Programming Language Statistics in Central London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	7	No change0	£85,000	-	455 11.21%	340
SQL	14	Down -4 places-4	£72,500	-1.69%	336 8.28%	238
C#	35	Down -6 places-6	£87,500	+6.06%	177 4.36%	120
Java	40	Down -9 places-9	£100,000	-	153 3.77%	120
PowerShell	44	Up 18 places+18	£67,000	-14.92%	147 3.62%	31
JavaScript	58	Down -34 places-34	£80,000	+6.66%	116 2.86%	91
TypeScript	58	Down -25 places-25	£100,000	+14.28%	116 2.86%	104
C++	78	Up 7 places+7	£100,000	-13.04%	82 2.02%	52
Bash	124	Down -3 places-3	£52,500	-36.36%	32 0.79%	33
Go	125	Up 19 places+19	£102,500	+18.84%	31 0.76%	28
Scala	134	Down -11 places-11	£111,250	+78.00%	22 0.54%	7
C	140	Up 12 places+12	£97,500	+58.95%	16 0.39%	10
Data Analysis Expressions	141	Up 15 places+15	£67,500	+17.39%	15 0.37%	4
PHP	142	Down -1 place-1	£60,000	-7.69%	14 0.34%	1
Bicep	142	Up 10 places+10	£87,500	+12.17%	14 0.34%	9
Kotlin	144	Up 4 places+4	£95,000	+46.15%	12 0.30%	14
VBA	144	Up 10 places+10	£70,000	-6.66%	12 0.30%	10
Rust	144	Up 2 places+2	£100,000	-2.43%	12 0.30%	11
PL/SQL	145	Down -8 places-8	£65,000	-	11 0.27%	3
T-SQL	145	Down -21 places-21	£70,000	-6.66%	11 0.27%	9
VB.NET	145	Down -7 places-7	£65,000	-	11 0.27%	1
ABAP	148	Up 14 places+14	£77,500	-	8 0.20%	1
Shell Script	149	Up 9 places+9	£64,375	-21.96%	7 0.17%	8
Ruby	150	Up 5 places+5	£86,000	-7.02%	6 0.15%	11
Perl	150	Up 5 places+5	-	-	6 0.15%	2
R	150	Down -13 places-13	£41,032	-31.61%	6 0.15%	21
RPG	151	New entry-	£85,000	-	5 0.12%	2
VBScript	151	New entry-	£70,000	-	5 0.12%	5
Kusto Query Language	151	Up 7 places+7	£56,250	+60.71%	5 0.12%	3
VB	153	Up 6 places+6	£90,000	-6.49%	3 0.074%	3
VC++	153	New entry-	£91,000	-	3 0.074%
Objective-C	153	Up 1 place+1	-	-	3 0.074%	2
Swift	153	Down -6 places-6	£70,000	-20.00%	3 0.074%	4