Contract Programming Language Statistics in Scotland

Description	Rank 6 Months to 15 Dec 2025	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	4	+8	£465	-5.10%	277 18.02%	265
SQL	15	-5	£464	+3.05%	190 12.36%	173
Java	17	-1	£500	+17.64%	178 11.58%	121
TypeScript	46	+3	£523	+12.91%	69 4.49%	60
JavaScript	57	-29	£475	+5.55%	56 3.64%	96
PowerShell	59	-4	£432	-9.15%	54 3.51%	44
Shell Script	73	+14	£500	+11.11%	40 2.60%	4
C#	82	-9	£513	+20.58%	31 2.02%	88
Bash	82	-14	£484	-3.20%	31 2.02%	39
Perl	84	-13	£440	-2.76%	29 1.89%	12
C++	93	+6	£65	-84.70%	20 1.30%	77
Go	96	+15	£388	-22.50%	17 1.11%	32
C	97	+11	£438	-	16 1.04%	50
PL/SQL	101	-4	£475	-5.00%	12 0.78%	15
Groovy	104	-7	£508	-2.59%	9 0.59%	3
Bicep	105	-	£525	-	8 0.52%	6
Ruby	106	-4	£358	-15.76%	7 0.46%	13
MATLAB	107	-	£65	-	6 0.39%
Data Analysis Expressions	108	-	£500	-	5 0.33%	2
SystemVerilog	108	+4	£65	-84.70%	5 0.33%	6
VBA	109	+1	£700	+75.00%	4 0.26%	5
PromQL	110	-	£450	-	3 0.20%	2
Search Processing Language	110	-	£454	-	3 0.20%	2
PHP	110	-4	£69	-83.45%	3 0.20%	6
T-SQL	110	-2	£700	+80.64%	3 0.20%	30
Swift	110	-	£350	-	3 0.20%	10
R	110	-10	£550	+8.10%	3 0.20%	21
Apex Code	111	-	£500	-	2 0.13%	1
Rust	111	-	£550	-	2 0.13%	20
Korn	111	-	-	-	2 0.13%	4
Magik	111	-	£525	-	2 0.13%
Objective-C	111	-	£350	-	2 0.13%	3
LotusScript	111	-1	£406	-9.68%	2 0.13%
COBOL	111	-1	£550	-	2 0.13%
ANSI SQL	111	-	£700	-	2 0.13%
Kotlin	111	-	£350	-	2 0.13%	17
DataWeave	111	-	£373	-	2 0.13%
Kusto Query Language	111	-	£500	-	2 0.13%	2
VB	112	-	£513	-	1 0.065%
ABAP	112	-	£413	-	1 0.065%	3
Assembly Language	112	-	-	-	1 0.065%
SAS Macro	112	-	-	-	1 0.065%
BeanShell	112	-	-	-	1 0.065%