Contract Programming Language Statistics in the South West

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	22	Down 2 places-2	£550	-1.78%	266 7.14%	327
SQL	26	Down 3 places-3	£550	+15.78%	244 6.55%	144
Java	57	Up 12 places+12	£550	-	120 3.22%	66
PowerShell	62	Down 35 places-35	£575	+4.54%	111 2.98%	53
C++	66	Up 1 place+1	£510	+114.73%	100 2.68%	71
C#	74	Up 30 places+30	£500	+25.00%	90 2.41%	56
JavaScript	76	Down 38 places-38	£488	+2.63%	87 2.33%	100
Bash	76	Up 14 places+14	£613	+11.36%	87 2.33%	36
Ada	105	Down 9 places-9	£510	+650.00%	49 1.31%	4
TypeScript	112	Down 35 places-35	£475	-13.63%	42 1.13%	28
PL/SQL	116	Down 18 places-18	£600	+26.31%	38 1.02%	1
C	119	Down 31 places-31	£450	-10.00%	35 0.94%	62
Go	123	Down 14 places-14	£540	-16.92%	31 0.83%	16
Bicep	129	Down 10 places-10	£413	-39.33%	25 0.67%	5
Shell Script	135	Down 28 places-28	£540	+5.36%	19 0.51%	4
PHP	137	Down 9 places-9	£525	+75.00%	17 0.46%	5
Kotlin	137	Down 15 places-15	£525	+50.00%	17 0.46%	8
Assembly Language	137	Down 9 places-9	-	-	17 0.46%	21
Data Analysis Expressions	141	Down 15 places-15	£325	-44.44%	13 0.35%	1
Rust	144	New entry-	£525	-	10 0.27%	10
Swift	145	Down 17 places-17	£400	-36.00%	9 0.24%	3
MATLAB	147	Down 28 places-28	-	-	7 0.19%	24
Embedded C	148	Down 20 places-20	-	-	6 0.16%	10
Embedded C++	148	Down 21 places-21	-	-	6 0.16%	7
BeanShell	149	New entry-	£575	-	5 0.13%
T-SQL	149	Down 24 places-24	£750	+44.23%	5 0.13%	7
Apex Code	149	Down 24 places-24	£488	+11.42%	5 0.13%
Perl	150	Down 28 places-28	£613	+19.51%	4 0.11%	2
R	150	Down 24 places-24	£505	-37.36%	4 0.11%	28
Groovy	151	Down 23 places-23	£452	-24.75%	3 0.081%	1
Kusto Query Language	152	Down 25 places-25	£569	-	2 0.054%	1
ABAP	152	Down 26 places-26	-	-	2 0.054%	1
Ada 95	153	New entry-	-	-	1 0.027%
Objective-C	153	Down 25 places-25	-	-	1 0.027%	3
COBOL	153	New entry-	-	-	1 0.027%
VBScript	153	Down 33 places-33	£331	-4.05%	1 0.027%
VB	153	Down 25 places-25	£331	-	1 0.027%	2
VBA	153	Down 29 places-29	£280	+35.59%	1 0.027%	2
Scala	153	Down 25 places-25	£505	-	1 0.027%	6
Tcl	153	Down 29 places-29	-	-	1 0.027%	1
LookML	153	New entry-	£600	-	1 0.027%
Search Processing Language	153	New entry-	£575	-	1 0.027%	2
JCL	153	New entry-	£350	-	1 0.027%
Korn	153	New entry-	£525	-	1 0.027%
SystemVerilog	153	Down 25 places-25	-	-	1 0.027%	5