Go Job Trends in the North of England

Go (Golang)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 259 181 274
Rank change year-on-year -78 +93 -124
Permanent jobs citing Go 53 67 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.32% 1.04% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.04% 3.58% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 44 34 67
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £47,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +19.23% -18.75%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,563 £71,250
90th Percentile £98,500 £120,125 £82,500
England median annual salary £90,000 £95,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -

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 2,600 1,874 4,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.73% 29.06% 29.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,903 1,512 4,112
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,925 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £74,987 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,866 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Go job vacancy trend in the North of England

Go
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Go

Go
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

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 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
North West -61 29 £85,000 +9.68% 15
Yorkshire -49 13 £60,000 -19.36% 5
North East - 11 £47,500 - 5
Go
England

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 36 (67.92%) AWS
2 26 (49.06%) Azure
2 26 (49.06%) GCP
3 21 (39.62%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (39.62%) GitHub
3 21 (39.62%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (5.66%) Azure AKS
4 3 (5.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (5.66%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.89%) Firebase
6 1 (1.89%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (33.96%) DNS
1 18 (33.96%) Firewall
1 18 (33.96%) HTTP
1 18 (33.96%) TCP/IP
2 7 (13.21%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.53%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (18.87%) MongoDB
3 4 (7.55%) MySQL
4 3 (5.66%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.66%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (5.66%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 21 (39.62%) Jenkins
2 11 (20.75%) Git
3 3 (5.66%) Bitbucket
3 3 (5.66%) GitLab
4 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.89%) Postman
4 1 (1.89%) Selenium
4 1 (1.89%) SoapUI
General
1 18 (33.96%) Law
1 18 (33.96%) Telecoms
2 9 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.77%) Health Technology
4 1 (1.89%) Advertising
4 1 (1.89%) Finance
4 1 (1.89%) Marketing
4 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (37.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (22.64%) Lead
3 7 (13.21%) Software Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Lead Software Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Technical Leader
6 3 (5.66%) Senior
7 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Head of Engineering
7 2 (3.77%) Junior
7 2 (3.77%) Junior DevOps
7 2 (3.77%) Junior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 2 (3.77%) Team Leader
8 1 (1.89%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (1.89%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (33.96%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (20.75%) React
3 6 (11.32%) Flutter
4 5 (9.43%) .NET
5 4 (7.55%) RESTful
6 2 (3.77%) Kafka
6 2 (3.77%) Node.js
7 1 (1.89%) Django
7 1 (1.89%) pytest
7 1 (1.89%) Redux
7 1 (1.89%) SOAP
7 1 (1.89%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (11.32%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.55%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.66%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.89%) Cybercrime
5 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.64%) Linux
2 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (62.26%) CI/CD
2 32 (60.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (47.17%) DevOps
4 24 (45.28%) Containerisation
5 19 (35.85%) High Availability
6 18 (33.96%) Continuous Delivery
6 18 (33.96%) Continuous Integration
6 18 (33.96%) DevSecOps
6 18 (33.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 18 (33.96%) Static Code Analysis
6 18 (33.96%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 9 (16.98%) Agile
7 9 (16.98%) Software Engineering
8 8 (15.09%) Test Automation
9 7 (13.21%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (11.32%) AI
10 6 (11.32%) Microservices
10 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (9.43%) Mentoring
11 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 42 (79.25%) Python
2 18 (33.96%) Bash
3 14 (26.42%) Java
4 13 (24.53%) TypeScript
5 8 (15.09%) C#
6 7 (13.21%) C
6 7 (13.21%) SQL
7 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (58.49%) Terraform
2 28 (52.83%) Ansible
3 18 (33.96%) Grafana
3 18 (33.96%) Prometheus
4 17 (32.08%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.66%) Rancher