Go (Golang)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 224 101
Rank change year-on-year -115 -123 +55
Permanent jobs citing Go 859 1,590 5,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.79% 1.71% 3.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.50% 4.06% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 621 974 2,380
10th Percentile £47,500 £54,125 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £63,631 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £137,500 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% -3.33% +25.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 34,343 39,181 92,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.67% 42.09% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 25,459 26,275 43,476
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

Go
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in the UK

Go
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Go in the UK

Go
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Go in the UK

Go
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England -128 680 £80,000 - 235
UK excluding London -133 445 £60,000 -17.24% 85
Work from Home -101 374 £75,000 -6.25% 140
London -80 336 £100,000 +11.11% 147
South East +13 128 £55,000 -26.67% 19
Scotland -16 109 £55,000 -18.40% 2
North of England -136 82 £65,000 -13.33% 29
North West -72 71 £65,000 -10.34% 27
Midlands -45 53 £77,500 +10.71% 10
South West -71 50 £70,576 +1.22% 12
West Midlands -7 48 £80,000 +14.29% 7
East of England -36 18 £85,000 +6.25% 11
Yorkshire -56 9 £65,000 -10.34% 2
East Midlands -50 5 £55,000 -45.00% 3
Wales -7 3 £70,000 +33.33% 3
Northern Ireland 0 2 £70,000 -3.45%
North East -15 2 £55,000 -37.14%

