Go Jobs in Scotland

Go (Golang)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 157 173 139
Rank change year-on-year +16 -34 -37
Permanent jobs citing Go 9 119 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.30% 1.74% 1.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.87% 3.21% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5 18 19
10th Percentile - £38,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £47,500 £59,340
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £56,250 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +40.11% -19.00% -7.40%
75th Percentile £82,751 £65,000 £86,403
90th Percentile £96,100 - £94,447
UK median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% -

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 1,031 3,708 1,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 33.99% 54.32% 41.18%
Number of salaries quoted 683 1,138 1,016
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £84,250 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Go in Scotland

Go
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Go in Scotland.

Salary trend for Go in Scotland

Go
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

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 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
Edinburgh +7 5 £74,405 +26.65% 9
Glasgow +73 4 £100,000 +100.00% 3
Go
UK

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
1 6 (66.67%) GCP
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Apigee
3 2 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (22.22%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Datadog
4 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) JUnit
2 2 (22.22%) Maven
2 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
2 2 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 6 (66.67%) Banking
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (33.33%) Law
4 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Senior
3 4 (44.44%) Lead
3 4 (44.44%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (33.33%) AWS Software Engineer
4 3 (33.33%) Java Engineer
4 3 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (22.22%) Lead Java Engineer
5 2 (22.22%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (22.22%) Senior Java Engineer
5 2 (22.22%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 2 (22.22%) Software Team Leader
5 2 (22.22%) Team Leader
6 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
6 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (11.11%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) RESTful
2 3 (33.33%) OAuth
2 3 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 3 (33.33%) OpenID
2 3 (33.33%) SAML
3 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
3 2 (22.22%) Spring
3 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
4 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
1 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Microservices
2 4 (44.44%) TDD
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 3 (33.33%) Biometrics
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (33.33%) Information Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 3 (33.33%) SDLC
3 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) SOLID
4 2 (22.22%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Elixir
2 2 (22.22%) F#
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) Ruby
2 2 (22.22%) Scala
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Istio
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Facebook
1 3 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk