Go Jobs in England

Go (Golang)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Go skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Go over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 178 117
Rank change year-on-year -163 -61 +25
Permanent jobs citing Go 673 1,844 4,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.78% 2.09% 3.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.43% 4.82% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 539 931 2,149
10th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £55,625 £63,750 £63,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,500 £137,500 £108,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%

All Programming Languages
England

Go is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,644 38,266 72,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.00% 43.34% 53.51%
Number of salaries quoted 22,394 24,664 38,799
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,954 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Go in England

Go
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Go in England.

Salary trend for Go in England

Go
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Go in England

Go
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
London -65 334 £100,000 +11.11% 176
South East -28 124 £55,000 -24.14% 61
North of England -153 86 £65,000 -18.75% 27
North West -95 70 £65,000 -21.21% 23
Midlands -65 48 £77,000 +10.00% 9
South West -102 47 £70,576 -2.65% 21
West Midlands -3 40 £77,500 +10.71% 8
East of England -87 21 £85,000 +6.25% 12
Yorkshire -69 12 £65,000 -18.37% 4
East Midlands -52 8 £55,000 -45.00% 1
North East -42 4 £55,000 -37.14%
Go
UK

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 51 (7.58%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.12%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.93%) Apache
4 9 (1.34%) Confluence
5 6 (0.89%) nginx
6 3 (0.45%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.30%) CMS
7 2 (0.30%) IIS
7 2 (0.30%) Liferay
7 2 (0.30%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 306 (45.47%) AWS
2 140 (20.80%) Azure
3 115 (17.09%) Serverless
4 107 (15.90%) GCP
5 67 (9.96%) AWS Lambda
6 61 (9.06%) GitHub
7 51 (7.58%) Amazon EC2
8 50 (7.43%) Amazon S3
9 49 (7.28%) dbt
9 49 (7.28%) Snowflake
10 46 (6.84%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
13 36 (5.35%) Amazon SQS
13 36 (5.35%) OpenShift
14 35 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
15 24 (3.57%) SaaS
16 18 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
17 17 (2.53%) Azure AKS
18 15 (2.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.12%) Internet
2 9 (1.34%) Network Security
3 7 (1.04%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.74%) AMQP
5 4 (0.59%) DNS
5 4 (0.59%) Firewall
5 4 (0.59%) RS-232
5 4 (0.59%) RS-485
5 4 (0.59%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.45%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.30%) Broadband
7 2 (0.30%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.30%) HTTP
8 1 (0.15%) DHCP
8 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (20.36%) PostgreSQL
2 68 (10.10%) Big Data
3 56 (8.32%) Data Lake
4 55 (8.17%) Relational Database
5 52 (7.73%) Amazon Athena
6 49 (7.28%) Amazon RDS
7 48 (7.13%) Apache Arrow
7 48 (7.13%) Dremio
7 48 (7.13%) MySQL
8 47 (6.98%) Amazon Redshift
9 34 (5.05%) Redis
10 26 (3.86%) RDBMS
11 25 (3.71%) MongoDB
12 21 (3.12%) BigQuery
12 21 (3.12%) Oracle Database
13 20 (2.97%) NoSQL
14 18 (2.67%) DynamoDB
15 17 (2.53%) SQL Server
16 13 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (1.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 134 (19.91%) Git
2 71 (10.55%) Jenkins
3 33 (4.90%) Artifactory
4 23 (3.42%) GitLab
5 21 (3.12%) JDeveloper
5 21 (3.12%) JIRA
6 16 (2.38%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.34%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.19%) Oracle Forms
8 8 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.89%) Selenium
9 6 (0.89%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.74%) Maven
10 5 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.59%) Appium
11 4 (0.59%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.45%) JUnit
13 2 (0.30%) Moq
13 2 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 240 (35.66%) Finance
2 110 (16.34%) Social Skills
3 37 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 34 (5.05%) Retail
5 32 (4.75%) Banking
6 30 (4.46%) Front Office
6 30 (4.46%) Law
7 26 (3.86%) Marketing
8 23 (3.42%) Publishing
9 20 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
9 20 (2.97%) Legal
10 12 (1.78%) Games
10 12 (1.78%) Public Sector
11 11 (1.63%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.19%) Electronics
12 8 (1.19%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.74%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.59%) Aviation
15 3 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 170 (25.26%) Developer
2 167 (24.81%) Software Engineer
3 124 (18.42%) Senior
4 95 (14.12%) AWS Engineer
