Contract Programming Language Statistics in Cambridgeshire

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 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	-	41 10.65%	324
SQL	28	Down 4 places-4	£513	+1.99%	13 3.38%	43
C#	29	Up 9 places+9	£518	+59.23%	12 3.12%	83
C++	30	Down 2 places-2	£425	+6.25%	11 2.86%	206
PowerShell	32	Up 1 place+1	£425	-30.61%	9 2.34%	19
C	33	Down 3 places-3	-	-	8 2.08%	171
Bash	33	Up 5 places+5	£513	-7.86%	8 2.08%	30
Java	36	Down 13 places-13	-	-	5 1.30%	36
R	37	Up 8 places+8	£413	-	4 1.04%	8
XAML	37	New entry-	-	-	4 1.04%	1
Groovy	38	New entry-	£513	-	3 0.78%	1
Clojure	38	New entry-	-	-	3 0.78%
MATLAB	38	Up 4 places+4	£513	+25.76%	3 0.78%	43
Apex Code	39	Up 6 places+6	£650	-	2 0.52%	1
JavaScript	39	No change0	£510	+68.59%	2 0.52%	35
VBA	39	New entry-	-	-	2 0.52%
Embedded C	39	New entry-	-	-	2 0.52%	27
Embedded C++	39	New entry-	-	-	2 0.52%	11
X++	39	New entry-	£510	-	2 0.52%
Perl	40	No change0	-	-	1 0.26%	12
T-SQL	40	Up 5 places+5	£425	-	1 0.26%	2
Rust	40	New entry-	-	-	1 0.26%	51