Go Jobs in England

Go (Golang)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 344 180
Rank change year-on-year +210 -164 -59
Permanent jobs citing Go 1,190 672 1,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.42% 0.78% 2.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.88% 2.43% 4.73%
Number of salaries quoted 290 538 945
10th Percentile £53,625 £48,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% - -
75th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £138,750 £120,000 £137,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
% 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 15,107 27,638 39,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.78% 32.16% 43.26%
Number of salaries quoted 10,184 22,466 25,136
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,475 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 13 May 2025.

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 13 May 2025. 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
North of England +251 605 £76,250 +17.31% 73
North West +182 585 £77,500 +16.98% 53
London +75 306 £110,000 +10.00% 439
South East +70 94 £71,250 +29.55% 117
East of England +65 47 £50,000 -41.18% 24
South West +95 22 £78,810 +11.67% 26
Yorkshire +79 19 £70,000 +7.69% 17
Midlands +39 16 £57,500 -25.32% 31
West Midlands +18 10 £57,500 -25.81% 28
East Midlands +32 6 £47,500 -13.64% 1
North East +42 1 - - 3
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 69 (5.80%) Apache Airflow
2 68 (5.71%) Apache Spark
3 67 (5.63%) Apache
4 9 (0.76%) Confluence
5 3 (0.25%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.17%) nginx
7 1 (0.084%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.084%) CMS
7 1 (0.084%) JBoss
7 1 (0.084%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 636 (53.45%) AWS
2 283 (23.78%) Azure
3 246 (20.67%) GCP
4 233 (19.58%) Pulumi
5 99 (8.32%) Serverless
6 93 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
7 81 (6.81%) OpenShift
8 79 (6.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 78 (6.55%) Amazon ECS
10 70 (5.88%) dbt
11 58 (4.87%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (1.51%) Amazon S3
14 17 (1.43%) GitHub
15 13 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (1.01%) Datadog
17 10 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
17 10 (0.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 9 (0.76%) Apigee
19 8 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 404 (33.95%) DNS
2 397 (33.36%) VPN
3 215 (18.07%) Broadband
4 6 (0.50%) Internet
5 5 (0.42%) Firewall
5 5 (0.42%) Network Security
6 3 (0.25%) SSL
7 1 (0.084%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.084%) 5G
7 1 (0.084%) HTTP
7 1 (0.084%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.084%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (20.17%) NoSQL
2 232 (19.50%) Relational Database
3 217 (18.24%) RDBMS
4 67 (5.63%) Amazon Athena
4 67 (5.63%) Apache Arrow
4 67 (5.63%) Apache Iceberg
4 67 (5.63%) Apache Ignite
4 67 (5.63%) Dremio
5 53 (4.45%) Elasticsearch
6 27 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.60%) MySQL
8 16 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.92%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.59%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.34%) Couchbase
13 3 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.25%) Big Data
13 3 (0.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 216 (18.15%) Jaeger
2 73 (6.13%) Artifactory
3 46 (3.87%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.52%) Git
5 20 (1.68%) GitLab
6 12 (1.01%) JIRA
7 11 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (0.84%) JUnit
8 10 (0.84%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.76%) Maven
10 8 (0.67%) Selenium
11 7 (0.59%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.50%) Postman
13 5 (0.42%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.42%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.42%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.42%) SoapUI
14 4 (0.34%) Vite
14 4 (0.34%) webpack
15 1 (0.084%) Zephyr
General
1 840 (70.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 528 (44.37%) Finance
3 453 (38.07%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (6.39%) Front Office
5 45 (3.78%) Social Skills
6 44 (3.70%) Banking
7 24 (2.02%) Law
8 14 (1.18%) Games
9 6 (0.50%) Retail
10 3 (0.25%) Marketing
10 3 (0.25%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.17%) Advertising
11 2 (0.17%) Electronics
11 2 (0.17%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.17%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.17%) Retail Finance
12 1 (0.084%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.084%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.084%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 483 (40.59%) Developer
2 453 (38.07%) Software Developer
3 281 (23.61%) Software Engineer
4 266 (22.35%) Lead
5 257 (21.60%) Senior
6 215 (18.07%) Team Leader
7 212 (17.82%) Senior Software Engineer
8 96 (8.07%) DevOps Engineer
