Go Jobs in the UK excluding London

Go (Golang)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 375 198 157
Rank change year-on-year -177 -41 +45
Permanent jobs citing Go 470 1,063 1,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.66% 1.80% 2.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.09% 4.50% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 289 377 1,371
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,464 23,615 32,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.41% 40.01% 45.88%
Number of salaries quoted 16,334 13,300 21,054
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Go as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Go in the UK excluding London

Go
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Go in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Go in the UK excluding London

Go
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Go in the UK excluding London

Go
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland -20 134 £57,500 -17.20% 4
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
Wales -11 5 £62,500 +19.05% 4
Northern Ireland -14 5 £70,000 -3.45% 1
North East -42 4 £55,000 -37.14%
Go
UK

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 34 (7.23%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.77%) Apache
3 4 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.85%) nginx
4 3 (0.64%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.43%) CMS
5 2 (0.43%) Confluence
5 2 (0.43%) IIS
5 2 (0.43%) Liferay
5 2 (0.43%) Magnolia
5 2 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.21%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 159 (33.83%) AWS
2 102 (21.70%) Azure
3 91 (19.36%) GCP
4 64 (13.62%) Serverless
5 44 (9.36%) SaaS
6 32 (6.81%) Amazon S3
7 29 (6.17%) GitHub
8 25 (5.32%) Amazon SQS
9 23 (4.89%) Google Docs
9 23 (4.89%) Lucidchart
9 23 (4.89%) Miro
9 23 (4.89%) Slack
10 21 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.55%) Azure AKS
13 11 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (2.34%) Datadog
14 10 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 68 (14.47%) Kerberos
2 8 (1.70%) Network Security
3 5 (1.06%) AMQP
4 4 (0.85%) Firewall
4 4 (0.85%) RS-232
4 4 (0.85%) RS-485
4 4 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.85%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.64%) DNS
5 3 (0.64%) Internet
5 3 (0.64%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (19.79%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (13.83%) Metadata
3 61 (12.98%) Relational Database
4 43 (9.15%) MySQL
5 34 (7.23%) Big Data
6 33 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
7 30 (6.38%) Hadoop
7 30 (6.38%) Oracle Database
7 30 (6.38%) RDBMS
7 30 (6.38%) Redis
8 23 (4.89%) Scylla
9 18 (3.83%) MongoDB
10 14 (2.98%) SQL Server
11 13 (2.77%) BigQuery
12 12 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (2.34%) NoSQL
14 10 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (2.13%) Power BI
15 8 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (1.70%) Flink
Development Applications
1 185 (39.36%) Git
2 91 (19.36%) Jenkins
3 83 (17.66%) Bitbucket
4 65 (13.83%) Artifactory
5 30 (6.38%) JDeveloper
6 11 (2.34%) GitLab
7 7 (1.49%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (1.28%) Selenium
8 6 (1.28%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.28%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.06%) Maven
10 4 (0.85%) Appium
10 4 (0.85%) Jasmine
11 3 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.43%) Bower
12 2 (0.43%) gulp
12 2 (0.43%) JIRA
12 2 (0.43%) JUnit
12 2 (0.43%) Moq
General
1 155 (32.98%) Finance
2 107 (22.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 103 (21.91%) Social Skills
4 95 (20.21%) Marketing
5 87 (18.51%) Law
6 23 (4.89%) Publishing
7 21 (4.47%) Retail
8 16 (3.40%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.55%) Banking
9 12 (2.55%) Public Sector
10 8 (1.70%) Electronics
10 8 (1.70%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.49%) Games
12 6 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
13 4 (0.85%) Aviation
14 3 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.64%) Legal
15 1 (0.21%) Advertising
15 1 (0.21%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 215 (45.74%) Software Engineer
2 125 (26.60%) Developer
3 110 (23.40%) Senior
4 96 (20.43%) Lead
5 76 (16.17%) Lead Software Engineer
6 56 (11.91%) Senior Software Engineer
7 31 (6.60%) Senior Developer
8 30 (6.38%) Ruby Engineer
9 25 (5.32%) Software Developer
10 24 (5.11%) DevOps Engineer
11 23 (4.89%) Principal Engineer
11 23 (4.89%) Principal Software Engineer
