Go Jobs in the North of England

Go (Golang)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 27 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 296 154
Rank change year-on-year +222 -142 -64
Permanent jobs citing Go 427 88 404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.88% 0.51% 2.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.32% 1.75% 5.42%
Number of salaries quoted 36 65 199
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £61,215
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £84,688 £70,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £119,375 £80,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £94,819 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +18.52% - -

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,787 5,027 7,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.31% 29.10% 42.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,931 4,154 3,666
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Go in the North of England

Go
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Go in the North of England.

Salary trend for Go in the North of England

Go
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Go in the North of England

Go
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
North West +171 409 £77,500 +19.23% 44
Yorkshire +74 18 £74,405 +10.23% 10
Go
England

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (0.47%) Confluence
2 1 (0.23%) CMS
2 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (3.75%) AWS
2 15 (3.51%) GCP
3 9 (2.11%) Azure
4 5 (1.17%) Apigee
4 5 (1.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (0.70%) Cloud Composer
5 3 (0.70%) Serverless
6 1 (0.23%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.23%) Datadog
6 1 (0.23%) GitHub
6 1 (0.23%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.23%) SaaS
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 389 (91.10%) DNS
2 388 (90.87%) VPN
3 1 (0.23%) Firewall
3 1 (0.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.41%) NoSQL
2 3 (0.70%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.47%) Metadata
3 2 (0.47%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (1.64%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.17%) Git
2 5 (1.17%) JUnit
2 5 (1.17%) Maven
2 5 (1.17%) SonarQube
2 5 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.47%) JIRA
3 2 (0.47%) Selenium
4 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.23%) GitLab
4 1 (0.23%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.23%) Postman
4 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
General
1 400 (93.68%) Finance
2 392 (91.80%) Analytical Skills
3 388 (90.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (2.58%) Social Skills
5 10 (2.34%) Banking
6 5 (1.17%) Retail
7 4 (0.94%) Law
8 2 (0.47%) Retail Finance
8 2 (0.47%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.23%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 394 (92.27%) Developer
2 390 (91.33%) Software Developer
3 15 (3.51%) Senior
4 12 (2.81%) Software Engineer
5 11 (2.58%) Lead
6 8 (1.87%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (0.94%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (0.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.70%) Site Engineer
8 3 (0.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 2 (0.47%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (0.47%) Development Analyst
9 2 (0.47%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (0.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (0.47%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 2 (0.47%) Information Analyst
9 2 (0.47%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (0.47%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 2 (0.47%) Software Analyst
9 2 (0.47%) Software Development Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.41%) RESTful
2 5 (1.17%) Hibernate
2 5 (1.17%) Spring
2 5 (1.17%) Spring Boot
3 4 (0.94%) .NET
3 4 (0.94%) React
3 4 (0.94%) Vue
4 2 (0.47%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.47%) Flutter
4 2 (0.47%) React Native
4 2 (0.47%) REST
5 1 (0.23%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.23%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.23%) Eleventy
5 1 (0.23%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.23%) Loki
5 1 (0.23%) pytest
5 1 (0.23%) Sass
5 1 (0.23%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 388 (90.87%) Cyberattack
2 8 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (0.94%) Product Ownership
4 2 (0.47%) Algorithms
4 2 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (0.47%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.23%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.23%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.23%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 396 (92.74%) Linux
2 388 (90.87%) Android
3 6 (1.41%) Unix
4 1 (0.23%) CentOS
4 1 (0.23%) Windows
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (94.38%) Agile
2 393 (92.04%) OO
3 388 (90.87%) Android Development
3 388 (90.87%) Design Patterns
3 388 (90.87%) Line Management
3 388 (90.87%) Mathematics
3 388 (90.87%) OOP
4 23 (5.39%) Software Engineering
5 19 (4.45%) CI/CD
6 16 (3.75%) DevOps
7 14 (3.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (3.04%) Microservices
9 11 (2.58%) Event-Driven
10 8 (1.87%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (1.64%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (1.64%) Roadmaps
11 7 (1.64%) TDD
11 7 (1.64%) Test Automation
12 6 (1.41%) Containerisation
12 6 (1.41%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 416 (97.42%) Python
2 408 (95.55%) Java
3 391 (91.57%) C++
4 18 (4.22%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.87%) PHP
6 7 (1.64%) SQL
7 6 (1.41%) C#
8 3 (0.70%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.47%) Bash
10 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 388 (90.87%) DV Cleared
1 388 (90.87%) Security Cleared
2 2 (0.47%) CISSP
2 2 (0.47%) CSSLP
3 1 (0.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (0.70%) NIST
2 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.23%) QA
System Software
1 399 (93.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 390 (91.33%) Ansible
2 16 (3.75%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.51%) Terraform
4 5 (1.17%) Istio
5 4 (0.94%) Grafana
6 3 (0.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (1.17%) Google
2 3 (0.70%) New Relic
3 1 (0.23%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle
3 1 (0.23%) Planview
3 1 (0.23%) Splunk