Go (Golang)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 228 104
Rank change year-on-year -121 -124 +42
Permanent jobs citing Go 673 1,320 6,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 1.64% 3.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.44% 4.07% 6.58%
Number of salaries quoted 489 860 2,278
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £63,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £137,500 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.43% -12.50% +33.33%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,596 32,430 91,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 40.19% 52.34%
Number of salaries quoted 19,728 24,108 43,810
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £37,171
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,850
% change year-on-year - +2.14% +7.70%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Go in the UK

Go
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Go.

Salary trend for Go in the UK

Go
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Go in the UK

Go
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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
England -133 554 £75,000 -6.25% 71
UK excluding London -145 322 £58,500 -16.43% 56
London -62 288 £95,750 +6.39% 30
Work from Home -110 285 £75,000 -6.25% 51
South East -13 93 £55,000 -26.67% 15
North of England -99 77 £62,500 -10.71% 11
North West -54 71 £62,500 -13.79% 10
Scotland -32 68 £50,000 -23.49%
South West -57 36 £57,500 -12.01% 6
Midlands -60 32 £71,250 +1.79% 7
West Midlands -30 26 £95,000 +35.71% 4
East of England -24 11 £80,000 +11.89% 5
Yorkshire -21 6 £65,000 -3.70% 1
East Midlands -40 6 £55,000 -45.00% 3
Wales +9 3 £70,000 +33.33%
Northern Ireland +3 2 £70,000 - 12

