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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 386 189
Rank change year-on-year +223 -197 -46
Permanent jobs citing Go 786 446 1,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.00% 0.60% 1.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.53% 1.95% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 96 292 384
10th Percentile £46,875 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,438 £48,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -17.24% -3.33%
75th Percentile £83,000 £76,938 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £102,500
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 10,434 22,861 22,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.50% 30.66% 39.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6,760 16,543 13,080
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,307 £67,500 £71,194
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
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 30 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 30 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 +264 605 £77,500 +21.57% 517
North West +195 583 £77,500 +19.23% 269
South East +46 84 £67,500 +22.73% 632
East of England +75 46 £50,000 -41.18% 313
South West +82 23 £79,405 +12.51% 250
Yorkshire +71 21 £70,000 +7.69% 191
Midlands +55 16 £57,500 -25.32% 417
West Midlands +27 10 £57,500 -25.81% 238
Scotland +12 9 £75,401 +34.05% 100
East Midlands +46 6 £47,500 -13.64% 153
Wales +46 3 - - 54
North East +44 1 - - 57
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 4 (0.51%) Confluence
2 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.13%) CMS
2 1 (0.13%) JBoss
2 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 319 (40.59%) AWS
2 229 (29.13%) Azure
3 207 (26.34%) GCP
4 66 (8.40%) Pulumi
5 39 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 36 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (1.15%) Apigee
7 9 (1.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (0.76%) GitHub
8 6 (0.76%) Serverless
9 5 (0.64%) SaaS
10 4 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.38%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (0.38%) AWS CodeCommit
11 3 (0.38%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 3 (0.38%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (0.38%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.38%) Cloud Composer
11 3 (0.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 392 (49.87%) DNS
2 391 (49.75%) VPN
3 65 (8.27%) Broadband
4 5 (0.64%) Internet
5 2 (0.25%) HTTP
6 1 (0.13%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.13%) 5G
6 1 (0.13%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (9.92%) NoSQL
2 76 (9.67%) Relational Database
3 65 (8.27%) RDBMS
4 36 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (1.65%) MySQL
7 4 (0.51%) 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%) Big Data
10 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 66 (8.40%) Jaeger
2 21 (2.67%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.16%) Git
4 10 (1.27%) JUnit
5 9 (1.15%) Maven
5 9 (1.15%) SonarQube
5 9 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (0.76%) JIRA
6 6 (0.76%) Selenium
7 4 (0.51%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.51%) GitLab
7 4 (0.51%) Postman
7 4 (0.51%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.25%) Vite
9 2 (0.25%) webpack
10 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.13%) Subversion
General
1 666 (84.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 430 (54.71%) Analytical Skills
3 418 (53.18%) Finance
4 22 (2.80%) Banking
5 19 (2.42%) Law
6 16 (2.04%) Social Skills
7 8 (1.02%) Games
8 5 (0.64%) Retail
9 4 (0.51%) Tech for Good
10 3 (0.38%) Electronics
11 2 (0.25%) Retail Finance
12 1 (0.13%) Advertising
12 1 (0.13%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.13%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 450 (57.25%) Developer
2 435 (55.34%) Software Developer
3 214 (27.23%) Software Engineer
4 210 (26.72%) Senior
5 189 (24.05%) Senior Software Engineer
6 85 (10.81%) Lead
7 67 (8.52%) Team Leader
8 13 (1.65%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (1.15%) PHP Software Engineer
10 8 (1.02%) Senior Developer
11 7 (0.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 6 (0.76%) Gen AI Engineer
12 6 (0.76%) Lead Software Engineer
13 5 (0.64%) AWS Engineer
13 5 (0.64%) Site Engineer
14 4 (0.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 4 (0.51%) Gen AI Software Engineer
14 4 (0.51%) Security Engineer
14 4 (0.51%) Senior DevOps
14 4 (0.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (27.61%) .NET
2 215 (27.35%) Node.js
3 66 (8.40%) Elastic Stack
3 66 (8.40%) OpenTelemetry
4 36 (4.58%) Pandas
5 13 (1.65%) React
5 13 (1.65%) RESTful
6 12 (1.53%) Hibernate
6 12 (1.53%) Spring Boot
7 11 (1.40%) Spring
8 10 (1.27%) Vue
9 6 (0.76%) Kafka
9 6 (0.76%) REST
10 5 (0.64%) Loki
10 5 (0.64%) pytest
11 4 (0.51%) SOAP
12 3 (0.38%) ASP.NET
12 3 (0.38%) CSS
12 3 (0.38%) Flutter
12 3 (0.38%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 599 (76.21%) Cyberattack
2 172 (21.88%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (21.88%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (1.27%) Cloud Native
3 10 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (0.89%) Algorithms
6 6 (0.76%) Public Cloud
7 5 (0.64%) Product Ownership
8 4 (0.51%) Hackathon
9 3 (0.38%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (0.38%) FPGA
10 2 (0.25%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.25%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.25%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.25%) IoT
11 1 (0.13%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.13%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.13%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 685 (87.15%) Linux
2 428 (54.45%) Android
3 76 (9.67%) Unix
4 3 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) CentOS
5 1 (0.13%) Windows
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 698 (88.80%) Agile
2 437 (55.60%) OO
3 434 (55.22%) Design Patterns
4 431 (54.83%) Mathematics
5 429 (54.58%) Line Management
5 429 (54.58%) OOP
6 427 (54.33%) Android Development
7 279 (35.50%) Software Engineering
8 248 (31.55%) Mentoring
9 215 (27.35%) Microservices
10 184 (23.41%) Cloud Security
10 184 (23.41%) User Experience
11 182 (23.16%) Machine Learning
12 181 (23.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 180 (22.90%) Scrum
14 172 (21.88%) Data Engineering
15 118 (15.01%) Containerisation
16 106 (13.49%) DevOps
17 93 (11.83%) Infrastructure as Code
18 84 (10.69%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 733 (93.26%) Python
2 708 (90.08%) Java
3 615 (78.24%) C++
4 299 (38.04%) JavaScript
5 219 (27.86%) Rust
6 70 (8.91%) Bash
7 26 (3.31%) PHP
8 24 (3.05%) SQL
9 13 (1.65%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.02%) C#
11 6 (0.76%) Ruby
12 5 (0.64%) C
13 3 (0.38%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.38%) Scala
14 2 (0.25%) Elixir
14 2 (0.25%) F#
14 2 (0.25%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.25%) Solidity
15 1 (0.13%) Perl
15 1 (0.13%) R
Qualifications
1 605 (76.97%) Security Cleared
2 602 (76.59%) DV Cleared
3 237 (30.15%) AWS Certification
4 172 (21.88%) AWS Certified Developer
4 172 (21.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (1.15%) Degree
6 4 (0.51%) PhD
6 4 (0.51%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.15%) Accessibility
2 5 (0.64%) QA
System Software
1 522 (66.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 496 (63.10%) Ansible
2 146 (18.58%) Kubernetes
3 135 (17.18%) Terraform
4 73 (9.29%) Prometheus
5 65 (8.27%) Argo
5 65 (8.27%) Kustomize
6 9 (1.15%) Grafana
6 9 (1.15%) Istio
Vendors
1 81 (10.31%) Google
2 3 (0.38%) New Relic
2 3 (0.38%) Oracle
2 3 (0.38%) Splunk
2 3 (0.38%) Xilinx
3 2 (0.25%) Atlassian
3 2 (0.25%) Dynatrace
3 2 (0.25%) Facebook
4 1 (0.13%) Apple
4 1 (0.13%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (0.13%) Databricks
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.13%) Spotify