Go Jobs in the UK excluding London

Go (Golang)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Go skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Go over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 206 151
Rank change year-on-year -161 -55 +42
Permanent jobs citing Go 465 1,014 1,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.66% 1.68% 2.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.07% 4.20% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 283 379 1,398
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £108,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

Go is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,412 24,145 32,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.82% 40.07% 46.16%
Number of salaries quoted 16,312 13,576 21,262
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,244
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024. 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
Scotland -18 135 £57,500 -17.20% 7
South East -1 118 £55,000 -21.43% 25
North of England -149 86 £65,000 -18.75% 26
North West -76 70 £65,000 -21.21% 22
Midlands -52 48 £77,000 +10.00% 7
South West -103 46 £70,576 -2.65% 18
West Midlands +1 40 £77,500 +10.71% 7
East of England -80 22 £85,000 +6.25% 7
Yorkshire -54 12 £65,000 -18.75% 3
East Midlands -53 8 £55,000 -45.00%
Northern Ireland -2 5 £70,000 -3.45% 1
Wales -9 5 £62,500 +38.89% 2
North East -41 4 £55,000 -37.14% 1
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 35 (7.53%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.80%) Apache
3 4 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.86%) nginx
4 3 (0.65%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.43%) CMS
5 2 (0.43%) Confluence
5 2 (0.43%) IIS
5 2 (0.43%) Liferay
5 2 (0.43%) Magnolia
5 2 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.22%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 158 (33.98%) AWS
2 100 (21.51%) Azure
3 90 (19.35%) GCP
4 64 (13.76%) Serverless
5 45 (9.68%) SaaS
6 32 (6.88%) Amazon S3
7 28 (6.02%) GitHub
8 25 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
9 23 (4.95%) Google Docs
9 23 (4.95%) Lucidchart
9 23 (4.95%) Miro
9 23 (4.95%) Slack
10 20 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.58%) Azure AKS
13 11 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (2.37%) Datadog
14 10 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (2.15%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 68 (14.62%) Kerberos
2 8 (1.72%) Network Security
3 5 (1.08%) AMQP
4 4 (0.86%) Firewall
4 4 (0.86%) RS-232
4 4 (0.86%) RS-485
4 4 (0.86%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.86%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.65%) DNS
5 3 (0.65%) Internet
5 3 (0.65%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (13.98%) Metadata
3 61 (13.12%) Relational Database
4 41 (8.82%) MySQL
5 35 (7.53%) Big Data
6 33 (7.10%) Elasticsearch
7 31 (6.67%) Hadoop
8 30 (6.45%) Oracle Database
8 30 (6.45%) RDBMS
8 30 (6.45%) Redis
9 23 (4.95%) Scylla
10 17 (3.66%) MongoDB
11 13 (2.80%) BigQuery
11 13 (2.80%) SQL Server
12 12 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (2.58%) NoSQL
13 10 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (2.15%) Power BI
14 9 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (1.94%) Flink
Development Applications
1 183 (39.35%) Git
2 91 (19.57%) Jenkins
3 82 (17.63%) Bitbucket
4 65 (13.98%) Artifactory
5 30 (6.45%) JDeveloper
6 11 (2.37%) GitLab
7 7 (1.51%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (1.29%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (1.29%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.08%) Maven
9 5 (1.08%) Selenium
9 5 (1.08%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.86%) Appium
10 4 (0.86%) Jasmine
11 3 (0.65%) JUnit
11 3 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.43%) Bower
12 2 (0.43%) gulp
12 2 (0.43%) JIRA
12 2 (0.43%) Moq
General
1 151 (32.47%) Finance
2 107 (23.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 103 (22.15%) Social Skills
4 95 (20.43%) Marketing
5 87 (18.71%) Law
6 23 (4.95%) Publishing
7 21 (4.52%) Retail
8 16 (3.44%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.58%) Public Sector
10 11 (2.37%) Banking
11 8 (1.72%) Electronics
11 8 (1.72%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.51%) Games
13 5 (1.08%) Analytical Skills
14 4 (0.86%) Aviation
15 3 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.43%) Legal
17 1 (0.22%) Advertising
17 1 (0.22%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 212 (45.59%) Software Engineer
2 122 (26.24%) Developer
3 110 (23.66%) Senior
4 96 (20.65%) Lead
5 76 (16.34%) Lead Software Engineer
6 56 (12.04%) Senior Software Engineer
7 30 (6.45%) Ruby Engineer
7 30 (6.45%) Senior Developer
8 25 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer
9 24 (5.16%) Principal Engineer
9 24 (5.16%) Principal Software Engineer
9 24 (5.16%) Software Developer
10 16 (3.44%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (2.58%) PHP Developer
13 11 (2.37%) Junior
14 10 (2.15%) Architect
14 10 (2.15%) Backend Developer
14 10 (2.15%) Blockchain Engineer
14 10 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (23.23%) Web Services
2 90 (19.35%) Kafka
3 79 (16.99%) Node.js
4 78 (16.77%) JSON
5 76 (16.34%) RESTful
6 74 (15.91%) XML
7 69 (14.84%) React
8 68 (14.62%) LDAP
8 68 (14.62%) OpenID
9 65 (13.98%) JSON-LD
9 65 (13.98%) SAML
10 60 (12.90%) GraphQL
11 52 (11.18%) gRPC
12 47 (10.11%) REST
13 46 (9.89%) RabbitMQ
14 31 (6.67%) CSS
15 30 (6.45%) HTML
16 21 (4.52%) jQuery
17 20 (4.30%) AngularJS
18 18 (3.87%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 68 (14.62%) Enterprise Cloud
2 65 (13.98%) Management Information System
2 65 (13.98%) Reference Data
3 63 (13.55%) Algorithms
4 38 (8.17%) Data Structures
5 28 (6.02%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (4.09%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.58%) Cloud Native
8 12 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.37%) Blockchain
9 11 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (2.37%) Virtual Team
10 10 (2.15%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.08%) Graphic Design
11 5 (1.08%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.86%) BBC
12 4 (0.86%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.86%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 51 (10.97%) Linux
2 23 (4.95%) Windows
3 5 (1.08%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.86%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.65%) SUSE
5 3 (0.65%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 3 (0.65%) VMS
6 2 (0.43%) Android
6 2 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.22%) CentOS
7 1 (0.22%) Debian
7 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.22%) Unix
7 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (55.91%) Software Engineering
2 205 (44.09%) Agile
3 177 (38.06%) CI/CD
4 124 (26.67%) DevOps
5 118 (25.38%) Microservices
6 117 (25.16%) Roadmaps
7 108 (23.23%) Test Automation
8 100 (21.51%) SDLC
9 94 (20.22%) Continuous Integration
10 85 (18.28%) Operational Stability
11 81 (17.42%) Community of Practice
11 81 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
12 79 (16.99%) Continuous Delivery
13 77 (16.56%) TDD
14 72 (15.48%) Data Modelling
14 72 (15.48%) Data Pipeline
15 70 (15.05%) Containerisation
16 69 (14.84%) Infrastructure as Code
17 68 (14.62%) Architectural Design
18 67 (14.41%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 213 (45.81%) Python
2 184 (39.57%) Java
3 108 (23.23%) JavaScript
4 82 (17.63%) Bash
5 65 (13.98%) Prolog
5 65 (13.98%) SPARQL
6 60 (12.90%) SQL
7 59 (12.69%) TypeScript
8 52 (11.18%) C#
9 50 (10.75%) Ruby
10 37 (7.96%) Scala
11 33 (7.10%) C
11 33 (7.10%) Perl
12 32 (6.88%) PHP
13 31 (6.67%) C++
14 29 (6.24%) Kotlin
15 27 (5.81%) PowerShell
16 14 (3.01%) Rust
17 7 (1.51%) Groovy
18 5 (1.08%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (11.83%) Degree
2 27 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (5.38%) Security Cleared
4 21 (4.52%) SC Cleared
5 19 (4.09%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.51%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.08%) PhD
8 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.22%) MCP
9 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (9.25%) QA
2 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 157 (33.76%) Docker
2 69 (14.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.65%) Ceph
3 3 (0.65%) Gluster
3 3 (0.65%) KVM
3 3 (0.65%) oVirt
3 3 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 123 (26.45%) Kubernetes
2 74 (15.91%) Terraform
3 41 (8.82%) Ansible
4 25 (5.38%) Prometheus
5 23 (4.95%) Grafana
6 19 (4.09%) Puppet
7 17 (3.66%) Progress Chef
8 12 (2.58%) Kibana
9 5 (1.08%) Argo
9 5 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (1.08%) Rancher
10 3 (0.65%) Graylog
10 3 (0.65%) Observium
10 3 (0.65%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.43%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.22%) Anchore
12 1 (0.22%) Packer
12 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 55 (11.83%) Google
2 41 (8.82%) Oracle
3 25 (5.38%) Microsoft
4 24 (5.16%) Dell
5 10 (2.15%) Apple
6 9 (1.94%) Splunk
7 8 (1.72%) New Relic
7 8 (1.72%) SAP
8 7 (1.51%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.51%) Teradata
9 6 (1.29%) SaltStack
10 5 (1.08%) LogicMonitor
10 5 (1.08%) PagerDuty
10 5 (1.08%) VMware
11 4 (0.86%) YouTube
12 3 (0.65%) Cadence
12 3 (0.65%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.43%) Cognizant
13 2 (0.43%) OpenText
13 2 (0.43%) Red Hat