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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 182 119
Rank change year-on-year -159 -63 +24
Permanent jobs citing Go 671 1,829 4,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.78% 2.03% 3.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.43% 4.69% 5.90%
Number of salaries quoted 538 941 2,166
10th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £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 27,615 38,982 71,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.16% 43.34% 53.52%
Number of salaries quoted 22,462 25,076 38,912
10th Percentile £35,475 £40,000 £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 £110,000 £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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -71 332 £100,000 +11.11% 132
South East -10 122 £55,000 -21.43% 20
North of England -142 87 £65,000 -18.75% 22
North West -83 71 £66,250 -19.70% 19
Midlands -68 48 £77,000 +10.00% 6
South West -94 46 £70,576 -2.65% 20
West Midlands -17 40 £77,500 +10.71% 6
East of England -77 22 £85,000 +6.25% 8
Yorkshire -46 12 £65,000 -18.75% 3
East Midlands -53 8 £55,000 -45.00%
North East -44 4 £55,000 -37.14%
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 45 (6.71%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (2.98%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.94%) Apache
4 9 (1.34%) Confluence
5 6 (0.89%) nginx
6 3 (0.45%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.30%) CMS
7 2 (0.30%) IIS
7 2 (0.30%) Liferay
7 2 (0.30%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 306 (45.60%) AWS
2 142 (21.16%) Azure
3 118 (17.59%) Serverless
4 105 (15.65%) GCP
5 70 (10.43%) AWS Lambda
6 62 (9.24%) GitHub
7 54 (8.05%) Amazon EC2
8 53 (7.90%) Amazon S3
9 48 (7.15%) Amazon ECS
10 47 (7.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 43 (6.41%) dbt
11 43 (6.41%) Snowflake
12 41 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
13 38 (5.66%) Amazon SQS
13 38 (5.66%) OpenShift
14 35 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
15 24 (3.58%) SaaS
16 18 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
17 17 (2.53%) Azure AKS
18 16 (2.38%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.13%) Internet
2 9 (1.34%) Network Security
3 7 (1.04%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.75%) AMQP
5 4 (0.60%) DNS
5 4 (0.60%) Firewall
5 4 (0.60%) RS-232
5 4 (0.60%) RS-485
5 4 (0.60%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.45%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.30%) Broadband
7 2 (0.30%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.30%) HTTP
8 1 (0.15%) DHCP
8 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (20.57%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (9.24%) Big Data
3 55 (8.20%) Relational Database
4 52 (7.75%) Amazon RDS
5 50 (7.45%) Data Lake
6 49 (7.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 47 (7.00%) MySQL
8 46 (6.86%) Amazon Athena
9 42 (6.26%) Apache Arrow
9 42 (6.26%) Dremio
10 34 (5.07%) Redis
11 26 (3.87%) RDBMS
12 25 (3.73%) MongoDB
13 21 (3.13%) BigQuery
13 21 (3.13%) Oracle Database
14 19 (2.83%) NoSQL
15 18 (2.68%) DynamoDB
16 17 (2.53%) SQL Server
17 13 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
18 12 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 133 (19.82%) Git
2 76 (11.33%) Jenkins
3 36 (5.37%) Artifactory
4 24 (3.58%) GitLab
5 21 (3.13%) JDeveloper
5 21 (3.13%) JIRA
6 16 (2.38%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.49%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.19%) Oracle Forms
8 8 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (0.89%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.75%) Maven
10 5 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (0.75%) Selenium
11 4 (0.60%) Appium
11 4 (0.60%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.45%) JUnit
13 2 (0.30%) Moq
13 2 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 235 (35.02%) Finance
2 111 (16.54%) Social Skills
3 34 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (5.07%) Retail
4 33 (4.92%) Banking
5 32 (4.77%) Front Office
6 29 (4.32%) Law
7 26 (3.87%) Marketing
8 23 (3.43%) Publishing
9 21 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (2.38%) Legal
11 12 (1.79%) Games
11 12 (1.79%) Public Sector
12 11 (1.64%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.19%) Electronics
13 8 (1.19%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.75%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.60%) Aviation
16 3 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 168 (25.04%) Developer
2 164 (24.44%) Software Engineer
3 124 (18.48%) Senior
4 95 (14.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 91 (13.56%) AWS Engineer
6 85 (12.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 68 (10.13%) Lead
8 65 (9.69%) Cloud Engineer
9 51 (7.60%) Site Engineer