9 91 (7.65%) AWS Engineer
10 85 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
10 85 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 71 (5.97%) Python Engineer
12 69 (5.80%) Data Engineer
13 42 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
14 35 (2.94%) Cloud Native Engineer
14 35 (2.94%) Cloud Software Engineer
15 26 (2.18%) Platform Engineer
16 25 (2.10%) Lead Software Engineer
17 21 (1.76%) Lead Cloud Engineer
18 19 (1.60%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (20.42%) Node.js
2 232 (19.50%) .NET
3 218 (18.32%) Elastic Stack
4 216 (18.15%) OpenTelemetry
5 90 (7.56%) Kafka
6 73 (6.13%) J2EE
7 67 (5.63%) PySpark
8 49 (4.12%) Pandas
9 28 (2.35%) React
10 23 (1.93%) RESTful
11 15 (1.26%) Spring Boot
11 15 (1.26%) Vue
12 14 (1.18%) Spring
13 12 (1.01%) Hibernate
14 10 (0.84%) gRPC
14 10 (0.84%) Loki
15 9 (0.76%) AWS CDK
15 9 (0.76%) Next.js
15 9 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
16 8 (0.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 624 (52.44%) Cyberattack
2 180 (15.13%) Linux Command Line
3 178 (14.96%) Self-Motivation
4 57 (4.79%) Cloud Native
5 53 (4.45%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (3.03%) Legacy Code
7 17 (1.43%) Algorithms
8 16 (1.34%) Public Cloud
9 8 (0.67%) Blockchain
9 8 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (0.67%) Product Ownership
10 7 (0.59%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.50%) Tandem
11 6 (0.50%) Web3
12 4 (0.34%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.25%) Client/Server
13 3 (0.25%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.25%) Hackathon
13 3 (0.25%) IoT
14 2 (0.17%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 921 (77.39%) Linux
2 451 (37.90%) Android
3 229 (19.24%) Unix
4 7 (0.59%) Windows
5 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.084%) CentOS
7 1 (0.084%) Debian
7 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 970 (81.51%) Agile
2 460 (38.66%) OO
3 455 (38.24%) OOP
4 454 (38.15%) Mathematics
5 448 (37.65%) Android Development
5 448 (37.65%) Design Patterns
5 448 (37.65%) Software Engineering
6 447 (37.56%) Line Management
7 423 (35.55%) Mentoring
8 364 (30.59%) DevOps
9 313 (26.30%) Containerisation
10 285 (23.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 280 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
12 251 (21.09%) Data Engineering
12 251 (21.09%) Microservices
13 237 (19.92%) CI/CD
13 237 (19.92%) Continuous Integration
14 229 (19.24%) Roadmaps
15 225 (18.91%) Performance Optimisation
16 224 (18.82%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 1,073 (90.17%) Python
2 994 (83.53%) Java
3 685 (57.56%) C++
4 485 (40.76%) JavaScript
5 287 (24.12%) Rust
6 235 (19.75%) Bash
7 52 (4.37%) C
8 37 (3.11%) PHP
8 37 (3.11%) SQL
9 31 (2.61%) TypeScript
10 19 (1.60%) C#
11 15 (1.26%) Ruby
12 14 (1.18%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.01%) PowerShell
14 9 (0.76%) Bicep
15 5 (0.42%) Perl
16 3 (0.25%) Scala
16 3 (0.25%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.17%) Objective-C
17 2 (0.17%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 636 (53.45%) Security Cleared
2 629 (52.86%) DV Cleared
3 396 (33.28%) AWS Certification
4 178 (14.96%) AWS Certified Developer
4 178 (14.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (2.02%) Degree
6 11 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (0.84%) SC Cleared
8 5 (0.42%) PhD
9 3 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (0.25%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.17%) CISSP
10 2 (0.17%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.26%) Accessibility
2 8 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (0.67%) NIST
3 7 (0.59%) QA
4 2 (0.17%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.084%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 812 (68.24%) Docker
2 6 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 685 (57.56%) Ansible
2 491 (41.26%) Kubernetes
3 424 (35.63%) Terraform
4 235 (19.75%) Prometheus
5 215 (18.07%) Argo
5 215 (18.07%) Kustomize
6 22 (1.85%) Grafana
7 15 (1.26%) Istio
8 13 (1.09%) Puppet
9 12 (1.01%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.76%) Podman
11 5 (0.42%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.25%) Graylog
13 1 (0.084%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.084%) Consul
13 1 (0.084%) Kibana
13 1 (0.084%) Nagios
13 1 (0.084%) Packer
13 1 (0.084%) Salt
13 1 (0.084%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 234 (19.66%) Google
2 8 (0.67%) Hitachi
2 8 (0.67%) Splunk
3 7 (0.59%) Microsoft
4 6 (0.50%) Confluent
5 5 (0.42%) Atlassian
6 4 (0.34%) Apple
6 4 (0.34%) New Relic
6 4 (0.34%) Oracle
7 3 (0.25%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.17%) Databricks
8 2 (0.17%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.084%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.084%) Commvault
9 1 (0.084%) Intel
9 1 (0.084%) Planview
9 1 (0.084%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.084%) Spotify
9 1 (0.084%) VMware
9 1 (0.084%) YouTube