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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 209 153
Rank change year-on-year -170 -56 +39
Permanent jobs citing Go 467 1,038 1,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.67% 1.67% 2.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.07% 4.13% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 285 390 1,411
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,563 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £80,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £108,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +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 22,529 25,128 32,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.15% 40.49% 46.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,407 14,074 21,433
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,750
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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -14 134 £57,500 -17.20% 12
South East -11 113 £55,000 -18.52% 24
North of England -155 88 £65,000 -18.75% 42
North West -82 71 £65,000 -21.21% 32
South West -99 49 £70,576 -2.65% 17
Midlands -44 48 £77,000 +10.00% 10
West Midlands +1 40 £77,500 +10.71% 9
East of England -65 24 £85,000 +6.25% 7
Yorkshire -52 13 £67,500 -15.63% 6
East Midlands -53 8 £55,000 -45.00% 1
Northern Ireland -12 6 £70,000 +14.75% 6
Wales -16 5 £62,500 +38.89% 3
North East -39 4 £55,000 -37.14% 4
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 (7.49%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.78%) Apache
3 5 (1.07%) nginx
4 4 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.86%) Confluence
5 3 (0.64%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.43%) CMS
6 2 (0.43%) IIS
6 2 (0.43%) Liferay
6 2 (0.43%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 161 (34.48%) AWS
2 106 (22.70%) Azure
3 92 (19.70%) GCP
4 65 (13.92%) Serverless
5 46 (9.85%) SaaS
6 32 (6.85%) Amazon S3
7 28 (6.00%) GitHub
8 25 (5.35%) Amazon SQS
9 23 (4.93%) Google Docs
9 23 (4.93%) Lucidchart
9 23 (4.93%) Miro
9 23 (4.93%) Slack
10 20 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (2.57%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (2.57%) Azure AKS
14 10 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (2.14%) Datadog
14 10 (2.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 68 (14.56%) Kerberos
2 8 (1.71%) Network Security
3 5 (1.07%) 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 (0.64%) DNS
5 3 (0.64%) Internet
5 3 (0.64%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (19.49%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (13.92%) Metadata
3 61 (13.06%) Relational Database
4 43 (9.21%) MySQL
5 37 (7.92%) Big Data
6 34 (7.28%) Elasticsearch
7 31 (6.64%) Hadoop
8 30 (6.42%) Oracle Database
8 30 (6.42%) RDBMS
8 30 (6.42%) Redis
9 23 (4.93%) Scylla
10 17 (3.64%) MongoDB
11 14 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (3.00%) NoSQL
12 13 (2.78%) BigQuery
12 13 (2.78%) SQL Server
13 10 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (2.14%) Flink
13 10 (2.14%) Power BI
14 9 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 177 (37.90%) Git
2 91 (19.49%) Jenkins
3 82 (17.56%) Bitbucket
4 65 (13.92%) Artifactory
5 30 (6.42%) JDeveloper
6 13 (2.78%) GitLab
7 7 (1.50%) Maven
7 7 (1.50%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (1.28%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.07%) Selenium
9 5 (1.07%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.86%) Appium
10 4 (0.86%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.86%) JIRA
11 3 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.43%) Bower
12 2 (0.43%) gulp
12 2 (0.43%) JUnit
12 2 (0.43%) Moq
General
1 147 (31.48%) Finance
2 107 (22.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 99 (21.20%) Social Skills
4 94 (20.13%) Marketing
5 86 (18.42%) Law
6 23 (4.93%) Publishing
7 21 (4.50%) Retail
8 16 (3.43%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.78%) Banking
10 12 (2.57%) Public Sector
11 8 (1.71%) Electronics
11 8 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.50%) Games
13 5 (1.07%) Analytical Skills
14 4 (0.86%) Aviation
15 3 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.43%) Legal
17 1 (0.21%) Advertising
17 1 (0.21%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 213 (45.61%) Software Engineer
2 118 (25.27%) Developer
3 109 (23.34%) Senior
4 97 (20.77%) Lead
5 75 (16.06%) Lead Software Engineer
6 56 (11.99%) Senior Software Engineer
7 30 (6.42%) Ruby Engineer
8 28 (6.00%) Senior Developer
9 27 (5.78%) DevOps Engineer
10 26 (5.57%) Software Developer
11 24 (5.14%) Principal Engineer
11 24 (5.14%) Principal Software Engineer
