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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 179 110
Rank change year-on-year -145 -69 +41
Permanent jobs citing Go 879 2,111 5,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 2.08% 3.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.65% 4.81% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 608 1,048 2,438
10th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,859 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £136,250 £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 33,162 43,852 84,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.46% 43.27% 54.01%
Number of salaries quoted 24,974 27,985 43,449
10th Percentile £35,000 £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 £106,275 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.55% +6.22%

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 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 9 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 -157 668 £80,000 - 204
UK excluding London -163 468 £60,000 -20.00% 89
Work from Home -156 396 £75,000 -8.54% 125
London -75 330 £100,000 +11.11% 121
Scotland -20 135 £57,500 -17.20% 7
South East -21 121 £55,000 -21.43% 21
North of England -141 86 £65,000 -18.75% 23
North West -80 70 £65,000 -21.21% 19
Midlands -62 48 £77,000 +10.00% 7
South West -96 46 £70,576 -2.65% 19
West Midlands -4 40 £77,500 +10.71% 7
East of England -74 22 £85,000 +6.25% 9
Yorkshire -48 12 £65,000 -18.75% 3
East Midlands -53 8 £55,000 -45.00%
Northern Ireland -5 5 £70,000 -3.45% 1
Wales -17 5 £62,500 +38.89% 2
North East -43 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 49 (5.57%) Apache Spark
2 46 (5.23%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.82%) Apache
4 10 (1.14%) 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
1 399 (45.39%) AWS
2 181 (20.59%) Azure
3 161 (18.32%) GCP
4 149 (16.95%) Serverless
5 81 (9.22%) Amazon S3
6 76 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
7 74 (8.42%) GitHub
8 61 (6.94%) Amazon SQS
9 59 (6.71%) Amazon EC2
9 59 (6.71%) SaaS
10 53 (6.03%) GitHub Actions
11 49 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (5.57%) AWS CloudFormation
12 43 (4.89%) Snowflake
13 42 (4.78%) dbt
14 38 (4.32%) OpenShift
15 37 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
16 24 (2.73%) Slack
17 23 (2.62%) Google Docs
17 23 (2.62%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 68 (7.74%) Kerberos
2 21 (2.39%) Internet
3 9 (1.02%) 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%) 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 (16.84%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (10.58%) Relational Database
3 89 (10.13%) Big Data
4 67 (7.62%) Redis
5 65 (7.39%) Metadata
6 55 (6.26%) Amazon RDS
6 55 (6.26%) MySQL
7 52 (5.92%) Data Lake
8 49 (5.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 46 (5.23%) Amazon Athena
10 42 (4.78%) Apache Arrow
10 42 (4.78%) Dremio
11 41 (4.66%) RDBMS
12 40 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
13 36 (4.10%) Oracle Database
14 32 (3.64%) Hadoop
15 25 (2.84%) MongoDB
16 24 (2.73%) DynamoDB
17 23 (2.62%) Scylla
18 21 (2.39%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 224 (25.48%) Git
2 147 (16.72%) Jenkins
3 101 (11.49%) Artifactory
4 84 (9.56%) Bitbucket
5 36 (4.10%) JDeveloper
6 26 (2.96%) GitLab
7 22 (2.50%) JIRA
8 9 (1.02%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
10 7 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.68%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.57%) Maven
12 5 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.57%) Selenium
13 4 (0.46%) Appium
13 4 (0.46%) Jasmine
13 4 (0.46%) JUnit
14 2 (0.23%) Bower
14 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 321 (36.52%) Finance
2 175 (19.91%) Social Skills
3 145 (16.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 116 (13.20%) Law
5 109 (12.40%) Marketing
6 39 (4.44%) Retail
7 37 (4.21%) Banking
8 32 (3.64%) Front Office
9 28 (3.19%) Public Sector
10 27 (3.07%) Legal
11 23 (2.62%) Publishing
12 22 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
12 22 (2.50%) Telecoms
13 20 (2.28%) Games
14 10 (1.14%) 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
1 294 (33.45%) Software Engineer
2 207 (23.55%) Developer
3 205 (23.32%) Senior
4 145 (16.50%) Lead
5 110 (12.51%) DevOps Engineer
6 95 (10.81%) Lead Software Engineer
7 92 (10.47%) AWS Engineer
8 87 (9.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 83 (9.44%) Senior Software Engineer
10 70 (7.96%) Cloud Engineer
11 57 (6.48%) Senior Developer
12 53 (6.03%) Site Engineer
13 43 (4.89%) Full Stack Developer
14 42 (4.78%) AWS DevOps
14 42 (4.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 42 (4.78%) Big Data Engineer
14 42 (4.78%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 38 (4.32%) Software Developer
16 37 (4.21%) Ruby Engineer
17 32 (3.64%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (16.95%) Node.js
2 131 (14.90%) Web Services
3 128 (14.56%) Kafka
4 117 (13.31%) gRPC
4 117 (13.31%) React
5 103 (11.72%) RESTful
6 86 (9.78%) JSON
7 82 (9.33%) OpenID
8 77 (8.76%) REST
9 74 (8.42%) XML
10 73 (8.30%) GraphQL
11 68 (7.74%) LDAP
12 65 (7.39%) JSON-LD
12 65 (7.39%) SAML
13 53 (6.03%) RabbitMQ
14 49 (5.57%) CSS
14 49 (5.57%) HTML
15 45 (5.12%) Protocol Buffers
16 35 (3.98%) .NET
17 32 (3.64%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 86 (9.78%) Distributed Systems
2 82 (9.33%) Algorithms
3 74 (8.42%) Cloud Native
4 68 (7.74%) Enterprise Cloud
5 67 (7.62%) Management Information System
6 65 (7.39%) Reference Data
7 50 (5.69%) Data Structures
8 46 (5.23%) Hedge funds
9 43 (4.89%) Clustering
10 41 (4.66%) Greenfield Project
11 36 (4.10%) Blockchain
11 36 (4.10%) Legacy Code
12 32 (3.64%) Tandem
13 25 (2.84%) Onboarding
13 25 (2.84%) Public Cloud
14 17 (1.93%) Virtual Team
15 16 (1.82%) Blog
16 15 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
17 13 (1.48%) Product Ownership
18 12 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 135 (15.36%) Linux
2 27 (3.07%) Windows
3 13 (1.48%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.25%) Android
5 8 (0.91%) Unix
6 7 (0.80%) VMS
7 5 (0.57%) 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
1 444 (50.51%) Software Engineering
2 338 (38.45%) Agile
3 327 (37.20%) CI/CD
4 318 (36.18%) DevOps
5 160 (18.20%) Microservices
6 139 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
7 137 (15.59%) Test Automation
8 135 (15.36%) Continuous Integration
8 135 (15.36%) SDLC
9 133 (15.13%) Roadmaps
10 131 (14.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 125 (14.22%) TDD
12 121 (13.77%) Open Source
13 106 (12.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 100 (11.38%) Continuous Delivery
15 98 (11.15%) Containerisation
16 93 (10.58%) Operational Stability
17 91 (10.35%) Full Stack Development
18 87 (9.90%) Community of Practice
19 82 (9.33%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 449 (51.08%) Python
2 370 (42.09%) Java
3 227 (25.82%) JavaScript
4 109 (12.40%) Bash
5 107 (12.17%) TypeScript
6 100 (11.38%) C#
7 93 (10.58%) Ruby
8 80 (9.10%) Rust
9 77 (8.76%) C++
10 73 (8.30%) SQL
11 65 (7.39%) Prolog
11 65 (7.39%) SPARQL
12 64 (7.28%) C
13 49 (5.57%) Scala
14 44 (5.01%) Kotlin
15 43 (4.89%) PHP
16 40 (4.55%) PowerShell
17 39 (4.44%) Perl
18 10 (1.14%) Groovy
19 9 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 80 (9.10%) Degree
2 47 (5.35%) Security Cleared
3 39 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (4.21%) SC Cleared
5 24 (2.73%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.82%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.80%) PhD
10 5 (0.57%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.57%) OSCP
11 4 (0.46%) 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 (5.92%) QA
2 19 (2.16%) 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
1 257 (29.24%) Docker
2 69 (7.85%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.80%) Ceph
5 4 (0.46%) 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
1 361 (41.07%) Kubernetes
2 231 (26.28%) Terraform
3 78 (8.87%) Ansible
4 74 (8.42%) Prometheus
5 30 (3.41%) Grafana
5 30 (3.41%) Progress Chef
6 29 (3.30%) Puppet
7 13 (1.48%) Kibana
8 7 (0.80%) Argo
9 6 (0.68%) Salt
10 5 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.57%) Rancher
11 4 (0.46%) Knative
11 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
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 73 (8.30%) Google
2 53 (6.03%) Oracle
3 36 (4.10%) Microsoft
4 24 (2.73%) Dell
5 10 (1.14%) Apple
5 10 (1.14%) Splunk
6 9 (1.02%) New Relic
7 8 (0.91%) Atlassian
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