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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 140 138
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 -64
Permanent jobs citing Go 10 6 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.37% 0.18% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.47% 0.56% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 14
10th Percentile £77,000 - -
25th Percentile £78,125 - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - £65,351
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.87%
75th Percentile £104,063 - £77,500
90th Percentile £104,625 - £94,202
UK median annual salary £90,000 £87,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.86% +16.67% -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 681 1,079 940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.41% 33.11% 38.67%
Number of salaries quoted 223 563 771
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,300 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,125 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.77%
75th Percentile £78,770 £67,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £76,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%

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 27 October 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 27 October 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
Glasgow +4 8 £98,750 -
Edinburgh +10 2 £80,000 - 6
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 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (70.00%) Banking
2 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 6 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (60.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Senior
1 8 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) AWS Software Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Java Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (40.00%) Lead
3 4 (40.00%) Lead Java Engineer
3 4 (40.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 4 (40.00%) Senior Java Engineer
3 4 (40.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) PHP Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) OAuth
1 6 (60.00%) OAuth2
1 6 (60.00%) OpenID
1 6 (60.00%) SAML
2 2 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) SDLC
3 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 6 (60.00%) Analytics
3 6 (60.00%) Architectural Design
3 6 (60.00%) Biometrics
3 6 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (60.00%) Data Architecture
3 6 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (60.00%) Information Architecture
3 6 (60.00%) Prototyping
4 2 (20.00%) Budget Management
4 2 (20.00%) Fintech
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) PHP
2 1 (10.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Facebook
1 6 (60.00%) Google