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 58 (6.75%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (4.66%) Apache Spark
3 15 (1.75%) Apache
4 14 (1.63%) Confluence
5 8 (0.93%) nginx
6 3 (0.35%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.23%) CMS
7 2 (0.23%) IIS
7 2 (0.23%) JBoss
7 2 (0.23%) Liferay
7 2 (0.23%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 385 (44.82%) AWS
2 174 (20.26%) Azure
3 156 (18.16%) GCP
4 100 (11.64%) Serverless
5 74 (8.61%) GitHub
6 64 (7.45%) AWS Lambda
7 59 (6.87%) Amazon S3
8 56 (6.52%) dbt
9 55 (6.40%) Snowflake
10 50 (5.82%) SaaS
11 49 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
13 43 (5.01%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
14 38 (4.42%) AWS CloudFormation
15 35 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
16 30 (3.49%) OpenShift
17 22 (2.56%) Azure AKS
18 16 (1.86%) IaaS
18 16 (1.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (7.92%) Kerberos
2 15 (1.75%) Internet
3 14 (1.63%) Network Security
4 11 (1.28%) Firewall
5 7 (0.81%) DNS
6 6 (0.70%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.58%) AMQP
8 4 (0.47%) RS-232
8 4 (0.47%) RS-485
8 4 (0.47%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.35%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.35%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.23%) Broadband
10 2 (0.23%) HTTP
10 2 (0.23%) VPN
11 1 (0.12%) BGP
11 1 (0.12%) DHCP
11 1 (0.12%) IPsec
11 1 (0.12%) MPLS
11 1 (0.12%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (16.41%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (10.59%) Big Data
3 65 (7.57%) Metadata
4 64 (7.45%) Data Lake
5 63 (7.33%) Relational Database
6 58 (6.75%) Amazon Athena
7 55 (6.40%) MySQL
8 54 (6.29%) Apache Arrow
8 54 (6.29%) Dremio
9 51 (5.94%) Redis
10 42 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
11 38 (4.42%) Amazon Redshift
12 30 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
13 26 (3.03%) MongoDB
14 25 (2.91%) DynamoDB
14 25 (2.91%) NoSQL
15 21 (2.44%) BigQuery
15 21 (2.44%) Hadoop
16 18 (2.10%) SQL Server
17 14 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 192 (22.35%) Git
2 133 (15.48%) Jenkins
3 90 (10.48%) Artifactory
4 89 (10.36%) Bitbucket
5 27 (3.14%) GitLab
6 24 (2.79%) JIRA
7 8 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (0.81%) Selenium
9 6 (0.70%) Appium
9 6 (0.70%) Jasmine
9 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (0.58%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.47%) JUnit
11 4 (0.47%) Maven
11 4 (0.47%) PHPUnit
12 3 (0.35%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.23%) CircleCI
General
1 324 (37.72%) Finance
2 168 (19.56%) Social Skills
3 136 (15.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 113 (13.15%) Law
5 102 (11.87%) Marketing
6 45 (5.24%) Legal
7 39 (4.54%) Retail
8 35 (4.07%) Banking
9 32 (3.73%) Public Sector
10 24 (2.79%) Front Office
11 22 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
11 22 (2.56%) Games
11 22 (2.56%) Telecoms
12 21 (2.44%) Publishing
13 11 (1.28%) French Language
14 8 (0.93%) Electronics
14 8 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.70%) Tech for Good
16 5 (0.58%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 259 (30.15%) Software Engineer
2 232 (27.01%) Developer
3 218 (25.38%) Senior
4 144 (16.76%) Lead
5 100 (11.64%) Lead Software Engineer
6 94 (10.94%) Senior Software Engineer
7 91 (10.59%) AWS Engineer
8 90 (10.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 88 (10.24%) DevOps Engineer
10 69 (8.03%) Senior Developer
11 66 (7.68%) Cloud Engineer
12 64 (7.45%) Site Engineer
13 54 (6.29%) Big Data Engineer
14 46 (5.36%) Full Stack Developer
15 37 (4.31%) Software Developer
16 36 (4.19%) Cloud Software Engineer
17 31 (3.61%) Kubernetes Engineer
17 31 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
18 29 (3.38%) AWS DevOps
18 29 (3.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (15.48%) Web Services
2 119 (13.85%) gRPC
3 116 (13.50%) Kafka
4 113 (13.15%) Node.js
5 106 (12.34%) RESTful
6 88 (10.24%) JSON
7 84 (9.78%) OpenID
8 76 (8.85%) React
8 76 (8.85%) REST
9 74 (8.61%) XML
10 68 (7.92%) LDAP
11 67 (7.80%) SAML
12 65 (7.57%) JSON-LD
13 62 (7.22%) GraphQL
14 57 (6.64%) Protocol Buffers
15 54 (6.29%) CSS
15 54 (6.29%) HTML
16 53 (6.17%) RabbitMQ
17 37 (4.31%) .NET
18 24 (2.79%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 95 (11.06%) Distributed Systems
2 80 (9.31%) Cloud Native
3 68 (7.92%) Enterprise Cloud
4 67 (7.80%) Management Information System
5 65 (7.57%) Algorithms
5 65 (7.57%) Reference Data
6 58 (6.75%) Hedge funds
7 55 (6.40%) Clustering
8 42 (4.89%) Greenfield Project
9 41 (4.77%) Data Structures
10 35 (4.07%) Blockchain
11 34 (3.96%) Legacy Code
12 30 (3.49%) Onboarding
13 24 (2.79%) Tandem
14 17 (1.98%) Product Ownership
14 17 (1.98%) Virtual Team
15 16 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
15 16 (1.86%) Public Cloud
16 15 (1.75%) Blog
16 15 (1.75%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 130 (15.13%) Linux
2 28 (3.26%) Windows
3 16 (1.86%) Apple iOS
4 13 (1.51%) Android
5 7 (0.81%) VMS
6 6 (0.70%) Unix
7 4 (0.47%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.35%) SUSE
8 3 (0.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.12%) CentOS
10 1 (0.12%) Debian
10 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (46.57%) Software Engineering
2 337 (39.23%) Agile
3 318 (37.02%) CI/CD
4 277 (32.25%) DevOps
5 134 (15.60%) SDLC
5 134 (15.60%) TDD
6 132 (15.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 132 (15.37%) Roadmaps
7 129 (15.02%) Test Automation
8 127 (14.78%) Microservices
9 111 (12.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 103 (11.99%) Continuous Integration
11 102 (11.87%) Continuous Delivery
12 98 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
13 90 (10.48%) Full Stack Development
14 89 (10.36%) Operational Stability
15 87 (10.13%) Computer Science
16 84 (9.78%) Community of Practice
16 84 (9.78%) Data Pipeline
17 83 (9.66%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 403 (46.92%) Python
2 320 (37.25%) Java
3 206 (23.98%) JavaScript
4 105 (12.22%) TypeScript
5 98 (11.41%) C#
6 96 (11.18%) Rust
7 95 (11.06%) C++
8 88 (10.24%) SQL
9 71 (8.27%) C
10 65 (7.57%) Prolog
10 65 (7.57%) SPARQL
11 61 (7.10%) Ruby
12 58 (6.75%) Bash
13 52 (6.05%) PHP
14 51 (5.94%) PowerShell
15 44 (5.12%) Kotlin
16 42 (4.89%) Scala
17 10 (1.16%) Groovy
18 9 (1.05%) Shell Script
19 7 (0.81%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 81 (9.43%) Degree
2 51 (5.94%) Security Cleared
3 38 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (4.19%) SC Cleared
5 26 (3.03%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.86%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.05%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.81%) PhD
10 5 (0.58%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.58%) OSCP
11 3 (0.35%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.12%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 19 (2.21%) QA
3 11 (1.28%) GDPR
4 9 (1.05%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.47%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.23%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.23%) NIST
8 1 (0.12%) GxP
8 1 (0.12%) SEPA
8 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 247 (28.75%) Docker
2 70 (8.15%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.05%) Ceph
5 4 (0.47%) KVM
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.35%) Gluster
6 3 (0.35%) oVirt
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) LXC
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 353 (41.09%) Kubernetes
2 226 (26.31%) Terraform
3 81 (9.43%) Prometheus
4 74 (8.61%) Ansible
5 26 (3.03%) Grafana
6 23 (2.68%) Progress Chef
6 23 (2.68%) Puppet
7 14 (1.63%) Kibana
8 6 (0.70%) Knative
9 5 (0.58%) Argo
9 5 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.47%) Istio
10 4 (0.47%) Rancher
10 4 (0.47%) Salt
11 3 (0.35%) Graylog
11 3 (0.35%) Observium
11 3 (0.35%) Packer
11 3 (0.35%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.23%) Rundeck
12 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (7.92%) Google
2 40 (4.66%) Microsoft
3 18 (2.10%) Oracle
4 13 (1.51%) Atlassian
4 13 (1.51%) Dell
5 10 (1.16%) Apple
5 10 (1.16%) Splunk
6 9 (1.05%) New Relic
7 8 (0.93%) SAP
7 8 (0.93%) Teradata
7 8 (0.93%) VMware
8 7 (0.81%) SaltStack
9 6 (0.70%) PagerDuty
10 5 (0.58%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (0.47%) YouTube
12 3 (0.35%) Cadence
12 3 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.35%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.35%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.23%) OpenText