10 (2.20%) Sports Betting
13 9 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.98%) Private Cloud
14 5 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
14 5 (1.10%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 72 (15.82%) Linux
2 19 (4.18%) Unix
3 13 (2.86%) Android
4 11 (2.42%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.98%) Windows
6 3 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (56.04%) Software Engineering
2 229 (50.33%) CI/CD
3 171 (37.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 146 (32.09%) Containerisation
5 141 (30.99%) DevOps
6 121 (26.59%) Microservices
7 107 (23.52%) Agile
8 88 (19.34%) Machine Learning
9 87 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
10 85 (18.68%) Continuous Delivery
11 76 (16.70%) Test Automation
12 74 (16.26%) Full-Stack Development
12 74 (16.26%) Observability
13 73 (16.04%) AI
14 65 (14.29%) High Availability
15 62 (13.63%) Clean Code
15 62 (13.63%) Continuous Integration
16 54 (11.87%) Data Science
16 54 (11.87%) Mentoring
17 50 (10.99%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 280 (61.54%) Python
2 159 (34.95%) Java
3 88 (19.34%) TypeScript
4 84 (18.46%) JavaScript
5 73 (16.04%) Bash
6 56 (12.31%) Rust
7 46 (10.11%) Scala
8 38 (8.35%) C++
9 32 (7.03%) C#
10 27 (5.93%) SQL
11 20 (4.40%) PHP
12 12 (2.64%) C
13 9 (1.98%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.10%) Ruby
15 4 (0.88%) Perl
16 3 (0.66%) Objective-C
17 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
17 1 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 57 (12.53%) Degree
2 37 (8.13%) AWS Certification
3 35 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 32 (7.03%) OSCP
5 23 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.30%) DV Cleared
7 14 (3.08%) CREST Certified
8 12 (2.64%) SC Cleared
9 10 (2.20%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.98%) PhD
11 5 (1.10%) CEH
12 3 (0.66%) CCSAM
12 3 (0.66%) GPEN
12 3 (0.66%) GXPN
12 3 (0.66%) OSCE
13 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.15%) QA
2 19 (4.18%) SOC 2
3 11 (2.42%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.76%) GDPR
5 8 (1.76%) GRC
6 3 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.44%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.44%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 141 (30.99%) Docker
2 8 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 177 (38.90%) Kubernetes
2 162 (35.60%) Terraform
3 80 (17.58%) Prometheus
4 68 (14.95%) Ansible
5 46 (10.11%) Grafana
6 29 (6.37%) Argo
7 18 (3.96%) Kustomize
8 10 (2.20%) Istio
8 10 (2.20%) Rancher
9 9 (1.98%) Cilium
10 8 (1.76%) Kibana
10 8 (1.76%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.32%) yum
12 4 (0.88%) Puppet
13 3 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.66%) logstash
13 3 (0.66%) Nagios
14 1 (0.22%) linkerd
14 1 (0.22%) Podman
14 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 45 (9.89%) Typelevel
2 27 (5.93%) Google
3 11 (2.42%) VMware
4 10 (2.20%) Microsoft
5 8 (1.76%) Confluent
6 6 (1.32%) Palantir
6 6 (1.32%) Splunk
7 5 (1.10%) Oracle
8 3 (0.66%) Commvault
9 2 (0.44%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.22%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.22%) Arista
10 1 (0.22%) BigPanda
10 1 (0.22%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.22%) Ericsson
10 1 (0.22%) Mavenir
10 1 (0.22%) Moogsoft
10 1 (0.22%) New Relic
10 1 (0.22%) Nokia
10 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow