Go Job Trends in the South West

Go (Golang)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 139 236
Rank change year-on-year -32 +97 -93
Permanent jobs citing Go 28 13 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.40% 0.50% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.68% 1.57% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 12 12 46
10th Percentile £42,836 £38,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £44,575 £63,750 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £78,810 £72,788
Median % change year-on-year -12.76% +8.27% +0.40%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,250 £97,501 £101,112
England median annual salary £90,000 £95,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -

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 1,046 829 2,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.78% 31.61% 35.15%
Number of salaries quoted 671 631 2,472
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £66,313
90th Percentile £79,250 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Go job vacancy trend in the South West

Go
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Go

Go
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in the South West over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

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 10 April 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
Gloucestershire -8 16 £75,000 +3.45% 3
Cornwall - 5 - -
Somerset -21 3 £42,784 -25.59% 1
Devon - 2 £44,100 - 1
Bristol -19 1 £67,500 -15.63% 7
Go
England

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (7.14%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 17 (60.71%) AWS
2 6 (21.43%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) GCP
3 3 (10.71%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (3.57%) Pulumi
4 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
2 3 (10.71%) MySQL
2 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.57%) Big Data
3 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.57%) InfluxDB
3 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (35.71%) Git
2 7 (25.00%) Subversion
3 4 (14.29%) Balsamiq
3 4 (14.29%) GitLab
4 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
5 2 (7.14%) Cucumber
5 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.57%) Jaeger
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (17.86%) Aerospace
1 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Military
3 1 (3.57%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (3.57%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Games
3 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Senior
2 6 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Scala Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Consultant
4 3 (10.71%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 3 (10.71%) Lead
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Consultant
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Integration Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Scala Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Integration Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Team Leader
6 1 (3.57%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) gRPC
2 3 (10.71%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (10.71%) Vue
3 2 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.57%) React
4 1 (3.57%) RESTful
4 1 (3.57%) Spring
4 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Video\Live Streaming
2 4 (14.29%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (39.29%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) DevOps
2 15 (53.57%) Agile
3 13 (46.43%) Software Engineering
4 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
7 8 (28.57%) Containerisation
7 8 (28.57%) Scrum
7 8 (28.57%) SDLC
8 7 (25.00%) Kanban
8 7 (25.00%) Microservices
9 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (21.43%) Software Testing
9 6 (21.43%) Validation
10 5 (17.86%) Collaborative Culture
10 5 (17.86%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (17.86%) Machine Learning
10 5 (17.86%) Systems Engineering
11 4 (14.29%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 25 (89.29%) Python
2 17 (60.71%) Java
3 15 (53.57%) Bash
4 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (21.43%) C#
6 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
7 4 (14.29%) C++
7 4 (14.29%) Scala
8 3 (10.71%) Rust
8 3 (10.71%) TypeScript
8 3 (10.71%) VBScript
9 2 (7.14%) PHP
9 2 (7.14%) SQL
10 1 (3.57%) Ruby
10 1 (3.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) Degree
3 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.71%) CITP
4 3 (10.71%) CREST Certified
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.57%) CEH
5 1 (3.57%) OSCP
5 1 (3.57%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (46.43%) Kubernetes
2 8 (28.57%) Argo
2 8 (28.57%) Rancher
3 7 (25.00%) yum
4 6 (21.43%) Terraform
5 5 (17.86%) Ansible
6 3 (10.71%) Grafana
7 2 (7.14%) Kibana
7 2 (7.14%) logstash
7 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
7 2 (7.14%) Puppet
8 1 (3.57%) Kustomize
8 1 (3.57%) Podman
8 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Typelevel
2 2 (7.14%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle