Contract Programming Language Statistics in the Midlands

Description	Rank 6 Months to 13 Dec 2025	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	14	-2	£500	+11.11%	321 10.39%	401
Python	19	+10	£500	+5.26%	274 8.86%	415
Java	46	+2	£475	-5.00%	148 4.79%	115
PowerShell	71	-6	£475	-	103 3.33%	54
JavaScript	100	-57	£500	+2.04%	66 2.14%	289
Bash	116	-1	£539	+22.38%	48 1.55%	38
Go	117	-	£550	-	47 1.52%	19
C#	125	-52	£518	+3.50%	39 1.26%	139
Shell Script	132	-14	£499	+18.69%	32 1.04%	2
Scala	133	-8	£435	-28.92%	31 1.00%	7
Groovy	138	-11	£475	-7.67%	26 0.84%	3
TypeScript	141	-38	£525	+14.13%	23 0.74%	109
Apex Code	143	-16	£449	+25.98%	21 0.68%	2
PL/SQL	145	-40	£510	+7.82%	19 0.61%	11
Perl	147	-24	£475	+12.29%	17 0.55%	6
C++	148	-38	£400	-23.80%	16 0.52%	56
R	148	-34	£475	+22.58%	16 0.52%	62
PHP	150	-30	£510	+27.50%	14 0.45%	42
Data Analysis Expressions	151	-22	£430	+11.68%	13 0.42%	16
MATLAB	153	-31	£550	+37.50%	11 0.36%	4
ABAP	154	-51	£614	+22.80%	10 0.32%	5
VBA	155	-30	£463	+17.08%	9 0.29%	4
Kotlin	156	-25	£425	-18.66%	8 0.26%	18
Lisp	157	-	-	-	7 0.23%
T-SQL	157	-41	£550	+22.22%	7 0.23%	7
VBScript	157	-	£600	-	7 0.23%	1
Kusto Query Language	158	-33	£625	-1.57%	6 0.19%
Tcl	159	-	-	-	5 0.16%	2
X++	159	-	£550	-	5 0.16%
Bicep	159	-36	£522	+19.20%	5 0.16%	10
BeanShell	160	-	£670	-	4 0.13%	1
VB	160	-34	£464	+26.19%	4 0.13%	5
C	161	-37	-	-	3 0.097%	36
Ruby	161	-34	-	-	3 0.097%	46
Korn	161	-30	£575	+34.97%	3 0.097%