10 42 (6.26%) AWS DevOps
10 42 (6.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 42 (6.26%) Big Data Engineer
10 42 (6.26%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 42 (6.26%) Senior Developer
11 36 (5.37%) Software Developer
12 35 (5.22%) Senior Software Engineer
13 29 (4.32%) Platform Engineer
14 27 (4.02%) Lead Software Engineer
15 26 (3.87%) Cloud Software Engineer
16 22 (3.28%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (16.99%) gRPC
2 97 (14.46%) Node.js
3 96 (14.31%) React
4 92 (13.71%) Kafka
5 68 (10.13%) REST
6 49 (7.30%) RabbitMQ
7 45 (6.71%) Protocol Buffers
8 41 (6.11%) GraphQL
9 40 (5.96%) Web Services
10 32 (4.77%) CSS
10 32 (4.77%) HTML
10 32 (4.77%) J2EE
11 27 (4.02%) .NET
12 24 (3.58%) AngularJS
13 22 (3.28%) Svelte
14 21 (3.13%) jQuery
15 19 (2.83%) React Native
16 17 (2.53%) JSON
17 16 (2.38%) Laravel
18 15 (2.24%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 71 (10.58%) Distributed Systems
2 67 (9.99%) Cloud Native
3 46 (6.86%) Hedge funds
4 43 (6.41%) Clustering
5 36 (5.37%) Legacy Code
6 32 (4.77%) Greenfield Project
6 32 (4.77%) Tandem
7 31 (4.62%) Algorithms
8 30 (4.47%) Blockchain
9 22 (3.28%) Data Structures
10 15 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (2.09%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.94%) Product Ownership
13 12 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.49%) Blog
14 10 (1.49%) Public Cloud
15 7 (1.04%) Data Centre
15 7 (1.04%) Onboarding
16 6 (0.89%) Digital Currency
16 6 (0.89%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 120 (17.88%) Linux
2 27 (4.02%) Windows
3 8 (1.19%) Unix
4 7 (1.04%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.04%) VMS
5 6 (0.89%) Android
6 5 (0.75%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.45%) CentOS
8 3 (0.45%) SUSE
8 3 (0.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.30%) Debian
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (42.32%) Software Engineering
2 268 (39.94%) DevOps
3 221 (32.94%) Agile
4 211 (31.45%) CI/CD
5 137 (20.42%) Microservices
6 102 (15.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 102 (15.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 95 (14.16%) Continuous Integration
8 94 (14.01%) Open Source
9 92 (13.71%) TDD
10 79 (11.77%) Problem-Solving
11 78 (11.62%) Asset Management
12 73 (10.88%) Containerisation
13 71 (10.58%) Computer Science
14 67 (9.99%) Full Stack Development
14 67 (9.99%) Roadmaps
15 55 (8.20%) Configuration Management
16 52 (7.75%) Mentoring
17 50 (7.45%) Deployment Automation
18 49 (7.30%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 339 (50.52%) Python
2 265 (39.49%) Java
3 181 (26.97%) JavaScript
4 95 (14.16%) TypeScript
5 73 (10.88%) C#
5 73 (10.88%) Rust
6 66 (9.84%) Bash
6 66 (9.84%) SQL
7 62 (9.24%) Ruby
8 56 (8.35%) C
8 56 (8.35%) C++
9 40 (5.96%) Kotlin
10 39 (5.81%) PowerShell
11 37 (5.51%) PHP
12 25 (3.73%) Scala
13 24 (3.58%) Perl
14 10 (1.49%) Groovy
15 9 (1.34%) Shell Script
16 8 (1.19%) Bicep
17 5 (0.75%) VB
Qualifications
1 71 (10.58%) Degree
2 34 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (4.32%) Security Cleared
4 23 (3.43%) SC Cleared
5 19 (2.83%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.38%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.30%) PhD
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.15%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.51%) QA
2 6 (0.89%) PCI DSS
3 4 (0.60%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 237 (35.32%) Docker
2 10 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.04%) Ceph
4 4 (0.60%) KVM
5 3 (0.45%) Gluster
5 3 (0.45%) oVirt
5 3 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.15%) LXC
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.15%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 305 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 202 (30.10%) Terraform
3 69 (10.28%) Prometheus
4 62 (9.24%) Ansible
5 26 (3.87%) Puppet
6 25 (3.73%) Grafana
6 25 (3.73%) Progress Chef
7 13 (1.94%) Kibana
8 6 (0.89%) Salt
9 5 (0.75%) Argo
9 5 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.60%) Knative
10 4 (0.60%) Rancher
11 3 (0.45%) Graylog
11 3 (0.45%) Istio
11 3 (0.45%) Observium
11 3 (0.45%) Packer
11 3 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.30%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 47 (7.00%) Google
2 38 (5.66%) Oracle
3 35 (5.22%) Microsoft
4 10 (1.49%) Apple
5 9 (1.34%) Atlassian
5 9 (1.34%) New Relic
6 8 (1.19%) SAP
6 8 (1.19%) Splunk
6 8 (1.19%) Teradata
7 7 (1.04%) SaltStack
7 7 (1.04%) VMware
8 6 (0.89%) PagerDuty
9 5 (0.75%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (0.60%) YouTube
11 2 (0.30%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.30%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.30%) Okta
11 2 (0.30%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.30%) Sparx
11 2 (0.30%) Spotify