Go Job Trends in London

Go (Golang)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 180 220
Rank change year-on-year +28 +40 -72
Permanent jobs citing Go 307 243 330
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.52% 1.94% 1.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.91% 4.77% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 177 192 260
10th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
25th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £117,813
90th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £138,750
England median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £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 5,191 5,091 9,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.65% 40.56% 40.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,678 3,794 7,613
10th Percentile £49,775 £49,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £127,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Go job vacancy trend in London

Go
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Go

Go
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

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 12 May 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
Central London +8 31 £102,500 +36.67% 22
West London 0 22 - - 2
East London -7 6 - -
South London +17 4 - -
Go
England

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.30%) Appian
1 4 (1.30%) Ethereum
2 3 (0.98%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 231 (75.24%) AWS
2 124 (40.39%) GCP
3 56 (18.24%) Azure
4 43 (14.01%) AWS CloudFormation
5 39 (12.70%) Serverless
6 31 (10.10%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (10.10%) Datadog
6 31 (10.10%) Pulumi
7 28 (9.12%) GitHub
8 27 (8.79%) SaaS
9 24 (7.82%) GitHub Actions
10 23 (7.49%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (6.51%) Amazon S3
12 19 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (5.86%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (5.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (4.23%) AWS Step Functions
16 9 (2.93%) OpenShift
17 8 (2.61%) Amazon MSK
18 6 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (21.50%) Broadband
2 13 (4.23%) DSL
3 7 (2.28%) Network Security
4 4 (1.30%) BGP
4 4 (1.30%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.98%) VLAN
5 3 (0.98%) VPN
6 1 (0.33%) 4G
6 1 (0.33%) 5G
6 1 (0.33%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.33%) Firewall
6 1 (0.33%) RTP
6 1 (0.33%) SS7
6 1 (0.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (14.98%) NoSQL
2 24 (7.82%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (6.51%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (6.19%) MongoDB
5 17 (5.54%) Relational Database
6 16 (5.21%) DynamoDB
7 15 (4.89%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.30%) Flink
8 4 (1.30%) Pinecone
8 4 (1.30%) Redis
8 4 (1.30%) Weaviate
9 3 (0.98%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.98%) MySQL
10 2 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 41 (13.36%) GitLab
2 39 (12.70%) Jenkins
3 24 (7.82%) CircleCI
4 17 (5.54%) Jaeger
5 8 (2.61%) Git
6 3 (0.98%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.33%) JIRA
7 1 (0.33%) Postman
7 1 (0.33%) Selenium
7 1 (0.33%) SoapUI
General
1 104 (33.88%) Finance
2 64 (20.85%) Banking
3 54 (17.59%) Social Skills
4 36 (11.73%) Front Office
5 30 (9.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (7.82%) Games
7 22 (7.17%) Retail
8 14 (4.56%) Law
9 12 (3.91%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.93%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.95%) Back Office
11 6 (1.95%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
13 4 (1.30%) Esports
14 2 (0.65%) Electronics
14 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.33%) Advertising
15 1 (0.33%) iGaming
15 1 (0.33%) Legal
15 1 (0.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 104 (33.88%) Software Engineer
2 85 (27.69%) Senior
3 81 (26.38%) Developer
4 61 (19.87%) Lead
5 33 (10.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 28 (9.12%) Lead Software Engineer
7 24 (7.82%) Lead Developer
8 23 (7.49%) Architect
8 23 (7.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 23 (7.49%) Scala Engineer
9 22 (7.17%) AWS Engineer
9 22 (7.17%) Senior Software Engineer
10 20 (6.51%) Cloud Engineer
