Go Jobs in England

Go (Golang)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 180 118
Rank change year-on-year -162 -62 +25
Permanent jobs citing Go 681 1,885 4,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.79% 2.13% 3.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.46% 4.91% 5.94%
Number of salaries quoted 546 939 2,134
10th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,750 £63,763
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £105,000 £106,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £137,500 £108,750
UK median annual salary £77,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.75% - +14.29%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,671 38,352 73,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.00% 43.35% 53.39%
Number of salaries quoted 22,367 24,763 39,036
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Go in England

Go
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Go in England

Go
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Go in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Go in England

Go
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Go within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London -67 342 £100,000 +11.11% 179
South East -21 124 £55,000 -24.14% 61
North of England -155 87 £65,000 -18.37% 30
North West -90 71 £65,000 -19.82% 25
Midlands -67 48 £77,000 +10.00% 10
South West -114 47 £70,576 -2.65% 19
West Midlands -4 40 £77,500 +10.71% 9
East of England -93 21 £85,000 +6.25% 15
Yorkshire -63 12 £65,000 -13.33% 5
East Midlands -64 8 £55,000 -45.00% 1
North East -40 4 £55,000 -37.14%
Go
UK

Go
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 57 (8.37%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.91%) Apache
4 10 (1.47%) Confluence
5 6 (0.88%) nginx
6 3 (0.44%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.29%) CMS
7 2 (0.29%) IIS
7 2 (0.29%) Liferay
7 2 (0.29%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 315 (46.26%) AWS
2 140 (20.56%) Azure
3 115 (16.89%) Serverless
4 108 (15.86%) GCP
5 68 (9.99%) AWS Lambda
6 61 (8.96%) GitHub
7 55 (8.08%) dbt
7 55 (8.08%) Snowflake
8 51 (7.49%) Amazon EC2
8 51 (7.49%) Amazon S3
9 46 (6.75%) Amazon ECS
10 44 (6.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 40 (5.87%) GitHub Actions
12 36 (5.29%) Amazon SQS
12 36 (5.29%) OpenShift
13 35 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (3.52%) SaaS
15 18 (2.64%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (2.50%) Azure AKS
17 14 (2.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.08%) Internet
2 9 (1.32%) Network Security
3 7 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.73%) AMQP
4 5 (0.73%) DNS
4 5 (0.73%) Firewall
5 4 (0.59%) RS-232
5 4 (0.59%) RS-485
5 4 (0.59%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.44%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.44%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.29%) Broadband
7 2 (0.29%) HTTP
8 1 (0.15%) BGP
8 1 (0.15%) DHCP
8 1 (0.15%) MPLS
8 1 (0.15%) OSPF
8 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.15%) RSVP
8 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (20.12%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (10.87%) Big Data
3 62 (9.10%) Data Lake
4 58 (8.52%) Amazon Athena
5 55 (8.08%) Relational Database
6 54 (7.93%) Apache Arrow
6 54 (7.93%) Dremio
7 49 (7.20%) Amazon RDS
8 48 (7.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 48 (7.05%) MySQL
9 34 (4.99%) Redis
10 26 (3.82%) RDBMS
11 25 (3.67%) MongoDB
12 21 (3.08%) BigQuery
12 21 (3.08%) Oracle Database
13 20 (2.94%) NoSQL
14 18 (2.64%) DynamoDB
15 17 (2.50%) SQL Server
16 13 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (1.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 132 (19.38%) Git
2 70 (10.28%) Jenkins
3 33 (4.85%) Artifactory
4 23 (3.38%) GitLab
5 22 (3.23%) JIRA
6 21 (3.08%) JDeveloper
7 17 (2.50%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.32%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.17%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.88%) Selenium
10 6 (0.88%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.73%) Maven
11 5 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.59%) Appium
12 4 (0.59%) Jasmine
12 4 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (0.44%) JUnit
14 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.29%) Moq
General
1 247 (36.27%) Finance
2 111 (16.30%) Social Skills
3 37 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 34 (4.99%) Retail
5 32 (4.70%) Banking
6 30 (4.41%) Front Office
6 30 (4.41%) Law
7 26 (3.82%) Marketing
8 23 (3.38%) Publishing
9 21 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
10 20 (2.94%) Legal
11 13 (1.91%) Public Sector
12 12 (1.76%) Games
13 11 (1.62%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.17%) Electronics
14 8 (1.17%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.73%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.59%) Aviation
17 3 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 170 (24.96%) Developer
2 167 (24.52%) Software Engineer
3 125 (18.36%) Senior
4 101 (14.83%) AWS Engineer
