Go Jobs in the UK excluding London

Go (Golang)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 379 208
Rank change year-on-year +223 -171 -51
Permanent jobs citing Go 795 469 1,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.04% 0.66% 1.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.49% 2.09% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 99 287 385
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £49,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £82,751 £79,375 £88,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £92,500 £106,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,614 22,414 24,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.22% 31.64% 39.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,108 16,324 13,561
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +3.77%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Go in the UK excluding London

Go
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Go in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Go in the UK excluding London

Go
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Go in the UK excluding London

Go
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
North of England +252 605 £77,500 +19.23% 71
North West +184 584 £77,500 +16.98% 52
South East +75 95 £70,000 +27.27% 118
East of England +72 47 £50,000 -41.18% 23
South West +82 21 £78,810 +11.67% 27
Yorkshire +83 20 £74,405 +14.47% 16
Midlands +28 15 £57,500 -25.32% 32
West Midlands +23 9 £57,500 -25.81% 29
Scotland -2 9 £71,991 +25.20% 22
East Midlands +31 6 £47,500 -13.64% 1
Wales +39 3 - - 6
North East +41 1 - - 3
Go
UK

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (0.75%) Confluence
2 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.13%) CMS
3 1 (0.13%) JBoss
3 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 320 (40.25%) AWS
2 233 (29.31%) Azure
3 207 (26.04%) GCP
4 66 (8.30%) Pulumi
5 40 (5.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 36 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (1.13%) Apigee
7 9 (1.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (0.75%) GitHub
8 6 (0.75%) SaaS
8 6 (0.75%) Serverless
9 5 (0.63%) Cloudflare
9 5 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.38%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (0.38%) AWS CodeCommit
11 3 (0.38%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 3 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 395 (49.69%) DNS
2 391 (49.18%) VPN
3 65 (8.18%) Broadband
4 5 (0.63%) Internet
5 3 (0.38%) HTTP
5 3 (0.38%) SSL
6 2 (0.25%) Firewall
7 1 (0.13%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.13%) 5G
7 1 (0.13%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (9.81%) NoSQL
2 77 (9.69%) Relational Database
3 65 (8.18%) RDBMS
4 36 (4.53%) Elasticsearch
5 19 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.76%) MySQL
7 4 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.38%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.38%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.25%) Metadata
9 2 (0.25%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.13%) Big Data
10 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 66 (8.30%) Jaeger
2 21 (2.64%) Git
3 20 (2.52%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.26%) JUnit
5 9 (1.13%) Maven
5 9 (1.13%) SonarQube
5 9 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.01%) JIRA
7 5 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.63%) Selenium
7 5 (0.63%) webpack
8 4 (0.50%) Vite
9 3 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.38%) GitLab
9 3 (0.38%) Postman
9 3 (0.38%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.13%) Subversion
General
1 664 (83.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 430 (54.09%) Analytical Skills
3 419 (52.70%) Finance
4 23 (2.89%) Banking
4 23 (2.89%) Law
5 14 (1.76%) Social Skills
6 12 (1.51%) Games
7 5 (0.63%) Retail
8 3 (0.38%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.25%) Retail Finance
10 1 (0.13%) Advertising
10 1 (0.13%) Electronics
10 1 (0.13%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 450 (56.60%) Developer
2 434 (54.59%) Software Developer
3 216 (27.17%) Software Engineer
4 213 (26.79%) Senior
5 190 (23.90%) Senior Software Engineer
6 86 (10.82%) Lead
7 67 (8.43%) Team Leader
