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 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 373 191 161
Rank change year-on-year -182 -30 +41
Permanent jobs citing Go 470 1,112 1,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.66% 1.88% 2.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.09% 4.70% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 290 386 1,351
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £49,063 £57,813 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £78,438 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £77,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.75% - +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 22,500 23,662 33,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.41% 40.01% 45.71%
Number of salaries quoted 16,335 13,344 21,181
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 £71,250 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £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 20 May 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 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
Scotland -32 133 £57,500 -20.39% 4
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
Northern Ireland -9 5 £70,000 -3.45% 1
Wales -19 5 £62,500 +19.05% 4
North East -40 4 £55,000 -37.14%
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 33 (7.02%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.77%) Apache
3 4 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.85%) nginx
4 3 (0.64%) CloudStack
4 3 (0.64%) Confluence
5 2 (0.43%) CMS
5 2 (0.43%) IIS
5 2 (0.43%) Liferay
5 2 (0.43%) Magnolia
5 2 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.21%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 159 (33.83%) AWS
2 103 (21.91%) Azure
3 91 (19.36%) GCP
4 64 (13.62%) Serverless
5 43 (9.15%) SaaS
6 31 (6.60%) Amazon S3
7 30 (6.38%) GitHub
8 24 (5.11%) Amazon SQS
9 22 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (4.68%) Google Docs
9 22 (4.68%) Lucidchart
9 22 (4.68%) Miro
9 22 (4.68%) Slack
10 13 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.55%) Azure AKS
12 11 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (2.34%) Datadog
13 10 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 68 (14.47%) Kerberos
2 8 (1.70%) Network Security
3 5 (1.06%) AMQP
4 4 (0.85%) DNS
4 4 (0.85%) Firewall
4 4 (0.85%) RS-232
4 4 (0.85%) RS-485
4 4 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.85%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.64%) Internet
5 3 (0.64%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (19.79%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (13.83%) Metadata
3 61 (12.98%) Relational Database
4 43 (9.15%) MySQL
5 33 (7.02%) Big Data
6 32 (6.81%) Elasticsearch
7 30 (6.38%) Oracle Database
7 30 (6.38%) RDBMS
8 29 (6.17%) Hadoop
8 29 (6.17%) Redis
9 22 (4.68%) Scylla
10 18 (3.83%) MongoDB
11 14 (2.98%) SQL Server
12 13 (2.77%) BigQuery
13 12 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (2.34%) NoSQL
15 10 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (2.13%) Power BI
16 8 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (1.70%) Flink
Development Applications
1 185 (39.36%) Git
2 91 (19.36%) Jenkins
3 84 (17.87%) Bitbucket
4 65 (13.83%) Artifactory
5 30 (6.38%) JDeveloper
6 12 (2.55%) GitLab
7 7 (1.49%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (1.28%) Selenium
8 6 (1.28%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.28%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.06%) Maven
10 4 (0.85%) Appium
10 4 (0.85%) Jasmine
11 3 (0.64%) JIRA
11 3 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.43%) Bower
12 2 (0.43%) gulp
12 2 (0.43%) JUnit
12 2 (0.43%) Moq
General
1 155 (32.98%) Finance
2 106 (22.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 102 (21.70%) Social Skills
4 95 (20.21%) Marketing
5 87 (18.51%) Law
6 23 (4.89%) Publishing
7 21 (4.47%) Retail
8 16 (3.40%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.77%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.55%) Banking
11 8 (1.70%) Electronics
11 8 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.49%) Games
13 6 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
14 4 (0.85%) Aviation
15 3 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.64%) Legal
16 1 (0.21%) Advertising
16 1 (0.21%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 214 (45.53%) Software Engineer
2 125 (26.60%) Developer
3 110 (23.40%) Senior
4 96 (20.43%) Lead
5 76 (16.17%) Lead Software Engineer
6 56 (11.91%) Senior Software Engineer
7 31 (6.60%) Senior Developer
8 30 (6.38%) Ruby Engineer
9 25 (5.32%) DevOps Engineer
9 25 (5.32%) Software Developer
10 22 (4.68%) Principal Engineer
10 22 (4.68%) Principal Software Engineer
