Go Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Go (Golang)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 139 367
Rank change year-on-year -288 +228 -142
Permanent jobs citing Go 135 572 442
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 2.15% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.43% 7.15% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 95 103 290
10th Percentile £43,980 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +20.83% -20.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,253 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,500 £112,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.70% +15.63% -

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 9,423 7,998 21,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.96% 30.12% 32.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6,406 5,792 16,493
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Go relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Go job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Go
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Go

Go
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

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 19 April 2026. 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 -222 52 £72,500 -6.45% 14
South West -38 31 £72,500 -8.01% 10
South East -98 29 £62,500 -13.79% 21
North West -163 28 £85,000 +9.68% 7
Midlands -37 14 £50,000 -14.89% 6
Yorkshire -55 13 £60,000 -19.36% 6
North East - 11 £47,500 - 1
East Midlands -50 9 £50,000 +5.26% 5
East of England -43 8 £80,000 +68.42% 3
West Midlands -28 5 £65,000 +10.64% 1
Scotland -42 1 £97,500 +28.66% 2
Go
UK

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.22%) Apache
2 1 (0.74%) Camunda
2 1 (0.74%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 77 (57.04%) AWS
2 36 (26.67%) GCP
3 35 (25.93%) Azure
4 31 (22.96%) GitHub
5 29 (21.48%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (5.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (5.19%) OpenShift
10 4 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.96%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (1.48%) Pulumi
13 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (0.74%) Firebase
13 1 (0.74%) Google App Engine
13 1 (0.74%) SaaS
13 1 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (19.26%) Firewall
2 18 (13.33%) DNS
2 18 (13.33%) HTTP
2 18 (13.33%) TCP/IP
3 15 (11.11%) Broadband
4 8 (5.93%) VPN
5 7 (5.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.78%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (12.59%) MongoDB
3 11 (8.15%) NoSQL
4 8 (5.93%) MySQL
5 7 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (5.19%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.96%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.22%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.48%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.48%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.74%) Big Data
9 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.74%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 26 (19.26%) Jenkins
2 25 (18.52%) Git
3 8 (5.93%) GitLab
3 8 (5.93%) Subversion
4 7 (5.19%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.96%) Balsamiq
5 4 (2.96%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.22%) JIRA
6 3 (2.22%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.48%) Jaeger
7 2 (1.48%) JUnit
7 2 (1.48%) Postman
7 2 (1.48%) Selenium
7 2 (1.48%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.74%) Gradle
8 1 (0.74%) Maven
8 1 (0.74%) Mockito
8 1 (0.74%) NUnit
8 1 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
General
1 18 (13.33%) Law
1 18 (13.33%) Social Skills
1 18 (13.33%) Telecoms
2 13 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.93%) Retail
4 5 (3.70%) Aerospace
4 5 (3.70%) Games
5 3 (2.22%) Digital Healthcare
5 3 (2.22%) Military
6 2 (1.48%) Finance
6 2 (1.48%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.48%) Marketing
7 1 (0.74%) Advertising
7 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (22.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (20.00%) Developer
3 23 (17.04%) Senior
4 22 (16.30%) Software Engineer
5 19 (14.07%) Lead
6 8 (5.93%) Administrator
6 8 (5.93%) DevOps Administrator
6 8 (5.93%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (5.93%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 8 (5.93%) Systems Administrator
7 7 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.44%) Scala Engineer
8 6 (4.44%) Senior Developer
9 5 (3.70%) Software Developer
10 4 (2.96%) Data Engineer
10 4 (2.96%) Lead DevOps
10 4 (2.96%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (2.96%) Team Leader
10 4 (2.96%) Technical Leader
11 3 (2.22%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.04%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (11.85%) React
3 9 (6.67%) REST
3 9 (6.67%) RESTful
4 8 (5.93%) gRPC
5 7 (5.19%) .NET
5 7 (5.19%) Spring
6 6 (4.44%) Flutter
7 5 (3.70%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.70%) Vue
8 4 (2.96%) Kafka
9 3 (2.22%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (2.22%) Node.js
10 2 (1.48%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.48%) Next.js
10 2 (1.48%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.48%) pytest
10 2 (1.48%) SOAP
10 2 (1.48%) WinForms
10 2 (1.48%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.85%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (9.63%) Video\Live Streaming
3 10 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.93%) Over-the-Top Content
4 8 (5.93%) Private Cloud
5 7 (5.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (4.44%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.70%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.70%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.96%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.74%) Cybercrime
10 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.74%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.74%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.74%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 35 (25.93%) Linux
2 3 (2.22%) Unix
3 2 (1.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (48.89%) CI/CD
2 61 (45.19%) DevOps
3 56 (41.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (30.37%) Software Engineering
5 39 (28.89%) Containerisation
6 36 (26.67%) Agile
7 27 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 26 (19.26%) Microservices
9 25 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (17.78%) DevSecOps
11 23 (17.04%) High Availability
12 22 (16.30%) Continuous Integration
13 21 (15.56%) AI
14 20 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 19 (14.07%) Full-Stack Development
15 19 (14.07%) Machine Learning
16 18 (13.33%) Static Code Analysis
16 18 (13.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
17 17 (12.59%) Test Automation
18 15 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 95 (70.37%) Python
2 43 (31.85%) Bash
3 42 (31.11%) Java
4 23 (17.04%) TypeScript
5 22 (16.30%) JavaScript
6 18 (13.33%) C#
7 13 (9.63%) SQL
8 8 (5.93%) C++
8 8 (5.93%) Scala
9 7 (5.19%) C
10 6 (4.44%) PHP
11 5 (3.70%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.96%) Rust
13 3 (2.22%) VBScript
14 2 (1.48%) Ruby
15 1 (0.74%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (14.07%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.41%) AWS Certification
3 8 (5.93%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.19%) Degree
4 7 (5.19%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.22%) CITP
5 3 (2.22%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.74%) CEH
6 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.74%) OSCP
6 1 (0.74%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.81%) QA
2 1 (0.74%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (17.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (36.30%) Kubernetes
2 48 (35.56%) Terraform
3 43 (31.85%) Ansible
4 30 (22.22%) Grafana
5 29 (21.48%) Prometheus
6 11 (8.15%) Rancher
7 9 (6.67%) Argo
8 8 (5.93%) Proxmox
9 7 (5.19%) yum
10 3 (2.22%) Kibana
10 3 (2.22%) logstash
11 2 (1.48%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.48%) Puppet
12 1 (0.74%) Podman
12 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (5.93%) Typelevel
1 8 (5.93%) VMware
2 2 (1.48%) Google
2 2 (1.48%) MuleSoft
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle
3 1 (0.74%) Red Hat