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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 322 175
Rank change year-on-year +131 -147 -64
Permanent jobs citing Go 842 875 2,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.61% 0.89% 2.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.38% 2.63% 4.85%
Number of salaries quoted 317 606 1,079
10th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £55,000 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £101,076 £105,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £118,750 £136,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -20.00% -

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 15,664 33,221 45,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 33.78% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,561 25,021 28,803
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +2.33%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Go in the UK

Go
Top 15 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 30 April 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
England +174 820 £94,637 +18.30% 448
UK excluding London +183 570 £72,500 +20.83% 172
North of England +238 427 £77,500 +19.23% 59
North West +173 409 £77,500 +19.23% 44
Work from Home +77 260 £110,000 +46.67% 267
London +47 257 £110,000 +10.00% 303
South East +72 75 £72,500 +31.82% 26
East of England +55 21 £50,000 -41.18% 18
Yorkshire +75 18 £74,405 +10.23% 11
South West +84 16 £78,810 +11.67% 20
Scotland +16 15 £75,780 +31.79% 17
Midlands +26 13 £58,750 -23.70% 25
West Midlands +20 9 £58,750 -24.19% 23
East Midlands +45 4 £47,500 -13.64% 1
Wales +38 3 - - 5

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 74 (8.79%) Apache Spark
2 73 (8.67%) Apache Airflow
3 71 (8.43%) Apache
4 13 (1.54%) Confluence
5 4 (0.48%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.24%) nginx
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.12%) CMS
7 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.12%) JBoss
7 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 263 (31.24%) AWS
2 122 (14.49%) Azure
3 110 (13.06%) Serverless
4 104 (12.35%) AWS Lambda
5 90 (10.69%) OpenShift
6 84 (9.98%) Amazon ECS
7 83 (9.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 81 (9.62%) GCP
9 74 (8.79%) dbt
10 57 (6.77%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (2.61%) Amazon S3
13 20 (2.38%) Pulumi
14 17 (2.02%) GitHub
15 13 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (1.54%) SaaS
16 12 (1.43%) Datadog
16 12 (1.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 11 (1.31%) Amazon SQS
17 11 (1.31%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 404 (47.98%) DNS
2 397 (47.15%) VPN
3 7 (0.83%) Firewall
4 6 (0.71%) HTTP
4 6 (0.71%) Internet
5 4 (0.48%) Network Security
6 3 (0.36%) SSL
7 2 (0.24%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.24%) 5G
8 1 (0.12%) 4G
8 1 (0.12%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.12%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.12%) SCTP
8 1 (0.12%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (8.43%) Amazon Athena
1 71 (8.43%) Apache Arrow
1 71 (8.43%) Apache Iceberg
1 71 (8.43%) Apache Ignite
1 71 (8.43%) Dremio
2 53 (6.29%) Elasticsearch
3 31 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (3.56%) NoSQL
5 20 (2.38%) MySQL
5 20 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 19 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (1.19%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.83%) BigQuery
9 5 (0.59%) Big Data
10 4 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (0.48%) Couchbase
10 4 (0.48%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.36%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 81 (9.62%) Artifactory
2 51 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 35 (4.16%) Git
4 20 (2.38%) GitLab
5 16 (1.90%) JIRA
6 13 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (1.43%) JUnit
7 12 (1.43%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.31%) Maven
9 10 (1.19%) webpack
10 8 (0.95%) Selenium
11 6 (0.71%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.71%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.71%) Postman
12 5 (0.59%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.59%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.59%) SoapUI
12 5 (0.59%) Vite
13 2 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
14 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
General
1 554 (65.80%) Finance
2 456 (54.16%) Analytical Skills
3 447 (53.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (9.98%) Front Office
5 59 (7.01%) Banking
6 46 (5.46%) Social Skills
7 25 (2.97%) Law
8 15 (1.78%) Games
9 7 (0.83%) Legal
9 7 (0.83%) Retail
10 3 (0.36%) Marketing
10 3 (0.36%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.24%) Advertising
11 2 (0.24%) Electronics
11 2 (0.24%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.24%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.24%) Retail Finance
11 2 (0.24%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.12%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 488 (57.96%) Developer
