Contract Programming Language Statistics in Central London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 25 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	10	Down 2 places-2	£550	-	332 14.24%	326
Python	13	Down 4 places-4	£550	-8.33%	314 13.47%	476
Java	49	Down 22 places-22	£575	-6.12%	119 5.11%	157
C#	56	Down 12 places-12	£588	+2.17%	105 4.50%	101
JavaScript	67	Down 31 places-31	£544	+4.46%	90 3.86%	89
PowerShell	67	Up 2 places+2	£575	+6.48%	90 3.86%	61
TypeScript	81	Up 2 places+2	£550	-4.34%	75 3.22%	119
Korn	122	Down 2 places-2	£525	-4.54%	31 1.33%	8
Data Analysis Expressions	125	Down 7 places-7	£475	+7.04%	28 1.20%	7
PL/SQL	134	Down 16 places-16	£610	+28.42%	19 0.82%	7
Bash	135	Down 32 places-32	£550	+2.08%	18 0.77%	41
Kotlin	136	Down 13 places-13	£550	-20.57%	17 0.73%	16
T-SQL	140	Down 15 places-15	£550	+60.58%	13 0.56%	13
Bicep	140	Down 18 places-18	£538	-27.36%	13 0.56%	13
Shell Script	143	Down 25 places-25	£710	+85.01%	10 0.43%	14
Scala	143	Down 26 places-26	£550	+10.00%	10 0.43%	22
C++	144	Down 48 places-48	£600	-	9 0.39%	60
R	145	Down 29 places-29	£455	-17.27%	8 0.34%	29
LookML	147	Down 20 places-20	£600	+54.83%	6 0.26%	1
Apex Code	147	Down 32 places-32	£475	-9.13%	6 0.26%	9
Kusto Query Language	148	Down 22 places-22	£563	-22.94%	5 0.21%	6
Swift	148	Down 25 places-25	£525	-8.69%	5 0.21%	5
Go	148	Down 37 places-37	£525	-16.00%	5 0.21%	26
Perl	149	Down 27 places-27	£325	-46.93%	4 0.17%	4
Ruby	150	Down 25 places-25	£463	+15.62%	3 0.13%	12
C	150	Down 26 places-26	£400	-36.00%	3 0.13%	17
SOQL	150	Down 24 places-24	£498	-7.44%	3 0.13%	2
XMLA	151	New entry-	£386	-	2 0.086%
PHP	151	Down 29 places-29	-	-	2 0.086%	24
RPG	151	Down 26 places-26	£513	-14.58%	2 0.086%	4
VB.NET	151	Down 26 places-26	£600	-12.24%	2 0.086%
VBA	151	Down 37 places-37	£725	+11.96%	2 0.086%	7
Cypher	151	New entry-	£848	-	2 0.086%	3
CQL	151	New entry-	£709	-	2 0.086%
JCL	151	New entry-	-	-	2 0.086%	1
ProC	151	New entry-	-	-	2 0.086%
Rust	152	Down 27 places-27	£525	-4.54%	1 0.043%	16
ActionScript 2.0	152	New entry-	£625	-	1 0.043%
CodeQL	152	Down 25 places-25	-	-	1 0.043%	1
PromQL	152	Down 27 places-27	£400	-	1 0.043%
BeanShell	152	Down 25 places-25	-	-	1 0.043%	1
COBOL	152	Down 27 places-27	£475	-34.48%	1 0.043%
ActionScript	152	New entry-	£625	-	1 0.043%	1
Clipper	152	New entry-	£538	-	1 0.043%
REXX	152	Down 25 places-25	-	-	1 0.043%
Google Apps Script	152	New entry-	£550	-	1 0.043%	3
Solidity	152	Down 25 places-25	£525	+13.51%	1 0.043%
Groovy	152	Down 30 places-30	£600	+63.26%	1 0.043%	2
Gremlin	152	New entry-	£786	-	1 0.043%	1
DAML	152	New entry-	£525	-	1 0.043%