Go Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Go (Golang)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 175 220
Rank change year-on-year -6 +45 -3
Permanent jobs citing Go 5 27 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.081% 0.75% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.51% 3.52% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 16
10th Percentile - £57,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £64,063 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £75,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +66.67% -40.00%
75th Percentile £62,000 £83,750 £47,500
90th Percentile - £87,875 £48,750
South East median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -26.67%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 987 766 1,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.03% 21.24% 28.00%
Number of salaries quoted 747 456 1,445
10th Percentile £37,000 £37,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -13.39%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,813 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Go job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Go
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Go

Go
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Go in the Thames Valley

Go
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 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
Buckinghamshire -12 5 £51,000 -
Go
South East

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Security Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Security Incident Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Release Management
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
3 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) AIOps
4 1 (20.00%) Application Performance Management
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Intelligent Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) C
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO 22301
1 2 (40.00%) ISO 9001
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Argo
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft