Go Job Trends in the West Midlands

Go (Golang)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 167 220
Rank change year-on-year -19 +53 -32
Permanent jobs citing Go 12 10 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.30% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.22% 1.23% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 12 8 31
10th Percentile £59,250 £45,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £52,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £58,750 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.17% -38.16% +35.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,188 £98,750
90th Percentile - £98,250 £100,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - +16.13% -3.13%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 983 811 1,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.21% 23.96% 23.01%
Number of salaries quoted 738 641 1,433
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,041 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Go job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Go

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Go in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Birmingham -15 5 £80,000 +48.84% 2
Herefordshire -19 4 £85,000 -5.56%
Worcestershire - 4 £85,000 -
Staffordshire - 3 £67,500 -
Go
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
2 3 (25.00%) Google Ads
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Advertising
2 3 (25.00%) SaaS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS IoT
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Advertising
2 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Data Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Kafka Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Python Data Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) React
2 4 (33.33%) Kafka
2 4 (33.33%) Keycloak
3 3 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (25.00%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (16.67%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) Analytics
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven
3 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (41.67%) Front End Development
4 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (33.33%) Data Security
4 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 4 (33.33%) ETL
4 4 (33.33%) ETL Development
4 4 (33.33%) Workflow
5 3 (25.00%) Customer Acquisition
5 3 (25.00%) E-Commerce
5 3 (25.00%) Marketing Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) TypeScript
3 3 (25.00%) C#
3 3 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Facebook
1 3 (25.00%) Google
1 3 (25.00%) Instagram
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (25.00%) TikTok