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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 176 111
Rank change year-on-year -147 -65 +40
Permanent jobs citing Go 878 2,166 5,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 2.09% 3.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.64% 4.83% 6.01%
Number of salaries quoted 607 1,070 2,465
10th Percentile £48,750 £53,603 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,813 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £101,217 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,749 £108,750
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 33,269 44,878 84,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.74% 43.24% 53.88%
Number of salaries quoted 25,012 28,616 44,114
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,171
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 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +1.85% +8.00%

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 3 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 3 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 -159 665 £80,000 - 211
UK excluding London -160 467 £60,000 -20.00% 88
Work from Home -148 393 £75,000 -6.25% 126
London -70 329 £100,000 +11.11% 134
Scotland -21 135 £57,500 -17.20% 8
South East -16 117 £55,000 -20.00% 19
North of England -155 86 £65,000 -18.75% 24
North West -83 70 £65,000 -21.21% 20
Midlands -41 48 £77,000 +10.00% 6
South West -99 46 £70,576 -2.65% 17
West Midlands -1 40 £77,500 +10.71% 6
East of England -79 24 £85,000 +6.25% 8
Yorkshire -60 12 £65,000 -18.75% 3
East Midlands -43 8 £55,000 -45.00%
Northern Ireland -3 6 £70,000 +4.87% 3
Wales -14 5 £62,500 +38.89% 3
North East -42 4 £55,000 -37.14% 1

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 47 (5.35%) Apache Spark
2 40 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.82%) Apache
4 11 (1.25%) Confluence
5 6 (0.68%) nginx
6 3 (0.34%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.34%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.34%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.23%) CMS
7 2 (0.23%) IIS
7 2 (0.23%) Liferay
7 2 (0.23%) Magnolia
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
1 395 (44.99%) AWS
2 185 (21.07%) Azure
3 161 (18.34%) GCP
4 153 (17.43%) Serverless
5 83 (9.45%) Amazon S3
6 79 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
7 76 (8.66%) GitHub
8 63 (7.18%) Amazon SQS
9 61 (6.95%) Amazon EC2
10 60 (6.83%) SaaS
11 54 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
12 52 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
13 51 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 40 (4.56%) OpenShift
15 37 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
15 37 (4.21%) Snowflake
16 36 (4.10%) dbt
17 24 (2.73%) Slack
18 23 (2.62%) Google Docs
18 23 (2.62%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 68 (7.74%) Kerberos
2 21 (2.39%) Internet
3 9 (1.03%) Network Security
4 7 (0.80%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.57%) AMQP
5 5 (0.57%) DNS
6 4 (0.46%) Firewall
6 4 (0.46%) RS-232
6 4 (0.46%) RS-485
6 4 (0.46%) 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%) 3G
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
1 150 (17.08%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 83 (9.45%) Big Data
4 67 (7.63%) Redis
5 65 (7.40%) Metadata
6 58 (6.61%) MySQL
7 57 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
8 53 (6.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 46 (5.24%) Data Lake
10 41 (4.67%) Elasticsearch
10 41 (4.67%) RDBMS
11 40 (4.56%) Amazon Athena
12 36 (4.10%) Apache Arrow
12 36 (4.10%) Dremio
12 36 (4.10%) Oracle Database
13 32 (3.64%) Hadoop
14 26 (2.96%) MongoDB
15 24 (2.73%) DynamoDB
16 23 (2.62%) Scylla
17 22 (2.51%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 223 (25.40%) Git
2 151 (17.20%) Jenkins
3 104 (11.85%) Artifactory
4 83 (9.45%) Bitbucket
5 36 (4.10%) JDeveloper
6 29 (3.30%) GitLab
7 25 (2.85%) JIRA
8 10 (1.14%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
10 7 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.68%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.57%) Appium
12 5 (0.57%) JUnit
12 5 (0.57%) Maven
12 5 (0.57%) Selenium
13 4 (0.46%) Jasmine
14 3 (0.34%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 315 (35.88%) Finance
2 176 (20.05%) Social Skills
3 145 (16.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 115 (13.10%) Law
5 109 (12.41%) Marketing
6 39 (4.44%) Retail
7 37 (4.21%) Banking
8 34 (3.87%) Front Office
9 29 (3.30%) Public Sector
10 26 (2.96%) Legal
11 23 (2.62%) Analytical Skills
11 23 (2.62%) Publishing
12 22 (2.51%) Telecoms
13 20 (2.28%) Games
14 11 (1.25%) 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
1 291 (33.14%) Software Engineer
2 207 (23.58%) Senior
3 206 (23.46%) Developer
4 143 (16.29%) Lead
5 113 (12.87%) DevOps Engineer
6 93 (10.59%) Lead Software Engineer
7 89 (10.14%) AWS Engineer
8 83 (9.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 82 (9.34%) Senior Software Engineer
10 71 (8.09%) Cloud Engineer
11 58 (6.61%) Senior Developer
12 47 (5.35%) Site Engineer
13 45 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
13 45 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 45 (5.13%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 44 (5.01%) Full Stack Developer
15 37 (4.21%) Ruby Engineer
15 37 (4.21%) Software Developer
16 36 (4.10%) Big Data Engineer
17 32 (3.64%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (17.31%) Node.js
2 130 (14.81%) Web Services
3 126 (14.35%) Kafka
4 119 (13.55%) React
5 112 (12.76%) gRPC
6 104 (11.85%) RESTful
7 86 (9.79%) JSON
8 81 (9.23%) OpenID
9 76 (8.66%) REST
10 74 (8.43%) XML
11 72 (8.20%) GraphQL
12 68 (7.74%) LDAP
13 65 (7.40%) JSON-LD
13 65 (7.40%) SAML
14 52 (5.92%) RabbitMQ
15 51 (5.81%) HTML
16 50 (5.69%) CSS
17 39 (4.44%) Protocol Buffers
18 37 (4.21%) .NET
19 34 (3.87%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 86 (9.79%) Distributed Systems
2 83 (9.45%) Algorithms
3 77 (8.77%) Cloud Native
4 68 (7.74%) Enterprise Cloud
5 67 (7.63%) Management Information System
6 65 (7.40%) Reference Data
7 51 (5.81%) Data Structures
8 41 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
9 40 (4.56%) Hedge funds
10 38 (4.33%) Blockchain
10 38 (4.33%) Legacy Code
11 37 (4.21%) Clustering
12 34 (3.87%) Tandem
13 26 (2.96%) Onboarding
14 24 (2.73%) Public Cloud
15 17 (1.94%) Blog
15 17 (1.94%) Virtual Team
16 15 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
17 13 (1.48%) Product Ownership
18 12 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 137 (15.60%) Linux
2 28 (3.19%) Windows
3 13 (1.48%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.25%) Android
5 9 (1.03%) Unix
6 8 (0.91%) VMS
7 6 (0.68%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.46%) 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
1 450 (51.25%) Software Engineering
2 338 (38.50%) Agile
3 328 (37.36%) CI/CD
4 314 (35.76%) DevOps
5 159 (18.11%) Microservices
6 140 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
7 138 (15.72%) Continuous Integration
7 138 (15.72%) Test Automation
8 135 (15.38%) SDLC
9 132 (15.03%) Roadmaps
10 127 (14.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 124 (14.12%) Open Source
12 123 (14.01%) TDD
13 102 (11.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 101 (11.50%) Continuous Delivery
15 98 (11.16%) Containerisation
16 93 (10.59%) Full Stack Development
17 92 (10.48%) Operational Stability
18 86 (9.79%) Community of Practice
19 82 (9.34%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 449 (51.14%) Python
2 367 (41.80%) Java
3 225 (25.63%) JavaScript
4 110 (12.53%) Bash
4 110 (12.53%) TypeScript
5 103 (11.73%) C#
6 95 (10.82%) Ruby
7 82 (9.34%) Rust
8 76 (8.66%) C++
9 73 (8.31%) SQL
10 65 (7.40%) Prolog
10 65 (7.40%) SPARQL
11 64 (7.29%) C
12 49 (5.58%) Scala
13 44 (5.01%) Kotlin
14 42 (4.78%) PHP
15 41 (4.67%) PowerShell
16 39 (4.44%) Perl
17 10 (1.14%) Groovy
18 9 (1.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (9.34%) Degree
2 48 (5.47%) Security Cleared
3 41 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (4.21%) SC Cleared
5 24 (2.73%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.71%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.03%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.80%) PhD
10 5 (0.57%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.57%) OSCP
11 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.11%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.11%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.04%) QA
2 20 (2.28%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.25%) GDPR
4 6 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.46%) 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
1 262 (29.84%) Docker
2 69 (7.86%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.57%) Ceph
5 4 (0.46%) KVM
6 3 (0.34%) Gluster
6 3 (0.34%) oVirt
7 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.11%) LXC
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.11%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 360 (41.00%) Kubernetes
2 228 (25.97%) Terraform
3 75 (8.54%) Ansible
4 68 (7.74%) Prometheus
5 31 (3.53%) Progress Chef
6 30 (3.42%) Grafana
7 28 (3.19%) Puppet
8 13 (1.48%) Kibana
9 7 (0.80%) Argo
10 6 (0.68%) Salt
11 5 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.57%) Rancher
12 4 (0.46%) Packer
12 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.34%) Graylog
13 3 (0.34%) Istio
13 3 (0.34%) Observium
13 3 (0.34%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.23%) Knative
14 2 (0.23%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 73 (8.31%) Google
2 53 (6.04%) Oracle
3 37 (4.21%) Microsoft
4 24 (2.73%) Dell
5 10 (1.14%) Apple
5 10 (1.14%) Splunk
6 9 (1.03%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.03%) 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 (0.46%) 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