Go Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Go (Golang)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 93 119
Rank change year-on-year -44 +26 +18
Permanent jobs citing Go 4 15 4
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.096% 0.95% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.64% 4.19% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile £49,000 £61,250 £61,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -0.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £86,000 -
Yorkshire median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% +3.70% +3.29%

All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 622 358 591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 14.87% 22.72% 27.77%
Number of salaries quoted 440 283 378
10th Percentile £38,977 £37,750 £34,925
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,200 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Go job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Go
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Go

Go
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Go in West Yorkshire

Go
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Leeds -54 4 £70,000 - 6
Go
Yorkshire

Go
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Graduate
2 1 (25.00%) Graduate Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Flutter
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Data Science
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) LLM
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (25.00%) Rust
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google