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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 222 155
Rank change year-on-year +94 -67 -59
Permanent jobs citing Go 328 331 774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.57% 1.38% 2.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.27% 3.44% 4.92%
Number of salaries quoted 176 255 499
10th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £61,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £78,125 £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 £120,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £143,750 £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 5,233 9,628 15,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.95% 40.07% 48.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,554 7,577 11,995
10th Percentile £50,000 £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 £122,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 31 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 31 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 +31 30 £75,000 -25.00% 33
South London - 22 - - 1
West London +33 18 - - 9
East London - 13 £92,500 - 8
North London - 7 - -
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 59 (17.99%) Apache
1 59 (17.99%) Apache Airflow
1 59 (17.99%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.52%) Confluence
3 3 (0.91%) nginx
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.61%) Traefik
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 236 (71.95%) AWS
2 85 (25.91%) Pulumi
3 80 (24.39%) Serverless
4 77 (23.48%) AWS Lambda
5 67 (20.43%) Amazon ECS
5 67 (20.43%) OpenShift
6 59 (17.99%) dbt
7 47 (14.33%) Azure
8 45 (13.72%) GCP
9 38 (11.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (8.23%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (4.27%) Amazon S3
11 14 (4.27%) Datadog
12 11 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (3.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (3.05%) GitHub
13 10 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (1.83%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (1.83%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 67 (20.43%) Broadband
2 6 (1.83%) DNS
3 5 (1.52%) Network Security
4 4 (1.22%) Firewall
4 4 (1.22%) VPN
5 2 (0.61%) BGP
5 2 (0.61%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.61%) DHCP
5 2 (0.61%) ICMP
5 2 (0.61%) IOS XR
5 2 (0.61%) NX-OS
5 2 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.61%) WAN
6 1 (0.30%) Internet
6 1 (0.30%) Multicast
6 1 (0.30%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.30%) SSH
6 1 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (28.66%) NoSQL
2 70 (21.34%) Relational Database
3 67 (20.43%) RDBMS
4 59 (17.99%) Amazon Athena
4 59 (17.99%) Apache Arrow
4 59 (17.99%) Apache Iceberg
4 59 (17.99%) Apache Ignite
4 59 (17.99%) Dremio
5 15 (4.57%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (3.96%) DynamoDB
7 11 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.52%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.52%) MySQL
10 3 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.91%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.61%) Big Data
11 2 (0.61%) Redis
12 1 (0.30%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 67 (20.43%) Jaeger
2 59 (17.99%) Artifactory
3 25 (7.62%) Jenkins
4 19 (5.79%) GitLab
5 16 (4.88%) Git
6 9 (2.74%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.83%) JIRA
8 5 (1.52%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.91%) JUnit
10 3 (0.91%) Postman
10 3 (0.91%) Selenium
10 3 (0.91%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.61%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.61%) Maven
11 2 (0.61%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.30%) Mockito
12 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.30%) Vagrant
General
1 131 (39.94%) Finance
2 114 (34.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 62 (18.90%) Front Office
4 54 (16.46%) Banking
5 33 (10.06%) Social Skills
6 32 (9.76%) Law
7 18 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (1.83%) Legal
9 4 (1.22%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.91%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.61%) Games
11 2 (0.61%) Marketing
11 2 (0.61%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.30%) Electronics
12 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.30%) Retail
12 1 (0.30%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 119 (36.28%) Lead
2 91 (27.74%) Software Engineer
3 77 (23.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 74 (22.56%) AWS Engineer
5 70 (21.34%) Python Engineer
6 68 (20.73%) AWS DevOps