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 58 (8.62%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.82%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.08%) Apache
4 10 (1.49%) Confluence
5 5 (0.74%) nginx
6 3 (0.45%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.45%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.45%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.30%) JBoss
7 2 (0.30%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 289 (42.94%) AWS
2 116 (17.24%) Azure
2 116 (17.24%) GCP
3 60 (8.92%) Serverless
4 56 (8.32%) dbt
5 55 (8.17%) Snowflake
6 46 (6.84%) GitHub
7 36 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (4.01%) Amazon S3
8 27 (4.01%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (3.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (3.71%) SaaS
10 23 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
10 23 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (2.67%) Azure AKS
13 17 (2.53%) OpenShift
14 14 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (1.49%) IaaS
15 10 (1.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (6.98%) Kerberos
2 13 (1.93%) Firewall
2 13 (1.93%) Network Security
3 9 (1.34%) Internet
3 9 (1.34%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.04%) DNS
4 7 (1.04%) VPN
5 5 (0.74%) AMQP
6 4 (0.59%) BGP
6 4 (0.59%) RS-232
6 4 (0.59%) RS-485
6 4 (0.59%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.45%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.45%) VLAN
8 2 (0.30%) Broadband
9 1 (0.15%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.15%) FTP
9 1 (0.15%) HTTP
9 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (14.41%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (10.85%) Big Data
3 58 (8.62%) Data Lake
4 54 (8.02%) Amazon Athena
4 54 (8.02%) Apache Arrow
4 54 (8.02%) Dremio
5 44 (6.54%) Metadata
6 43 (6.39%) Relational Database
7 36 (5.35%) MySQL
8 29 (4.31%) NoSQL
9 27 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (3.71%) Redis
11 24 (3.57%) DynamoDB
12 22 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
13 19 (2.82%) BigQuery
13 19 (2.82%) MongoDB
14 16 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
15 14 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
16 12 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (1.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 154 (22.88%) Git
2 86 (12.78%) Jenkins
3 69 (10.25%) Bitbucket
4 54 (8.02%) Artifactory
5 21 (3.12%) GitLab
6 19 (2.82%) JIRA
7 8 (1.19%) Appium
7 8 (1.19%) Jasmine
8 5 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (0.59%) PHPUnit
9 4 (0.59%) Selenium
9 4 (0.59%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.45%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.45%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.45%) JUnit
11 2 (0.30%) Hardhat
11 2 (0.30%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.30%) JMeter
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 240 (35.66%) Finance
2 130 (19.32%) Social Skills
3 105 (15.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 90 (13.37%) Law
5 59 (8.77%) Marketing
6 48 (7.13%) Legal
7 35 (5.20%) Retail
8 30 (4.46%) Banking
9 16 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (2.38%) Financial Institution
9 16 (2.38%) Public Sector
10 14 (2.08%) Publishing
11 11 (1.63%) Front Office
11 11 (1.63%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.49%) Games
13 6 (0.89%) Advertising
13 6 (0.89%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.74%) French Language
15 4 (0.59%) Aviation
16 3 (0.45%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 218 (32.39%) Software Engineer
2 189 (28.08%) Senior
3 180 (26.75%) Developer
4 112 (16.64%) Lead
5 90 (13.37%) Senior Software Engineer
6 87 (12.93%) Lead Software Engineer
7 79 (11.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 73 (10.85%) AWS Engineer
9 68 (10.10%) Site Engineer
10 67 (9.96%) Cloud Engineer
11 55 (8.17%) Big Data Engineer
12 53 (7.88%) Senior Developer
13 49 (7.28%) Cloud Software Engineer
14 45 (6.69%) DevOps Engineer
15 40 (5.94%) Cloud Native Engineer
16 30 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
16 30 (4.46%) Software Developer
17 26 (3.86%) Full Stack Developer
17 26 (3.86%) Lead Cloud Engineer
18 22 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (16.05%) gRPC
2 99 (14.71%) Web Services
3 88 (13.08%) Kafka
4 75 (11.14%) RESTful
5 64 (9.51%) REST
6 61 (9.06%) JSON
7 60 (8.92%) GraphQL
8 58 (8.62%) Node.js
8 58 (8.62%) OpenID
9 56 (8.32%) Protocol Buffers
10 53 (7.88%) RabbitMQ
11 51 (7.58%) XML
12 47 (6.98%) LDAP
13 46 (6.84%) SAML
14 44 (6.54%) JSON-LD
15 43 (6.39%) React
16 32 (4.75%) CSS
16 32 (4.75%) HTML
17 21 (3.12%) React Native
18 20 (2.97%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 120 (17.83%) Distributed Systems
2 86 (12.78%) Cloud Native
3 60 (8.92%) Hedge funds
4 54 (8.02%) Clustering
5 47 (6.98%) Enterprise Cloud
6 45 (6.69%) Management Information System
7 44 (6.54%) Reference Data
8 40 (5.94%) Legacy Code
9 39 (5.79%) Algorithms
10 32 (4.75%) Blockchain
11 28 (4.16%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (2.67%) Data Structures
13 17 (2.53%) Blog
13 17 (2.53%) Cyberattack
13 17 (2.53%) Onboarding
14 13 (1.93%) Data Centre
14 13 (1.93%) Distributed Computing
14 13 (1.93%) IoT
14 13 (1.93%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 105 (15.60%) Linux
2 21 (3.12%) Windows
3 17 (2.53%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.78%) Android
5 5 (0.74%) VMS
6 4 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.45%) SUSE
7 3 (0.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.45%) Unix
8 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.15%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (46.51%) Software Engineering
2 237 (35.22%) Agile
3 221 (32.84%) CI/CD
4 207 (30.76%) DevOps
5 118 (17.53%) Microservices
6 109 (16.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 107 (15.90%) SDLC
8 101 (15.01%) TDD
9 94 (13.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 84 (12.48%) Roadmaps
11 83 (12.33%) Test Automation
12 78 (11.59%) Continuous Integration
13 68 (10.10%) Asset Management
14 66 (9.81%) Continuous Delivery
15 64 (9.51%) Computer Science
16 62 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
17 59 (8.77%) Full Stack Development
17 59 (8.77%) Operational Stability
18 57 (8.47%) Community of Practice
18 57 (8.47%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 306 (45.47%) Python
2 241 (35.81%) Java
3 154 (22.88%) JavaScript
4 114 (16.94%) C++
5 88 (13.08%) Rust
6 76 (11.29%) SQL
7 74 (11.00%) TypeScript
8 70 (10.40%) C
9 58 (8.62%) C#
10 44 (6.54%) Prolog
10 44 (6.54%) SPARQL
11 41 (6.09%) Bash
11 41 (6.09%) PowerShell
12 36 (5.35%) PHP
13 35 (5.20%) Ruby
14 31 (4.61%) Kotlin
15 26 (3.86%) Scala
16 8 (1.19%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.59%) Bicep
18 3 (0.45%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 44 (6.54%) Degree
2 33 (4.90%) Security Cleared
3 22 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (3.12%) SC Cleared
5 15 (2.23%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.34%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (0.89%) OSCP
9 5 (0.74%) CREST Certified
9 5 (0.74%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.30%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.15%) CHECK Team Leader
12 1 (0.15%) CHECK Team Member
12 1 (0.15%) MCP
12 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.53%) PCI DSS
2 15 (2.23%) QA
3 11 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.74%) NIST
7 4 (0.59%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.59%) GDPR
8 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.15%) GxP
9 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 191 (28.38%) Docker
2 48 (7.13%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.34%) Ceph
5 4 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.45%) Gluster
6 3 (0.45%) KVM
6 3 (0.45%) oVirt
7 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.15%) Firmware
8 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 283 (42.05%) Kubernetes
2 176 (26.15%) Terraform
3 78 (11.59%) Prometheus
4 58 (8.62%) Ansible
5 23 (3.42%) Grafana
6 12 (1.78%) Progress Chef
6 12 (1.78%) Puppet
7 10 (1.49%) Kibana
8 6 (0.89%) Knative
8 6 (0.89%) Packer
9 5 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.59%) Salt
10 4 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.45%) Argo
11 3 (0.45%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.45%) Graylog
11 3 (0.45%) Istio
11 3 (0.45%) Observium
11 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.30%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 56 (8.32%) Google
2 34 (5.05%) Microsoft
3 14 (2.08%) Atlassian
4 13 (1.93%) Splunk
5 9 (1.34%) Oracle
6 6 (0.89%) PagerDuty
7 5 (0.74%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (0.59%) Dell
8 4 (0.59%) VMware
9 3 (0.45%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.45%) Apple
9 3 (0.45%) Cadence
9 3 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.30%) Citrix
10 2 (0.30%) Cognizant
10 2 (0.30%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.30%) Foundry
10 2 (0.30%) New Relic
10 2 (0.30%) Spotify
10 2 (0.30%) Teradata