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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 245 147
Rank change year-on-year +89 -98 -49
Permanent jobs citing Go 23 46 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.65% 0.47% 1.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.16% 1.50% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 12 43 55
10th Percentile £38,125 £48,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £55,938 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,405 £70,576 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.51% -2.65% +3.57%
75th Percentile £86,875 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,501 £96,279 £102,500
England median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -

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 1,064 3,061 2,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 30.00% 31.25% 37.66%
Number of salaries quoted 753 2,395 1,620
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 31 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 31 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 +44 8 £80,000 +13.35% 12
Gloucestershire +61 6 £71,250 +29.55% 9
Dorset - 4 £37,500 - 1
Devon +20 3 - - 1
Somerset +12 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 10 (43.48%) AWS
2 7 (30.43%) Pulumi
3 4 (17.39%) Azure
3 4 (17.39%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) Apigee
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Cloudflare
4 2 (8.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (8.70%) Stackdriver
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) Broadband
2 3 (13.04%) Internet
3 2 (8.70%) DNS
3 2 (8.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) NoSQL
2 7 (30.43%) Relational Database
3 6 (26.09%) RDBMS
4 2 (8.70%) MySQL
4 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Jaeger
2 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.70%) Git
3 2 (8.70%) JUnit
3 2 (8.70%) Maven
3 2 (8.70%) SonarQube
3 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 9 (39.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (34.78%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Developer
2 8 (34.78%) Lead
3 7 (30.43%) Software Developer
4 6 (26.09%) Team Leader
5 4 (17.39%) Senior
6 2 (8.70%) PHP Developer
6 2 (8.70%) PHP Web Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Research Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Web Developer
7 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (26.09%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (13.04%) Node.js
3 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.70%) CSS
3 2 (8.70%) Hibernate
3 2 (8.70%) HTML
3 2 (8.70%) LAMP
3 2 (8.70%) RESTful
3 2 (8.70%) Spring
3 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
3 2 (8.70%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (4.35%) .NET
4 1 (4.35%) Pandas
4 1 (4.35%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Cyberattack
2 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Linux
2 8 (34.78%) Unix
3 3 (13.04%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Containerisation
1 12 (52.17%) DevOps
2 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (39.13%) Agile
3 9 (39.13%) Mentoring
4 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
5 6 (26.09%) Budget Control
5 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
5 6 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (26.09%) Cost Optimisation
5 6 (26.09%) GitOps
5 6 (26.09%) High Availability
5 6 (26.09%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (26.09%) Product Management
5 6 (26.09%) Resource Management
5 6 (26.09%) Roadmaps
5 6 (26.09%) Task Automation
6 5 (21.74%) Mathematics
6 5 (21.74%) OO
7 4 (17.39%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) Python
2 15 (65.22%) Java
3 12 (52.17%) JavaScript
4 8 (34.78%) Bash
4 8 (34.78%) C++
5 6 (26.09%) Rust
6 3 (13.04%) PHP
6 3 (13.04%) SQL
7 2 (8.70%) C
7 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
8 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) AWS Certification
1 6 (26.09%) DV Cleared
1 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) PhD
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 13 (56.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (52.17%) Kubernetes
1 12 (52.17%) Terraform
2 9 (39.13%) Ansible
3 6 (26.09%) Argo
3 6 (26.09%) Kustomize
3 6 (26.09%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.70%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle