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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 337 285
Rank change year-on-year -25 -52 -111
Permanent jobs citing Go 268 396 501
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 0.82% 1.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.61% 2.43% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 183 228 401
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £79,688 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £105,000 £84,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +25.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £151,500 £138,750 £140,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £100,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -

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 10,278 16,307 18,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.45% 33.88% 38.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,772 9,582 15,892
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,500 £38,130
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,250 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,125 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +9 166 £100,000 -9.09% 60
North of England +9 41 £67,500 +8.00% 48
North West +12 31 £67,500 +8.00% 17
South East -23 30 £57,500 -17.86% 93
South West +8 15 £85,000 +17.24% 29
Midlands +21 11 £65,000 -21.21% 25
West Midlands +17 8 £65,000 -21.21% 4
Yorkshire -5 8 £67,500 +3.85% 24
East Midlands - 3 - - 20
East of England +15 2 £82,500 +3.13% 37
North East - 2 £55,000 - 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 5 (1.87%) Apache Pulsar
2 4 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.49%) Appian
3 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.37%) Camunda
4 1 (0.37%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 150 (55.97%) AWS
2 68 (25.37%) GCP
3 51 (19.03%) Azure
4 34 (12.69%) GitHub
5 28 (10.45%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (7.09%) Pulumi
8 18 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (6.34%) Serverless
10 15 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (5.60%) OpenShift
10 15 (5.60%) SaaS
11 14 (5.22%) Amazon S3
12 13 (4.85%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (4.85%) Datadog
12 13 (4.85%) Slack
13 9 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.22%) Broadband
2 12 (4.48%) Firewall
3 7 (2.61%) Internet
3 7 (2.61%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.87%) DNS
4 5 (1.87%) VPN
5 4 (1.49%) DSL
5 4 (1.49%) HTTP
5 4 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (1.49%) Network Security
6 3 (1.12%) AMQP
6 3 (1.12%) BGP
6 3 (1.12%) VLAN
7 2 (0.75%) InfiniBand
7 2 (0.75%) SSL
8 1 (0.37%) 5G
8 1 (0.37%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.37%) MQTT
8 1 (0.37%) RTP
8 1 (0.37%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.94%) NoSQL
2 28 (10.45%) Relational Database
3 25 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (5.97%) MongoDB
5 13 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (4.85%) RDBMS
6 9 (3.36%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.61%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.61%) MySQL
8 5 (1.87%) Redis
9 4 (1.49%) Flink
9 4 (1.49%) InfluxDB
9 4 (1.49%) Pinecone
9 4 (1.49%) Weaviate
10 3 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.75%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.37%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 30 (11.19%) Jenkins
2 27 (10.07%) Git
3 23 (8.58%) GitLab
4 19 (7.09%) JIRA
5 13 (4.85%) Jaeger
6 8 (2.99%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.24%) Postman
7 6 (2.24%) Selenium
7 6 (2.24%) SoapUI
8 5 (1.87%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.87%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.12%) Balsamiq
9 3 (1.12%) Gradle
9 3 (1.12%) Maven
9 3 (1.12%) Subversion
10 2 (0.75%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.75%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.75%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.37%) CA Release Automation
11 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (21.64%) Social Skills
2 39 (14.55%) Finance
3 28 (10.45%) Banking
4 22 (8.21%) Telecoms
5 21 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (6.72%) Law
8 13 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (4.85%) Retail
9 11 (4.10%) Financial Institution
10 9 (3.36%) Marketing
11 7 (2.61%) Back Office
12 5 (1.87%) Esports
13 4 (1.49%) Front Office
13 4 (1.49%) Games
14 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.12%) Legal
14 3 (1.12%) Military
14 3 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 73 (27.24%) Senior
2 53 (19.78%) Software Engineer
3 52 (19.40%) Developer
4 47 (17.54%) Lead
5 34 (12.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (8.58%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (7.46%) Architect
8 18 (6.72%) Security Engineer
9 17 (6.34%) Senior Developer
10 16 (5.97%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 16 (5.97%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 16 (5.97%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (5.22%) Java Developer
