Contract Programming Language Statistics in Bristol

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 19 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%	96 8.07%	34
Ada	12	Up 8 places+8	£500	-	86 7.23%	10
Python	22	Down -3 places-3	£500	+11.85%	66 5.55%	65
SQL	23	Down -11 places-11	£450	+12.50%	63 5.30%	45
Java	24	Up 16 places+16	£380	-33.91%	60 5.05%	22
C	31	Up 17 places+17	£475	-5.00%	47 3.95%	27
MATLAB	41	Up 14 places+14	£500	-	35 2.94%	12
C#	52	Down -13 places-13	£575	+53.33%	23 1.93%	29
Kotlin	55	Down -6 places-6	£375	-9.09%	20 1.68%
JavaScript	59	Down -31 places-31	£488	+31.75%	16 1.35%	26
PowerShell	59	Down -14 places-14	£500	-12.28%	16 1.35%	9
Swift	67	Down -16 places-16	£525	-7.69%	8 0.67%
Bash	67	Down -24 places-24	£500	-	8 0.67%	9
Go	67	New entry-	£538	-	8 0.67%	4
TypeScript	68	Down -18 places-18	£388	-26.19%	7 0.59%	14
Data Analysis Expressions	70	Down -18 places-18	£540	+23.31%	5 0.42%
SystemVerilog	71	New entry-	-	-	4 0.34%	5
T-SQL	72	New entry-	£425	-	3 0.25%
Embedded C	72	New entry-	£475	-	3 0.25%	5
R	72	Down -24 places-24	£200	-57.89%	3 0.25%	5
Scala	73	New entry-	£508	-	2 0.17%
Ruby	73	Down -19 places-19	£693	+15.41%	2 0.17%
PHP	74	Down -22 places-22	£350	-1.26%	1 0.084%	7
PL/SQL	74	Down -24 places-24	£475	+18.75%	1 0.084%
VBScript	74	New entry-	-	-	1 0.084%
Shell Script	74	Down -27 places-27	£525	-3.22%	1 0.084%
Objective-C	74	Down -23 places-23	£625	+9.89%	1 0.084%
Groovy	74	New entry-	-	-	1 0.084%
Bicep	74	Down -20 places-20	£600	+33.33%	1 0.084%	6