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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 194 155
Rank change year-on-year +28 -39 +65
Permanent jobs citing Go 8 12 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.28% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.12% 1.09% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 23
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,750 -
25th Percentile £60,625 £62,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +37.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £98,125 £76,500
90th Percentile £86,750 £105,250 £81,100
England median annual salary £90,000 £100,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% +6.25%

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 712 1,102 1,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.51% 25.65% 31.00%
Number of salaries quoted 580 563 939
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,375 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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

Go
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

Go
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 January 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 3 January 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 +21 5 £65,000 -40.91% 7
Staffordshire -12 2 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Herefordshire -7 1 £95,000 +15.15%
Go
England

Go
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 3 (37.50%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
1 3 (37.50%) Lead DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) SIEM Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) gRPC
1 2 (25.00%) WinForms
1 2 (25.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Product Backlog
2 3 (37.50%) SIEM
3 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Cost Control
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform