Contract Programming Language Statistics in Bristol

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 21 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
C++	9	Up 25 places+25	£500	-4.76%	98 8.23%	37
Ada	13	Up 6 places+6	£500	-	86 7.22%	10
Python	25	Down -5 places-5	£500	+11.85%	65 5.46%	75
SQL	26	Down -14 places-14	£450	+12.50%	64 5.37%	53
Java	27	Up 15 places+15	£380	-33.91%	63 5.29%	31
C	36	Up 12 places+12	£475	-5.00%	47 3.95%	27
MATLAB	46	Up 11 places+11	£500	-	35 2.94%	11
C#	55	Down -14 places-14	£575	+53.33%	25 2.10%	28
Kotlin	60	Down -9 places-9	£375	-9.09%	20 1.68%
JavaScript	64	Down -36 places-36	£488	+31.75%	16 1.34%	29
PowerShell	65	Down -18 places-18	£500	-12.28%	15 1.26%	9
Go	72	New entry-	£538	-	8 0.67%	10
Swift	72	Down -19 places-19	£525	-7.69%	8 0.67%
Bash	72	Down -27 places-27	£500	-	8 0.67%	10
TypeScript	73	Down -21 places-21	£388	-26.19%	7 0.59%	16
Data Analysis Expressions	75	Down -21 places-21	£540	+23.31%	5 0.42%
SystemVerilog	76	New entry-	-	-	4 0.34%	5
T-SQL	77	New entry-	£425	-	3 0.25%
Embedded C	77	New entry-	£475	-	3 0.25%	5
R	77	Down -27 places-27	£200	-57.89%	3 0.25%	6
Scala	78	New entry-	£508	-	2 0.17%
Ruby	78	Down -22 places-22	£693	+15.41%	2 0.17%
Groovy	79	New entry-	-	-	1 0.084%
Bicep	79	Down -23 places-23	£600	+33.33%	1 0.084%	7
PHP	79	Down -25 places-25	£350	-1.26%	1 0.084%	7
PL/SQL	79	Down -27 places-27	£475	+18.75%	1 0.084%
VBScript	79	New entry-	-	-	1 0.084%
Shell Script	79	Down -32 places-32	£525	-3.22%	1 0.084%
Objective-C	79	Down -26 places-26	£625	+9.89%	1 0.084%