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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 180 109
Rank change year-on-year -145 -71 +43
Permanent jobs citing Go 882 2,111 5,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 2.09% 3.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.66% 4.83% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 611 1,051 2,441
10th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,967 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £136,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% - +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 33,186 43,722 84,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.45% 43.28% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,983 27,941 43,470
10th Percentile £35,195 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,000 £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 10 May 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 10 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
England -159 671 £80,000 - 212
UK excluding London -169 470 £60,000 -20.00% 86
Work from Home -166 399 £75,000 -8.81% 134
London -71 332 £100,000 +11.11% 132
Scotland -10 135 £57,500 -17.20% 7
South East -10 122 £55,000 -21.43% 21
North of England -142 87 £65,000 -18.75% 20
North West -83 71 £66,250 -19.70% 17
Midlands -68 48 £77,000 +10.00% 6
South West -94 46 £70,576 -2.65% 21
West Midlands -17 40 £77,500 +10.71% 6
East of England -77 22 £85,000 +6.25% 8
Yorkshire -46 12 £65,000 -18.75% 3
East Midlands -53 8 £55,000 -45.00%
Northern Ireland -10 5 £70,000 -3.45% 1
Wales -13 5 £62,500 +19.05% 2
North East -44 4 £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 49 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 46 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.81%) Apache
4 10 (1.13%) Confluence
5 6 (0.68%) nginx
6 3 (0.34%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.34%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.23%) CMS
7 2 (0.23%) IIS
7 2 (0.23%) Liferay
7 2 (0.23%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.11%) JBoss
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 401 (45.46%) AWS
2 183 (20.75%) Azure
3 162 (18.37%) GCP
4 149 (16.89%) Serverless
5 81 (9.18%) Amazon S3
6 76 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
7 75 (8.50%) GitHub
8 61 (6.92%) Amazon SQS
9 59 (6.69%) Amazon EC2
9 59 (6.69%) SaaS
10 53 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
11 49 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 43 (4.88%) dbt
12 43 (4.88%) Snowflake
13 38 (4.31%) OpenShift
14 37 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
15 24 (2.72%) Slack
16 23 (2.61%) Google Docs
16 23 (2.61%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 68 (7.71%) Kerberos
2 21 (2.38%) Internet
3 9 (1.02%) Network Security
4 7 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.57%) AMQP
5 5 (0.57%) DNS
6 4 (0.45%) Firewall
6 4 (0.45%) RS-232
6 4 (0.45%) RS-485
6 4 (0.45%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.34%) HTTP
7 3 (0.34%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.23%) Broadband
8 2 (0.23%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.11%) Anycast
9 1 (0.11%) BGP
9 1 (0.11%) DHCP
9 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (16.78%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (10.66%) Relational Database
3 89 (10.09%) Big Data
4 67 (7.60%) Redis
5 65 (7.37%) Metadata
6 55 (6.24%) Amazon RDS
6 55 (6.24%) MySQL
7 52 (5.90%) Data Lake
8 49 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 46 (5.22%) Amazon Athena
10 42 (4.76%) Apache Arrow
10 42 (4.76%) Dremio
11 41 (4.65%) RDBMS
12 40 (4.54%) Elasticsearch
13 36 (4.08%) Oracle Database
14 32 (3.63%) Hadoop
15 26 (2.95%) MongoDB
16 24 (2.72%) DynamoDB
17 23 (2.61%) Scylla
18 22 (2.49%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 224 (25.40%) Git
2 148 (16.78%) Jenkins
3 101 (11.45%) Artifactory
4 84 (9.52%) Bitbucket
5 36 (4.08%) JDeveloper
6 26 (2.95%) GitLab
7 22 (2.49%) JIRA
8 10 (1.13%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.68%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.57%) Maven
11 5 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (0.57%) Selenium
12 4 (0.45%) Appium
12 4 (0.45%) Jasmine
12 4 (0.45%) JUnit
13 2 (0.23%) Bower
13 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 323 (36.62%) Finance
2 175 (19.84%) Social Skills
3 145 (16.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 116 (13.15%) Law
5 109 (12.36%) Marketing
6 39 (4.42%) Retail
7 38 (4.31%) Banking
8 32 (3.63%) Front Office
9 28 (3.17%) Public Sector
10 27 (3.06%) Legal
11 23 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
11 23 (2.61%) Publishing
12 22 (2.49%) Telecoms
13 20 (2.27%) Games
14 10 (1.13%) French Language
15 8 (0.91%) Electronics
15 8 (0.91%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.57%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 296 (33.56%) Software Engineer
2 207 (23.47%) Developer
3 205 (23.24%) Senior
4 145 (16.44%) Lead
5 110 (12.47%) DevOps Engineer
6 95 (10.77%) Lead Software Engineer
7 92 (10.43%) AWS Engineer
8 87 (9.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 83 (9.41%) Senior Software Engineer
10 70 (7.94%) Cloud Engineer
