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

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 371 208
Rank change year-on-year +209 -163 -57
Permanent jobs citing Go 739 468 1,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.90% 0.66% 1.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.16% 2.08% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 105 286 377
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.99% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £111,500 £92,500 £109,500
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 10,327 22,461 24,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.52% 31.67% 40.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,273 16,381 13,553
10th Percentile £34,000 £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% +3.55%
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 10 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 10 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 +248 601 £76,250 +17.31% 71
North West +187 582 £77,500 +19.23% 51
South East +51 71 £72,500 +31.82% 119
East of England +42 21 £50,000 -41.18% 30
Yorkshire +68 19 £70,000 +7.69% 17
South West +81 16 £78,810 +11.67% 27
Scotland +20 15 £75,780 +31.79% 18
Midlands +33 12 £57,500 -25.32% 32
West Midlands +24 8 £57,500 -25.81% 29
East Midlands +41 4 £47,500 -13.64% 1
Wales +38 3 - - 6
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 8 (1.08%) Confluence
2 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.14%) CMS
3 1 (0.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 257 (34.78%) AWS
2 238 (32.21%) Azure
3 211 (28.55%) GCP
4 40 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 36 (4.87%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (1.22%) Apigee
6 9 (1.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 8 (1.08%) SaaS
8 7 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (0.81%) GitHub
9 6 (0.81%) Serverless
10 5 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (0.68%) Cloudflare
10 5 (0.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.41%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (0.41%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.41%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.41%) Cloud Composer
12 3 (0.41%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 396 (53.59%) DNS
2 391 (52.91%) VPN
3 5 (0.68%) HTTP
3 5 (0.68%) Internet
4 3 (0.41%) SSL
5 2 (0.27%) Firewall
6 1 (0.14%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.14%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (4.87%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (1.89%) MySQL
4 13 (1.76%) NoSQL
5 12 (1.62%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (0.41%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.41%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.27%) Metadata
7 2 (0.27%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 22 (2.98%) Git
2 20 (2.71%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.35%) JIRA
3 10 (1.35%) JUnit
4 9 (1.22%) Maven
4 9 (1.22%) SonarQube
4 9 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (1.08%) webpack
6 6 (0.81%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.68%) Selenium
7 5 (0.68%) Vite
8 3 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.41%) GitLab
8 3 (0.41%) Postman
8 3 (0.41%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.14%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.14%) Subversion
General
1 599 (81.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 431 (58.32%) Analytical Skills
3 425 (57.51%) Finance
4 29 (3.92%) Banking
5 24 (3.25%) Law
6 14 (1.89%) Social Skills
7 13 (1.76%) Games
8 5 (0.68%) Retail
9 3 (0.41%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.27%) Retail Finance
11 1 (0.14%) Advertising
11 1 (0.14%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 452 (61.16%) Developer
2 434 (58.73%) Software Developer
3 222 (30.04%) Software Engineer
4 221 (29.91%) Senior
5 196 (26.52%) Senior Software Engineer
6 22 (2.98%) Lead
7 16 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (1.35%) Senior Developer
9 9 (1.22%) Gen AI Engineer
9 9 (1.22%) PHP Software Engineer
10 8 (1.08%) Principal Engineer
10 8 (1.08%) Principal Software Engineer
10 8 (1.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 6 (0.81%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (0.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.81%) Site Engineer
12 5 (0.68%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 5 (0.68%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 5 (0.68%) UI Engineer
12 5 (0.68%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (29.63%) Node.js
2 213 (28.82%) .NET
3 36 (4.87%) Pandas
4 22 (2.98%) React
5 17 (2.30%) Spring Boot
6 16 (2.17%) Spring
7 13 (1.76%) RESTful
7 13 (1.76%) Vue
8 12 (1.62%) Hibernate
9 8 (1.08%) Flutter
10 6 (0.81%) CSS
10 6 (0.81%) HTML
10 6 (0.81%) REST
10 6 (0.81%) Svelte
11 5 (0.68%) Enzyme
11 5 (0.68%) Jest
11 5 (0.68%) Kafka
11 5 (0.68%) Next.js
11 5 (0.68%) Parceljs
11 5 (0.68%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 599 (81.06%) Cyberattack
2 172 (23.27%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (23.27%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (2.17%) Algorithms
4 10 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (1.22%) Cloud Native
5 9 (1.22%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (0.95%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.41%) Client/Server
8 3 (0.41%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (0.41%) Hackathon
9 2 (0.27%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.27%) Blockchain
9 2 (0.27%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.27%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.27%) IoT
9 2 (0.27%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.14%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.14%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 617 (83.49%) Linux
2 430 (58.19%) Android
3 11 (1.49%) Unix
4 4 (0.54%) Windows
5 3 (0.41%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (87.42%) Agile
2 437 (59.13%) OO
3 432 (58.46%) Design Patterns
4 431 (58.32%) Mathematics
5 430 (58.19%) OOP
6 429 (58.05%) Android Development
6 429 (58.05%) Line Management
7 289 (39.11%) Software Engineering
8 223 (30.18%) Microservices
9 191 (25.85%) User Experience
10 189 (25.58%) Cloud Security
10 189 (25.58%) Mentoring
11 184 (24.90%) Machine Learning
12 183 (24.76%) Scrum
13 182 (24.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 173 (23.41%) Data Engineering
15 92 (12.45%) CI/CD
16 57 (7.71%) DevOps
17 56 (7.58%) Containerisation
18 46 (6.22%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 682 (92.29%) Python
2 654 (88.50%) Java
3 615 (83.22%) C++
4 247 (33.42%) JavaScript
5 221 (29.91%) Rust
6 25 (3.38%) PHP
7 22 (2.98%) SQL
8 18 (2.44%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.89%) C#
10 11 (1.49%) Ruby
11 10 (1.35%) C
12 8 (1.08%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.81%) Bash
13 6 (0.81%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.81%) Perl
14 3 (0.41%) Scala
15 2 (0.27%) Elixir
15 2 (0.27%) F#
15 2 (0.27%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 606 (82.00%) Security Cleared
2 603 (81.60%) DV Cleared
3 172 (23.27%) AWS Certification
3 172 (23.27%) AWS Certified Developer
3 172 (23.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 12 (1.62%) Degree
5 6 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.81%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.54%) PhD
7 3 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.27%) CISSP
8 2 (0.27%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.17%) Accessibility
2 4 (0.54%) QA
3 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.41%) NIST
4 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 467 (63.19%) Docker
2 3 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 432 (58.46%) Ansible
2 98 (13.26%) Kubernetes
3 79 (10.69%) Terraform
4 9 (1.22%) Istio
5 8 (1.08%) Grafana
6 7 (0.95%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.41%) Graylog
8 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (2.03%) Google
2 5 (0.68%) Oracle
3 4 (0.54%) Apple
3 4 (0.54%) Microsoft
4 3 (0.41%) Atlassian
4 3 (0.41%) New Relic
4 3 (0.41%) Splunk
5 2 (0.27%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.27%) Planview
6 1 (0.14%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.14%) Spotify