5 89 (13.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 89 (13.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 68 (10.10%) Lead
7 64 (9.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 57 (8.47%) Site Engineer
9 48 (7.13%) Big Data Engineer
10 44 (6.54%) Senior Developer
11 40 (5.94%) AWS DevOps
11 40 (5.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 40 (5.94%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 37 (5.50%) Software Developer
13 36 (5.35%) Senior Software Engineer
14 28 (4.16%) Lead Software Engineer
14 28 (4.16%) Platform Engineer
15 27 (4.01%) Cloud Software Engineer
16 22 (3.27%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (17.83%) gRPC
2 95 (14.12%) Node.js
3 94 (13.97%) React
4 91 (13.52%) Kafka
5 68 (10.10%) REST
6 51 (7.58%) Protocol Buffers
7 49 (7.28%) RabbitMQ
8 41 (6.09%) GraphQL
9 40 (5.94%) Web Services
10 32 (4.75%) CSS
10 32 (4.75%) HTML
11 30 (4.46%) J2EE
12 26 (3.86%) .NET
13 24 (3.57%) AngularJS
14 21 (3.12%) jQuery
15 20 (2.97%) Svelte
16 19 (2.82%) React Native
17 17 (2.53%) JSON
18 16 (2.38%) Laravel
19 15 (2.23%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 70 (10.40%) Distributed Systems
2 67 (9.96%) Cloud Native
3 52 (7.73%) Hedge funds
4 49 (7.28%) Clustering
5 34 (5.05%) Legacy Code
6 33 (4.90%) Greenfield Project
7 32 (4.75%) Algorithms
8 30 (4.46%) Tandem
9 29 (4.31%) Blockchain
10 23 (3.42%) Data Structures
11 15 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
11 15 (2.23%) Virtual Team
12 14 (2.08%) Product Ownership
13 12 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.49%) Blog
14 10 (1.49%) Public Cloud
15 7 (1.04%) Data Centre
15 7 (1.04%) Onboarding
16 6 (0.89%) Digital Currency
16 6 (0.89%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 114 (16.94%) Linux
2 27 (4.01%) Windows
3 8 (1.19%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.04%) Android
4 7 (1.04%) Unix
4 7 (1.04%) VMS
5 4 (0.59%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.45%) SUSE
6 3 (0.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.30%) CentOS
7 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.15%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (42.05%) Software Engineering
2 268 (39.82%) DevOps
3 221 (32.84%) Agile
4 209 (31.05%) CI/CD
5 136 (20.21%) Microservices
6 106 (15.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 102 (15.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 95 (14.12%) Continuous Integration
9 94 (13.97%) TDD
10 93 (13.82%) Open Source
11 82 (12.18%) Asset Management
12 80 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
13 72 (10.70%) Computer Science
13 72 (10.70%) Containerisation
14 68 (10.10%) Roadmaps
15 65 (9.66%) Full Stack Development
16 53 (7.88%) Configuration Management
16 53 (7.88%) Mentoring
17 51 (7.58%) Investment Management
18 49 (7.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 339 (50.37%) Python
2 268 (39.82%) Java
3 186 (27.64%) JavaScript
4 92 (13.67%) TypeScript
5 73 (10.85%) Rust
6 72 (10.70%) C#
7 66 (9.81%) SQL
8 65 (9.66%) Bash
9 64 (9.51%) Ruby
10 59 (8.77%) C++
11 57 (8.47%) C
12 41 (6.09%) Kotlin
13 39 (5.79%) PHP
13 39 (5.79%) PowerShell
14 25 (3.71%) Scala
15 24 (3.57%) Perl
16 10 (1.49%) Groovy
17 9 (1.34%) Shell Script
18 8 (1.19%) Bicep
19 5 (0.74%) VB
Qualifications
1 72 (10.70%) Degree
2 34 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (4.31%) Security Cleared
4 23 (3.42%) SC Cleared
5 19 (2.82%) Master's Degree
6 17 (2.53%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.30%) PhD
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.15%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.65%) QA
2 6 (0.89%) PCI DSS
3 4 (0.59%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 236 (35.07%) Docker
2 11 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.19%) Ceph
4 4 (0.59%) KVM
5 3 (0.45%) Gluster
5 3 (0.45%) oVirt
5 3 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.15%) LXC
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 308 (45.77%) Kubernetes
2 205 (30.46%) Terraform
3 74 (11.00%) Prometheus
4 59 (8.77%) Ansible
5 24 (3.57%) Grafana
6 23 (3.42%) Progress Chef
6 23 (3.42%) Puppet
7 13 (1.93%) Kibana
8 5 (0.74%) Argo
8 5 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (0.74%) Knative
8 5 (0.74%) Salt
9 4 (0.59%) Rancher
10 3 (0.45%) Graylog
10 3 (0.45%) Istio
10 3 (0.45%) Observium
10 3 (0.45%) Packer
10 3 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.30%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 49 (7.28%) Google
2 38 (5.65%) Oracle
3 36 (5.35%) Microsoft
4 10 (1.49%) Apple
5 9 (1.34%) Atlassian
5 9 (1.34%) New Relic
6 8 (1.19%) SAP
6 8 (1.19%) Splunk
6 8 (1.19%) Teradata
7 7 (1.04%) SaltStack
7 7 (1.04%) VMware
8 6 (0.89%) PagerDuty
9 5 (0.74%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (0.59%) YouTube
11 2 (0.30%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.30%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.30%) Pega
11 2 (0.30%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.30%) Sparx
11 2 (0.30%) Spotify