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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 284 144
Rank change year-on-year -106 -140 +62
Permanent jobs citing Go 439 685 1,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 1.21% 2.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.91% 3.12% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 297 375 1,345
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £58,125 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -3.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £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 23,016 21,974 33,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.29% 38.86% 45.41%
Number of salaries quoted 16,658 12,979 20,973
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 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £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 1 June 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 1 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
South East +25 126 £56,250 -25.00% 23
Scotland -15 115 £56,250 -19.00%
North of England -127 80 £63,750 -15.00% 32
North West -75 67 £65,000 -10.34% 28
Midlands -32 48 £77,250 +10.36% 13
South West -79 46 £70,576 -2.65% 18
West Midlands -16 43 £77,500 +10.71% 9
East of England -26 19 £85,000 +6.25% 10
Yorkshire -60 9 £65,000 -13.33% 4
East Midlands -35 5 £55,000 -45.00% 4
North East -8 4 £55,000 -37.14%
Wales -11 3 £70,000 +33.33% 3
Northern Ireland +3 2 £70,000 -3.45% 1
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 25 (5.69%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.96%) Apache
3 6 (1.37%) Confluence
4 4 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.91%) nginx
5 3 (0.68%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.46%) CMS
6 2 (0.46%) IIS
6 2 (0.46%) JBoss
6 2 (0.46%) Liferay
6 2 (0.46%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 153 (34.85%) AWS
2 99 (22.55%) Azure
3 86 (19.59%) GCP
4 34 (7.74%) SaaS
5 33 (7.52%) Serverless
6 32 (7.29%) GitHub
7 23 (5.24%) Amazon S3
8 22 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (3.19%) Google Docs
10 14 (3.19%) Lucidchart
10 14 (3.19%) Miro
10 14 (3.19%) Slack
11 12 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.73%) Azure AKS
11 12 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (2.28%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 68 (15.49%) Kerberos
2 10 (2.28%) Network Security
3 6 (1.37%) Firewall
4 5 (1.14%) AMQP
4 5 (1.14%) DNS
5 4 (0.91%) RS-232
5 4 (0.91%) RS-485
5 4 (0.91%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.91%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.68%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (21.18%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (14.81%) Metadata
3 42 (9.57%) MySQL
4 31 (7.06%) Relational Database
5 25 (5.69%) Big Data
6 24 (5.47%) Elasticsearch
7 21 (4.78%) Hadoop
7 21 (4.78%) Redis
8 18 (4.10%) MongoDB
9 14 (3.19%) NoSQL
9 14 (3.19%) Scylla
9 14 (3.19%) SQL Server
10 13 (2.96%) BigQuery
11 10 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (2.05%) Power BI
13 8 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.82%) Flink
14 7 (1.59%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 156 (35.54%) Git
2 91 (20.73%) Jenkins
3 86 (19.59%) Bitbucket
4 65 (14.81%) Artifactory
5 15 (3.42%) GitLab
6 7 (1.59%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (1.37%) JIRA
7 6 (1.37%) Selenium
7 6 (1.37%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.91%) Appium
8 4 (0.91%) Jasmine
8 4 (0.91%) Maven
8 4 (0.91%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.68%) JUnit
9 3 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.68%) PHPUnit
10 2 (0.46%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.46%) JMeter
10 2 (0.46%) Moq
General
1 154 (35.08%) Finance
2 97 (22.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 93 (21.18%) Social Skills
4 92 (20.96%) Marketing
5 84 (19.13%) Law
6 21 (4.78%) Publishing
6 21 (4.78%) Retail
7 16 (3.64%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.19%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.28%) Banking
10 8 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (1.82%) Electronics
10 8 (1.82%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.59%) Games
12 5 (1.14%) Legal
13 4 (0.91%) Aviation
14 3 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.46%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.23%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 175 (39.86%) Software Engineer
2 133 (30.30%) Developer
3 114 (25.97%) Senior
4 96 (21.87%) Lead
5 75 (17.08%) Lead Software Engineer
6 56 (12.76%) Senior Software Engineer
7 36 (8.20%) Senior Developer