11 16 (3.40%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (2.77%) PHP Developer
14 12 (2.55%) Junior
15 10 (2.13%) Architect
15 10 (2.13%) Cloud Engineer
15 10 (2.13%) Junior Developer
15 10 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (22.77%) Web Services
2 89 (18.94%) Kafka
3 80 (17.02%) Node.js
4 78 (16.60%) JSON
5 76 (16.17%) RESTful
6 74 (15.74%) XML
7 69 (14.68%) OpenID
7 69 (14.68%) React
8 68 (14.47%) LDAP
9 66 (14.04%) SAML
10 65 (13.83%) JSON-LD
11 59 (12.55%) GraphQL
12 52 (11.06%) gRPC
13 48 (10.21%) REST
14 46 (9.79%) RabbitMQ
15 32 (6.81%) CSS
16 31 (6.60%) HTML
17 21 (4.47%) jQuery
18 20 (4.26%) AngularJS
19 19 (4.04%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 68 (14.47%) Enterprise Cloud
2 65 (13.83%) Management Information System
2 65 (13.83%) Reference Data
3 62 (13.19%) Algorithms
4 37 (7.87%) Data Structures
5 30 (6.38%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (4.04%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.55%) Cloud Native
8 12 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.55%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (2.34%) Virtual Team
10 10 (2.13%) Blockchain
11 5 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.06%) Graphic Design
11 5 (1.06%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.85%) BBC
12 4 (0.85%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.85%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 49 (10.43%) Linux
2 23 (4.89%) Windows
3 4 (0.85%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.85%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.64%) Android
4 3 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.64%) SUSE
4 3 (0.64%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 3 (0.64%) VMS
5 2 (0.43%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (55.74%) Software Engineering
2 208 (44.26%) Agile
3 177 (37.66%) CI/CD
4 126 (26.81%) DevOps
5 119 (25.32%) Microservices
5 119 (25.32%) Roadmaps
6 108 (22.98%) Test Automation
7 101 (21.49%) SDLC
8 95 (20.21%) Continuous Integration
9 85 (18.09%) Operational Stability
10 81 (17.23%) Community of Practice
10 81 (17.23%) TDD
11 80 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
12 79 (16.81%) Continuous Delivery
13 72 (15.32%) Data Pipeline
14 71 (15.11%) Data Modelling
15 70 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
16 69 (14.68%) Containerisation
17 68 (14.47%) Architectural Design
18 67 (14.26%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 215 (45.74%) Python
2 184 (39.15%) Java
3 109 (23.19%) JavaScript
4 80 (17.02%) Bash
5 65 (13.83%) Prolog
5 65 (13.83%) SPARQL
6 60 (12.77%) SQL
7 58 (12.34%) TypeScript
8 53 (11.28%) C#
9 51 (10.85%) Ruby
10 35 (7.45%) PHP
10 35 (7.45%) Scala
11 33 (7.02%) C
11 33 (7.02%) Perl
12 32 (6.81%) C++
13 30 (6.38%) Kotlin
14 29 (6.17%) PowerShell
15 15 (3.19%) Rust
16 7 (1.49%) Groovy
17 5 (1.06%) VB
Qualifications
1 56 (11.91%) Degree
2 27 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (5.53%) Security Cleared
4 22 (4.68%) SC Cleared
5 19 (4.04%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.49%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.06%) PhD
8 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.21%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.21%) MCP
9 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (9.15%) QA
2 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.21%) NIST
3 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 160 (34.04%) Docker
2 69 (14.68%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.64%) Ceph
3 3 (0.64%) Gluster
3 3 (0.64%) KVM
3 3 (0.64%) oVirt
3 3 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 125 (26.60%) Kubernetes
2 74 (15.74%) Terraform
3 43 (9.15%) Ansible
4 24 (5.11%) Prometheus
5 22 (4.68%) Grafana
6 19 (4.04%) Puppet
7 17 (3.62%) Progress Chef
8 12 (2.55%) Kibana
9 5 (1.06%) Argo
9 5 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.85%) Rancher
11 3 (0.64%) Graylog
11 3 (0.64%) Observium
11 3 (0.64%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.43%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.21%) Anchore
13 1 (0.21%) Packer
13 1 (0.21%) SCCM
13 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (11.91%) Google
2 41 (8.72%) Oracle
3 25 (5.32%) Microsoft
4 22 (4.68%) Dell
5 10 (2.13%) Apple
6 9 (1.91%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.91%) Splunk
7 8 (1.70%) New Relic
7 8 (1.70%) SAP
8 7 (1.49%) Teradata
9 6 (1.28%) SaltStack
10 5 (1.06%) LogicMonitor
10 5 (1.06%) PagerDuty
10 5 (1.06%) VMware
11 4 (0.85%) YouTube
12 3 (0.64%) Cadence
12 3 (0.64%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.43%) Dynatrace
13 2 (0.43%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.43%) OpenText