Contract Programming Language Statistics in the North of England

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	15	Down 2 places-2	£500	+4.60%	769 10.04%	249
SQL	23	Up 2 places+2	£475	+5.55%	613 8.01%	210
Java	26	Down 3 places-3	£500	+10.55%	532 6.95%	99
PowerShell	67	Up 26 places+26	£475	+7.40%	281 3.67%	77
JavaScript	100	Down 35 places-35	£500	+20.48%	201 2.63%	87
TypeScript	105	Up 2 places+2	£475	-5.00%	194 2.53%	76
Bash	132	Down 57 places-57	£500	-3.84%	143 1.87%	36
C#	135	Down 13 places-13	£468	+10.00%	139 1.82%	124
Kotlin	200	Down 45 places-45	£470	+17.50%	64 0.84%	10
Bicep	209	Down 27 places-27	£563	+25.00%	55 0.72%	25
Go	211	Down 73 places-73	£475	-8.65%	53 0.69%	18
T-SQL	228	Down 48 places-48	£400	+2.56%	36 0.47%	9
Shell Script	229	Down 97 places-97	£444	-6.57%	35 0.46%	14
Data Analysis Expressions	231	Down 53 places-53	£437	+5.81%	33 0.43%	6
Scala	236	Down 70 places-70	£425	+6.25%	28 0.37%	12
Groovy	242	Down 71 places-71	£436	-3.69%	22 0.29%
VBScript	243	New entry-	£360	-	21 0.27%	1
PL/SQL	245	Down 65 places-65	£413	+10.00%	19 0.25%	6
Swift	245	Down 74 places-74	£450	+17.03%	19 0.25%
Search Processing Language	246	Down 55 places-55	£525	-	18 0.24%
VB	246	Down 59 places-59	£365	+36.19%	18 0.24%	5
ActionScript	247	New entry-	£650	-	17 0.22%
Kusto Query Language	247	Down 61 places-61	£525	+16.66%	17 0.22%	3
PHP	248	Down 76 places-76	£375	+4.45%	16 0.21%	7
JCL	248	Down 84 places-84	£514	+27.86%	16 0.21%	2
ABAP	249	Down 75 places-75	£550	-21.98%	15 0.20%
C++	250	Down 77 places-77	£510	+10.27%	14 0.18%	52
COBOL	250	Down 84 places-84	£525	+30.59%	14 0.18%	1
Rust	253	Down 66 places-66	£538	-2.47%	11 0.14%	3
REXX	254	Down 71 places-71	£514	+43.57%	10 0.13%	1
Perl	255	Down 96 places-96	£575	+4.54%	9 0.12%	2
VBA	255	Down 70 places-70	£460	+19.63%	9 0.12%	3
Assembly Language	255	Down 62 places-62	£514	-	9 0.12%	10
C	256	Down 77 places-77	£420	-6.66%	8 0.10%	43
Apex Code	256	Down 70 places-70	£625	+74.58%	8 0.10%	2
Ruby	257	Down 78 places-78	£475	+25.82%	7 0.091%	6
Objective-C	257	Down 78 places-78	£450	+20.00%	7 0.091%
Cypher	258	New entry-	£481	-	6 0.078%	1
Gremlin	259	New entry-	£463	-	5 0.065%	1
Korn	259	Down 67 places-67	£350	-28.20%	5 0.065%	1