8 23 (5.24%) DevOps Engineer
8 23 (5.24%) Software Developer
9 18 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
10 16 (3.64%) PHP Developer
11 14 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (3.19%) Principal Engineer
11 14 (3.19%) Principal Software Engineer
12 11 (2.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 11 (2.51%) Junior
13 10 (2.28%) Architect
13 10 (2.28%) Java Developer
13 10 (2.28%) Junior Developer
13 10 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (24.37%) Web Services
2 82 (18.68%) Kafka
3 78 (17.77%) JSON
4 77 (17.54%) RESTful
5 74 (16.86%) XML
6 69 (15.72%) OpenID
7 68 (15.49%) LDAP
8 67 (15.26%) SAML
9 65 (14.81%) JSON-LD
10 51 (11.62%) GraphQL
11 50 (11.39%) gRPC
11 50 (11.39%) Node.js
11 50 (11.39%) REST
12 46 (10.48%) RabbitMQ
13 39 (8.88%) React
14 32 (7.29%) CSS
15 31 (7.06%) HTML
16 21 (4.78%) jQuery
17 20 (4.56%) AngularJS
18 19 (4.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 68 (15.49%) Enterprise Cloud
2 65 (14.81%) Management Information System
2 65 (14.81%) Reference Data
3 51 (11.62%) Algorithms
4 30 (6.83%) Greenfield Project
5 29 (6.61%) Data Structures
6 16 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (3.64%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.96%) Cloud Native
8 12 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.73%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.51%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (2.28%) Blockchain
11 9 (2.05%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.14%) Graphic Design
12 5 (1.14%) IoT
12 5 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.91%) BBC
13 4 (0.91%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 49 (11.16%) Linux
2 23 (5.24%) Windows
3 5 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.91%) Android
4 4 (0.91%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.68%) SUSE
5 3 (0.68%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 3 (0.68%) VMS
6 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (51.71%) Software Engineering
2 208 (47.38%) Agile
3 178 (40.55%) CI/CD
4 117 (26.65%) Roadmaps
5 107 (24.37%) Test Automation
6 98 (22.32%) SDLC
7 96 (21.87%) DevOps
8 88 (20.05%) Microservices
9 82 (18.68%) Operational Stability
9 82 (18.68%) TDD
10 79 (18.00%) Community of Practice
10 79 (18.00%) Continuous Delivery
11 72 (16.40%) Data Pipeline
12 71 (16.17%) Data Modelling
13 69 (15.72%) Infrastructure as Code
14 68 (15.49%) Architectural Design
15 67 (15.26%) Information Architecture
16 65 (14.81%) Ontologies
16 65 (14.81%) RDF
16 65 (14.81%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 174 (39.64%) Python
2 140 (31.89%) Java
3 78 (17.77%) JavaScript
4 65 (14.81%) Prolog
4 65 (14.81%) SPARQL
5 62 (14.12%) SQL
6 58 (13.21%) TypeScript
7 50 (11.39%) C#
8 40 (9.11%) Bash
9 38 (8.66%) PHP
10 34 (7.74%) C++
11 32 (7.29%) C
11 32 (7.29%) PowerShell
12 28 (6.38%) Kotlin
13 27 (6.15%) Scala
14 22 (5.01%) Ruby
15 20 (4.56%) Rust
16 7 (1.59%) Groovy
17 5 (1.14%) Shell Script
17 5 (1.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 54 (12.30%) Degree
2 26 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (5.69%) Security Cleared
4 21 (4.78%) SC Cleared
5 19 (4.33%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.14%) PhD
8 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.23%) MCP
9 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.19%) QA
2 4 (0.91%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.46%) NIST
5 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 158 (35.99%) Docker
2 69 (15.72%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.68%) Ceph
3 3 (0.68%) Gluster
3 3 (0.68%) KVM
3 3 (0.68%) oVirt
3 3 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 118 (26.88%) Kubernetes
2 72 (16.40%) Terraform
3 42 (9.57%) Ansible
4 23 (5.24%) Prometheus
5 22 (5.01%) Grafana
6 17 (3.87%) Puppet
7 15 (3.42%) Progress Chef
8 13 (2.96%) Kibana
9 5 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.91%) Rancher
11 3 (0.68%) Argo
11 3 (0.68%) Graylog
11 3 (0.68%) Observium
11 3 (0.68%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.46%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.23%) Anchore
13 1 (0.23%) Packer
13 1 (0.23%) SCCM
13 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (10.71%) Google
2 25 (5.69%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.19%) Dell
4 12 (2.73%) Atlassian
4 12 (2.73%) Oracle
5 10 (2.28%) Apple
5 10 (2.28%) Splunk
6 8 (1.82%) New Relic
6 8 (1.82%) SAP
7 7 (1.59%) Teradata
8 6 (1.37%) SaltStack
9 5 (1.14%) LogicMonitor
9 5 (1.14%) PagerDuty
9 5 (1.14%) VMware
10 4 (0.91%) YouTube
11 3 (0.68%) Cadence
12 2 (0.46%) Cognizant
12 2 (0.46%) OpenText
12 2 (0.46%) Pega
12 2 (0.46%) Red Hat