Go Jobs in the Thames Valley

Go (Golang)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 219 181
Rank change year-on-year +49 -38 +63
Permanent jobs citing Go 20 26 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.58% 0.39% 1.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.66% 1.38% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 15 19 8
10th Percentile £50,750 £41,500 £56,500
25th Percentile £61,875 £42,500 £64,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £45,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +72.22% -38.98% -1.67%
75th Percentile £112,500 £53,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £58,750 £84,750
South East median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year +27.27% -22.81% -10.94%

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 752 1,886 2,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 21.92% 28.04% 39.90%
Number of salaries quoted 476 1,537 1,383
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -11.29% +5.98%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% -4.35% +4.55%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Go in the Thames Valley

Go
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Go in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Go in the Thames Valley

Go
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

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 19 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
Berkshire +21 14 £77,500 +72.22% 7
Oxfordshire +38 3 £83,750 - 4
Buckinghamshire +35 3 £47,500 +5.56% 3
Go
South East

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (15.00%) AWS CodeBuild
4 3 (15.00%) AWS CodeCommit
4 3 (15.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 3 (15.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (15.00%) Serverless
4 3 (15.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (10.00%) Cloudflare
5 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Internet
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Principal Software Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) PHP Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Python Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Flutter
1 5 (25.00%) Node.js
2 4 (20.00%) Loki
2 4 (20.00%) React
3 2 (10.00%) .NET
3 2 (10.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (20.00%) Hackathon
1 4 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (10.00%) Cyberattack
2 2 (10.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Android
2 2 (10.00%) Mac OS
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (50.00%) Microservices
3 7 (35.00%) Collaborative Working
3 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (30.00%) Agile
4 6 (30.00%) Analytics
4 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 4 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
6 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (15.00%) DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) Fintech
6 3 (15.00%) Migration
6 3 (15.00%) Open Source
7 2 (10.00%) Android Development
7 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (10.00%) OWASP
7 2 (10.00%) SIEM
7 2 (10.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) C++
2 7 (35.00%) Rust
3 5 (25.00%) C
3 5 (25.00%) Perl
3 5 (25.00%) Ruby
4 4 (20.00%) PHP
4 4 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (10.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) Java
5 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (70.00%) Terraform
2 11 (55.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (20.00%) Grafana
3 4 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (10.00%) Ansible
4 2 (10.00%) Graylog
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) Apple
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft