Contract Programming Language Statistics in the Midlands

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 4 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	17	Down 2 places-2	£470	-4.47%	440 8.82%	251
Java	28	Up 3 places+3	£495	+15.11%	324 6.49%	61
Python	37	Down 18 places-18	£475	-4.04%	255 5.11%	211
JavaScript	80	Up 15 places+15	£463	-	131 2.63%	78
C#	122	Up 1 place+1	£425	-17.27%	75 1.50%	105
PowerShell	125	Down 62 places-62	£500	+5.26%	72 1.44%	64
TypeScript	141	Down 8 places-8	£470	-6.00%	56 1.12%	40
PL/SQL	158	Down 15 places-15	£504	+0.75%	39 0.78%	5
ABAP	161	Down 12 places-12	£486	-18.65%	36 0.72%	3
Shell Script	162	Down 28 places-28	£525	+9.94%	35 0.70%	13
Scala	167	Down 36 places-36	£490	+13.95%	30 0.60%	6
VB	170	Down 12 places-12	£425	-8.35%	27 0.54%	6
VB6	172	New entry-	£425	-	25 0.50%
VBA	173	Down 23 places-23	£421	-8.91%	24 0.48%	12
Bash	174	Down 57 places-57	£487	-9.41%	23 0.46%	18
Bicep	179	Down 28 places-28	£500	-16.66%	18 0.36%	12
C	180	Down 22 places-22	£462	-	17 0.34%	40
C++	183	Down 41 places-41	£564	-9.84%	14 0.28%	59
Data Analysis Expressions	185	Down 37 places-37	£425	-8.10%	12 0.24%	16
RPG	185	New entry-	-	-	12 0.24%	5
Go	186	Down 60 places-60	£700	+21.73%	11 0.22%	3
Kotlin	187	Down 36 places-36	£470	+1.62%	10 0.20%	5
T-SQL	188	Down 34 places-34	£413	-25.00%	9 0.18%	15
R	189	Down 37 places-37	£450	-18.18%	8 0.16%	19
Kusto Query Language	189	Down 41 places-41	£500	-20.00%	8 0.16%	4
ProC	189	New entry-	£437	-	8 0.16%	1
COBOL	190	Down 33 places-33	£600	+76.47%	7 0.14%	6
MATLAB	192	Down 38 places-38	-	-	5 0.10%	16
Apex Code	193	Down 51 places-51	£625	+38.88%	4 0.080%	4
Search Processing Language	194	Down 34 places-34	-	-	3 0.060%
Perl	194	Down 52 places-52	£500	+5.26%	3 0.060%	1
VB.NET	194	Down 35 places-35	£275	-12.14%	3 0.060%	1