10 20 (6.51%) Lead Software Developer
10 20 (6.51%) Senior Developer
11 15 (4.89%) AWS DevOps
11 15 (4.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 14 (4.56%) Java Engineer
13 13 (4.23%) AWS Architect
13 13 (4.23%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (27.04%) Kafka
2 67 (21.82%) gRPC
3 55 (17.92%) Node.js
4 53 (17.26%) React
5 49 (15.96%) RESTful
6 37 (12.05%) GraphQL
7 34 (11.07%) Redux
8 24 (7.82%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (6.84%) web3js
10 18 (5.86%) RabbitMQ
11 17 (5.54%) OpenTelemetry
12 15 (4.89%) REST
13 14 (4.56%) AWS CDK
14 10 (3.26%) Vue
15 8 (2.61%) AngularJS
16 7 (2.28%) WebSockets
17 6 (1.95%) .NET
17 6 (1.95%) OAuth
18 5 (1.63%) Django
18 5 (1.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 97 (31.60%) Distributed Systems
2 92 (29.97%) Cloud Native
3 51 (16.61%) Video\Live Streaming
4 36 (11.73%) Over-the-Top Content
5 32 (10.42%) Fixed Income
6 23 (7.49%) Blockchain
7 21 (6.84%) Web3
8 15 (4.89%) Low-Code
9 12 (3.91%) Security Posture
10 10 (3.26%) Sports Betting
11 8 (2.61%) AI Agents
12 7 (2.28%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.95%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.95%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.95%) Virtual Team
14 4 (1.30%) Blog
14 4 (1.30%) Data Centre
14 4 (1.30%) Hackathon
14 4 (1.30%) Hedge funds
14 4 (1.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.07%) Linux
2 17 (5.54%) Android
2 17 (5.54%) Unix
3 10 (3.26%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.63%) Windows
5 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (60.59%) Software Engineering
2 154 (50.16%) CI/CD
3 107 (34.85%) Containerisation
4 105 (34.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 100 (32.57%) Microservices
6 94 (30.62%) DevOps
7 75 (24.43%) Machine Learning
8 69 (22.48%) Agile
9 63 (20.52%) Problem-Solving
10 61 (19.87%) Continuous Delivery
10 61 (19.87%) Observability
11 55 (17.92%) AI
12 52 (16.94%) Investment Management
13 51 (16.61%) High Availability
14 50 (16.29%) Full-Stack Development
15 46 (14.98%) Test Automation
16 44 (14.33%) Clean Code
16 44 (14.33%) Low Latency
17 43 (14.01%) Data Science
18 42 (13.68%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 185 (60.26%) Python
2 111 (36.16%) Java
3 61 (19.87%) TypeScript
4 57 (18.57%) JavaScript
5 43 (14.01%) Rust
6 37 (12.05%) Scala
7 34 (11.07%) Bash
8 29 (9.45%) C++
9 17 (5.54%) SQL
10 15 (4.89%) PHP
11 13 (4.23%) C#
12 6 (1.95%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.95%) Ruby
13 4 (1.30%) C
13 4 (1.30%) Perl
14 3 (0.98%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 54 (17.59%) Degree
2 28 (9.12%) OSCP
3 20 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (6.19%) AWS Certification
5 13 (4.23%) CREST Certified
6 11 (3.58%) Master's Degree
7 10 (3.26%) PhD
8 9 (2.93%) Security Cleared
9 6 (1.95%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.63%) SC Cleared
11 3 (0.98%) CCSAM
11 3 (0.98%) GPEN
11 3 (0.98%) GXPN
11 3 (0.98%) OSCE
12 2 (0.65%) CEH
13 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.56%) SOC 2
2 11 (3.58%) PCI DSS
3 9 (2.93%) GDPR
4 7 (2.28%) QA
5 4 (1.30%) SLA
6 3 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.98%) GRC
6 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 114 (37.13%) Docker
2 8 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 132 (43.00%) Kubernetes
2 110 (35.83%) Terraform
3 51 (16.61%) Prometheus
4 35 (11.40%) Ansible
5 20 (6.51%) Argo
6 17 (5.54%) Grafana
7 15 (4.89%) Kustomize
8 9 (2.93%) Istio
9 4 (1.30%) Cilium
10 2 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.65%) Kibana
10 2 (0.65%) Nagios
11 1 (0.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 36 (11.73%) Typelevel
2 22 (7.17%) Google
3 8 (2.61%) Confluent
4 5 (1.63%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.30%) OpenAI
6 3 (0.98%) Ericsson
6 3 (0.98%) Mavenir
6 3 (0.98%) Nokia
6 3 (0.98%) Palantir
6 3 (0.98%) Splunk
7 2 (0.65%) Commvault
7 2 (0.65%) VMware
8 1 (0.33%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.33%) Arista
8 1 (0.33%) BigPanda
8 1 (0.33%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.33%) Moogsoft
8 1 (0.33%) New Relic
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle
8 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow