Hybrid/Remote Go Job Trends

Go (Golang)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Go skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 117 279
Rank change year-on-year -54 +162 -171
Permanent jobs citing Go 277 420 362
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.51% 2.92% 1.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.67% 7.10% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 145 175 287
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £74,378 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +46.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile - £138,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -6.25%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Go falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,888 5,915 13,360
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.65% 41.16% 41.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,603 4,420 11,416
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Go and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Go job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Go.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Go

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Go over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Go salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (3.25%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.81%) Ethereum
3 3 (1.08%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 214 (77.26%) AWS
2 117 (42.24%) GCP
3 52 (18.77%) Azure
4 28 (10.11%) Amazon EKS
5 24 (8.66%) SaaS
6 19 (6.86%) Pulumi
7 15 (5.42%) GitHub
8 14 (5.05%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (3.25%) Amazon SageMaker
9 9 (3.25%) Azure Machine Learning
9 9 (3.25%) Dagster
9 9 (3.25%) Snowflake
9 9 (3.25%) Vertex AI
10 8 (2.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (2.89%) Amazon MSK
10 8 (2.89%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.44%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 86 (31.05%) Broadband
2 10 (3.61%) VPN
3 8 (2.89%) Firewall
4 3 (1.08%) BGP
4 3 (1.08%) Network Security
4 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (9.39%) MongoDB
2 26 (9.39%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.58%) Relational Database
4 19 (6.86%) RDBMS
5 11 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (3.61%) BigQuery
7 9 (3.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (3.25%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (3.25%) Delta Lake
7 9 (3.25%) Looker
7 9 (3.25%) Pinecone
7 9 (3.25%) Tableau
7 9 (3.25%) Weaviate
8 4 (1.44%) Flink
9 3 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.08%) MySQL
9 3 (1.08%) Redis
10 2 (0.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (6.86%) Jaeger
2 9 (3.25%) MLflow
3 5 (1.81%) Git
3 5 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.72%) GitLab
4 2 (0.72%) Postman
4 2 (0.72%) Selenium
4 2 (0.72%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 81 (29.24%) Finance
2 40 (14.44%) Banking
3 37 (13.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (13.00%) Front Office
5 30 (10.83%) Games
5 30 (10.83%) Social Skills
6 26 (9.39%) Retail
7 14 (5.05%) Law
8 11 (3.97%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.61%) Financial Institution
10 9 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (2.17%) Back Office
12 4 (1.44%) Esports
12 4 (1.44%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.72%) Electronics
13 2 (0.72%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.36%) Legal
14 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.36%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 91 (32.85%) Software Engineer
2 75 (27.08%) Senior
3 74 (26.71%) Developer
4 66 (23.83%) Lead
5 32 (11.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 30 (10.83%) Scala Engineer
7 29 (10.47%) Lead Software Engineer
8 24 (8.66%) Lead Developer
9 20 (7.22%) Lead Software Developer
10 19 (6.86%) DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.78%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (5.42%) Scala Developer
12 15 (5.42%) Scala Software Engineer
13 14 (5.05%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (5.05%) Head of Engineering
14 12 (4.33%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (4.33%) Senior DevOps
15 11 (3.97%) Lead DevOps
16 10 (3.61%) Data Engineer
16 10 (3.61%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (21.30%) gRPC
2 56 (20.22%) Kafka
3 48 (17.33%) React
4 41 (14.80%) Node.js
5 33 (11.91%) Redux
6 32 (11.55%) GraphQL
6 32 (11.55%) RESTful
7 21 (7.58%) Elastic Stack
8 20 (7.22%) OpenTelemetry
9 16 (5.78%) REST
10 9 (3.25%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.25%) Faiss
10 9 (3.25%) PyTorch
10 9 (3.25%) TensorFlow
10 9 (3.25%) vLLM
11 8 (2.89%) .NET
11 8 (2.89%) Vue
12 7 (2.53%) WebSockets
13 5 (1.81%) Smart Contracts
13 5 (1.81%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 92 (33.21%) Distributed Systems
2 67 (24.19%) Video\Live Streaming
3 45 (16.25%) Over-the-Top Content
4 41 (14.80%) Cloud Native
5 32 (11.55%) Fixed Income
6 26 (9.39%) Product Ownership
7 22 (7.94%) Low-Code
8 12 (4.33%) Algorithms
8 12 (4.33%) Security Posture
9 10 (3.61%) Sports Betting
10 7 (2.53%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.53%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.81%) Blockchain
11 5 (1.81%) Hedge funds
11 5 (1.81%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.81%) Web3
12 4 (1.44%) Blog
12 4 (1.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.16%) Linux
2 20 (7.22%) Unix
3 17 (6.14%) Android
4 10 (3.61%) Apple iOS
5 7 (2.53%) Windows
6 2 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (58.48%) Software Engineering
2 132 (47.65%) CI/CD
3 104 (37.55%) Machine Learning
4 93 (33.57%) Containerisation
5 81 (29.24%) Agile
6 72 (25.99%) DevOps
7 71 (25.63%) Microservices
8 67 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
9 66 (23.83%) Infrastructure as Code
10 64 (23.10%) AI
11 60 (21.66%) Data Science
12 57 (20.58%) Clean Code
13 56 (20.22%) Coaching
14 54 (19.49%) Full-Stack Development
15 46 (16.61%) Continuous Delivery
16 45 (16.25%) Personalization
17 40 (14.44%) Observability
18 38 (13.72%) Mentoring
19 37 (13.36%) Roadmaps
19 37 (13.36%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 191 (68.95%) Python
2 107 (38.63%) Java
3 67 (24.19%) JavaScript
4 54 (19.49%) Scala
5 52 (18.77%) TypeScript
6 41 (14.80%) Bash
7 28 (10.11%) Rust
8 23 (8.30%) C++
9 19 (6.86%) C#
10 16 (5.78%) SQL
11 14 (5.05%) PHP
12 4 (1.44%) Perl
13 3 (1.08%) C
13 3 (1.08%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.08%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (14.80%) Degree
2 26 (9.39%) AWS Certification
3 19 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (4.69%) CREST Certified
4 13 (4.69%) OSCP
5 8 (2.89%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.89%) PhD
6 6 (2.17%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.08%) CCSAM
7 3 (1.08%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.08%) GPEN
7 3 (1.08%) GXPN
7 3 (1.08%) OSCE
7 3 (1.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.78%) QA
2 3 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.08%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.36%) GDPR
System Software
1 106 (38.27%) Docker
2 8 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.72%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 84 (30.32%) Kubernetes
2 61 (22.02%) Terraform
3 32 (11.55%) Prometheus
4 29 (10.47%) Ansible
5 23 (8.30%) Argo
6 19 (6.86%) Kustomize
7 12 (4.33%) Grafana
8 8 (2.89%) Istio
9 7 (2.53%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.72%) Kibana
10 2 (0.72%) Nagios
Vendors
1 45 (16.25%) Typelevel
2 24 (8.66%) Google
3 9 (3.25%) Databricks
3 9 (3.25%) Palantir
3 9 (3.25%) VMware
4 8 (2.89%) Confluent
5 3 (1.08%) Ericsson
5 3 (1.08%) Mavenir
5 3 (1.08%) Nokia
6 2 (0.72%) Commvault
6 2 (0.72%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.72%) Splunk
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle