Contract Programming Language Statistics in Bristol

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
C++	9	Up 23 places+23	£500	-4.76%	96 8.09%	34
Ada	13	Up 5 places+5	£500	-	85 7.17%	10
Python	22	Down -5 places-5	£500	+11.85%	66 5.56%	69
SQL	24	Down -11 places-11	£450	+12.50%	62 5.23%	45
Java	25	Up 13 places+13	£380	-33.91%	60 5.06%	23
C	32	Up 14 places+14	£475	-5.00%	47 3.96%	25
MATLAB	41	Up 12 places+12	£500	-	35 2.95%	12
C#	52	Down -15 places-15	£575	+53.33%	23 1.94%	31
Kotlin	55	Down -8 places-8	£375	-9.09%	20 1.69%
PowerShell	59	Down -16 places-16	£500	-12.28%	16 1.35%	10
JavaScript	59	Down -34 places-34	£488	+31.75%	16 1.35%	27
Bash	67	Down -26 places-26	£500	-	8 0.67%	9
Go	67	New entry-	£538	-	8 0.67%	4
Swift	67	Down -18 places-18	£525	-7.69%	8 0.67%
TypeScript	68	Down -20 places-20	£388	-26.19%	7 0.59%	14
Data Analysis Expressions	70	Down -19 places-19	£540	+56.94%	5 0.42%
SystemVerilog	71	New entry-	-	-	4 0.34%	5
Embedded C	72	New entry-	£475	-	3 0.25%	3
R	72	Down -26 places-26	£200	-57.89%	3 0.25%	5
T-SQL	72	New entry-	£425	-	3 0.25%
Ruby	73	Down -21 places-21	£693	+15.41%	2 0.17%
Scala	73	New entry-	£508	-	2 0.17%
Shell Script	74	Down -29 places-29	£525	-3.22%	1 0.084%
Objective-C	74	Down -25 places-25	£625	+9.89%	1 0.084%
Groovy	74	New entry-	-	-	1 0.084%
Bicep	74	Down -22 places-22	£600	+33.33%	1 0.084%	5
PHP	74	Down -25 places-25	£350	-1.40%	1 0.084%	7
PL/SQL	74	Down -25 places-25	£475	+18.75%	1 0.084%
VBScript	74	New entry-	-	-	1 0.084%