8 13 (1.64%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (1.13%) PHP Software Engineer
10 8 (1.01%) Gen AI Engineer
10 8 (1.01%) Senior Developer
10 8 (1.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (0.88%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (0.88%) Principal Software Engineer
12 6 (0.75%) Site Engineer
13 4 (0.50%) AWS Engineer
13 4 (0.50%) Cloud Engineer
13 4 (0.50%) Lead Software Engineer
13 4 (0.50%) Security Engineer
13 4 (0.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (27.55%) Node.js
2 215 (27.04%) .NET
3 66 (8.30%) Elastic Stack
3 66 (8.30%) OpenTelemetry
4 36 (4.53%) Pandas
5 19 (2.39%) React
6 13 (1.64%) RESTful
6 13 (1.64%) Spring Boot
7 12 (1.51%) Hibernate
7 12 (1.51%) Spring
7 12 (1.51%) Vue
8 7 (0.88%) Flutter
9 6 (0.75%) Kafka
9 6 (0.75%) REST
10 5 (0.63%) Svelte
11 4 (0.50%) Enzyme
11 4 (0.50%) Jest
11 4 (0.50%) Next.js
11 4 (0.50%) Parceljs
11 4 (0.50%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 599 (75.35%) Cyberattack
2 172 (21.64%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (21.64%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (1.64%) Algorithms
4 10 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (1.13%) Cloud Native
5 9 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (1.13%) Product Ownership
6 5 (0.63%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.38%) Client/Server
7 3 (0.38%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.38%) Hackathon
8 2 (0.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.25%) Blockchain
8 2 (0.25%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.25%) IoT
9 1 (0.13%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.13%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.13%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 683 (85.91%) Linux
2 429 (53.96%) Android
3 76 (9.56%) Unix
4 4 (0.50%) Windows
5 3 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 703 (88.43%) Agile
2 437 (54.97%) OO
3 432 (54.34%) Design Patterns
4 431 (54.21%) Mathematics
5 430 (54.09%) OOP
6 429 (53.96%) Line Management
7 428 (53.84%) Android Development
8 283 (35.60%) Software Engineering
9 251 (31.57%) Mentoring
10 218 (27.42%) Microservices
11 190 (23.90%) User Experience
12 188 (23.65%) Cloud Security
13 184 (23.14%) Machine Learning
14 183 (23.02%) Scrum
15 182 (22.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 172 (21.64%) Data Engineering
17 118 (14.84%) Containerisation
18 113 (14.21%) DevOps
19 93 (11.70%) Infrastructure as Code
20 87 (10.94%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 744 (93.58%) Python
2 712 (89.56%) Java
3 614 (77.23%) C++
4 306 (38.49%) JavaScript
5 220 (27.67%) Rust
6 70 (8.81%) Bash
7 25 (3.14%) PHP
8 20 (2.52%) SQL
9 17 (2.14%) TypeScript
10 14 (1.76%) C#
11 10 (1.26%) Ruby
12 9 (1.13%) C
13 7 (0.88%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.63%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.63%) Perl
15 3 (0.38%) Scala
16 2 (0.25%) Elixir
16 2 (0.25%) F#
16 2 (0.25%) Solidity
17 1 (0.13%) R
Qualifications
1 606 (76.23%) Security Cleared
2 602 (75.72%) DV Cleared
3 237 (29.81%) AWS Certification
4 172 (21.64%) AWS Certified Developer
4 172 (21.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (1.51%) Degree
6 6 (0.75%) SC Cleared
7 5 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.50%) PhD
9 3 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.13%) CISSP
10 1 (0.13%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 4 (0.50%) QA
3 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.25%) NIST
4 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 528 (66.42%) Docker
2 3 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 497 (62.52%) Ansible
2 158 (19.87%) Kubernetes
3 141 (17.74%) Terraform
4 72 (9.06%) Prometheus
5 65 (8.18%) Argo
5 65 (8.18%) Kustomize
6 9 (1.13%) Istio
7 8 (1.01%) Grafana
8 3 (0.38%) Graylog
Vendors
1 80 (10.06%) Google
2 5 (0.63%) Oracle
3 4 (0.50%) Apple
3 4 (0.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (0.38%) Atlassian
4 3 (0.38%) New Relic
4 3 (0.38%) Splunk
5 2 (0.25%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.25%) Planview
6 1 (0.13%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.13%) Databricks
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.13%) Spotify
6 1 (0.13%) Xilinx