Go Job Trends in Surrey

Go (Golang)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 82 133
Rank change year-on-year -19 +51 -20
Permanent jobs citing Go 14 13 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.65% 1.17% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.00% 4.96% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 15
10th Percentile £58,750 £49,250 -
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -32.35% +3.03%
75th Percentile £63,750 £79,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £91,750 -
South East median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -26.67%

All Programming Languages
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 466 262 686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 21.56% 23.67% 27.91%
Number of salaries quoted 389 211 523
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £72,500 £69,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,565 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.98% +1.03% -8.33%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Go job vacancy trend in Surrey

Go
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Go

Go
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
Guildford -16 9 £62,500 -20.63%
Go
South East

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) AWS
2 10 (71.43%) GitHub
3 8 (57.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (57.14%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (57.14%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) Firewall
1 8 (57.14%) VPN
2 4 (28.57%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
General
1 8 (57.14%) Retail
2 2 (14.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Senior
2 8 (57.14%) Administrator
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps Administrator
2 8 (57.14%) Senior DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 8 (57.14%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (35.71%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Scala Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Scala Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) gRPC
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (57.14%) Private Cloud
2 5 (35.71%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (28.57%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (14.29%) Low-Code
4 2 (14.29%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
2 10 (71.43%) AI
2 10 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (64.29%) Observability
4 8 (57.14%) Cloud Security
4 8 (57.14%) Configuration Management
4 8 (57.14%) DevOps
4 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
5 4 (28.57%) Microservices
5 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) API Design
6 2 (14.29%) Change Management
6 2 (14.29%) Coaching
6 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (14.29%) Open Source
6 2 (14.29%) OWASP
6 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 8 (57.14%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Ansible
1 8 (57.14%) Grafana
1 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 8 (57.14%) Prometheus
1 8 (57.14%) Proxmox
1 8 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Typelevel