Go Job Trends in the Midlands

Go (Golang)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 208 249
Rank change year-on-year -40 +41 -7
Permanent jobs citing Go 14 10 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.12% 0.21% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.90% 0.81% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 13 8 47
10th Percentile - £37,750 £32,500
25th Percentile - £45,625 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,750 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% -15.47% -0.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,438 £89,375
90th Percentile - £93,375 £97,500
England median annual salary £90,000 £95,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,555 1,238 2,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.44% 25.65% 27.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,121 975 2,601
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,987 £73,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Go job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Go
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Go

Go
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Go in the Midlands

Go
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
East Midlands -44 8 £50,000 +5.26% 3
West Midlands -16 6 £65,000 +10.64% 1
Go
England

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Jaeger
1 1 (7.14%) Subversion
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Lead
2 5 (35.71%) Lead DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) SIEM Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) WinForms
1 2 (14.29%) WPF
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Agile
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 4 (28.57%) Product Backlog
2 4 (28.57%) SIEM
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.14%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (7.14%) Front End Development
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (7.14%) GitOps
5 1 (7.14%) High Availability
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (7.14%) Resource Management
5 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Argo
2 1 (7.14%) Kustomize
2 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Google