Contract Programming Language Statistics in Yorkshire

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	8	Down -2 places-2	£500	-	385 13.23%	351
SQL	22	Up 3 places+3	£459	-3.42%	253 8.69%	283
Java	29	Down -7 places-7	£500	-	217 7.46%	115
PowerShell	70	Up 6 places+6	£518	+25.63%	93 3.20%	64
JavaScript	83	Down -29 places-29	£500	+5.26%	79 2.71%	77
Bash	99	Down -40 places-40	£500	-2.43%	62 2.13%	23
TypeScript	100	Down -12 places-12	£475	-5.00%	61 2.10%	72
C#	107	Down -27 places-27	£450	-5.26%	54 1.86%	94
Go	126	Down -37 places-37	£474	+5.28%	34 1.17%	24
Kotlin	130	Down -44 places-44	£461	+2.50%	30 1.03%	33
Scala	140	Down -39 places-39	£494	-1.25%	20 0.69%	4
Shell Script	140	Down -67 places-67	£463	-7.50%	20 0.69%	8
Groovy	142	Down -38 places-38	£425	-28.92%	18 0.62%
PL/SQL	144	Down -32 places-32	£494	-8.13%	16 0.55%	3
Bicep	145	Down -38 places-38	£530	-3.59%	15 0.52%	11
JCL	146	Down -47 places-47	£514	+24.60%	14 0.48%	5
T-SQL	147	Down -34 places-34	£350	-6.66%	13 0.45%	6
REXX	149	Down -38 places-38	£514	+24.60%	11 0.38%
ActionScript	149	New entry-	£650	-	11 0.38%	2
COBOL	150	Down -53 places-53	£525	+35.92%	10 0.34%	7
PHP	150	Down -39 places-39	£425	+9.32%	10 0.34%	26
VBA	150	Down -39 places-39	£468	+24.66%	10 0.34%	11
R	152	Down -39 places-39	£425	-9.33%	8 0.27%	40
Kusto Query Language	152	New entry-	£518	-	8 0.27%	3
ABAP	152	Down -43 places-43	£550	+1.38%	8 0.27%
Rust	153	Down -39 places-39	£538	-	7 0.24%	4
CLIST	155	Down -42 places-42	£514	-	5 0.17%
Assembly Language	155	Down -41 places-41	£514	-	5 0.17%
Ruby	155	Down -42 places-42	£493	+7.18%	5 0.17%	4
Data Analysis Expressions	155	Down -50 places-50	£475	+9.19%	5 0.17%	6
Apex Code	157	New entry-	£700	-	3 0.10%	7
Korn	157	New entry-	£350	-	3 0.10%
Cypher	157	New entry-	£500	-	3 0.10%
C	157	Down -45 places-45	£400	-20.00%	3 0.10%	27
VB.NET	157	Down -45 places-45	-	-	3 0.10%	3