5 95 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 89 (13.07%) DevOps Engineer
7 69 (10.13%) Lead
8 64 (9.40%) Cloud Engineer
9 63 (9.25%) Site Engineer
10 54 (7.93%) Big Data Engineer
11 44 (6.46%) Senior Developer
12 40 (5.87%) AWS DevOps
12 40 (5.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 40 (5.87%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 37 (5.43%) Senior Software Engineer
13 37 (5.43%) Software Developer
14 29 (4.26%) Lead Software Engineer
15 28 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
16 27 (3.96%) Cloud Software Engineer
17 22 (3.23%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (18.50%) gRPC
2 95 (13.95%) Node.js
3 94 (13.80%) React
4 91 (13.36%) Kafka
5 68 (9.99%) REST
6 57 (8.37%) Protocol Buffers
7 49 (7.20%) RabbitMQ
8 41 (6.02%) GraphQL
9 40 (5.87%) Web Services
10 32 (4.70%) CSS
10 32 (4.70%) HTML
11 30 (4.41%) J2EE
12 25 (3.67%) .NET
13 24 (3.52%) AngularJS
14 21 (3.08%) jQuery
15 20 (2.94%) Svelte
16 19 (2.79%) React Native
17 17 (2.50%) JSON
18 16 (2.35%) Laravel
19 15 (2.20%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 73 (10.72%) Distributed Systems
2 67 (9.84%) Cloud Native
3 58 (8.52%) Hedge funds
4 55 (8.08%) Clustering
5 34 (4.99%) Legacy Code
6 33 (4.85%) Greenfield Project
7 31 (4.55%) Algorithms
8 30 (4.41%) Tandem
9 29 (4.26%) Blockchain
10 22 (3.23%) Data Structures
11 16 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (2.20%) Product Ownership
12 15 (2.20%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.47%) Public Cloud
15 9 (1.32%) Blog
16 8 (1.17%) Onboarding
17 7 (1.03%) Data Centre
18 6 (0.88%) Digital Currency
18 6 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 116 (17.03%) Linux
2 26 (3.82%) Windows
3 8 (1.17%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.03%) Android
4 7 (1.03%) Unix
5 6 (0.88%) VMS
6 4 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.44%) SUSE
7 3 (0.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.29%) CentOS
8 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.15%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (41.41%) Software Engineering
2 274 (40.23%) DevOps
3 221 (32.45%) Agile
4 210 (30.84%) CI/CD
5 136 (19.97%) Microservices
6 113 (16.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 104 (15.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 95 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
9 94 (13.80%) Open Source
9 94 (13.80%) TDD
10 88 (12.92%) Asset Management
11 80 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
12 72 (10.57%) Computer Science
13 71 (10.43%) Containerisation
14 70 (10.28%) Roadmaps
15 65 (9.54%) Full Stack Development
16 57 (8.37%) Investment Management
17 53 (7.78%) Configuration Management
17 53 (7.78%) Mentoring
18 49 (7.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 347 (50.95%) Python
2 274 (40.23%) Java
3 191 (28.05%) JavaScript
4 92 (13.51%) TypeScript
5 74 (10.87%) Rust
6 72 (10.57%) C#
7 66 (9.69%) SQL
8 64 (9.40%) Bash
8 64 (9.40%) Ruby
9 60 (8.81%) C++
10 58 (8.52%) C
11 41 (6.02%) Kotlin
12 40 (5.87%) PowerShell
13 39 (5.73%) PHP
14 25 (3.67%) Scala
15 24 (3.52%) Perl
16 10 (1.47%) Groovy
17 9 (1.32%) Shell Script
18 8 (1.17%) Bicep
19 5 (0.73%) VB
Qualifications
1 73 (10.72%) Degree
2 34 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (4.11%) Security Cleared
4 23 (3.38%) SC Cleared
5 20 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 17 (2.50%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.17%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.29%) PhD
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.15%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.58%) QA
2 7 (1.03%) PCI DSS
3 4 (0.59%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.15%) NIST
4 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 235 (34.51%) Docker
2 11 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.32%) Ceph
4 4 (0.59%) KVM
4 4 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.44%) Gluster
5 3 (0.44%) oVirt
6 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.15%) LXC
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 314 (46.11%) Kubernetes
2 212 (31.13%) Terraform
3 80 (11.75%) Prometheus
4 61 (8.96%) Ansible
5 24 (3.52%) Grafana
6 23 (3.38%) Progress Chef
6 23 (3.38%) Puppet
7 13 (1.91%) Kibana
8 6 (0.88%) Knative
9 5 (0.73%) Argo
9 5 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (0.73%) Salt
10 4 (0.59%) Rancher
11 3 (0.44%) Graylog
11 3 (0.44%) Istio
11 3 (0.44%) Observium
11 3 (0.44%) Packer
11 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.29%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 49 (7.20%) Google
2 38 (5.58%) Oracle
3 35 (5.14%) Microsoft
4 10 (1.47%) Apple
4 10 (1.47%) Atlassian
5 9 (1.32%) New Relic
6 8 (1.17%) SAP
6 8 (1.17%) Splunk
6 8 (1.17%) Teradata
7 7 (1.03%) SaltStack
7 7 (1.03%) VMware
8 6 (0.88%) PagerDuty
9 5 (0.73%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (0.59%) YouTube
11 2 (0.29%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.29%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.29%) Pega
11 2 (0.29%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.29%) Sparx
11 2 (0.29%) Spotify