Contract Programming Language Statistics in Central London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 15 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 15.21%	330
Python	12	Down 4 places-4	£575	-4.16%	322 14.40%	491
Java	48	Down 22 places-22	£575	-8.00%	122 5.46%	135
C#	65	Down 20 places-20	£572	+4.00%	98 4.38%	81
PowerShell	69	Up 1 place+1	£581	+10.71%	94 4.20%	85
JavaScript	76	Down 35 places-35	£530	+2.61%	86 3.85%	79
TypeScript	81	Up 7 places+7	£535	-2.72%	78 3.49%	122
Korn	127	No change0	£550	-	30 1.34%	3
Data Analysis Expressions	131	Down 6 places-6	£475	-2.56%	26 1.16%	8
Kotlin	136	Down 8 places-8	£525	-27.58%	21 0.94%	21
Bash	138	Down 31 places-31	£575	+4.54%	19 0.85%	37
PL/SQL	140	Down 15 places-15	£575	+21.05%	17 0.76%	4
Bicep	143	Down 14 places-14	£550	-25.67%	14 0.63%	18
T-SQL	147	Down 15 places-15	£598	+74.45%	10 0.45%	10
Shell Script	147	Down 22 places-22	£710	+77.50%	10 0.45%	10
Scala	147	Down 21 places-21	£550	-12.00%	10 0.45%	15
C++	150	Down 49 places-49	£600	-	7 0.31%	62
LookML	151	Down 17 places-17	£600	+54.83%	6 0.27%	1
Perl	152	Down 23 places-23	£325	-37.50%	5 0.22%	4
R	152	Down 28 places-28	£625	+51.51%	5 0.22%	33
Go	152	Down 34 places-34	£525	-16.00%	5 0.22%	19
Apex Code	152	Down 30 places-30	£500	-4.35%	5 0.22%	9
Swift	152	Down 22 places-22	£525	-8.69%	5 0.22%	3
Kusto Query Language	152	Down 20 places-20	£550	-16.66%	5 0.22%	15
C	154	Down 23 places-23	£400	-36.00%	3 0.13%	17
Ruby	154	Down 23 places-23	£463	+12.12%	3 0.13%	8
SOQL	154	Down 21 places-21	£498	-7.44%	3 0.13%	2
PHP	155	Down 27 places-27	-	-	2 0.089%	9
RPG	155	Down 23 places-23	£513	-14.58%	2 0.089%	3
VB.NET	155	Down 24 places-24	£600	-10.11%	2 0.089%	1
VBA	155	Down 34 places-34	£725	+12.40%	2 0.089%	7
Cypher	155	New entry-	£848	-	2 0.089%
JCL	155	Down 21 places-21	-	-	2 0.089%	1
ProC	155	Down 21 places-21	-	-	2 0.089%
CQL	155	New entry-	£709	-	2 0.089%
XMLA	155	New entry-	£386	-	2 0.089%
CodeQL	156	Down 22 places-22	-	-	1 0.045%
COBOL	156	Down 24 places-24	£475	-34.48%	1 0.045%
ActionScript	156	New entry-	£625	-	1 0.045%	1
BeanShell	156	Down 22 places-22	-	-	1 0.045%	1
REXX	156	Down 23 places-23	-	-	1 0.045%
Solidity	156	Down 22 places-22	£525	+13.51%	1 0.045%
Gremlin	156	New entry-	£786	-	1 0.045%
Google Apps Script	156	New entry-	£550	-	1 0.045%	1
Groovy	156	Down 26 places-26	£600	+63.26%	1 0.045%	2
Clipper	156	New entry-	£538	-	1 0.045%
SOSL	156	Down 22 places-22	£630	+48.23%	1 0.045%
DAML	156	New entry-	£525	-	1 0.045%
Search Processing Language	156	New entry-	£450	-	1 0.045%
DataWeave	156	Down 22 places-22	-	-	1 0.045%