Contract Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	10	Down 1 place-1	£550	-4.34%	314 14.96%	54
Python	13	Down 5 places-5	£550	-8.33%	276 13.15%	92
Java	46	Down 22 places-22	£575	-8.00%	109 5.19%	22
C#	53	Down 11 places-11	£575	-6.50%	96 4.57%	22
PowerShell	64	Up 1 place+1	£575	+4.54%	82 3.91%	17
JavaScript	71	Down 33 places-33	£530	+0.95%	72 3.43%	17
TypeScript	77	Up 2 places+2	£538	-10.41%	65 3.10%	21
Korn	111	No change0	£525	-4.54%	31 1.48%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	118	Down 9 places-9	£500	+12.67%	24 1.14%
PL/SQL	123	Down 12 places-12	£610	+46.98%	19 0.91%	5
Kotlin	124	Down 9 places-9	£550	-20.57%	18 0.86%	1
Bash	125	Down 29 places-29	£550	+1.85%	17 0.81%	13
Bicep	130	Down 17 places-17	£525	-29.05%	12 0.57%	4
T-SQL	132	Down 15 places-15	£645	+57.31%	10 0.48%	4
Shell Script	132	Down 19 places-19	£710	+67.05%	10 0.48%	4
Scala	132	Down 23 places-23	£475	-5.00%	10 0.48%	3
C++	133	Down 35 places-35	£600	-	9 0.43%	11
R	134	Down 25 places-25	£455	-13.33%	8 0.38%
LookML	136	Down 18 places-18	£600	+54.83%	6 0.29%
Go	137	Down 32 places-32	£525	-16.00%	5 0.24%	3
Swift	137	Down 23 places-23	£525	-8.69%	5 0.24%	3
Apex Code	137	Down 31 places-31	£450	-13.91%	5 0.24%	3
Kusto Query Language	137	Down 20 places-20	£563	-22.94%	5 0.24%	2
Perl	138	Down 24 places-24	£325	-56.66%	4 0.19%
Ruby	139	Down 23 places-23	£463	+15.62%	3 0.14%	1
C	139	Down 24 places-24	£400	-36.00%	3 0.14%	1
SOQL	139	Down 22 places-22	£498	-7.44%	3 0.14%
RPG	140	Down 24 places-24	£513	-14.58%	2 0.095%	1
VB.NET	140	Down 24 places-24	£600	-12.24%	2 0.095%
VBA	140	Down 33 places-33	£725	+11.53%	2 0.095%	2
Cypher	140	New entry-	£848	-	2 0.095%
JCL	140	New entry-	-	-	2 0.095%
ProC	140	New entry-	-	-	2 0.095%
CQL	140	New entry-	£709	-	2 0.095%
XMLA	140	New entry-	£386	-	2 0.095%
COBOL	141	Down 25 places-25	£475	-34.48%	1 0.048%
Google Apps Script	141	New entry-	£550	-	1 0.048%
ActionScript	141	New entry-	£625	-	1 0.048%
REXX	141	Down 23 places-23	-	-	1 0.048%
SOSL	141	Down 23 places-23	£630	+48.23%	1 0.048%
Rust	141	Down 25 places-25	£525	-4.54%	1 0.048%
Groovy	141	Down 23 places-23	£600	-	1 0.048%
Solidity	141	Down 23 places-23	£525	+13.51%	1 0.048%
Gremlin	141	New entry-	£786	-	1 0.048%
ActionScript 2.0	141	New entry-	£625	-	1 0.048%
DAML	141	New entry-	£525	-	1 0.048%
Search Processing Language	141	New entry-	£450	-	1 0.048%
DataWeave	141	Down 23 places-23	-	-	1 0.048%
Clipper	141	New entry-	£538	-	1 0.048%
BeanShell	141	Down 23 places-23	-	-	1 0.048%