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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 152 60
Rank change year-on-year -32 -92 +86
Permanent jobs citing Go 68 59 270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.19% 1.56% 4.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.50% 4.14% 9.82%
Number of salaries quoted 13 20 120
10th Percentile - £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £38,250 £55,000 £63,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,351 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.49% -12.87% +3.45%
75th Percentile £63,750 £84,056 £85,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £88,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% - +14.29%

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 2,721 1,425 2,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 47.75% 37.56% 45.16%
Number of salaries quoted 927 928 1,682
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,874 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £68,114 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -44 58 £50,000 -23.08%
Edinburgh +8 9 £41,500 -38.68%
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.12%) AWS
2 12 (17.65%) SaaS
3 7 (10.29%) Amazon S3
4 6 (8.82%) GCP
5 4 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (5.88%) Google Docs
5 4 (5.88%) Lucidchart
5 4 (5.88%) Miro
5 4 (5.88%) Serverless
5 4 (5.88%) Slack
6 3 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.41%) Azure
7 2 (2.94%) Datadog
8 1 (1.47%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.47%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (69.12%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (64.71%) Metadata
2 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.35%) Redis
3 5 (7.35%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.88%) Big Data
4 4 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.88%) Hadoop
4 4 (5.88%) Scylla
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.47%) GIS
Development Applications
1 50 (73.53%) Git
2 47 (69.12%) Bitbucket
2 47 (69.12%) Jenkins
3 44 (64.71%) Artifactory
General
1 51 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 49 (72.06%) Finance
3 48 (70.59%) Law
3 48 (70.59%) Marketing
4 13 (19.12%) Social Skills
5 4 (5.88%) Games
6 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (83.82%) Software Engineer
2 46 (67.65%) Lead
2 46 (67.65%) Lead Software Engineer
3 33 (48.53%) Senior
4 32 (47.06%) Senior Software Engineer
5 9 (13.24%) Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Backend Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Principal Software Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 1 (1.47%) Blockchain Engineer
9 1 (1.47%) Python Engineer
9 1 (1.47%) Python Software Engineer
9 1 (1.47%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (72.06%) RESTful
2 47 (69.12%) JSON
2 47 (69.12%) LDAP
2 47 (69.12%) OpenID
2 47 (69.12%) Web Services
2 47 (69.12%) XML
3 44 (64.71%) JSON-LD
3 44 (64.71%) SAML
4 5 (7.35%) REST
5 4 (5.88%) GraphQL
5 4 (5.88%) Kafka
6 2 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.47%) Django
7 1 (1.47%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 47 (69.12%) Enterprise Cloud
2 44 (64.71%) Management Information System
2 44 (64.71%) Reference Data
3 9 (13.24%) Algorithms
4 7 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (7.35%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.47%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (86.76%) Software Engineering
2 56 (82.35%) Agile
3 51 (75.00%) CI/CD
4 49 (72.06%) Test Automation
5 48 (70.59%) Community of Practice
5 48 (70.59%) Operational Stability
5 48 (70.59%) SDLC
6 47 (69.12%) Data Modelling
7 46 (67.65%) Architectural Design
7 46 (67.65%) Information Architecture
8 45 (66.18%) Roadmaps
9 44 (64.71%) Continuous Delivery
9 44 (64.71%) Data Pipeline
9 44 (64.71%) Data Transformation
9 44 (64.71%) Identity Access Management
9 44 (64.71%) Ontologies
9 44 (64.71%) RDF
9 44 (64.71%) Use Case
10 6 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (8.82%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 44 (64.71%) Prolog
1 44 (64.71%) SPARQL
2 18 (26.47%) Java
2 18 (26.47%) Python
3 10 (14.71%) C++
4 5 (7.35%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.35%) SQL
5 4 (5.88%) Bash
5 4 (5.88%) C
5 4 (5.88%) C#
5 4 (5.88%) Rust
5 4 (5.88%) Scala
5 4 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (2.94%) Degree
2 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.47%) PhD
System Software
1 47 (69.12%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.94%) Grafana
2 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (7.35%) Google
2 4 (5.88%) Dell
3 3 (4.41%) Cadence
4 2 (2.94%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.94%) Splunk
5 1 (1.47%) OpenAI