Contract Programming Language Statistics in the North West

Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	17	+11	£464	-3.48%	268 9.60%	149
Java	20	+15	£465	-1.16%	234 8.38%	72
SQL	23	-1	£425	-10.05%	224 8.03%	151
PowerShell	53	+10	£465	-1.14%	113 4.05%	21
TypeScript	74	+10	£463	+2.77%	85 3.05%	56
JavaScript	74	-20	£425	-3.40%	85 3.05%	79
Bash	96	-1	£550	-3.50%	59 2.11%	19
C#	112	-13	£450	+5.88%	43 1.54%	59
Kotlin	126	-12	£475	+18.75%	29 1.04%	12
Perl	137	-21	£550	+34.80%	18 0.64%	2
COBOL	137	-13	£365	-3.43%	18 0.64%	2
ABAP	138	-42	£705	+41.00%	17 0.61%	4
PL/SQL	138	-35	£344	-34.47%	17 0.61%	10
Go	141	-26	£504	+12.00%	14 0.50%	12
Shell Script	141	-27	£462	-1.70%	14 0.50%	2
REXX	143	-19	£350	-7.40%	12 0.43%
JCL	143	-20	£350	+0.28%	12 0.43%
CLIST	143	-	£350	-	12 0.43%
R	144	-25	£513	+35.74%	11 0.39%	15
Ruby	145	-30	£638	+68.65%	10 0.36%	6
T-SQL	146	-28	£426	+26.03%	9 0.32%	14
VBScript	146	-29	£626	-0.83%	9 0.32%	1
VB	146	-28	£626	+75.84%	9 0.32%	3
Swift	146	-27	£400	-	9 0.32%	6
Objective-C	147	-23	£400	+31.14%	8 0.29%	2
Groovy	147	-23	£453	-	8 0.29%
Lisp	147	-	£425	-	8 0.29%
C++	148	-35	£450	-40.98%	7 0.25%	29
PHP	148	-31	£392	-20.90%	7 0.25%	12
Data Analysis Expressions	148	-33	£431	-13.75%	7 0.25%	1
Bicep	148	-25	£451	+0.11%	7 0.25%	3
Rust	148	-	-	-	7 0.25%	1
C	150	-29	£550	-	5 0.18%	17
Apex Code	151	-28	£402	-38.15%	4 0.14%	2
VBA	151	-30	£410	+13.10%	4 0.14%	7
ProC	152	-	£485	-	3 0.11%
SHACL	153	-	£613	-	2 0.072%
Kusto Query Language	153	-30	-	-	2 0.072%
AWK	153	-	-	-	2 0.072%
SPARQL	153	-32	£463	-	2 0.072%
Scala	153	-30	£475	-11.62%	2 0.072%	11
X++	153	-	-	-	2 0.072%