Go Job Trends in Scotland

Go (Golang)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 134 152
Rank change year-on-year -1 +18 -40
Permanent jobs citing Go 4 15 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.15% 0.56% 1.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.66% 1.54% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £77,000 - £51,250
25th Percentile £78,125 £70,097 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,780 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.76% +26.30% -
75th Percentile £103,750 £85,253 £85,769
90th Percentile - - £96,539
UK median annual salary £90,000 £92,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -2.70% +12.12% +3.13%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 607 972 1,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.31% 36.04% 50.32%
Number of salaries quoted 264 508 780
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - -7.60% +3.52%
75th Percentile £75,225 £69,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,648 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% -3.85%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Go job vacancy trend in Scotland

Go
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Go

Go
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Go in Scotland

Go
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Edinburgh -26 2 £80,000 +5.57% 4
Glasgow - 2 £97,500 - 3
Go
UK

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Site Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) PHP Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Fintech
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 2 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) CQRS
3 1 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PHP