Go Jobs in the South West

Go (Golang)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 240 156
Rank change year-on-year +76 -84 -55
Permanent jobs citing Go 16 47 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.46% 0.51% 1.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.55% 1.53% 4.85%
Number of salaries quoted 12 43 61
10th Percentile £38,250 £50,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £70,576 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -2.65% +3.57%
75th Percentile £84,250 £86,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £97,501 £98,474 £112,500
England median annual salary £94,637 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +18.30% - -

All Programming Languages
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,029 3,071 2,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 29.53% 33.30% 37.89%
Number of salaries quoted 795 2,438 1,720
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,700
25th Percentile £45,250 £42,500 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,807 £66,250 £70,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in the South West

Go
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Go in the South West

Go
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Go in the South West

Go
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol +40 7 £80,000 +13.35% 12
Dorset - 4 £37,500 -
Gloucestershire +59 3 £72,500 +7.41% 9
Somerset +13 2 £57,500 +15.00% 4
Go
England

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Apigee
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (12.50%) Cloudflare
3 2 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (12.50%) Stackdriver
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.25%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
1 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) JUnit
2 2 (12.50%) Maven
2 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 2 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) PHP Developer
4 2 (12.50%) PHP Web Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Research Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Web Developer
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Node.js
2 2 (12.50%) Android Jetpack
2 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 2 (12.50%) CSS
2 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
2 2 (12.50%) HTML
2 2 (12.50%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (12.50%) LAMP
2 2 (12.50%) React
2 2 (12.50%) RESTful
2 2 (12.50%) Spring
2 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 2 (12.50%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) Pandas
3 1 (6.25%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cyberattack
2 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Android
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (50.00%) DevOps
1 8 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Android Development
2 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (31.25%) Mathematics
2 5 (31.25%) OO
2 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
3 4 (25.00%) Microservices
4 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
4 3 (18.75%) Line Management
4 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
4 3 (18.75%) OOP
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
5 2 (12.50%) Front End Development
5 2 (12.50%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) Python
2 11 (68.75%) Java
3 8 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (31.25%) C++
5 3 (18.75%) PHP
5 3 (18.75%) Rust
5 3 (18.75%) SQL
5 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
6 2 (12.50%) Bash
6 2 (12.50%) C
6 2 (12.50%) Kotlin
6 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) DV Cleared
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) Degree
3 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (12.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 6 (37.50%) Terraform
3 3 (18.75%) Ansible
4 2 (12.50%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
1 2 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle