How many are on GitHub, and how many look experienced.
Go is mostly used by backend, cloud-native and Kubernetes tooling teams. Below: how many Go developers on GitHub list United Kingdom as their location, and how many of them look experienced. Counts as of October 2026.
Scarce: only 93 Go developers here have 50+ followers. Expect a long search and heavy competition for every one of them.
United Kingdom ranks 2nd of 6 countries we track for Go by developers with 50+ followers. Worldwide, 6,099 Go developers pass that bar.
As a rule of thumb, to book 5 interviews at a 10% reply rate where 40% of replies turn into interviews, you contact about 125 people. That is more people than exist in the 50+ follower pool (93), so outreach inside this one country cannot fill the role on its own. You would need to widen the location or the stack.
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| Country | Listing the country | 10+ repos | 50+ followers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1,923 | 794 | 174 |
| United Kingdom | 965 | 411 | 93 |
| Poland | 484 | 175 | 30 |
| Netherlands | 571 | 245 | 55 |
| Brazil | 702 | 282 | 58 |
| Canada | 971 | 423 | 92 |
| Stack | Listing the country | 10+ repos | 50+ followers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rust | 266 | 94 | 20 |
| Go | 965 | 411 | 93 |
| Elixir | 40 | 27 | 9 |
| Kotlin | 241 | 69 | 12 |
| Scala | 312 | 199 | 37 |
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Followers and repository counts are crude proxies for experience. No names or profiles are shown on this page, only counts.
At least 965 GitHub users who list UK as their location own repositories written in Go (October 2026). It is a lower bound, because many developers leave location blank or write a city instead.
93 have 50 or more followers and 411 have 10 or more public repositories. Followers and repo counts are rough proxies for experience, not a quality score.
Scarce: only 93 Go developers here have 50+ followers. Expect a long search and heavy competition for every one of them.