Contract Programming Language Statistics in Hertfordshire

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	25	Down 15 places-15	£550	-	53 5.74%	16
C	31	Up 3 places+3	£705	-	47 5.09%	22
SQL	34	Down 2 places-2	£550	+7.31%	44 4.76%	13
C++	36	Down 24 places-24	£250	-	42 4.55%	12
PowerShell	42	Down 16 places-16	£575	+4.54%	35 3.79%	8
JavaScript	58	Down 39 places-39	£788	+43.27%	19 2.06%	4
C#	59	Down 37 places-37	£550	-6.38%	18 1.95%	7
Embedded C	60	Down 7 places-7	-	-	17 1.84%
MATLAB	62	Down 22 places-22	£366	-26.75%	15 1.62%	12
Java	67	Down 20 places-20	£488	+2.63%	10 1.08%	2
Shell Script	69	Down 16 places-16	£350	-20.45%	8 0.87%
Bicep	71	Down 18 places-18	£450	-30.76%	6 0.65%	2
SystemVerilog	71	New entry-	-	-	6 0.65%	4
Ada	71	Down 21 places-21	-	-	6 0.65%
Kusto Query Language	72	New entry-	£550	-	5 0.54%	1
Google Apps Script	73	New entry-	£800	-	4 0.43%	1
Bash	73	Down 27 places-27	£483	+10.28%	4 0.43%
Search Processing Language	74	New entry-	£550	-	3 0.32%
PL/SQL	74	Down 19 places-19	£700	+59.09%	3 0.32%
ProC	75	New entry-	£705	-	2 0.22%
R	75	Down 29 places-29	-	-	2 0.22%	2
BeanShell	76	New entry-	£550	-	1 0.11%
Cypher	76	Down 21 places-21	-	-	1 0.11%
Data Analysis Expressions	76	Down 21 places-21	£465	-	1 0.11%	1
VBA	76	Down 25 places-25	-	-	1 0.11%