11 14 (5.22%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 11 (4.10%) Lead Software Engineer
13 10 (3.73%) Lead DevOps
13 10 (3.73%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 9 (3.36%) Automation Engineer
14 9 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
15 8 (2.99%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (16.42%) React
2 39 (14.55%) Kafka
3 38 (14.18%) RESTful
4 28 (10.45%) gRPC
5 23 (8.58%) Elastic Stack
6 20 (7.46%) Node.js
7 19 (7.09%) REST
8 18 (6.72%) OpenTelemetry
9 11 (4.10%) Flutter
9 11 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (3.36%) Spring Boot
10 9 (3.36%) WebSockets
11 8 (2.99%) .NET
11 8 (2.99%) OAuth
11 8 (2.99%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.99%) Spring
12 7 (2.61%) Next.js
13 6 (2.24%) GraphQL
13 6 (2.24%) pytest
13 6 (2.24%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 71 (26.49%) Cloud Native
2 67 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.34%) Legacy Code
3 17 (6.34%) Management Information System
4 13 (4.85%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.10%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.99%) IoT
7 7 (2.61%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.24%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.87%) Blockchain
9 5 (1.87%) Blog
9 5 (1.87%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.87%) Web3
10 4 (1.49%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.49%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.49%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.12%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (22.76%) Linux
2 16 (5.97%) Unix
3 11 (4.10%) Android
4 7 (2.61%) Windows
5 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (44.03%) DevOps
2 105 (39.18%) CI/CD
3 82 (30.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 80 (29.85%) Software Engineering
5 68 (25.37%) Agile
6 65 (24.25%) Containerisation
7 61 (22.76%) Microservices
8 59 (22.01%) Roadmaps
9 44 (16.42%) AI
10 42 (15.67%) High Availability
11 41 (15.30%) Mentoring
12 40 (14.93%) Observability
13 37 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (12.31%) Continuous Integration
15 32 (11.94%) Machine Learning
16 30 (11.19%) Performance Optimisation
17 29 (10.82%) Computer Science
18 27 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
19 26 (9.70%) Low Latency
19 26 (9.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 144 (53.73%) Python
2 101 (37.69%) Java
3 59 (22.01%) Bash
4 39 (14.55%) TypeScript
5 35 (13.06%) JavaScript
6 32 (11.94%) C++
7 30 (11.19%) SQL
8 29 (10.82%) Rust
9 24 (8.96%) C
10 23 (8.58%) PowerShell
11 15 (5.60%) C#
12 13 (4.85%) PHP
13 11 (4.10%) Ruby
14 10 (3.73%) Kotlin
15 9 (3.36%) Scala
16 8 (2.99%) Elixir
17 5 (1.87%) Shell Script
18 3 (1.12%) VBScript
19 2 (0.75%) Bicep
20 1 (0.37%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 54 (20.15%) Degree
2 26 (9.70%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (6.72%) AWS Certification
5 15 (5.60%) DV Cleared
6 14 (5.22%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.99%) OSCP
8 5 (1.87%) CREST Certified
9 3 (1.12%) CITP
9 3 (1.12%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.75%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.75%) CISSP
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.37%) CCA
11 1 (0.37%) CCIE
11 1 (0.37%) CCNA
11 1 (0.37%) CCNP
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.21%) QA
2 21 (7.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.60%) NIST
4 13 (4.85%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.99%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.61%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.49%) GRC
7 4 (1.49%) SLA
8 3 (1.12%) GDPR
8 3 (1.12%) NCSC
9 2 (0.75%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.75%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.75%) NIST 800
System Software
1 70 (26.12%) Docker
2 27 (10.07%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (5.22%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.75%) GPFS
5 2 (0.75%) Lustre
5 2 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 152 (56.72%) Kubernetes
2 95 (35.45%) Terraform
3 49 (18.28%) Ansible
4 41 (15.30%) Prometheus
5 27 (10.07%) Grafana
6 24 (8.96%) Argo
7 13 (4.85%) Kustomize
8 9 (3.36%) Rancher
9 4 (1.49%) Cilium
9 4 (1.49%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (1.49%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.49%) vRealize
10 3 (1.12%) yum
11 2 (0.75%) Nagios
11 2 (0.75%) SELinux
12 1 (0.37%) Icinga
12 1 (0.37%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (9.33%) Google
2 15 (5.60%) ServiceNow
3 13 (4.85%) Tenable
4 6 (2.24%) Splunk
5 5 (1.87%) Ericsson
5 5 (1.87%) Mavenir
5 5 (1.87%) Nokia
5 5 (1.87%) VMware
6 4 (1.49%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.49%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.49%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.12%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.75%) BigPanda
8 2 (0.75%) Moogsoft
8 2 (0.75%) New Relic
8 2 (0.75%) NVIDIA
8 2 (0.75%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.37%) ADVA
9 1 (0.37%) Arista
9 1 (0.37%) Dell