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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 333 189
Rank change year-on-year +193 -144 -83
Permanent jobs citing Go 1,218 856 1,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.18% 0.83% 1.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.30% 2.53% 4.57%
Number of salaries quoted 280 613 1,007
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,188 £53,750 £63,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £118,750 £136,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -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 16,692 33,778 40,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.89% 32.58% 42.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10,847 25,159 26,741
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,500 £98,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,810 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.21% -2.16% +4.76%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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
England +217 1,202 £90,000 +12.50% 611
UK excluding London +224 786 £70,000 +16.67% 233
Work from Home +152 607 £110,000 +44.74% 416
North of England +252 605 £77,500 +21.57% 91
North West +188 583 £77,500 +19.23% 70
London +94 328 £110,000 +10.00% 418
South East +39 84 £67,500 +20.00% 32
East of England +78 46 £50,000 -41.18% 14
South West +89 23 £79,405 +12.51% 24
Yorkshire +67 21 £70,000 +7.69% 18
Midlands +33 16 £57,500 -25.32% 35
West Midlands +24 10 £57,500 -25.81% 33
Scotland +16 9 £78,810 +40.11% 14
East Midlands +43 6 £47,500 -13.64% 1
Wales +40 3 - - 2
North East +47 1 - - 3

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 61 (5.01%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (4.93%) Apache Spark
3 59 (4.84%) Apache
4 8 (0.66%) Confluence
5 3 (0.25%) nginx
6 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.16%) Traefik
7 1 (0.082%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.082%) CMS
7 1 (0.082%) JBoss
7 1 (0.082%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.082%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 653 (53.61%) AWS
2 289 (23.73%) Azure
3 261 (21.43%) GCP
4 234 (19.21%) Pulumi
5 88 (7.22%) Serverless
6 82 (6.73%) AWS Lambda
7 80 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 69 (5.67%) Amazon ECS
8 69 (5.67%) OpenShift
9 64 (5.25%) Amazon EKS
10 61 (5.01%) dbt
11 18 (1.48%) GitHub
12 16 (1.31%) Datadog
13 15 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (1.23%) Apigee
14 14 (1.15%) Amazon S3
14 14 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (1.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (0.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 9 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 402 (33.00%) DNS
2 399 (32.76%) VPN
3 215 (17.65%) Broadband
4 6 (0.49%) Firewall
4 6 (0.49%) Internet
5 5 (0.41%) Network Security
6 2 (0.16%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.16%) 5G
6 2 (0.16%) BGP
6 2 (0.16%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.16%) DHCP
6 2 (0.16%) HTTP
6 2 (0.16%) ICMP
6 2 (0.16%) IOS XR
6 2 (0.16%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.16%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.16%) WAN
7 1 (0.082%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.082%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (21.02%) NoSQL
2 231 (18.97%) Relational Database
3 217 (17.82%) RDBMS
4 59 (4.84%) Amazon Athena
4 59 (4.84%) Apache Arrow
4 59 (4.84%) Apache Iceberg
4 59 (4.84%) Apache Ignite
4 59 (4.84%) Dremio
5 52 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
6 26 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.56%) MySQL
8 13 (1.07%) DynamoDB
9 11 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (0.49%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.49%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.33%) Couchbase
12 3 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.25%) Big Data
12 3 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 216 (17.73%) Jaeger
2 59 (4.84%) Artifactory
3 47 (3.86%) Jenkins
4 34 (2.79%) Git
5 24 (1.97%) GitLab
6 13 (1.07%) JUnit
6 13 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (0.99%) SonarQube
8 11 (0.90%) JIRA
8 11 (0.90%) Maven
9 9 (0.74%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.74%) Selenium
10 7 (0.57%) Postman
11 6 (0.49%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.49%) SoapUI
12 5 (0.41%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.25%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.16%) Vite
14 2 (0.16%) webpack
15 1 (0.082%) Vagrant
General
1 875 (71.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 554 (45.48%) Finance
3 453 (37.19%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (6.24%) Banking
5 62 (5.09%) Front Office
6 53 (4.35%) Law
7 50 (4.11%) Social Skills
8 10 (0.82%) Games
9 6 (0.49%) Legal
9 6 (0.49%) Retail
10 5 (0.41%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.33%) Electronics
11 4 (0.33%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.33%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.25%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.16%) Advertising
13 2 (0.16%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.16%) Marketing
