Contract Programming Language Statistics in South Yorkshire

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 16 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	3	Up 3 places+3	£500	-	273 23.21%	27
Java	21	Up 10 places+10	£500	-4.76%	119 10.12%	9
SQL	28	Up 4 places+4	£475	-7.31%	95 8.08%	22
PowerShell	41	No change0	£525	+10.52%	69 5.87%	4
Bash	56	Down -5 places-5	£511	+21.54%	49 4.17%	1
JavaScript	76	Down -38 places-38	£488	-7.14%	29 2.47%	11
Go	79	Down -22 places-22	£538	+34.37%	26 2.21%
Shell Script	90	Down -50 places-50	£500	-	15 1.28%
JCL	91	Down -40 places-40	£514	-2.09%	14 1.19%	1
Kotlin	92	Down -43 places-43	£391	-16.09%	13 1.11%
TypeScript	92	Down -33 places-33	£515	-28.71%	13 1.11%	2
Ruby	92	Down -36 places-36	£515	+39.56%	13 1.11%
VBA	94	New entry-	£460	-	11 0.94%
Kusto Query Language	94	New entry-	£550	-	11 0.94%
Scala	94	Down -34 places-34	£500	-13.04%	11 0.94%	1
Rust	94	New entry-	£538	-	11 0.94%
Perl	95	Down -35 places-35	£531	+51.71%	10 0.85%
Groovy	95	Down -46 places-46	£500	-16.52%	10 0.85%
REXX	96	Down -42 places-42	£514	-6.54%	9 0.77%	2
R	97	New entry-	£425	-	8 0.68%	2
C#	98	Down -38 places-38	£400	-15.78%	7 0.60%	10
VB	99	Down -44 places-44	£408	+52.10%	6 0.51%
COBOL	100	Down -43 places-43	£525	-	5 0.43%
Cypher	101	New entry-	£540	-	4 0.34%	1
CLIST	101	Down -44 places-44	£514	+8.21%	4 0.34%	2
Bicep	102	Down -42 places-42	£525	+31.25%	3 0.26%	1
Assembly Language	102	Down -43 places-43	£513	+28.31%	3 0.26%	2
C++	103	New entry-	-	-	2 0.17%	2
Search Processing Language	103	New entry-	£505	-	2 0.17%
PromQL	103	New entry-	-	-	2 0.17%