Contract Programming Language Statistics in South Yorkshire

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	6	Down -1 place-1	£500	-	189 17.12%	80
Java	16	Up 7 places+7	£510	+7.36%	132 11.96%	28
SQL	22	Up 5 places+5	£475	+5.44%	108 9.78%	48
PowerShell	57	Down -4 places-4	£519	+25.81%	51 4.62%	18
Bash	66	Down -18 places-18	£500	-4.76%	39 3.53%	10
JavaScript	72	Down -30 places-30	£500	+1.46%	33 2.99%	23
Kotlin	82	Down -26 places-26	£460	+15.00%	23 2.08%	2
Go	82	Down -34 places-34	£538	+19.44%	23 2.08%	9
Shell Script	86	Down -50 places-50	£425	-15.00%	19 1.72%	2
C#	90	Down -33 places-33	£426	-10.42%	15 1.36%	17
Groovy	90	Down -29 places-29	£425	-31.89%	15 1.36%
TypeScript	90	Down -26 places-26	£515	-13.80%	15 1.36%	11
JCL	91	Down -34 places-34	£514	+2.80%	14 1.27%	2
REXX	94	Down -27 places-27	£514	+24.60%	11 1.00%	2
COBOL	97	Down -41 places-41	£525	+27.27%	8 0.72%	2
VBA	97	Down -30 places-30	£468	+24.66%	8 0.72%
R	97	New entry-	£425	-	8 0.72%	4
Rust	98	New entry-	£538	-	7 0.63%
Bicep	98	Down -29 places-29	£513	+5.12%	7 0.63%	7
CLIST	100	Down -31 places-31	£514	-	5 0.45%
T-SQL	100	Down -30 places-30	£400	+6.66%	5 0.45%
Kusto Query Language	100	New entry-	£496	-	5 0.45%	1
Scala	100	Down -37 places-37	£595	+22.05%	5 0.45%	2
Assembly Language	101	Down -31 places-31	£514	-	4 0.36%	2
PHP	102	Down -32 places-32	-	-	3 0.27%	6
Cypher	102	New entry-	£500	-	3 0.27%
Perl	103	Down -34 places-34	-	-	2 0.18%
PromQL	103	New entry-	-	-	2 0.18%
Ruby	103	Down -33 places-33	£515	+39.56%	2 0.18%	3