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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 268 251
Rank change year-on-year +69 -17 -70
Permanent jobs citing Go 94 122 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.00% 0.73% 1.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.74% 2.45% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 30 98 48
10th Percentile £47,375 £39,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £45,000 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% -21.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £83,750 £61,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £112,750 £84,000 £92,250
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 2,514 4,983 5,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 26.76% 29.63% 40.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,814 4,019 3,808
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,688 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,525 £82,500 £88,750
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

Go
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 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 12 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
Surrey +58 29 £75,000 -11.76% 6
Thames Valley +57 19 £77,500 +72.22% 6
Middlesex - 18 - - 4
Berkshire +32 13 £91,250 +102.78% 4
Hampshire +44 10 £66,250 +59.64% 7
West Sussex +29 7 £70,000 +21.74% 1
Kent - 7 £60,000 - 2
East Sussex +13 4 £43,750 -16.67% 3
Buckinghamshire +35 3 £47,500 +5.56% 1
Oxfordshire +33 3 £83,750 - 3
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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 2 (2.13%) Confluence
2 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.06%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 57 (60.64%) AWS
2 25 (26.60%) Pulumi
3 23 (24.47%) Azure
4 21 (22.34%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (19.15%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (9.57%) GCP
7 4 (4.26%) GitHub
8 3 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.19%) AWS CodeBuild
8 3 (3.19%) AWS CodeCommit
8 3 (3.19%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 3 (3.19%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (3.19%) Serverless
8 3 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.13%) Cloudflare
9 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (26.60%) Broadband
2 4 (4.26%) Internet
3 2 (2.13%) DNS
3 2 (2.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (36.17%) Relational Database
2 28 (29.79%) NoSQL
3 25 (26.60%) RDBMS
4 18 (19.15%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (13.83%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (8.51%) MySQL
7 3 (3.19%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.19%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.06%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 25 (26.60%) Jaeger
2 10 (10.64%) Git
3 6 (6.38%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.26%) Cypress.io
4 4 (4.26%) JIRA
4 4 (4.26%) Vite
4 4 (4.26%) webpack
5 2 (2.13%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.13%) GitLab
5 2 (2.13%) Postman
5 2 (2.13%) Selenium
5 2 (2.13%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.06%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.06%) JUnit
6 1 (1.06%) Subversion
General
1 43 (45.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 18 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (15.96%) Law
4 12 (12.77%) Games
5 5 (5.32%) Finance
6 4 (4.26%) Banking
7 3 (3.19%) Social Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 29 (30.85%) Lead
2 28 (29.79%) Developer
3 25 (26.60%) Team Leader
4 22 (23.40%) Software Developer
5 18 (19.15%) Software Engineer
6 15 (15.96%) Senior
7 8 (8.51%) Gen AI Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) Principal Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) Principal Software Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) PHP Software Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 4 (4.26%) Gen AI Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Gen AI Software Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 4 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) UI Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (26.60%) Elastic Stack
1 25 (26.60%) Node.js
1 25 (26.60%) OpenTelemetry
2 19 (20.21%) .NET
3 18 (19.15%) Pandas
4 12 (12.77%) React
5 5 (5.32%) Flutter
5 5 (5.32%) Kafka
6 4 (4.26%) Enzyme
6 4 (4.26%) Jest
6 4 (4.26%) Next.js
6 4 (4.26%) OpenAPI
6 4 (4.26%) Parceljs
6 4 (4.26%) Svelte
6 4 (4.26%) Vue
6 4 (4.26%) WebAssembly
7 3 (3.19%) Hibernate
7 3 (3.19%) Loki
7 3 (3.19%) REST
7 3 (3.19%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.15%) Cyberattack
2 11 (11.70%) Algorithms
3 7 (7.45%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.38%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.26%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.19%) Hackathon
6 3 (3.19%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.13%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.13%) IoT
8 1 (1.06%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (1.06%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.06%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 48 (51.06%) Linux
2 26 (27.66%) Unix
3 19 (20.21%) Android
4 2 (2.13%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.13%) Windows
5 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (57.45%) Agile
2 50 (53.19%) Containerisation
3 47 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 41 (43.62%) CI/CD
5 37 (39.36%) DevOps
6 31 (32.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (32.98%) Roadmaps
7 28 (29.79%) Continuous Integration
8 26 (27.66%) High Availability
9 25 (26.60%) Budget Control
9 25 (26.60%) Cost Optimisation
9 25 (26.60%) GitOps
9 25 (26.60%) Mentoring
9 25 (26.60%) Performance Optimisation
9 25 (26.60%) Product Management
9 25 (26.60%) Resource Management
9 25 (26.60%) Task Automation
10 23 (24.47%) Collaborative Working
11 22 (23.40%) Kanban
12 21 (22.34%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 74 (78.72%) Python
2 57 (60.64%) Java
3 48 (51.06%) JavaScript
4 25 (26.60%) Bash
5 23 (24.47%) C++
5 23 (24.47%) Rust
6 11 (11.70%) PHP
7 9 (9.57%) TypeScript
8 8 (8.51%) SQL
9 5 (5.32%) C
9 5 (5.32%) Perl
9 5 (5.32%) Ruby
10 4 (4.26%) Kotlin
11 3 (3.19%) C#
12 2 (2.13%) PowerShell
13 1 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (26.60%) AWS Certification
2 20 (21.28%) Security Cleared
3 18 (19.15%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.26%) Degree
5 2 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.96%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 58 (61.70%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 72 (76.60%) Kubernetes
2 57 (60.64%) Terraform
3 46 (48.94%) Ansible
4 28 (29.79%) Prometheus
5 25 (26.60%) Argo
5 25 (26.60%) Kustomize
6 3 (3.19%) Grafana
7 2 (2.13%) Graylog
Vendors
1 33 (35.11%) Google
2 3 (3.19%) Apple
3 2 (2.13%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.13%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.13%) Oracle
4 1 (1.06%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.06%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.06%) Splunk
4 1 (1.06%) Spotify