Go Job Trends in Wales

Go (Golang)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 - 112
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Permanent jobs citing Go 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.099% - 0.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.79% - 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £56,000
25th Percentile - - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile - - £73,750
90th Percentile - - £76,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -6.25%

All Programming Languages
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 253 112 558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 12.47% 20.40% 25.57%
Number of salaries quoted 165 101 461
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,627 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Go relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Go job vacancy trend in Wales

Go
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Go

Go
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Wales region over the 6 months to 23 June 2026. 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
West Wales - 2 £75,000 -
Go
UK

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Software Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google