Go Jobs in London

Go (Golang)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 219 154
Rank change year-on-year +70 -65 -58
Permanent jobs citing Go 305 334 838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.36% 1.41% 2.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.83% 3.51% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 188 261 523
10th Percentile £66,750 £70,000 £61,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £117,236
90th Percentile £138,750 £140,000 £138,750
England median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,236 9,507 16,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.46% 40.20% 49.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,749 7,565 12,416
10th Percentile £49,850 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £130,000 £121,250
England median annual salary £60,250 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.42% -7.69% +4.00%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in London

Go
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Go in London

Go
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Go in London

Go
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Central London +23 27 £75,000 -25.00% 38
South London - 22 - - 1
West London +44 18 - - 9
East London - 13 £92,500 - 3
North London - 7 - - 1
Go
England

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 67 (21.97%) Apache
1 67 (21.97%) Apache Airflow
1 67 (21.97%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.64%) Confluence
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.66%) nginx
3 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 228 (74.75%) AWS
2 92 (30.16%) Serverless
3 89 (29.18%) AWS Lambda
4 85 (27.87%) Pulumi
5 79 (25.90%) OpenShift
6 74 (24.26%) Amazon ECS
7 67 (21.97%) dbt
8 45 (14.75%) Azure
9 38 (12.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 37 (12.13%) GCP
11 21 (6.89%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (5.57%) Amazon S3
13 14 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (3.93%) Datadog
15 9 (2.95%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (2.95%) GitHub
15 9 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (2.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 6 (1.97%) Amazon EventBridge
17 6 (1.97%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 67 (21.97%) Broadband
2 5 (1.64%) Network Security
3 4 (1.31%) DNS
3 4 (1.31%) Firewall
4 2 (0.66%) VPN
5 1 (0.33%) Internet
5 1 (0.33%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (26.56%) NoSQL
2 70 (22.95%) Relational Database
3 67 (21.97%) Amazon Athena
3 67 (21.97%) Apache Arrow
3 67 (21.97%) Apache Iceberg
3 67 (21.97%) Apache Ignite
3 67 (21.97%) Dremio
3 67 (21.97%) RDBMS
4 16 (5.25%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (3.93%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.64%) MySQL
9 4 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.98%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.98%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.66%) Big Data
12 1 (0.33%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (23.28%) Artifactory
2 67 (21.97%) Jaeger
3 27 (8.85%) Jenkins
4 18 (5.90%) GitLab
5 10 (3.28%) Git
6 8 (2.62%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.97%) JIRA
8 5 (1.64%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.98%) Postman
10 3 (0.98%) Selenium
10 3 (0.98%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.66%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.66%) JUnit
11 2 (0.66%) Maven
11 2 (0.66%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.33%) Android Studio
12 1 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.33%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.33%) Xcode
General
1 108 (35.41%) Finance
2 82 (26.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 74 (24.26%) Front Office
4 29 (9.51%) Social Skills
5 27 (8.85%) Banking
6 17 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (0.98%) Marketing
8 2 (0.66%) Electronics
8 2 (0.66%) Games
8 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.33%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.33%) Retail
9 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 98 (32.13%) Lead
2 85 (27.87%) AWS Engineer
2 85 (27.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 80 (26.23%) AWS DevOps
3 80 (26.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 69 (22.62%) Python Engineer
5 67 (21.97%) Data Engineer
5 67 (21.97%) Team Leader
6 62 (20.33%) Software Engineer
7 41 (13.44%) Senior
8 39 (12.79%) Cloud Engineer
9 35 (11.48%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 35 (11.48%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 29 (9.51%) Developer
11 25 (8.20%) Platform Engineer
12 21 (6.89%) Lead Software Engineer
13 20 (6.56%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 18 (5.90%) Senior Software Engineer
15 17 (5.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 14 (4.59%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (28.20%) Kafka
2 71 (23.28%) J2EE
3 69 (22.62%) Elastic Stack
4 68 (22.30%) OpenTelemetry
5 67 (21.97%) PySpark
6 18 (5.90%) Node.js
7 14 (4.59%) RESTful
8 12 (3.93%) .NET
8 12 (3.93%) Pandas
9 10 (3.28%) React
10 9 (2.95%) gRPC
10 9 (2.95%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (2.62%) AWS CDK
12 7 (2.30%) Loki
12 7 (2.30%) web3js
13 5 (1.64%) Spring
13 5 (1.64%) Spring Boot
14 4 (1.31%) Next.js
15 3 (0.98%) GraphQL
15 3 (0.98%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.07%) Cloud Native
2 43 (14.10%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (11.80%) Legacy Code
4 14 (4.59%) Cyberattack
5 11 (3.61%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.30%) Blockchain
6 7 (2.30%) Web3
7 5 (1.64%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.31%) Tandem
9 2 (0.66%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.66%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.66%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.66%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.33%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.33%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.33%) IoT
10 1 (0.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 146 (47.87%) Linux
2 72 (23.61%) Unix
3 16 (5.25%) Android
4 3 (0.98%) Windows
5 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.33%) Debian
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (58.03%) DevOps
2 176 (57.70%) Agile
3 159 (52.13%) Software Engineering
4 146 (47.87%) CI/CD
5 112 (36.72%) Containerisation
6 107 (35.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 97 (31.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 86 (28.20%) Mentoring
9 84 (27.54%) Continuous Integration
10 80 (26.23%) Open Source
11 77 (25.25%) Performance Optimisation
12 76 (24.92%) High Availability
13 71 (23.28%) Asset Management
14 70 (22.95%) Data Engineering
15 68 (22.30%) GitOps
15 68 (22.30%) Resource Management
15 68 (22.30%) Roadmaps
16 67 (21.97%) Budget Control
16 67 (21.97%) Cost Optimisation
16 67 (21.97%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 237 (77.70%) Python
2 189 (61.97%) Java
3 90 (29.51%) JavaScript
4 83 (27.21%) Bash
5 61 (20.00%) C++
5 61 (20.00%) Rust
6 42 (13.77%) C
7 17 (5.57%) SQL
8 15 (4.92%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.93%) PHP
10 10 (3.28%) Ruby
11 9 (2.95%) Bicep
12 8 (2.62%) Kotlin
13 7 (2.30%) C#
14 5 (1.64%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.98%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.66%) Objective-C
17 1 (0.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 70 (22.95%) AWS Certification
2 19 (6.23%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.92%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.28%) Degree
5 4 (1.31%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (1.64%) NIST
2 3 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 198 (64.92%) Docker
2 6 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 252 (82.62%) Kubernetes
2 202 (66.23%) Terraform
3 100 (32.79%) Ansible
4 82 (26.89%) Prometheus
5 67 (21.97%) Argo
5 67 (21.97%) Kustomize
6 15 (4.92%) Grafana
7 13 (4.26%) Puppet
8 12 (3.93%) Progress Chef
9 9 (2.95%) Podman
10 8 (2.62%) Istio
11 5 (1.64%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.33%) Consul
12 1 (0.33%) Kibana
12 1 (0.33%) Nagios
12 1 (0.33%) Packer
12 1 (0.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 70 (22.95%) Google
2 9 (2.95%) Hitachi
3 6 (1.97%) Confluent
3 6 (1.97%) Splunk
4 3 (0.98%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.66%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.33%) Commvault
6 1 (0.33%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.33%) Intel
6 1 (0.33%) New Relic
6 1 (0.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.33%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.33%) Tenable
6 1 (0.33%) VMware
6 1 (0.33%) YouTube