11 57 (6.46%) Senior Developer
12 53 (6.01%) Site Engineer
13 43 (4.88%) Full Stack Developer
14 42 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
14 42 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 42 (4.76%) Big Data Engineer
14 42 (4.76%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 38 (4.31%) Software Developer
16 37 (4.20%) Ruby Engineer
17 33 (3.74%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (17.12%) Node.js
2 131 (14.85%) Web Services
3 128 (14.51%) Kafka
4 117 (13.27%) gRPC
4 117 (13.27%) React
5 103 (11.68%) RESTful
6 86 (9.75%) JSON
7 82 (9.30%) OpenID
8 77 (8.73%) REST
9 74 (8.39%) XML
10 73 (8.28%) GraphQL
11 68 (7.71%) LDAP
12 65 (7.37%) JSON-LD
12 65 (7.37%) SAML
13 53 (6.01%) RabbitMQ
14 50 (5.67%) CSS
14 50 (5.67%) HTML
15 45 (5.10%) Protocol Buffers
16 35 (3.97%) .NET
17 32 (3.63%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 86 (9.75%) Distributed Systems
2 82 (9.30%) Algorithms
3 74 (8.39%) Cloud Native
4 68 (7.71%) Enterprise Cloud
5 67 (7.60%) Management Information System
6 65 (7.37%) Reference Data
7 50 (5.67%) Data Structures
8 46 (5.22%) Hedge funds
9 43 (4.88%) Clustering
10 41 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
11 36 (4.08%) Blockchain
11 36 (4.08%) Legacy Code
12 32 (3.63%) Tandem
13 25 (2.83%) Onboarding
13 25 (2.83%) Public Cloud
14 17 (1.93%) Virtual Team
15 16 (1.81%) Blog
16 15 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
17 14 (1.59%) Product Ownership
18 12 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 135 (15.31%) Linux
2 27 (3.06%) Windows
3 13 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.36%) Android
5 8 (0.91%) Unix
6 7 (0.79%) VMS
7 5 (0.57%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.34%) CentOS
9 3 (0.34%) SUSE
9 3 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.23%) Debian
10 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (50.57%) Software Engineering
2 339 (38.44%) Agile
3 328 (37.19%) CI/CD
4 318 (36.05%) DevOps
5 160 (18.14%) Microservices
6 139 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
7 137 (15.53%) Test Automation
8 135 (15.31%) Continuous Integration
8 135 (15.31%) SDLC
9 133 (15.08%) Roadmaps
10 131 (14.85%) Infrastructure as Code
11 126 (14.29%) TDD
12 122 (13.83%) Open Source
13 106 (12.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 100 (11.34%) Continuous Delivery
15 98 (11.11%) Containerisation
16 93 (10.54%) Operational Stability
17 92 (10.43%) Full Stack Development
18 87 (9.86%) Community of Practice
19 83 (9.41%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 451 (51.13%) Python
2 371 (42.06%) Java
3 227 (25.74%) JavaScript
4 109 (12.36%) Bash
5 107 (12.13%) TypeScript
6 100 (11.34%) C#
7 92 (10.43%) Ruby
8 83 (9.41%) Rust
9 77 (8.73%) C++
10 74 (8.39%) SQL
11 65 (7.37%) Prolog
11 65 (7.37%) SPARQL
12 64 (7.26%) C
13 49 (5.56%) Scala
14 44 (4.99%) PHP
15 43 (4.88%) Kotlin
16 40 (4.54%) PowerShell
17 39 (4.42%) Perl
18 10 (1.13%) Groovy
19 9 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 81 (9.18%) Degree
2 47 (5.33%) Security Cleared
3 39 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (4.20%) SC Cleared
5 24 (2.72%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.81%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.79%) PhD
10 5 (0.57%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.57%) OSCP
11 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.11%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.11%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.90%) QA
2 19 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.25%) GDPR
4 6 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.45%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.11%) SEPA
6 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 257 (29.14%) Docker
2 69 (7.82%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.79%) Ceph
5 4 (0.45%) KVM
6 3 (0.34%) Gluster
6 3 (0.34%) oVirt
6 3 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.11%) LXC
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.11%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 362 (41.04%) Kubernetes
2 231 (26.19%) Terraform
3 78 (8.84%) Ansible
4 74 (8.39%) Prometheus
5 30 (3.40%) Grafana
5 30 (3.40%) Progress Chef
6 29 (3.29%) Puppet
7 13 (1.47%) Kibana
8 7 (0.79%) Argo
9 6 (0.68%) Salt
10 5 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.57%) Rancher
10 5 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.45%) Knative
12 3 (0.34%) Graylog
12 3 (0.34%) Istio
12 3 (0.34%) Observium
12 3 (0.34%) Packer
12 3 (0.34%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.23%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 74 (8.39%) Google
2 53 (6.01%) Oracle
3 36 (4.08%) Microsoft
4 24 (2.72%) Dell
5 10 (1.13%) Apple
5 10 (1.13%) Splunk
6 9 (1.02%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.02%) New Relic
7 8 (0.91%) SaltStack
7 8 (0.91%) SAP
7 8 (0.91%) Teradata
7 8 (0.91%) VMware
8 6 (0.68%) PagerDuty
9 5 (0.57%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (0.45%) YouTube
11 3 (0.34%) Cadence
11 3 (0.34%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.34%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.34%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.34%) OpenAI