Contract Programming Language Statistics in Scotland

Description	Rank 6 Months to 15 Mar 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	5	+2	£425	-9.57%	276 16.90%	137
SQL	14	-6	£488	+8.33%	158 9.68%	85
Java	20	-8	£525	+16.66%	134 8.21%	34
PowerShell	33	+17	£425	-10.52%	87 5.33%	18
JavaScript	56	-26	£450	-5.26%	54 3.31%	35
TypeScript	61	-10	£425	-9.04%	49 3.00%	19
C#	62	+23	£481	+4.90%	48 2.94%	27
C++	81	+22	£525	+16.66%	29 1.78%	43
Bash	81	+12	£440	-9.65%	29 1.78%	16
Perl	87	+1	£413	+15.87%	23 1.41%	4
Shell Script	98	-26	£402	-14.69%	12 0.73%
Lua	101	-	£54	-	9 0.55%
Bicep	101	+17	£525	-	9 0.55%	2
Ruby	102	+15	£339	-15.25%	8 0.49%	2
MATLAB	103	+16	£65	-	7 0.43%	6
Go	104	+14	£373	-33.73%	6 0.37%	9
PL/SQL	104	-24	£400	+28.82%	6 0.37%	1
C	104	+5	£65	-77.19%	6 0.37%	27
SystemVerilog	104	+14	£65	-84.70%	6 0.37%	9
PHP	107	+8	£463	-1.80%	3 0.18%	1
VBA	107	+8	£700	+53.34%	3 0.18%	5
Scala	107	+12	£513	+31.41%	3 0.18%	7
Data Analysis Expressions	107	+6	£425	-5.55%	3 0.18%	2
Magik	108	-	£525	-	2 0.12%
Rust	108	-	£550	-	2 0.12%	9
Swift	108	+11	£350	-	2 0.12%	3
Kotlin	108	-	£350	-	2 0.12%	4
SPARQL	108	-	£550	-	2 0.12%
Korn	108	-	-	-	2 0.12%
JCL	108	+7	-	-	2 0.12%	1
T-SQL	108	+7	£465	+36.56%	2 0.12%	15
VB	108	-	£297	-	2 0.12%
COBOL	108	-	£550	-	2 0.12%	1
VBScript	109	+10	-	-	1 0.061%
Embedded C	109	-	-	-	1 0.061%	6
Objective-C	109	-	£350	-	1 0.061%	3
Groovy	109	+4	-	-	1 0.061%
Search Processing Language	109	-	£514	-	1 0.061%
Kusto Query Language	109	-	£550	-	1 0.061%
PromQL	109	-	£450	-	1 0.061%