Contract Programming Language Statistics in the Midlands

Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Jan 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	15	-3	£515	+8.42%	348 10.29%	343
Python	21	+4	£507	+4.75%	283 8.37%	333
Java	54	-12	£475	-3.06%	128 3.78%	63
PowerShell	76	-25	£475	-2.56%	97 2.87%	72
JavaScript	98	-61	£500	-4.76%	72 2.13%	147
Bash	113	-15	£486	-1.81%	57 1.68%	33
Go	121	-	£550	-	49 1.45%	10
Shell Script	133	-25	£525	+28.67%	37 1.09%	10
C#	135	-75	£510	+2.00%	35 1.03%	124
Scala	144	-27	£482	-1.63%	26 0.77%	10
TypeScript	145	-47	£520	+6.12%	25 0.74%	82
PL/SQL	150	-48	£510	+7.82%	20 0.59%	9
R	151	-44	£438	+22.89%	19 0.56%	33
Groovy	153	-35	£475	+18.75%	17 0.50%	4
Perl	156	-42	£501	-11.10%	14 0.41%	3
Apex Code	156	-36	£413	+7.35%	14 0.41%
C++	157	-51	£550	-8.71%	13 0.38%	63
MATLAB	158	-43	£550	+37.50%	12 0.35%	11
Bicep	159	-44	£438	-7.89%	11 0.33%	8
VBA	160	-44	£481	+21.83%	10 0.30%	8
Data Analysis Expressions	160	-43	£446	-7.03%	10 0.30%	16
PHP	161	-51	£463	+15.62%	9 0.27%	35
ABAP	162	-69	£614	+19.22%	8 0.24%	1
Lisp	162	-	£550	-	8 0.24%
VB	164	-48	£464	+17.40%	6 0.18%	7
Kotlin	165	-45	£275	-47.24%	5 0.15%	5
Kusto Query Language	165	-45	£625	+19.04%	5 0.15%	3
VBScript	165	-	£450	-	5 0.15%
BeanShell	166	-	£670	-	4 0.12%
SOQL	166	-46	£401	+4.35%	4 0.12%
C	167	-52	£575	+76.65%	3 0.089%	62
T-SQL	167	-62	£550	+22.22%	3 0.089%	20
X++	167	-	£550	-	3 0.089%
Ruby	167	-53	-	-	3 0.089%	3
Swift	168	-47	£357	-27.97%	2 0.059%	5
Korn	168	-47	£650	+52.58%	2 0.059%	2
Tcl	168	-	-	-	2 0.059%	3
COBOL	168	-56	-	-	2 0.059%	1