Contract Programming Language Statistics in London

Description	Rank 6 Months to 17 Mar 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	7	-2	£550	-8.33%	2,452 14.96%	1,216
SQL	9	0	£513	-6.81%	2,287 13.96%	844
Java	28	-9	£550	-10.20%	1,126 6.87%	289
JavaScript	54	-26	£525	-6.25%	726 4.43%	367
C#	59	-15	£525	-12.50%	697 4.25%	273
TypeScript	75	-13	£525	-12.50%	556 3.39%	317
PowerShell	82	-18	£550	+2.80%	537 3.28%	126
Bash	193	-48	£520	-6.72%	219 1.34%	81
C++	213	-57	£725	-9.37%	192 1.17%	130
Go	236	-58	£625	-8.08%	167 1.02%	86
Scala	264	-47	£545	-12.09%	135 0.82%	27
PL/SQL	271	-84	£415	-17.00%	127 0.78%	26
Bicep	303	-15	£525	-	95 0.58%	25
Shell Script	305	-53	£454	-12.69%	93 0.57%	29
T-SQL	307	-31	£415	-17.00%	91 0.56%	37
Data Analysis Expressions	313	-8	£500	+11.11%	85 0.52%	33
R	315	-49	£525	-4.54%	83 0.51%	82
Ruby	318	-36	£610	+10.90%	80 0.49%	28
Kotlin	323	-73	£575	-8.00%	75 0.46%	33
Kusto Query Language	328	+2	£525	+15.38%	70 0.43%	7
Apex Code	330	-38	£550	+10.00%	68 0.42%	31
VBA	344	-79	£408	+4.48%	54 0.33%	12
Korn	350	-7	£525	+31.25%	48 0.29%	2
C	357	-87	£488	-17.79%	41 0.25%	40
ABAP	363	-44	£608	+15.83%	35 0.21%	5
Groovy	365	-48	£475	-23.23%	33 0.20%	4
Rust	366	-42	£600	-27.27%	32 0.20%	46
VB	366	-72	£408	+4.48%	32 0.20%	5
Swift	367	-57	£503	-4.28%	31 0.19%	16
Perl	368	-94	£458	-21.70%	30 0.18%	10
PHP	370	-90	£450	+12.50%	28 0.17%	28
COBOL	384	-45	£425	+30.76%	14 0.085%	1
XPath	386	-	£350	-	12 0.073%
LotusScript	387	-43	£415	-36.15%	11 0.067%
Formula Language	387	-42	£415	+6.41%	11 0.067%
REXX	387	-49	£493	+15.88%	11 0.067%
RPG	387	-66	£450	-1.90%	11 0.067%	3