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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 316 142
Rank change year-on-year +264 -174 -48
Permanent jobs citing Go 605 83 415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.19% 0.45% 2.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.12% 1.60% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 40 66 187
10th Percentile £47,250 £49,375 £55,731
25th Percentile £56,563 £55,000 £61,215
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £63,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.57% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £117,875 £79,375 £115,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -

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 3,164 5,188 6,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 27.12% 28.26% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,791 4,248 3,514
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,750 £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 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 30 May 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 30 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
North West +195 583 £77,500 +19.23% 269
Yorkshire +71 21 £70,000 +7.69% 191
North East +44 1 - - 57
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 1 (0.17%) CMS
1 1 (0.17%) Confluence
1 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 194 (32.07%) AWS
2 188 (31.07%) GCP
3 183 (30.25%) Azure
4 5 (0.83%) Apigee
4 5 (0.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (0.66%) Pulumi
6 3 (0.50%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (0.50%) Cloud Composer
6 3 (0.50%) Serverless
7 2 (0.33%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.33%) GitHub
7 2 (0.33%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.17%) Datadog
8 1 (0.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 389 (64.30%) DNS
2 388 (64.13%) VPN
3 4 (0.66%) Broadband
4 1 (0.17%) HTTP
4 1 (0.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.65%) NoSQL
2 7 (1.16%) Relational Database
3 4 (0.66%) RDBMS
4 3 (0.50%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.33%) Metadata
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.17%) MySQL
6 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (1.32%) Jenkins
2 6 (0.99%) Git
3 5 (0.83%) Jaeger
3 5 (0.83%) JUnit
3 5 (0.83%) Maven
3 5 (0.83%) SonarQube
3 5 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (0.50%) Selenium
5 2 (0.33%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.33%) Postman
5 2 (0.33%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.17%) GitLab
6 1 (0.17%) JIRA
General
1 564 (93.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 401 (66.28%) Finance
3 390 (64.46%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (1.82%) Social Skills
5 10 (1.65%) Banking
6 5 (0.83%) Retail
7 4 (0.66%) Law
8 3 (0.50%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.33%) Retail Finance
10 1 (0.17%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 394 (65.12%) Developer
2 390 (64.46%) Software Developer
3 190 (31.40%) Senior
4 187 (30.91%) Software Engineer
5 181 (29.92%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (2.31%) Lead
7 4 (0.66%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (0.66%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (0.66%) Team Leader
8 3 (0.50%) Site Engineer
8 3 (0.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 2 (0.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (0.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (0.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (0.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 2 (0.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 2 (0.33%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (0.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (0.33%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (29.26%) .NET
2 174 (28.76%) Node.js
3 6 (0.99%) React
3 6 (0.99%) RESTful
4 5 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (0.83%) Hibernate
4 5 (0.83%) Spring
4 5 (0.83%) Spring Boot
5 4 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (0.66%) Vue
6 2 (0.33%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.33%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.33%) Flutter
6 2 (0.33%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.33%) pytest
6 2 (0.33%) React Native
6 2 (0.33%) REST
6 2 (0.33%) SOAP
7 1 (0.17%) CSS
7 1 (0.17%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 560 (92.56%) Cyberattack
2 172 (28.43%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (28.43%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (0.50%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (0.33%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.17%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 572 (94.55%) Linux
2 388 (64.13%) Android
3 10 (1.65%) Unix
4 1 (0.17%) CentOS
4 1 (0.17%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (95.54%) Agile
2 393 (64.96%) OO
3 390 (64.46%) Design Patterns
4 388 (64.13%) Android Development
4 388 (64.13%) Line Management
4 388 (64.13%) Mathematics
4 388 (64.13%) OOP
5 200 (33.06%) Software Engineering
6 187 (30.91%) Microservices
7 180 (29.75%) Mentoring
8 176 (29.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 175 (28.93%) Cloud Security
9 175 (28.93%) Scrum
10 173 (28.60%) User Experience
11 172 (28.43%) Data Engineering
11 172 (28.43%) Machine Learning
12 20 (3.31%) CI/CD
12 20 (3.31%) DevOps
13 18 (2.98%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (1.98%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 592 (97.85%) Python
2 583 (96.36%) Java
3 562 (92.89%) C++
4 192 (31.74%) JavaScript
5 173 (28.60%) Rust
6 10 (1.65%) SQL
7 9 (1.49%) PHP
8 6 (0.99%) Bash
9 4 (0.66%) C#
9 4 (0.66%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 560 (92.56%) DV Cleared
1 560 (92.56%) Security Cleared
2 176 (29.09%) AWS Certification
3 172 (28.43%) AWS Certified Developer
3 172 (28.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.33%) QA
System Software
1 404 (66.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 394 (65.12%) Ansible
2 21 (3.47%) Kubernetes
3 20 (3.31%) Terraform
4 7 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.83%) Istio
6 4 (0.66%) Argo
6 4 (0.66%) Grafana
6 4 (0.66%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 9 (1.49%) Google
2 3 (0.50%) New Relic
3 1 (0.17%) Databricks
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.17%) Splunk