Contract Programming Language Statistics in Bristol

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 16 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%	95 8.00%	31
Ada	14	Up 3 places+3	£500	-	84 7.07%	10
Python	25	Down -9 places-9	£500	+11.85%	66 5.56%	70
SQL	27	Down -15 places-15	£460	+15.00%	64 5.39%	45
Java	30	Up 8 places+8	£380	-33.91%	60 5.05%	19
C	36	Up 10 places+10	£475	-5.00%	46 3.87%	24
MATLAB	43	Up 10 places+10	£500	-	36 3.03%	11
C#	56	Down -19 places-19	£575	+53.33%	22 1.85%	36
Kotlin	58	Down -11 places-11	£375	-9.09%	20 1.68%
JavaScript	61	Down -36 places-36	£488	+31.75%	17 1.43%	26
PowerShell	64	Down -21 places-21	£500	-12.28%	14 1.18%	12
TypeScript	69	Down -21 places-21	£425	-19.04%	9 0.76%	18
Swift	70	Down -21 places-21	£525	-7.69%	8 0.67%
Go	70	New entry-	£538	-	8 0.67%	5
Bash	71	Down -30 places-30	£500	-	7 0.59%	8
Data Analysis Expressions	73	Down -22 places-22	£540	+56.94%	5 0.42%
SystemVerilog	74	New entry-	-	-	4 0.34%	6
T-SQL	75	New entry-	£425	-	3 0.25%	1
Embedded C	75	New entry-	£475	-	3 0.25%	3
R	75	Down -29 places-29	£200	-57.89%	3 0.25%	5
Scala	76	New entry-	£508	-	2 0.17%
Ruby	76	Down -24 places-24	£693	+15.41%	2 0.17%
Bicep	77	Down -25 places-25	£600	+33.33%	1 0.084%	5
PHP	77	Down -28 places-28	£350	-1.40%	1 0.084%	7
PL/SQL	77	Down -28 places-28	£475	+18.75%	1 0.084%
VBScript	77	New entry-	-	-	1 0.084%
Embedded C++	77	New entry-	-	-	1 0.084%	4
Shell Script	77	Down -32 places-32	£525	-3.22%	1 0.084%
Objective-C	77	Down -28 places-28	£625	+9.89%	1 0.084%