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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 171 111
Rank change year-on-year -154 -60 +45
Permanent jobs citing Go 887 2,196 5,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 2.21% 3.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.67% 5.09% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 614 1,047 2,377
10th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £50,600
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 £101,076 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £136,250 £106,250
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 33,238 43,130 87,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.26% 43.34% 53.96%
Number of salaries quoted 24,895 27,636 43,338
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £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 £107,500 £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 19 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 19 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 -167 674 £80,000 - 290
UK excluding London -180 470 £60,000 -20.00% 145
Work from Home -162 406 £75,000 -7.41% 174
London -81 335 £100,000 +11.11% 185
Scotland -39 134 £57,500 -20.39% 5
South East -35 124 £55,000 -24.14% 63
North of England -154 86 £65,000 -18.37% 31
North West -90 70 £65,000 -19.82% 26
Midlands -60 48 £77,000 +10.00% 10
South West -99 47 £70,576 -2.65% 20
West Midlands -3 40 £77,500 +10.71% 9
East of England -92 21 £85,000 +6.25% 13
Yorkshire -66 12 £65,000 -13.33% 5
East Midlands -57 8 £55,000 -45.00% 1
Northern Ireland -16 5 £70,000 -3.45% 1
Wales -23 5 £62,500 +19.05% 3
North East -41 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 52 (5.86%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (5.52%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.80%) Apache
4 10 (1.13%) Confluence
5 7 (0.79%) 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%) Apache Solr
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
1 400 (45.10%) AWS
2 183 (20.63%) Azure
3 163 (18.38%) GCP
4 147 (16.57%) Serverless
5 79 (8.91%) Amazon S3
6 74 (8.34%) AWS Lambda
6 74 (8.34%) GitHub
7 59 (6.65%) Amazon SQS
8 58 (6.54%) SaaS
9 56 (6.31%) Amazon EC2
10 52 (5.86%) GitHub Actions
11 49 (5.52%) dbt
11 49 (5.52%) Snowflake
12 47 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
13 46 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 37 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
15 36 (4.06%) OpenShift
16 24 (2.71%) Slack
17 23 (2.59%) Google Docs
17 23 (2.59%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 68 (7.67%) Kerberos
2 21 (2.37%) Internet
3 9 (1.01%) Network Security
4 7 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.56%) AMQP
5 5 (0.56%) 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
1 147 (16.57%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (10.82%) Relational Database
3 95 (10.71%) Big Data
4 67 (7.55%) Redis
5 65 (7.33%) Metadata
6 58 (6.54%) Data Lake
7 57 (6.43%) MySQL
8 52 (5.86%) Amazon Athena
8 52 (5.86%) Amazon RDS
9 48 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 48 (5.41%) Apache Arrow
9 48 (5.41%) Dremio
10 41 (4.62%) RDBMS
11 40 (4.51%) Elasticsearch
12 36 (4.06%) Oracle Database
13 31 (3.49%) Hadoop
14 26 (2.93%) MongoDB
15 24 (2.71%) DynamoDB
16 23 (2.59%) Scylla
17 22 (2.48%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 226 (25.48%) Git
2 143 (16.12%) Jenkins
3 98 (11.05%) Artifactory
4 84 (9.47%) Bitbucket
5 36 (4.06%) JDeveloper
6 25 (2.82%) GitLab
7 22 (2.48%) JIRA
8 9 (1.01%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.68%) Selenium
10 6 (0.68%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.56%) Maven
11 5 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.45%) Appium
12 4 (0.45%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.34%) JUnit
14 2 (0.23%) Bower
14 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 329 (37.09%) Finance
2 178 (20.07%) Social Skills
3 147 (16.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 117 (13.19%) Law
5 109 (12.29%) Marketing
6 39 (4.40%) Retail
7 37 (4.17%) Banking
8 31 (3.49%) Legal
9 30 (3.38%) Front Office
10 29 (3.27%) Public Sector
11 23 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
11 23 (2.59%) Publishing
12 22 (2.48%) Telecoms
13 20 (2.25%) Games
14 11 (1.24%) French Language
15 8 (0.90%) Electronics
15 8 (0.90%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.56%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 298 (33.60%) Software Engineer
2 212 (23.90%) Developer
3 206 (23.22%) Senior
4 145 (16.35%) Lead
5 104 (11.72%) DevOps Engineer
6 96 (10.82%) AWS Engineer
6 96 (10.82%) Lead Software Engineer
