Contract Programming Language Statistics in the South East

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	25	Down 10 places-10	£568	+13.60%	441 6.67%	289
SQL	26	Down 10 places-10	£475	-3.06%	432 6.54%	215
PowerShell	44	Down 2 places-2	£543	+5.85%	324 4.90%	88
Java	104	Down 64 places-64	£481	+6.88%	147 2.22%	64
JavaScript	116	Down 57 places-57	£500	+8.10%	124 1.88%	59
Bash	117	Down 7 places-7	£600	+26.31%	123 1.86%	38
C#	162	Down 86 places-86	£475	-	71 1.07%	75
TypeScript	174	Down 17 places-17	£375	-30.23%	59 0.89%	44
Bicep	178	Down 16 places-16	£575	+30.68%	55 0.83%	23
C	181	Down 16 places-16	£525	+5.00%	52 0.79%	94
PL/SQL	188	Down 43 places-43	£525	+5.00%	45 0.68%	4
C++	203	Down 52 places-52	£550	+15.78%	30 0.45%	124
ABAP	210	Down 48 places-48	£596	+13.42%	23 0.35%	4
Shell Script	212	Down 68 places-68	£575	+36.90%	21 0.32%	11
T-SQL	212	Down 39 places-39	£475	+26.66%	21 0.32%	12
Kusto Query Language	217	Down 50 places-50	£650	+30.00%	16 0.24%	6
Apex Code	217	Down 62 places-62	£475	+8.57%	16 0.24%	11
R	219	Down 67 places-67	£500	-4.76%	14 0.21%	14
Assembly Language	220	Down 47 places-47	-	-	13 0.20%	38
Data Analysis Expressions	222	Down 49 places-49	£469	+23.01%	11 0.17%	9
Go	222	Down 75 places-75	£291	-27.92%	11 0.17%	21
Scala	223	Down 53 places-53	£425	-15.00%	10 0.15%	5
Embedded C	224	New entry-	£525	-	9 0.14%	16
Kotlin	225	Down 55 places-55	£340	+0.74%	8 0.12%	4
Groovy	227	Down 54 places-54	£500	+30.20%	6 0.091%	1
X++	227	Down 57 places-57	-	-	6 0.091%	3
VBScript	228	New entry-	£355	-	5 0.076%
Rust	229	New entry-	£690	-	4 0.061%	18
Swift	229	Down 56 places-56	£323	-43.91%	4 0.061%	3
Perl	229	Down 87 places-87	£208	-	4 0.061%	6
PHP	229	Down 60 places-60	£444	-26.04%	4 0.061%	17
VB.NET	229	Down 54 places-54	-	-	4 0.061%	2
VBA	229	New entry-	£450	-	4 0.061%	2
JCL	230	New entry-	£413	-	3 0.045%
MATLAB	230	Down 56 places-56	£675	+84.93%	3 0.045%	37
Objective-C	230	Down 57 places-57	£323	-43.91%	3 0.045%	2
Ada	230	Down 58 places-58	-	-	3 0.045%	7
Embedded C++	230	Down 60 places-60	£525	-	3 0.045%	8
Lua	230	New entry-	£643	-	3 0.045%	2
Ruby	231	Down 61 places-61	£450	-10.00%	2 0.030%	10
Magik	231	Down 59 places-59	-	-	2 0.030%
Ada 95	231	New entry-	-	-	2 0.030%	3
XPath	231	New entry-	£600	-	2 0.030%
BeanShell	231	Down 63 places-63	£563	-	2 0.030%
COBOL	231	New entry-	£475	-	2 0.030%