12 16 (3.40%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (2.77%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (2.77%) PHP Developer
14 12 (2.55%) Junior
15 10 (2.13%) Architect
15 10 (2.13%) Blockchain Engineer
15 10 (2.13%) Junior Developer
15 10 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (22.77%) Web Services
2 90 (19.15%) Kafka
3 80 (17.02%) Node.js
4 78 (16.60%) JSON
5 76 (16.17%) RESTful
6 74 (15.74%) XML
7 69 (14.68%) OpenID
7 69 (14.68%) React
8 68 (14.47%) LDAP
9 65 (13.83%) JSON-LD
9 65 (13.83%) SAML
10 60 (12.77%) GraphQL
11 52 (11.06%) gRPC
12 48 (10.21%) REST
13 46 (9.79%) RabbitMQ
14 32 (6.81%) CSS
15 31 (6.60%) HTML
16 21 (4.47%) jQuery
17 20 (4.26%) AngularJS
18 19 (4.04%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 68 (14.47%) Enterprise Cloud
2 65 (13.83%) Management Information System
2 65 (13.83%) Reference Data
3 63 (13.40%) Algorithms
4 38 (8.09%) Data Structures
5 30 (6.38%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (4.04%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.55%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (2.34%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.34%) Virtual Team
9 10 (2.13%) Blockchain
10 5 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.06%) Graphic Design
10 5 (1.06%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.85%) BBC
11 4 (0.85%) Robotics
11 4 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (10.43%) Linux
2 23 (4.89%) Windows
3 4 (0.85%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.85%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.64%) Android
4 3 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.64%) SUSE
4 3 (0.64%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 3 (0.64%) VMS
5 2 (0.43%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (55.96%) Software Engineering
2 208 (44.26%) Agile
3 176 (37.45%) CI/CD
4 125 (26.60%) DevOps
5 119 (25.32%) Microservices
6 118 (25.11%) Roadmaps
7 108 (22.98%) Test Automation
8 101 (21.49%) SDLC
9 94 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
10 85 (18.09%) Operational Stability
11 81 (17.23%) Community of Practice
11 81 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
11 81 (17.23%) TDD
12 79 (16.81%) Continuous Delivery
13 72 (15.32%) Data Pipeline
14 71 (15.11%) Data Modelling
15 69 (14.68%) Containerisation
15 69 (14.68%) Infrastructure as Code
16 68 (14.47%) Architectural Design
17 67 (14.26%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 215 (45.74%) Python
2 185 (39.36%) Java
3 109 (23.19%) JavaScript
4 81 (17.23%) Bash
5 65 (13.83%) Prolog
5 65 (13.83%) SPARQL
6 60 (12.77%) SQL
7 58 (12.34%) TypeScript
8 53 (11.28%) C#
9 51 (10.85%) Ruby
10 36 (7.66%) Scala
11 35 (7.45%) PHP
12 33 (7.02%) C
12 33 (7.02%) Perl
13 32 (6.81%) C++
14 30 (6.38%) Kotlin
15 28 (5.96%) PowerShell
16 15 (3.19%) Rust
17 7 (1.49%) Groovy
18 5 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (11.91%) Degree
2 27 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (5.53%) Security Cleared
4 22 (4.68%) SC Cleared
5 19 (4.04%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.49%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.06%) PhD
8 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.21%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.21%) MCP
9 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (9.15%) QA
2 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 159 (33.83%) Docker
2 69 (14.68%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.64%) Ceph
3 3 (0.64%) Gluster
3 3 (0.64%) KVM
3 3 (0.64%) oVirt
3 3 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 125 (26.60%) Kubernetes
2 73 (15.53%) Terraform
3 42 (8.94%) Ansible
4 24 (5.11%) Prometheus
5 22 (4.68%) Grafana
6 19 (4.04%) Puppet
7 17 (3.62%) Progress Chef
8 12 (2.55%) Kibana
9 5 (1.06%) Argo
9 5 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.85%) Rancher
11 3 (0.64%) Graylog
11 3 (0.64%) Observium
11 3 (0.64%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.43%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.21%) Anchore
13 1 (0.21%) Packer
13 1 (0.21%) SCCM
13 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (12.13%) Google
2 41 (8.72%) Oracle
3 25 (5.32%) Microsoft
4 23 (4.89%) Dell
5 10 (2.13%) Apple
6 9 (1.91%) Splunk
7 8 (1.70%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.70%) New Relic
7 8 (1.70%) SAP
8 7 (1.49%) Teradata
9 6 (1.28%) SaltStack
10 5 (1.06%) LogicMonitor
10 5 (1.06%) PagerDuty
10 5 (1.06%) VMware
11 4 (0.85%) YouTube
12 3 (0.64%) Cadence
12 3 (0.64%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.43%) Dynatrace
13 2 (0.43%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.43%) OpenText