7 91 (10.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 84 (9.47%) Senior Software Engineer
9 69 (7.78%) Cloud Engineer
10 60 (6.76%) Senior Developer
11 59 (6.65%) Site Engineer
12 48 (5.41%) Big Data Engineer
13 45 (5.07%) Full Stack Developer
14 40 (4.51%) AWS DevOps
14 40 (4.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 40 (4.51%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 39 (4.40%) Software Developer
16 37 (4.17%) Ruby Engineer
17 32 (3.61%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (17.02%) Node.js
2 132 (14.88%) Web Services
3 126 (14.21%) Kafka
4 123 (13.87%) gRPC
5 115 (12.97%) React
6 104 (11.72%) RESTful
7 86 (9.70%) JSON
8 83 (9.36%) OpenID
9 77 (8.68%) REST
10 74 (8.34%) XML
11 73 (8.23%) GraphQL
12 68 (7.67%) LDAP
13 65 (7.33%) JSON-LD
13 65 (7.33%) SAML
14 53 (5.98%) RabbitMQ
15 52 (5.86%) CSS
15 52 (5.86%) HTML
16 51 (5.75%) Protocol Buffers
17 37 (4.17%) .NET
18 30 (3.38%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 86 (9.70%) Distributed Systems
2 83 (9.36%) Algorithms
3 73 (8.23%) Cloud Native
4 68 (7.67%) Enterprise Cloud
5 67 (7.55%) Management Information System
6 65 (7.33%) Reference Data
7 52 (5.86%) Hedge funds
8 51 (5.75%) Data Structures
9 49 (5.52%) Clustering
10 42 (4.74%) Greenfield Project
11 35 (3.95%) Blockchain
12 34 (3.83%) Legacy Code
13 30 (3.38%) Tandem
14 28 (3.16%) Onboarding
15 25 (2.82%) Public Cloud
16 18 (2.03%) Virtual Team
17 16 (1.80%) Blog
18 15 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
18 15 (1.69%) Product Ownership
19 12 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 129 (14.54%) Linux
2 27 (3.04%) Windows
3 14 (1.58%) Apple iOS
4 13 (1.47%) Android
5 7 (0.79%) Unix
5 7 (0.79%) VMS
6 4 (0.45%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.34%) SUSE
7 3 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.23%) CentOS
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.11%) Debian
9 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (50.28%) Software Engineering
2 339 (38.22%) Agile
3 327 (36.87%) CI/CD
4 319 (35.96%) DevOps
5 159 (17.93%) Microservices
6 142 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
7 137 (15.45%) Continuous Integration
7 137 (15.45%) Test Automation
8 136 (15.33%) SDLC
9 134 (15.11%) Roadmaps
10 131 (14.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 130 (14.66%) TDD
12 121 (13.64%) Open Source
13 110 (12.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 102 (11.50%) Continuous Delivery
15 96 (10.82%) Containerisation
16 94 (10.60%) Operational Stability
17 92 (10.37%) Full Stack Development
18 88 (9.92%) Community of Practice
19 83 (9.36%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 453 (51.07%) Python
2 376 (42.39%) Java
3 235 (26.49%) JavaScript
4 107 (12.06%) Bash
5 104 (11.72%) TypeScript
6 102 (11.50%) C#
7 95 (10.71%) Ruby
8 84 (9.47%) Rust
9 80 (9.02%) C++
10 77 (8.68%) SQL
11 65 (7.33%) C
11 65 (7.33%) Prolog
11 65 (7.33%) SPARQL
12 48 (5.41%) Scala
13 46 (5.19%) PHP
14 44 (4.96%) Kotlin
15 41 (4.62%) PowerShell
16 39 (4.40%) Perl
17 10 (1.13%) Groovy
18 9 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (9.36%) Degree
2 49 (5.52%) Security Cleared
3 39 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 25 (2.82%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.92%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.01%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.79%) PhD
10 5 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.56%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.56%) OSCP
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 (5.98%) QA
2 21 (2.37%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.24%) 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
1 256 (28.86%) Docker
2 69 (7.78%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.90%) 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%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 364 (41.04%) Kubernetes
2 234 (26.38%) Terraform
3 79 (8.91%) Prometheus
4 75 (8.46%) Ansible
5 29 (3.27%) Grafana
6 28 (3.16%) Progress Chef
7 26 (2.93%) Puppet
8 13 (1.47%) Kibana
9 7 (0.79%) Argo
10 5 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.56%) Knative
10 5 (0.56%) Salt
10 5 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.45%) Rancher
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 76 (8.57%) Google
2 53 (5.98%) Oracle
3 37 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 23 (2.59%) Dell
5 10 (1.13%) Apple
5 10 (1.13%) Splunk
6 9 (1.01%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.01%) New Relic
7 8 (0.90%) SaltStack
7 8 (0.90%) SAP
7 8 (0.90%) Teradata
7 8 (0.90%) VMware
8 6 (0.68%) PagerDuty
9 5 (0.56%) 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