2 453 (53.80%) Software Developer
3 125 (14.85%) Software Engineer
4 112 (13.30%) DevOps Engineer
5 102 (12.11%) Senior
6 99 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
7 94 (11.16%) AWS DevOps
7 94 (11.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 75 (8.91%) Data Engineer
8 75 (8.91%) Python Engineer
9 56 (6.65%) Lead
10 50 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
11 45 (5.34%) Cloud Engineer
12 38 (4.51%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 38 (4.51%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 27 (3.21%) Lead Software Engineer
14 26 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
15 24 (2.85%) Lead Cloud Engineer
16 23 (2.73%) Kubernetes Engineer
17 21 (2.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (11.52%) Kafka
2 81 (9.62%) J2EE
3 71 (8.43%) PySpark
4 66 (7.84%) Node.js
5 54 (6.41%) .NET
6 49 (5.82%) Pandas
7 36 (4.28%) React
8 27 (3.21%) RESTful
9 26 (3.09%) Spring Boot
10 25 (2.97%) Spring
11 16 (1.90%) Vue
12 14 (1.66%) Hibernate
13 11 (1.31%) Next.js
14 10 (1.19%) AWS CDK
14 10 (1.19%) CSS
14 10 (1.19%) gRPC
14 10 (1.19%) HTML
15 9 (1.07%) Flutter
15 9 (1.07%) Loki
15 9 (1.07%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 446 (52.97%) Cyberattack
2 59 (7.01%) Cloud Native
3 57 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (4.63%) Legacy Code
5 24 (2.85%) Algorithms
6 21 (2.49%) Public Cloud
7 15 (1.78%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.31%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.19%) Tandem
10 8 (0.95%) Blockchain
10 8 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.59%) IoT
11 5 (0.59%) Web3
12 4 (0.48%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.48%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.36%) Client/Server
13 3 (0.36%) Cyber Threat
14 2 (0.24%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.24%) Embedded Systems
14 2 (0.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 537 (63.78%) Linux
2 455 (54.04%) Android
3 17 (2.02%) Unix
4 7 (0.83%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.83%) Windows
5 3 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.24%) Debian
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) CentOS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 605 (71.85%) Agile
2 464 (55.11%) OO
3 457 (54.28%) OOP
4 455 (54.04%) Design Patterns
5 454 (53.92%) Mathematics
6 452 (53.68%) Android Development
7 451 (53.56%) Line Management
8 302 (35.87%) Software Engineering
9 256 (30.40%) CI/CD
10 183 (21.73%) DevOps
11 118 (14.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 112 (13.30%) Open Source
13 103 (12.23%) Containerisation
14 87 (10.33%) Microservices
15 81 (9.62%) Asset Management
16 77 (9.14%) Data Engineering
17 71 (8.43%) Infrastructure as Code
18 66 (7.84%) Collaborative Working
19 59 (7.01%) Kanban
20 57 (6.77%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 705 (83.73%) Python
2 628 (74.58%) Java
3 516 (61.28%) C++
4 117 (13.90%) Rust
5 102 (12.11%) JavaScript
6 59 (7.01%) C
7 44 (5.23%) SQL
8 37 (4.39%) PHP
8 37 (4.39%) TypeScript
9 27 (3.21%) Ruby
10 24 (2.85%) C#
11 22 (2.61%) Bash
12 15 (1.78%) Kotlin
13 13 (1.54%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.19%) Bicep
15 7 (0.83%) Perl
15 7 (0.83%) Scala
16 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.24%) F#
17 2 (0.24%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 459 (54.51%) Security Cleared
2 452 (53.68%) DV Cleared
3 29 (3.44%) Degree
4 12 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.07%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.59%) AWS Certification
6 5 (0.59%) PhD
7 3 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (0.36%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.24%) CISSP
8 2 (0.24%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.02%) Accessibility
2 11 (1.31%) QA
3 7 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (0.83%) NIST
4 2 (0.24%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 618 (73.40%) Docker
2 6 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 472 (56.06%) Ansible
2 305 (36.22%) Kubernetes
3 226 (26.84%) Terraform
4 22 (2.61%) Grafana
5 19 (2.26%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.02%) Istio
7 14 (1.66%) Puppet
8 13 (1.54%) Progress Chef
9 10 (1.19%) Podman
10 4 (0.48%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.36%) Graylog
12 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.12%) Consul
12 1 (0.12%) Kibana
12 1 (0.12%) Nagios
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
12 1 (0.12%) Salt
12 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (2.14%) Google
2 9 (1.07%) Splunk
3 8 (0.95%) Hitachi
3 8 (0.95%) Microsoft
3 8 (0.95%) Oracle
4 6 (0.71%) Confluent
5 5 (0.59%) Atlassian
6 4 (0.48%) Apple
6 4 (0.48%) New Relic
7 3 (0.36%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.24%) Databricks
8 2 (0.24%) Planview
8 2 (0.24%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.24%) Teradata
9 1 (0.12%) Commvault
9 1 (0.12%) Intel
9 1 (0.12%) Spotify
9 1 (0.12%) Tenable
9 1 (0.12%) VMware
9 1 (0.12%) YouTube