Go Job Trends in the South East

Go (Golang)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 229 247
Rank change year-on-year -41 +18 -7
Permanent jobs citing Go 51 65 93
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.30% 0.74% 0.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.75% 3.44% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 37 24 77
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -23.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,875 £61,250
90th Percentile £87,000 £83,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +20.00% -5.82%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,921 1,890 3,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 17.07% 21.41% 28.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,303 1,246 2,910
10th Percentile £36,850 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £68,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year +2.36% +3.75% -5.84%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Go job vacancy trend in the South East

Go
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Go

Go
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in the South East over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Go in the South East

Go
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Hampshire -32 17 £70,000 +27.27% 14
Thames Valley -11 13 £51,000 -29.66% 7
Surrey -20 12 £62,500 +8.70% 2
West Sussex -16 8 £67,500 -1.82% 10
Oxfordshire -18 8 - - 5
Buckinghamshire -4 5 £51,000 - 1
Kent -26 1 £70,000 -26.32% 4
Go
England

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (54.90%) AWS
2 14 (27.45%) Azure
3 8 (15.69%) GitHub
4 5 (9.80%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (7.84%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.88%) Datadog
6 3 (5.88%) GCP
6 3 (5.88%) SaaS
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) Broadband
1 5 (9.80%) Firewall
1 5 (9.80%) VPN
2 4 (7.84%) DNS
3 2 (3.92%) IPv4
3 2 (3.92%) IPv6
3 2 (3.92%) SSL
3 2 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (3.92%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.57%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (13.73%) NoSQL
3 6 (11.76%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.92%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (3.92%) Couchbase
4 2 (3.92%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.96%) MySQL
5 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (37.25%) Git
2 4 (7.84%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.88%) JUnit
4 2 (3.92%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.92%) GitLab
4 2 (3.92%) JIRA
4 2 (3.92%) JMeter
5 1 (1.96%) NUnit
General
1 15 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Finance
3 6 (11.76%) Legal
4 5 (9.80%) Retail
5 4 (7.84%) Advertising
5 4 (7.84%) Games
5 4 (7.84%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 15 (29.41%) Senior
3 14 (27.45%) Developer
4 4 (7.84%) Backend Developer
4 4 (7.84%) Java Developer
4 4 (7.84%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Administrator
5 3 (5.88%) DevOps Administrator
5 3 (5.88%) Engineering Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Lead
5 3 (5.88%) Platform Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (5.88%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 3 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (3.92%) Incident Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Python Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Security Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Senior Validation Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Validation Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (29.41%) React
2 5 (9.80%) Kafka
3 4 (7.84%) Spring
3 4 (7.84%) Spring Boot
3 4 (7.84%) Vert.x
4 3 (5.88%) REST
5 2 (3.92%) RESTful
6 1 (1.96%) .NET
6 1 (1.96%) gRPC
6 1 (1.96%) LAMP
6 1 (1.96%) Next.js
6 1 (1.96%) Node.js
6 1 (1.96%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.57%) Data Structures
2 10 (19.61%) Algorithms
3 9 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (15.69%) Robotics
5 6 (11.76%) IoT
6 5 (9.80%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (7.84%) Low-Code
8 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
8 3 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (5.88%) Private Cloud
8 3 (5.88%) Product Ownership
9 2 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (3.92%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (3.92%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
10 1 (1.96%) GNSS
10 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.96%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 14 (27.45%) Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Embedded Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 21 (41.18%) Software Engineering
3 20 (39.22%) DevOps
3 20 (39.22%) Test Automation
4 16 (31.37%) Agile
5 15 (29.41%) Microservices
6 13 (25.49%) Computer Science
7 12 (23.53%) Containerisation
7 12 (23.53%) DevSecOps
7 12 (23.53%) Observability
8 11 (21.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (17.65%) Software Delivery
11 8 (15.69%) Logistics
11 8 (15.69%) Validation
12 7 (13.73%) AI
12 7 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
12 7 (13.73%) SDLC
13 6 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
13 6 (11.76%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 35 (68.63%) Python
2 19 (37.25%) Java
3 16 (31.37%) TypeScript
4 12 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 6 (11.76%) Rust
6 5 (9.80%) Bash
6 5 (9.80%) C#
6 5 (9.80%) SQL
7 4 (7.84%) C++
8 2 (3.92%) C
8 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.96%) PHP
9 1 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (25.49%) Computer Science Degree
1 13 (25.49%) Degree
1 13 (25.49%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.80%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.92%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) QA
2 4 (7.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.92%) ISO 22301
3 2 (3.92%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 27 (52.94%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) iptables
Systems Management
1 23 (45.10%) Kubernetes
2 11 (21.57%) Grafana
2 11 (21.57%) Terraform
3 6 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.88%) Ansible
4 3 (5.88%) Proxmox
5 2 (3.92%) Argo
5 2 (3.92%) Istio
5 2 (3.92%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (5.88%) VMware
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle
2 2 (3.92%) Splunk
3 1 (1.96%) Google
3 1 (1.96%) Typelevel