Contract Programming Language Statistics in the West Midlands

Description	Rank 6 Months to 20 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	13	-1	£488	-0.51%	319 11.94%	209
Python	21	-2	£500	-	236 8.83%	176
Java	40	+12	£485	+1.67%	141 5.28%	57
PowerShell	86	-46	£475	-5.00%	60 2.25%	32
JavaScript	89	-55	£500	-10.03%	57 2.13%	75
Bash	94	-9	£482	-19.66%	52 1.95%	29
Go	97	0	£550	-21.42%	48 1.80%	9
Shell Script	108	-27	£480	+4.34%	37 1.38%	4
PL/SQL	113	-28	£463	-2.47%	32 1.20%	14
C#	122	-64	£455	-19.11%	23 0.86%	64
Scala	122	-29	£458	-5.08%	23 0.86%	5
TypeScript	127	-39	£600	+20.00%	18 0.67%	45
Perl	131	-38	£475	-15.63%	14 0.52%	5
Groovy	134	-38	£488	-	11 0.41%	8
Bicep	134	-36	£609	+52.25%	11 0.41%	6
VB	135	-41	£468	+18.35%	10 0.37%	1
MATLAB	136	-38	£550	-	9 0.34%	4
C++	137	-46	£475	-24.60%	8 0.30%	32
Lisp	137	-	£550	-	8 0.30%
VBA	137	-44	£500	+26.58%	8 0.30%	5
Kusto Query Language	137	-40	£750	+42.85%	8 0.30%	4
Data Analysis Expressions	138	-43	£400	-20.00%	7 0.26%	15
Kotlin	138	-	£475	-	7 0.26%	6
PHP	138	-44	£425	-22.72%	7 0.26%	24
R	139	-48	£438	+6.83%	6 0.22%	19
BeanShell	141	-	£670	-	4 0.15%
VBScript	141	-	£388	-	4 0.15%
VB6	142	-	£490	-	3 0.11%
Ruby	142	-51	-	-	3 0.11%	3
Swift	143	-	£482	-	2 0.075%	3
Korn	143	-45	£650	+52.58%	2 0.075%	2
Tcl	143	-	-	-	2 0.075%
ABAP	143	-68	£538	-0.46%	2 0.075%	3
COBOL	143	-55	-	-	2 0.075%
C	144	-50	£575	-	1 0.037%	25
T-SQL	144	-55	£395	-12.22%	1 0.037%	12
ActionScript	144	-	£575	-	1 0.037%
Apex Code	144	-46	£625	+51.51%	1 0.037%
ActionScript 2.0	144	-	£575	-	1 0.037%
SystemVerilog	144	-	£575	-	1 0.037%	1