Contract Programming Language Statistics in Central London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 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	-	339 14.93%	74
Python	13	Down 5 places-5	£550	-8.33%	318 14.00%	137
Java	45	Down 18 places-18	£600	-4.00%	122 5.37%	32
C#	54	Down 8 places-8	£575	+4.54%	102 4.49%	25
PowerShell	62	Up 5 places+5	£575	+6.72%	90 3.96%	23
JavaScript	67	Down 28 places-28	£528	+1.34%	84 3.70%	16
TypeScript	77	Up 6 places+6	£538	-6.52%	73 3.21%	18
Korn	118	Up 5 places+5	£525	-4.54%	31 1.37%
Data Analysis Expressions	122	No change0	£475	+7.04%	27 1.19%	2
Kotlin	130	Down 4 places-4	£550	-20.57%	19 0.84%	5
Bash	131	Down 27 places-27	£565	+2.72%	18 0.79%	14
PL/SQL	131	Down 11 places-11	£610	+28.42%	18 0.79%	4
Bicep	135	Down 10 places-10	£550	-25.67%	14 0.62%	4
T-SQL	136	Down 8 places-8	£550	+60.58%	13 0.57%	4
Scala	138	Down 18 places-18	£513	-4.65%	11 0.48%	6
Shell Script	139	Down 19 places-19	£710	+85.01%	10 0.44%	2
C++	140	Down 43 places-43	£678	+12.91%	9 0.40%	14
R	141	Down 20 places-20	£455	-17.27%	8 0.35%	5
LookML	143	Down 13 places-13	£600	+54.83%	6 0.26%
Kusto Query Language	143	Down 15 places-15	£556	-15.71%	6 0.26%	3
Go	144	Down 30 places-30	£525	-16.00%	5 0.22%	2
Apex Code	144	Down 25 places-25	£500	-4.76%	5 0.22%	7
Swift	144	Down 18 places-18	£525	-8.69%	5 0.22%
Perl	144	Down 19 places-19	£325	-46.93%	5 0.22%
SOQL	146	Down 17 places-17	£498	-7.44%	3 0.13%
C	146	Down 19 places-19	£400	-36.00%	3 0.13%	3
Ruby	146	Down 19 places-19	£463	+12.12%	3 0.13%	1
XMLA	147	New entry-	£386	-	2 0.088%
PHP	147	Down 23 places-23	-	-	2 0.088%
RPG	147	Down 19 places-19	£513	-14.58%	2 0.088%	1
VB.NET	147	Down 20 places-20	£600	-10.11%	2 0.088%
VBA	147	Down 30 places-30	£725	+11.96%	2 0.088%	3
Cypher	147	New entry-	£848	-	2 0.088%
JCL	147	New entry-	-	-	2 0.088%
ProC	147	Down 17 places-17	-	-	2 0.088%
CQL	147	New entry-	£709	-	2 0.088%
Gremlin	148	New entry-	£786	-	1 0.044%
Google Apps Script	148	New entry-	£550	-	1 0.044%
Groovy	148	Down 23 places-23	£600	+63.26%	1 0.044%
SOSL	148	Down 18 places-18	£630	+48.23%	1 0.044%
DAML	148	New entry-	£525	-	1 0.044%
Clipper	148	New entry-	£538	-	1 0.044%
Search Processing Language	148	New entry-	£450	-	1 0.044%
DataWeave	148	Down 18 places-18	-	-	1 0.044%
Rust	148	Down 20 places-20	£525	-4.54%	1 0.044%
ActionScript 2.0	148	New entry-	£625	-	1 0.044%
CodeQL	148	Down 18 places-18	-	-	1 0.044%
BeanShell	148	Down 18 places-18	-	-	1 0.044%
COBOL	148	Down 20 places-20	£475	-34.48%	1 0.044%
ActionScript	148	New entry-	£625	-	1 0.044%	2