Contract Programming Language Statistics in Sheffield

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	6	No change0	£514	+2.80%	195 18.64%	16
Java	17	Up 15 places+15	£500	+5.26%	136 13.00%
SQL	23	Up 4 places+4	£500	-	115 10.99%	9
PowerShell	53	Up 12 places+12	£525	+8.02%	59 5.64%	2
Bash	69	Down 17 places-17	£500	-4.30%	40 3.82%
JavaScript	70	Down 11 places-11	£510	+3.13%	39 3.73%	2
Go	78	Down 36 places-36	£500	-	31 2.96%
TypeScript	80	Down 5 places-5	£475	-20.50%	29 2.77%
Kotlin	82	Down 12 places-12	£470	+20.82%	27 2.58%
C#	84	Down 17 places-17	£450	-6.49%	25 2.39%	3
Shell Script	93	Down 46 places-46	£350	-30.00%	16 1.53%	1
Groovy	94	Down 19 places-19	£500	-15.25%	15 1.43%
JCL	98	Down 30 places-30	£513	+2.65%	11 1.05%	1
COBOL	100	Down 35 places-35	£525	+27.27%	9 0.86%
REXX	101	Down 23 places-23	£514	+24.60%	8 0.76%
Bicep	101	Down 23 places-23	£506	+3.84%	8 0.76%	1
Rust	102	New entry-	£538	-	7 0.67%
Kusto Query Language	103	New entry-	£518	-	6 0.57%
T-SQL	104	New entry-	£400	-	5 0.48%
VBA	104	Down 31 places-31	£460	+26.02%	5 0.48%
CLIST	105	Down 26 places-26	£514	-	4 0.38%
Assembly Language	105	Down 26 places-26	£514	-	4 0.38%
Scala	105	Down 34 places-34	£629	+25.75%	4 0.38%
PHP	106	New entry-	-	-	3 0.29%	2
Cypher	106	New entry-	£500	-	3 0.29%
C++	107	New entry-	£600	-	2 0.19%	1
Perl	107	Down 31 places-31	-	-	2 0.19%
Ruby	107	New entry-	£515	-	2 0.19%
PromQL	107	New entry-	-	-	2 0.19%