Go Jobs in Scotland

Go (Golang)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Go skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Go over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 156 102
Rank change year-on-year -21 -54 +54
Permanent jobs citing Go 107 59 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.56% 1.38% 3.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.05% 3.40% 6.87%
Number of salaries quoted 17 17 121
10th Percentile £38,250 £52,500 £46,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £64,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,351 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.84% -12.87% +3.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £84,056 £85,000
90th Percentile - £88,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,508 1,733 2,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 51.29% 40.47% 44.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,174 988 1,600
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +5.11% +13.40%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,013
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in Scotland

Go
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Go in Scotland

Go
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Go in Scotland

Go
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Glasgow -41 85 £50,000 -33.33%
Edinburgh +13 21 £60,000 -8.19% 2
Go
UK

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 12 (11.21%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 26 (24.30%) AWS
2 21 (19.63%) SaaS
3 15 (14.02%) Amazon S3
4 14 (13.08%) GCP
5 12 (11.21%) Amazon SQS
5 12 (11.21%) Google Docs
5 12 (11.21%) Lucidchart
5 12 (11.21%) Miro
5 12 (11.21%) Slack
6 5 (4.67%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.74%) Serverless
8 3 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.80%) Azure
9 2 (1.87%) Datadog
10 1 (0.93%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.93%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (63.55%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (60.75%) Metadata
2 13 (12.15%) Redis
3 12 (11.21%) Big Data
3 12 (11.21%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (11.21%) Hadoop
3 12 (11.21%) Scylla
4 7 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (5.61%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.93%) GIS
Development Applications
1 71 (66.36%) Git
2 68 (63.55%) Bitbucket
2 68 (63.55%) Jenkins
3 65 (60.75%) Artifactory
General
1 85 (79.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 75 (70.09%) Finance
3 74 (69.16%) Law
3 74 (69.16%) Marketing
4 22 (20.56%) Social Skills
5 5 (4.67%) Games
5 5 (4.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (85.05%) Software Engineer
2 67 (62.62%) Lead
2 67 (62.62%) Lead Software Engineer
3 44 (41.12%) Senior
4 43 (40.19%) Senior Software Engineer
5 12 (11.21%) Principal Engineer
5 12 (11.21%) Principal Software Engineer
6 10 (9.35%) Developer
7 6 (5.61%) Backend Developer
8 2 (1.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (1.87%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 1 (0.93%) Blockchain Engineer
9 1 (0.93%) Python Engineer
9 1 (0.93%) Python Software Engineer
9 1 (0.93%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (65.42%) RESTful
2 68 (63.55%) JSON
2 68 (63.55%) LDAP
2 68 (63.55%) OpenID
2 68 (63.55%) Web Services
2 68 (63.55%) XML
3 65 (60.75%) JSON-LD
3 65 (60.75%) SAML
4 12 (11.21%) GraphQL
4 12 (11.21%) Kafka
5 6 (5.61%) REST
6 2 (1.87%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.93%) Django
7 1 (0.93%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 68 (63.55%) Enterprise Cloud
2 65 (60.75%) Management Information System
2 65 (60.75%) Reference Data
3 26 (24.30%) Algorithms
4 17 (15.89%) Data Structures
5 8 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (6.54%) Public Cloud
7 5 (4.67%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.87%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.93%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (86.92%) Software Engineering
2 83 (77.57%) Agile
3 77 (71.96%) CI/CD
4 75 (70.09%) Test Automation
5 74 (69.16%) Community of Practice
5 74 (69.16%) Operational Stability
5 74 (69.16%) SDLC
6 68 (63.55%) Data Modelling
7 67 (62.62%) Architectural Design
7 67 (62.62%) Information Architecture
8 66 (61.68%) Roadmaps
9 65 (60.75%) Continuous Delivery
9 65 (60.75%) Data Pipeline
9 65 (60.75%) Data Transformation
9 65 (60.75%) Identity Access Management
9 65 (60.75%) Ontologies
9 65 (60.75%) RDF
9 65 (60.75%) Use Case
10 15 (14.02%) Artificial Intelligence
11 12 (11.21%) Computer Security
Programming Languages
1 65 (60.75%) Prolog
1 65 (60.75%) SPARQL
2 36 (33.64%) Java
3 32 (29.91%) Python
4 15 (14.02%) C++
5 12 (11.21%) Bash
5 12 (11.21%) Scala
6 8 (7.48%) C
6 8 (7.48%) Rust
7 6 (5.61%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.61%) SQL
8 5 (4.67%) C#
8 5 (4.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (5.61%) Degree
2 5 (4.67%) Master's Degree
2 5 (4.67%) PhD
3 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 68 (63.55%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (15.89%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.54%) Terraform
3 2 (1.87%) Grafana
3 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (12.15%) Google
2 12 (11.21%) Dell
3 3 (2.80%) Cadence
4 2 (1.87%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.87%) Splunk
5 1 (0.93%) OpenAI