Go Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Go (Golang)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Permanent jobs citing Go 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.13% - 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.63% - 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £52,625
25th Percentile £55,000 - £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £56,250
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.41%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £60,313
90th Percentile - - £60,875
North East median annual salary £60,000 - £56,250
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

All Programming Languages
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 159 343 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.54% 45.67% 27.94%
Number of salaries quoted 120 173 85
10th Percentile £28,250 - £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,991 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,650 £97,500 £71,500
North East median annual salary £50,000 £51,404 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.73% -2.09% +5.00%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Go job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Go
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Go

Go
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 18 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £60,000 - 2
Go
North East

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform