GO is always listed as popular, but if I search my entire country for GO jobs there isn’t a single one. Well, there is one single listing, but that’s for a C/C++ job at Google, and it’s listed under “Nice to know” along with Rust and a few others.
Norwegian here. Searched for "Golang", which yielded a whooping 4 results. "Go" gave me 8, but of those only two were the main language, the rest lumped it in the nice to know category.
In the UK Go jobs are so prevalent it's insane. But then again we have a lot of fintech, AI and blockchain startups that are knocking about so that could be a contributing factor.
Most companies will hire targeting the language that the vast majority of the company is using: often Java or JavaScript depending on the role.
They will also have often have projects in "support languages" for internal tools and services. Often in python atleast, and more and more in Go. Those are often unlisted.
Edit: Just noticed you said in your country. I suspect this is true broadly but what do I know?
It's a trendy language. It will increase in popularity (e.g. developers want to learn it because it's new) until it eventually wanes. Remember when everybody wanted to write Ruby?
People really need to break down salary analysis by region.
If a skill commands a higher salary, does that mean I can actually get paid for it more in Houston, or does it mean that it's only used in tech hubs which pay way more to keep up with cost of living?
Well not Python, that’s Dutch. Danes did have a hand in Ruby, PHP and a few others, but it doesn’t really show around here. The most listed language is JAVA.
The inventor of PHP is Danish, and Anders Hejlsberg is also Danish, so we had a hand in C# and TypeScript as well. However, this doesn't mean there is a nationally endorsed programming language.
Are we behind the curve?