Contract Programming Language Statistics in Central London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 1 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	9	No change0	£550	-	340 14.84%	84
Python	13	Down 5 places-5	£550	-8.33%	313 13.66%	135
Java	46	Down 18 places-18	£575	-5.73%	119 5.19%	37
C#	56	Down 9 places-9	£575	+4.54%	102 4.45%	33
PowerShell	64	Up 3 places+3	£575	+9.52%	90 3.93%	20
JavaScript	65	Down 28 places-28	£534	+2.59%	87 3.80%	22
TypeScript	76	Up 7 places+7	£550	-4.34%	74 3.23%	21
Korn	115	Up 7 places+7	£525	-4.54%	31 1.35%
Data Analysis Expressions	119	Up 1 place+1	£475	+7.04%	27 1.18%	2
Kotlin	127	Down 2 places-2	£550	-20.57%	19 0.83%	3
PL/SQL	127	Down 7 places-7	£610	+28.42%	19 0.83%	5
Bash	129	Down 24 places-24	£550	+2.08%	17 0.74%	15
T-SQL	133	Down 6 places-6	£550	+60.58%	13 0.57%	5
Bicep	133	Down 9 places-9	£538	-27.36%	13 0.57%	5
Scala	135	Down 15 places-15	£513	+2.50%	11 0.48%	5
Shell Script	136	Down 17 places-17	£710	+77.50%	10 0.44%	2
C++	138	Down 42 places-42	£678	+12.91%	8 0.35%	16
R	138	Down 18 places-18	£455	-17.27%	8 0.35%	4
Kusto Query Language	140	Down 12 places-12	£556	-23.80%	6 0.26%	1
LookML	140	Down 11 places-11	£600	+54.83%	6 0.26%
Apex Code	140	Down 24 places-24	£475	-8.74%	6 0.26%	4
Perl	141	Down 17 places-17	£325	-46.93%	5 0.22%
Go	141	Down 28 places-28	£525	-16.00%	5 0.22%	5
Swift	141	Down 16 places-16	£525	-8.69%	5 0.22%	1
C	143	Down 17 places-17	£400	-36.00%	3 0.13%	2
Ruby	143	Down 16 places-16	£463	+15.62%	3 0.13%	1
SOQL	143	Down 15 places-15	£498	-7.44%	3 0.13%
PHP	144	Down 21 places-21	-	-	2 0.087%	2
RPG	144	Down 17 places-17	£513	-14.58%	2 0.087%	1
VB.NET	144	Down 17 places-17	£600	-12.24%	2 0.087%
VBA	144	Down 28 places-28	£725	+11.96%	2 0.087%	3
Cypher	144	New entry-	£848	-	2 0.087%
JCL	144	New entry-	-	-	2 0.087%
ProC	144	New entry-	-	-	2 0.087%
CQL	144	New entry-	£709	-	2 0.087%
XMLA	144	New entry-	£386	-	2 0.087%
ActionScript 2.0	145	New entry-	£625	-	1 0.044%
CodeQL	145	Down 16 places-16	-	-	1 0.044%
BeanShell	145	Down 16 places-16	-	-	1 0.044%
COBOL	145	Down 18 places-18	£475	-34.48%	1 0.044%
ActionScript	145	New entry-	£625	-	1 0.044%	1
REXX	145	Down 16 places-16	-	-	1 0.044%
Solidity	145	Down 16 places-16	£525	+13.51%	1 0.044%
Gremlin	145	New entry-	£786	-	1 0.044%
Google Apps Script	145	New entry-	£550	-	1 0.044%
Groovy	145	Down 21 places-21	£600	+63.26%	1 0.044%	1
SOSL	145	Down 16 places-16	£630	+48.23%	1 0.044%
DAML	145	New entry-	£525	-	1 0.044%
Clipper	145	New entry-	£538	-	1 0.044%
Search Processing Language	145	New entry-	£450	-	1 0.044%