12 16 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (2.57%) Junior
14 12 (2.57%) PHP Developer
15 10 (2.14%) Architect
15 10 (2.14%) Blockchain Engineer
15 10 (2.14%) Cloud Engineer
15 10 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (22.06%) Web Services
2 85 (18.20%) Kafka
3 78 (16.70%) JSON
3 78 (16.70%) Node.js
4 77 (16.49%) RESTful
5 74 (15.85%) XML
6 68 (14.56%) LDAP
6 68 (14.56%) OpenID
6 68 (14.56%) React
7 65 (13.92%) JSON-LD
7 65 (13.92%) SAML
8 56 (11.99%) GraphQL
9 50 (10.71%) gRPC
10 42 (8.99%) RabbitMQ
10 42 (8.99%) REST
11 31 (6.64%) CSS
12 30 (6.42%) HTML
13 21 (4.50%) jQuery
14 20 (4.28%) AngularJS
15 18 (3.85%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 68 (14.56%) Enterprise Cloud
2 65 (13.92%) Management Information System
2 65 (13.92%) Reference Data
3 64 (13.70%) Algorithms
4 39 (8.35%) Data Structures
5 28 (6.00%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (4.50%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.57%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.57%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.36%) Blockchain
8 11 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.36%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (2.36%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.07%) Graphic Design
9 5 (1.07%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.86%) BBC
10 4 (0.86%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.86%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 57 (12.21%) Linux
2 23 (4.93%) Windows
3 6 (1.28%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.28%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.86%) Android
4 4 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.64%) SUSE
5 3 (0.64%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 3 (0.64%) VMS
6 2 (0.43%) Unix
6 2 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.21%) CentOS
7 1 (0.21%) Debian
7 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (56.75%) Software Engineering
2 201 (43.04%) Agile
3 174 (37.26%) CI/CD
4 125 (26.77%) DevOps
5 119 (25.48%) Roadmaps
6 113 (24.20%) Microservices
7 110 (23.55%) Test Automation
8 99 (21.20%) SDLC
9 94 (20.13%) Continuous Integration
10 84 (17.99%) Operational Stability
11 81 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
12 80 (17.13%) Community of Practice
12 80 (17.13%) Continuous Delivery
13 72 (15.42%) Data Modelling
13 72 (15.42%) Data Pipeline
14 70 (14.99%) Containerisation
14 70 (14.99%) TDD
15 69 (14.78%) Infrastructure as Code
16 67 (14.35%) Architectural Design
17 66 (14.13%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 219 (46.90%) Python
2 188 (40.26%) Java
3 107 (22.91%) JavaScript
4 82 (17.56%) Bash
5 65 (13.92%) Prolog
5 65 (13.92%) SPARQL
6 61 (13.06%) SQL
7 59 (12.63%) TypeScript
8 52 (11.13%) C#
9 51 (10.92%) Ruby
10 39 (8.35%) Scala
11 34 (7.28%) C
12 33 (7.07%) Kotlin
12 33 (7.07%) Perl
13 31 (6.64%) C++
13 31 (6.64%) PHP
14 28 (6.00%) PowerShell
15 19 (4.07%) Rust
16 7 (1.50%) Groovy
17 5 (1.07%) VB
Qualifications
1 57 (12.21%) Degree
2 29 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (5.57%) Security Cleared
4 21 (4.50%) SC Cleared
5 19 (4.07%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.50%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.07%) PhD
8 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.21%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.21%) MCP
9 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (9.42%) QA
2 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 156 (33.40%) Docker
2 69 (14.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.64%) Ceph
3 3 (0.64%) Gluster
3 3 (0.64%) KVM
3 3 (0.64%) oVirt
3 3 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 130 (27.84%) Kubernetes
2 76 (16.27%) Terraform
3 42 (8.99%) Ansible
4 25 (5.35%) Prometheus
5 22 (4.71%) Grafana
6 20 (4.28%) Puppet
7 18 (3.85%) Progress Chef
8 12 (2.57%) Kibana
9 6 (1.28%) Rancher
10 5 (1.07%) Argo
10 5 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.64%) Graylog
11 3 (0.64%) Observium
11 3 (0.64%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.43%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.21%) Anchore
13 1 (0.21%) Packer
13 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 56 (11.99%) Google
2 40 (8.57%) Oracle
3 24 (5.14%) Dell
3 24 (5.14%) Microsoft
4 10 (2.14%) Apple
5 8 (1.71%) Atlassian
5 8 (1.71%) New Relic
5 8 (1.71%) SAP
5 8 (1.71%) Splunk
6 7 (1.50%) Teradata
7 6 (1.28%) SaltStack
7 6 (1.28%) VMware
8 5 (1.07%) LogicMonitor
8 5 (1.07%) PagerDuty
9 4 (0.86%) YouTube
10 3 (0.64%) Cadence
10 3 (0.64%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.43%) OpenText
11 2 (0.43%) Pega
11 2 (0.43%) Sitecore