6 68 (20.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 67 (20.43%) Team Leader
8 59 (17.99%) Data Engineer
9 49 (14.94%) Senior
10 45 (13.72%) Cloud Engineer
11 39 (11.89%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 37 (11.28%) Lead Software Engineer
13 35 (10.67%) Cloud Native Engineer
14 31 (9.45%) Developer
15 24 (7.32%) Lead Cloud Engineer
16 23 (7.01%) Platform Engineer
17 22 (6.71%) Senior Software Engineer
18 17 (5.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
19 14 (4.27%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (28.66%) Kafka
2 73 (22.26%) OpenTelemetry
3 70 (21.34%) Elastic Stack
4 59 (17.99%) J2EE
4 59 (17.99%) PySpark
5 25 (7.62%) RESTful
6 20 (6.10%) Node.js
7 12 (3.66%) .NET
7 12 (3.66%) gRPC
7 12 (3.66%) Pandas
7 12 (3.66%) React
8 9 (2.74%) Loki
8 9 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (2.44%) AWS CDK
9 8 (2.44%) web3js
10 7 (2.13%) Spring
10 7 (2.13%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.52%) Swagger
12 4 (1.22%) GraphQL
12 4 (1.22%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 75 (22.87%) Cloud Native
2 43 (13.11%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (10.98%) Legacy Code
4 18 (5.49%) Mobile App
5 16 (4.88%) Public Cloud
6 14 (4.27%) Cyberattack
7 12 (3.66%) Client/Server
8 8 (2.44%) Blockchain
8 8 (2.44%) Web3
9 7 (2.13%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.52%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.52%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.22%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.61%) Market Risk
12 2 (0.61%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 145 (44.21%) Linux
2 72 (21.95%) Unix
3 16 (4.88%) Android
4 4 (1.22%) Windows
5 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.30%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (57.32%) Agile
2 176 (53.66%) Software Engineering
3 175 (53.35%) DevOps
4 164 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 119 (36.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 117 (35.67%) Containerisation
7 91 (27.74%) Mentoring
8 89 (27.13%) Continuous Integration
9 87 (26.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 78 (23.78%) Performance Optimisation
11 77 (23.48%) High Availability
12 71 (21.65%) Open Source
13 69 (21.04%) Task Automation
14 68 (20.73%) GitOps
14 68 (20.73%) Resource Management
14 68 (20.73%) Roadmaps
15 67 (20.43%) Budget Control
15 67 (20.43%) Cost Optimisation
15 67 (20.43%) Product Management
16 62 (18.90%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 247 (75.30%) Python
2 192 (58.54%) Java
3 90 (27.44%) JavaScript
4 88 (26.83%) Bash
5 62 (18.90%) C++
6 61 (18.60%) Rust
7 41 (12.50%) C
8 29 (8.84%) SQL
9 17 (5.18%) TypeScript
10 12 (3.66%) Kotlin
10 12 (3.66%) PHP
11 7 (2.13%) Bicep
11 7 (2.13%) Ruby
12 6 (1.83%) C#
13 5 (1.52%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.52%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.22%) Lua
15 1 (0.30%) Groovy
15 1 (0.30%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 79 (24.09%) AWS Certification
2 21 (6.40%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.88%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.05%) Degree
5 5 (1.52%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.61%) CCNP
6 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.30%) CCIE
7 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (1.52%) NIST
2 3 (0.91%) QA
System Software
1 188 (57.32%) Docker
2 6 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 267 (81.40%) Kubernetes
2 208 (63.41%) Terraform
3 100 (30.49%) Ansible
4 88 (26.83%) Prometheus
5 68 (20.73%) Kustomize
6 67 (20.43%) Argo
7 23 (7.01%) Grafana
8 11 (3.35%) Puppet
9 10 (3.05%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.44%) Istio
11 7 (2.13%) Podman
12 6 (1.83%) Mesos
13 5 (1.52%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.61%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.61%) Kibana
14 2 (0.61%) Nagios
15 1 (0.30%) Consul
15 1 (0.30%) Packer
15 1 (0.30%) Salt
Vendors
1 76 (23.17%) Google
2 11 (3.35%) Hitachi
3 7 (2.13%) Splunk
4 6 (1.83%) Confluent
4 6 (1.83%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.22%) MKS
5 4 (1.22%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.61%) Arista
6 2 (0.61%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.61%) Cisco
6 2 (0.61%) Commvault
6 2 (0.61%) VMware
7 1 (0.30%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.30%) New Relic
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle
7 1 (0.30%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.30%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.30%) Tenable
7 1 (0.30%) YouTube