Contract Programming Language Statistics in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 31 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	27	Down 15 places-15	£575	+15.00%	212 6.91%	75
SQL	39	Down 18 places-18	£500	-	165 5.38%	57
PowerShell	40	Down 6 places-6	£525	+6.70%	161 5.25%	20
Bash	93	Down 19 places-19	£615	+32.96%	63 2.05%	10
Bicep	115	Down 5 places-5	£615	+25.02%	40 1.30%	5
JavaScript	117	Down 53 places-53	£488	-2.50%	38 1.24%	22
C#	126	Down 46 places-46	£475	+26.66%	29 0.94%	21
Java	132	Down 74 places-74	£530	+28.48%	23 0.75%	20
Apex Code	139	Down 42 places-42	£475	+8.57%	16 0.52%	3
TypeScript	139	Down 33 places-33	£375	-31.81%	16 0.52%	12
PL/SQL	142	Down 40 places-40	£548	+9.50%	13 0.42%
Kusto Query Language	143	Down 33 places-33	£650	+51.16%	12 0.39%	1
C	144	Down 33 places-33	£525	+21.38%	11 0.36%	25
C++	146	Down 32 places-32	£525	-4.54%	9 0.29%	38
Shell Script	148	Down 52 places-52	£563	+50.00%	7 0.23%	3
VBScript	150	New entry-	£355	-	5 0.16%
Assembly Language	150	Down 35 places-35	-	-	5 0.16%	6
R	151	Down 48 places-48	-	-	4 0.13%	5
Embedded C	151	New entry-	£525	-	4 0.13%	3
X++	152	Down 39 places-39	-	-	3 0.098%	1
T-SQL	152	Down 36 places-36	£550	-	3 0.098%	3
Embedded C++	152	New entry-	£525	-	3 0.098%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	152	Down 36 places-36	-	-	3 0.098%	1
Groovy	152	Down 36 places-36	£500	-	3 0.098%
PHP	153	Down 40 places-40	£444	+22.41%	2 0.065%	12
JCL	153	New entry-	£413	-	2 0.065%
MATLAB	153	Down 37 places-37	-	-	2 0.065%	10
Magik	153	Down 39 places-39	-	-	2 0.065%
Gremlin	154	New entry-	-	-	1 0.033%
COBOL	154	New entry-	£475	-	1 0.033%
ABAP	154	Down 38 places-38	-	-	1 0.033%	1
Scala	154	Down 37 places-37	£463	-15.90%	1 0.033%	2
SOQL	154	Down 39 places-39	£305	-39.00%	1 0.033%	3
Cypher	154	New entry-	£420	-	1 0.033%
LookML	154	New entry-	-	-	1 0.033%