Go Jobs in the South East

Go (Golang)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 9 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 283 256
Rank change year-on-year +46 -27 -91
Permanent jobs citing Go 78 113 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.77% 0.64% 0.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.05% 2.21% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 26 96 71
10th Percentile £51,875 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,813 £48,125 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -26.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £78,125 £61,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,625 £81,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -

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 2,555 5,107 5,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.10% 29.01% 40.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,743 3,997 3,561
10th Percentile £32,550 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -6.78% +7.27%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Go in the South East

Go
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Go in the South East.

Salary trend for Go in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in the South East over the 6 months to 9 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Go in the South East

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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 9 July 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
Surrey +63 30 £57,500 -32.35% 1
Thames Valley +47 13 £75,000 +66.67% 10
Hampshire +46 10 £55,000 - 5
Berkshire +34 9 £75,000 +66.67% 7
Kent - 8 £77,500 - 3
Middlesex - 7 - - 1
West Sussex +14 6 £68,750 +19.57% 1
East Sussex +4 4 £43,750 -16.67% 1
Oxfordshire - 3 £83,750 - 2
Buckinghamshire +17 1 - - 1
Go
England

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.28%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 57 (73.08%) AWS
2 25 (32.05%) Pulumi
3 22 (28.21%) AWS CloudFormation
4 20 (25.64%) Azure
5 18 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (7.69%) GCP
7 4 (5.13%) Serverless
8 3 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.85%) AWS CodeBuild
8 3 (3.85%) AWS CodeCommit
8 3 (3.85%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 3 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (3.85%) GitHub
8 3 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.28%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (32.05%) Broadband
2 2 (2.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (39.74%) Relational Database
2 26 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 25 (32.05%) RDBMS
4 18 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (6.41%) MySQL
7 1 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.28%) Big Data
7 1 (1.28%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (32.05%) Jaeger
2 4 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.85%) Cucumber
3 3 (3.85%) Git
3 3 (3.85%) Postman
3 3 (3.85%) Selenium
3 3 (3.85%) SoapUI
4 2 (2.56%) JIRA
5 1 (1.28%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.28%) JUnit
5 1 (1.28%) Subversion
General
1 43 (55.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 18 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.41%) Games
4 4 (5.13%) Law
4 4 (5.13%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.85%) Electronics
6 2 (2.56%) Advertising
6 2 (2.56%) Finance
7 1 (1.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (33.33%) Lead
2 25 (32.05%) Team Leader
3 22 (28.21%) Developer
4 18 (23.08%) Software Developer
5 14 (17.95%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) PHP Software Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Gen AI Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Gen AI Software Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Senior
8 3 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) FPGA Engineer
9 2 (2.56%) Principal Engineer
9 2 (2.56%) Principal Software Engineer
9 2 (2.56%) QA Automation Engineer
9 2 (2.56%) QA Engineer
9 2 (2.56%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (32.05%) Elastic Stack
1 25 (32.05%) OpenTelemetry
2 23 (29.49%) .NET
3 18 (23.08%) Node.js
3 18 (23.08%) Pandas
4 4 (5.13%) Loki
5 3 (3.85%) Hibernate
5 3 (3.85%) Kafka
5 3 (3.85%) pytest
5 3 (3.85%) SOAP
5 3 (3.85%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.56%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.56%) React
6 2 (2.56%) Spring
7 1 (1.28%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.28%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.28%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.28%) gRPC
7 1 (1.28%) LAMP
7 1 (1.28%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.08%) Cyberattack
2 6 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 5 (6.41%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (5.13%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.13%) Hackathon
5 3 (3.85%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (3.85%) FPGA
6 2 (2.56%) IoT
7 1 (1.28%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (1.28%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.28%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 49 (62.82%) Linux
2 26 (33.33%) Unix
3 19 (24.36%) Android
4 3 (3.85%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (62.82%) Agile
2 44 (56.41%) Containerisation
3 38 (48.72%) Software Engineering
4 35 (44.87%) CI/CD
5 34 (43.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (41.03%) DevOps
7 26 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
7 26 (33.33%) High Availability
7 26 (33.33%) Mentoring
7 26 (33.33%) Roadmaps
8 25 (32.05%) Budget Control
8 25 (32.05%) Cost Optimisation
8 25 (32.05%) GitOps
8 25 (32.05%) Performance Optimisation
8 25 (32.05%) Product Management
8 25 (32.05%) Resource Management
8 25 (32.05%) Task Automation
9 20 (25.64%) Kanban
9 20 (25.64%) OOP
10 19 (24.36%) OO
Programming Languages
1 59 (75.64%) Python
2 52 (66.67%) Java
3 44 (56.41%) JavaScript
4 25 (32.05%) Bash
5 21 (26.92%) C++
6 18 (23.08%) Rust
7 11 (14.10%) PHP
8 8 (10.26%) SQL
9 2 (2.56%) C#
9 2 (2.56%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.28%) Groovy
10 1 (1.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 21 (26.92%) Security Cleared
3 18 (23.08%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.13%) Degree
5 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.85%) QA
3 1 (1.28%) GDPR
3 1 (1.28%) NIST
System Software
1 49 (62.82%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (67.95%) Kubernetes
1 53 (67.95%) Terraform
2 43 (55.13%) Ansible
3 29 (37.18%) Prometheus
4 25 (32.05%) Argo
4 25 (32.05%) Kustomize
5 4 (5.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 30 (38.46%) Google
2 3 (3.85%) Xilinx
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle
4 1 (1.28%) Apple
4 1 (1.28%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.28%) Rapid7
4 1 (1.28%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.28%) Splunk
4 1 (1.28%) Spotify