Go Jobs in the North West

Go (Golang)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 222 149
Rank change year-on-year +188 -73 -58
Permanent jobs citing Go 583 69 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.43% 0.66% 2.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.67% 2.28% 5.85%
Number of salaries quoted 29 58 84
10th Percentile £51,500 £50,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £71,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £126,260 £81,625 £115,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,363 3,030 2,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 30.11% 29.12% 38.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,146 2,433 1,739
10th Percentile £37,250 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,875 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in the North West

Go
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Go in the North West

Go
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Go in the North West

Go
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Lancashire +62 375 - - 12
Manchester +108 136 £78,155 +20.24% 64
Cheshire - 50 £77,500 - 3
Merseyside +51 20 - -
Cumbria - 2 - - 3
Go
England

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 188 (32.25%) AWS
2 182 (31.22%) GCP
3 178 (30.53%) Azure
4 3 (0.51%) Apigee
4 3 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (0.51%) Cloud Composer
4 3 (0.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (0.51%) Pulumi
4 3 (0.51%) Serverless
5 1 (0.17%) Datadog
5 1 (0.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 380 (65.18%) DNS
2 379 (65.01%) VPN
3 3 (0.51%) Broadband
4 1 (0.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.20%) NoSQL
2 4 (0.69%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.51%) BigQuery
3 3 (0.51%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.34%) Metadata
5 1 (0.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Jaeger
1 4 (0.69%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.51%) Git
2 3 (0.51%) JUnit
2 3 (0.51%) Maven
2 3 (0.51%) SonarQube
2 3 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.34%) Selenium
4 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.17%) GitLab
4 1 (0.17%) JIRA
4 1 (0.17%) Postman
4 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
General
1 554 (95.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 390 (66.90%) Finance
3 381 (65.35%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (1.54%) Social Skills
5 8 (1.37%) Banking
6 5 (0.86%) Retail
7 4 (0.69%) Law
8 3 (0.51%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.34%) Retail Finance
10 1 (0.17%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 382 (65.52%) Developer
2 380 (65.18%) Software Developer
3 182 (31.22%) Senior
3 182 (31.22%) Software Engineer
4 177 (30.36%) Senior Software Engineer
5 12 (2.06%) Lead
6 3 (0.51%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (0.51%) Site Engineer
6 3 (0.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (0.51%) Team Leader
7 2 (0.34%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.34%) Engineering Manager
8 1 (0.17%) .NET Developer
8 1 (0.17%) Senior .NET Developer
8 1 (0.17%) Senior Support Engineer
8 1 (0.17%) Senior Technical Support
8 1 (0.17%) Technical Engineer
8 1 (0.17%) Technical Leader
8 1 (0.17%) Technical Support Engineer
8 1 (0.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (29.67%) .NET
2 172 (29.50%) Node.js
3 4 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (0.69%) RESTful
3 4 (0.69%) Vue
4 3 (0.51%) Hibernate
4 3 (0.51%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (0.51%) Spring
4 3 (0.51%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.34%) React
6 1 (0.17%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.17%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.17%) CSS
6 1 (0.17%) HTML
6 1 (0.17%) Laravel
6 1 (0.17%) pytest
6 1 (0.17%) React Native
6 1 (0.17%) Sass
6 1 (0.17%) SOAP
6 1 (0.17%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 551 (94.51%) Cyberattack
2 172 (29.50%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (29.50%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (0.51%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 560 (96.05%) Linux
2 379 (65.01%) Android
3 7 (1.20%) Unix
4 1 (0.17%) CentOS
4 1 (0.17%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (96.74%) Agile
2 382 (65.52%) OO
3 381 (65.35%) Design Patterns
4 379 (65.01%) Android Development
4 379 (65.01%) Line Management
4 379 (65.01%) Mathematics
4 379 (65.01%) OOP
5 192 (32.93%) Software Engineering
6 182 (31.22%) Microservices
7 178 (30.53%) Mentoring
8 176 (30.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 175 (30.02%) Scrum
10 173 (29.67%) Cloud Security
11 172 (29.50%) Data Engineering
11 172 (29.50%) Machine Learning
11 172 (29.50%) User Experience
12 14 (2.40%) DevOps
13 12 (2.06%) CI/CD
14 11 (1.89%) Infrastructure as Code
15 9 (1.54%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 572 (98.11%) Python
2 566 (97.08%) Java
3 553 (94.85%) C++
4 181 (31.05%) JavaScript
5 172 (29.50%) Rust
6 7 (1.20%) PHP
6 7 (1.20%) SQL
7 5 (0.86%) Bash
8 1 (0.17%) C#
8 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 551 (94.51%) DV Cleared
1 551 (94.51%) Security Cleared
2 175 (30.02%) AWS Certification
3 172 (29.50%) AWS Certified Developer
3 172 (29.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.17%) QA
System Software
1 389 (66.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 384 (65.87%) Ansible
2 13 (2.23%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.06%) Terraform
4 6 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.69%) Grafana
6 3 (0.51%) Argo
6 3 (0.51%) Istio
6 3 (0.51%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 8 (1.37%) Google
2 3 (0.51%) New Relic
3 1 (0.17%) Splunk