Contract Programming Language Statistics in Cheshire

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 4 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	11	Up 9 places+9	£525	+36.80%	81 10.87%	29
PowerShell	23	Up 30 places+30	£453	+24.86%	54 7.25%	7
SQL	25	Up 4 places+4	£520	+20.93%	50 6.71%	25
Java	47	Down 29 places-29	£529	+37.63%	27 3.62%	5
Bash	54	Up 16 places+16	£537	+49.32%	20 2.68%	2
Bicep	62	New entry-	£630	-	12 1.61%	1
JavaScript	64	Down 24 places-24	£537	+42.25%	10 1.34%	9
C#	67	Up 3 places+3	£415	-21.69%	7 0.94%	12
Search Processing Language	68	New entry-	£550	-	6 0.81%
ABAP	70	Down 6 places-6	£690	-2.12%	4 0.54%
Assembly Language	70	New entry-	-	-	4 0.54%	2
Kusto Query Language	71	Up 2 places+2	£569	-	3 0.40%	3
T-SQL	71	New entry-	£525	-	3 0.40%
Data Analysis Expressions	72	Up 3 places+3	£525	+47.88%	2 0.27%
Perl	72	Down 4 places-4	£575	+58.40%	2 0.27%
TypeScript	72	Down 5 places-5	£420	+13.51%	2 0.27%	4
Ruby	73	Down 7 places-7	-	-	1 0.13%
Google Apps Script	73	New entry-	-	-	1 0.13%
C	73	Down 4 places-4	-	-	1 0.13%	13
C++	73	Down 4 places-4	-	-	1 0.13%	14
Lisp	73	Up 2 places+2	-	-	1 0.13%
Shell Script	73	Down 11 places-11	£644	+76.92%	1 0.13%	2