Go Job Trends in Staffordshire

Go (Golang)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 68 43
Rank change year-on-year -5 -25 +33
Permanent jobs citing Go 2 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 0.21% 0.17% 1.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.28% 0.72% 4.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile - - £65,750
25th Percentile - £46,250 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -34.48% +31.82%
75th Percentile - £48,750 £76,250
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £82,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -12.12% +22.22% -5.26%

All Programming Languages
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 61 139 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 6.26% 23.80% 29.38%
Number of salaries quoted 43 101 99
10th Percentile £32,500 - £28,700
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £32,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,000 £53,125
90th Percentile £66,050 £60,000 £64,200
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Go job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Go
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Go

Go
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Stoke-on-Trent +18 2 £55,000 +15.79% 10
Go
West Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) WinForms
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#