Contract Programming Language Statistics in Sheffield

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	4	Up 3 places+3	£500	+1.75%	220 21.01%	27
Java	22	Up 11 places+11	£512	+9.87%	105 10.03%	6
SQL	23	Up 6 places+6	£450	-8.86%	103 9.84%	22
PowerShell	52	Down -10 places-10	£522	+26.54%	45 4.30%	4
Bash	58	Down -7 places-7	£517	+14.77%	39 3.72%	5
JavaScript	60	Down -24 places-24	£488	+2.63%	37 3.53%	9
Go	74	Down -22 places-22	£538	+19.44%	23 2.20%	1
Kotlin	80	Down -31 places-31	£405	-10.00%	17 1.62%
Shell Script	80	Down -47 places-47	£436	-17.00%	17 1.62%	2
JCL	83	Down -28 places-28	£514	+14.22%	14 1.34%
Groovy	83	Down -29 places-29	£450	-25.00%	14 1.34%	2
C#	86	Down -33 places-33	£400	-17.94%	11 1.05%	6
REXX	87	Down -27 places-27	£514	+28.50%	10 0.96%	1
R	89	New entry-	£425	-	8 0.76%
TypeScript	89	Down -28 places-28	£515	+3.00%	8 0.76%	7
VBA	89	Down -28 places-28	£468	+24.66%	8 0.76%
Rust	90	New entry-	£538	-	7 0.67%
T-SQL	92	New entry-	£400	-	5 0.48%
VB	92	Down -33 places-33	£408	+52.10%	5 0.48%
CLIST	92	Down -30 places-30	£514	+28.50%	5 0.48%
COBOL	93	Down -35 places-35	£513	+42.75%	4 0.38%	1
Assembly Language	93	Down -30 places-30	£514	+28.50%	4 0.38%
Kusto Query Language	93	New entry-	£600	-	4 0.38%	1
PHP	94	Down -31 places-31	-	-	3 0.29%	1
Cypher	94	New entry-	£500	-	3 0.29%
Ruby	94	Down -34 places-34	£515	+39.56%	3 0.29%
Bicep	94	Down -31 places-31	-	-	3 0.29%	1
Scala	94	Down -31 places-31	£500	-13.04%	3 0.29%	1
Perl	95	Down -31 places-31	-	-	2 0.19%
Search Processing Language	95	New entry-	£505	-	2 0.19%
PromQL	95	New entry-	-	-	2 0.19%