13 2 (0.16%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 488 (40.07%) Developer
2 454 (37.27%) Software Developer
3 313 (25.70%) Software Engineer
4 289 (23.73%) Lead
5 268 (22.00%) Senior
6 217 (17.82%) Senior Software Engineer
6 217 (17.82%) Team Leader
7 91 (7.47%) DevOps Engineer
8 82 (6.73%) AWS Engineer
9 73 (5.99%) AWS DevOps
9 73 (5.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 72 (5.91%) Python Engineer
11 61 (5.01%) Data Engineer
12 47 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
13 43 (3.53%) Lead Software Engineer
14 39 (3.20%) Cloud Software Engineer
15 35 (2.87%) Cloud Native Engineer
16 24 (1.97%) Lead Cloud Engineer
17 23 (1.89%) Platform Engineer
18 19 (1.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (19.87%) Node.js
2 236 (19.38%) .NET
3 222 (18.23%) OpenTelemetry
4 221 (18.14%) Elastic Stack
5 100 (8.21%) Kafka
6 59 (4.84%) J2EE
6 59 (4.84%) PySpark
7 49 (4.02%) Pandas
8 40 (3.28%) RESTful
9 26 (2.13%) React
10 19 (1.56%) Spring Boot
11 18 (1.48%) Spring
12 15 (1.23%) gRPC
13 14 (1.15%) Hibernate
13 14 (1.15%) Loki
14 12 (0.99%) Vue
15 11 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
16 10 (0.82%) AWS CDK
17 9 (0.74%) REST
18 8 (0.66%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 624 (51.23%) Cyberattack
2 180 (14.78%) Linux Command Line
3 178 (14.61%) Self-Motivation
4 87 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 53 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (2.96%) Legacy Code
7 23 (1.89%) Public Cloud
8 18 (1.48%) Mobile App
9 12 (0.99%) Algorithms
9 12 (0.99%) Client/Server
9 12 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (0.82%) Blockchain
11 8 (0.66%) Web3
12 7 (0.57%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.41%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.41%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.33%) Data Centre
14 4 (0.33%) Embedded Systems
14 4 (0.33%) Hackathon
15 3 (0.25%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 927 (76.11%) Linux
2 449 (36.86%) Android
3 233 (19.13%) Unix
4 5 (0.41%) Windows
5 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.25%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.16%) Debian
6 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.082%) CentOS
7 1 (0.082%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 981 (80.54%) Agile
2 468 (38.42%) Software Engineering
3 464 (38.10%) OO
4 457 (37.52%) Design Patterns
5 456 (37.44%) Mathematics
6 453 (37.19%) OOP
7 449 (36.86%) Line Management
8 446 (36.62%) Android Development
9 429 (35.22%) Mentoring
10 366 (30.05%) DevOps
11 319 (26.19%) Containerisation
12 297 (24.38%) Infrastructure as Code
13 274 (22.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 270 (22.17%) Microservices
15 254 (20.85%) CI/CD
16 245 (20.11%) Continuous Integration
17 242 (19.87%) Data Engineering
18 228 (18.72%) High Availability
19 227 (18.64%) Performance Optimisation
19 227 (18.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,079 (88.59%) Python
2 998 (81.94%) Java
3 689 (56.57%) C++
4 482 (39.57%) JavaScript
5 287 (23.56%) Rust
6 243 (19.95%) Bash
7 54 (4.43%) SQL
8 46 (3.78%) C
9 38 (3.12%) PHP
10 33 (2.71%) TypeScript
11 16 (1.31%) C#
12 14 (1.15%) Kotlin
13 13 (1.07%) Ruby
14 8 (0.66%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.57%) Bicep
16 5 (0.41%) Scala
16 5 (0.41%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.33%) Lua
18 2 (0.16%) Elixir
18 2 (0.16%) F#
Qualifications
1 639 (52.46%) Security Cleared
2 629 (51.64%) DV Cleared
3 407 (33.42%) AWS Certification
4 180 (14.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 178 (14.61%) AWS Certified Developer
6 21 (1.72%) Degree
7 9 (0.74%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.41%) PhD
10 3 (0.25%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.16%) CCNP
11 2 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.082%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (0.74%) Accessibility
2 8 (0.66%) QA
3 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.41%) NIST
4 2 (0.16%) Data Quality
System Software
1 800 (65.68%) Docker
2 6 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 686 (56.32%) Ansible
2 500 (41.05%) Kubernetes
3 428 (35.14%) Terraform
4 244 (20.03%) Prometheus
5 216 (17.73%) Kustomize
6 215 (17.65%) Argo
7 35 (2.87%) Grafana
8 17 (1.40%) Istio
9 11 (0.90%) Puppet
10 10 (0.82%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.57%) Podman
12 6 (0.49%) Mesos
13 5 (0.41%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.16%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.16%) Kibana
14 2 (0.16%) Nagios
15 1 (0.082%) Consul
15 1 (0.082%) Packer
15 1 (0.082%) Salt
Vendors
1 241 (19.79%) Google
2 11 (0.90%) Hitachi
3 10 (0.82%) Splunk
4 7 (0.57%) Microsoft
5 6 (0.49%) Confluent
6 4 (0.33%) Atlassian
6 4 (0.33%) MKS
6 4 (0.33%) MuleSoft
6 4 (0.33%) New Relic
6 4 (0.33%) Oracle
7 3 (0.25%) Databricks
7 3 (0.25%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.25%) Facebook
7 3 (0.25%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.16%) Arista
8 2 (0.16%) Cisco
8 2 (0.16%) Commvault
8 2 (0.16%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.16%) VMware
9 1 (0.082%) CA Agile Central