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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 236 191
Rank change year-on-year +21 -45 +30
Permanent jobs citing Go 12 12 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.15% 0.19% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.05% 0.70% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 36
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +37.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £98,125 £77,250
90th Percentile £84,500 £105,250 £80,875
England median annual salary £90,000 £105,000 £84,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +25.00% +5.00%

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 1,141 1,706 1,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.53% 26.68% 32.34%
Number of salaries quoted 930 926 1,624
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,001 £64,500
90th Percentile £78,754 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 15 January 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 15 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
West Midlands +17 9 £65,000 -21.21% 4
East Midlands - 3 - - 20
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 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 2 (16.67%) PaaS
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Broadband
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (8.33%) Jaeger
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Lead
1 5 (41.67%) Lead DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) SIEM Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) gRPC
1 2 (16.67%) WinForms
1 2 (16.67%) WPF
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) DevOps
2 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (58.33%) Agile
4 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (33.33%) Product Backlog
5 4 (33.33%) SIEM
6 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (16.67%) Clean Code
7 2 (16.67%) Microservices
7 2 (16.67%) Observability
7 2 (16.67%) SDLC
7 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 2 (16.67%) TDD
8 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (8.33%) High Availability
8 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
8 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
8 1 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) C#
5 1 (8.33%) Bash
5 1 (8.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Argo
3 1 (8.33%) Kustomize
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 1 (8.33%) Google