Contract Programming Language Statistics in Cambridgeshire

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 20 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	6	Down 3 places-3	£475	-	42 10.85%	313
SQL	27	Down 8 places-8	£513	+1.99%	13 3.36%	43
C#	27	Up 7 places+7	£518	+59.23%	13 3.36%	91
C++	28	Down 4 places-4	£425	+6.25%	12 3.10%	208
PowerShell	31	Down 1 place-1	£425	-30.61%	9 2.33%	17
C	31	Down 5 places-5	-	-	9 2.33%	164
Bash	32	Up 2 places+2	£513	-7.86%	8 2.07%	29
Java	35	Down 16 places-16	-	-	5 1.29%	37
MATLAB	36	Up 2 places+2	£513	+25.76%	4 1.03%	42
XAML	36	New entry-	-	-	4 1.03%	1
R	36	Up 5 places+5	£413	-	4 1.03%	7
Clojure	37	New entry-	-	-	3 0.78%
Groovy	37	New entry-	£513	-	3 0.78%	1
VBA	38	New entry-	-	-	2 0.52%
Embedded C	38	New entry-	-	-	2 0.52%	25
Embedded C++	38	New entry-	-	-	2 0.52%	11
Apex Code	38	Up 3 places+3	£650	-	2 0.52%	1
X++	38	New entry-	£510	-	2 0.52%
JavaScript	38	Down 3 places-3	£510	+68.59%	2 0.52%	33
T-SQL	39	Up 2 places+2	£425	-	1 0.26%	4
Rust	39	New entry-	-	-	1 0.26%	49
Perl	39	Down 3 places-3	-	-	1 0.26%	11