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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 43 286
Rank change year-on-year -231 +243 -81
Permanent jobs citing Go 68 599 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.32% 6.35% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.94% 22.36% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 58 37 70
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,500 £49,875
25th Percentile £54,063 £53,750 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,751 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,500 £80,125
England median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -6.25%

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 3,499 2,679 4,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.63% 28.41% 27.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,657 1,425 3,633
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -171 46 £80,000 +14.29% 19
Yorkshire -49 11 £90,000 +28.57% 8
North East - 11 £47,500 -
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 34 (50.00%) AWS
2 26 (38.24%) Azure
3 24 (35.29%) GCP
4 16 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (23.53%) GitHub
4 16 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (8.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 5 (7.35%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (7.35%) Serverless
7 3 (4.41%) Azure AKS
7 3 (4.41%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (2.94%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (2.94%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 13 (19.12%) Firewall
1 13 (19.12%) HTTP
1 13 (19.12%) TCP/IP
2 12 (17.65%) DNS
3 1 (1.47%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.47%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (27.94%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.88%) Git
3 3 (4.41%) GitLab
General
1 13 (19.12%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.65%) Law
2 12 (17.65%) Telecoms
3 9 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.35%) Finance
5 3 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.94%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.47%) Advertising
7 1 (1.47%) Banking
7 1 (1.47%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 22 (32.35%) Software Engineer
2 18 (26.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (16.18%) Senior
4 10 (14.71%) Engineering Manager
5 9 (13.24%) Lead
6 6 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) AWS Software Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Technical Leader
10 2 (2.94%) GCP Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Linux DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (13.24%) React
3 5 (7.35%) Flutter
4 4 (5.88%) RESTful
5 3 (4.41%) .NET
6 1 (1.47%) Express.js
6 1 (1.47%) koa
6 1 (1.47%) Node.js
6 1 (1.47%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.59%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.88%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.41%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.41%) Robotics
5 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.47%) Online Gambling
6 1 (1.47%) PKI
6 1 (1.47%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.24%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Unix
2 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (45.59%) Infrastructure as Code
1 31 (45.59%) Software Engineering
2 30 (44.12%) CI/CD
3 24 (35.29%) Containerisation
4 23 (33.82%) DevOps
5 20 (29.41%) AI
6 17 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 14 (20.59%) Agile
7 14 (20.59%) Continuous Delivery
8 13 (19.12%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (17.65%) DevSecOps
9 12 (17.65%) High Availability
9 12 (17.65%) Static Code Analysis
9 12 (17.65%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 10 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (14.71%) Mentoring
10 10 (14.71%) Microservices
10 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 44 (64.71%) Python
2 20 (29.41%) Bash
3 16 (23.53%) Java
4 13 (19.12%) C#
5 6 (8.82%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.35%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
1 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.47%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (8.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (47.06%) Terraform
2 18 (26.47%) Grafana
2 18 (26.47%) Prometheus
3 17 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 14 (20.59%) Ansible
5 2 (2.94%) Istio
5 2 (2.94%) linkerd
5 2 (2.94%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (8.82%) Google
2 1 (1.47%) New Relic
2 1 (1.47%) Splunk